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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
They never got rid of it. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Their iCloud service was susceptible to brute force attacks.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
What's the going rate for open source header files?
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
https://opensource.google.com/
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Considering Google has over 2000 plus open source projects I find it hard to believe how Microsoft is doing a better job of doing open source than Google . Additionally, I find it comical that you would even suggest that a company that has
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
You must be referring to the time Microsoft reversed engineered YouTube API's and blocked ads in their unauthorized YouTube app. They had no right to reverse engineer proprietary API's, they had no right to block ads from being pl
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Oracle recently had Apple pull an app from the App Store because it had the word JavaScript in the name. So they are vigorously defending the trademark. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862949
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>50% of a $7.5 billion sale is going to 3 people? insane. They'll need to be frugal to remain members of the 3 comma club.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I didn't know patent racketeering was a fair response to not supporting an OS with a worldwide marketshare of less than 2%.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>As for what Elop did, in case you missed the news, he only did what the Nokia board themselves asked him to do Did that include having secret negotiations with Steve Ballmer that the board was unaware of? For a true accounting of what r
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>When Nokia went to talk to Google and Microsoft, Google gave the "here's the deal everyone gets" and Microsoft "we'll do anything for you". This is a well regurgitated lie that I see posted often. If you wo
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>There wasn't much to kill, when they bought it Nokia was still clinging to Symbian and was in a freefall. Who knows what would have happened to Nokia's Device division without Microsoft's involvement, but one thing is cer
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Look at how much data Google has on every single one of us. What about the data Microsoft has on you? Their Windows 10 OS is basically a data funnel right to their servers. They operate a tracking based search engine that also builds pr
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/signs_deal_with_cas... And there are many more companies they've sued for using Linux.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
It just seems odd that a company that threatens to sue companies for using Linux, unless they pay their patent licensing extortion royalties, may control GitHub.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Personally, I can't wait to start doing git push and pulls using HoloLens.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The UI needs some work as I find it barren of essential features. You have no settings screen and no ability to change the font size or the font used. I currently use Materialistic and it's probably the best HN client I've used on
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The chart shows 10+ companies of which only 6 are visible on the graph.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Microsoft understands tablets? According to this chart their tablets don't even register. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The news simply suggests Google isn't selling tablets anymore on their store. Their last tablet was the Pixel C which was discontinued on December 28, 2017 so this news isn't exactly surprising. This does not mean, however, that A
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The locked bootloader would prevent flashing anything that was not signed by Google.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
This is not simply about the presence of a "secure enclave" or security module as Google calls it. It's about preventing the firmware on the security module from being compromised without knowing the users password. To mitig
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I just checked the market and as of 2:30 PM EST Google is now worth more than Microsoft.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The reality is that more than 4 million businesses use G Suite - including "mega corps".
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Microsoft's killing of products and services is actually more prolific than Google. In fact, two more products were just killed today (Groove iOS and Groove Android).
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
A diamond is forever was a brilliant marketing campaign. This, however, is condescending and an insult to the intelligence of their customers. Synthetic diamonds have the same chemical and physical properties as natural diamonds with virt
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The security of these Canadian banks is very weak IMO. CIBC/Simplii, for example, does not support 2FA, has no sign in or transfer email/SMS alerts and their maximum password length, I believe, is 12 characters.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Sure it's going to be incompatible and break old code. The title, however, makes it seem like Oracle is getting rid of serialization when it's just replacing it with a safer method.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Is it really going away, though? The article mentions that it's just being replaced with a safer implementation.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
After watching the Munk Debate on Political Correctness I don't think Jordan Peterson is the dangerous one. https://youtu.be/rT_FnwVFuYw?t=1h9m15s

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