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by borisk 16y ago
Get real, there will be leaks of business data if this goes throught. Indian administration is already very corrupt at all levels.
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by borisk 16y ago
You've just won my personal Comment Of The Year Award :D
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by borisk 16y ago
"with Apple’s prior written consent, an Application may use embedded interpreted code" - from the dev agreement. A few games have been approved to host an interpreter. So it's just a matter of Apple deciding if they want fully featured Fire
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by borisk 16y ago
Sweet. How long will Facebook be able to delay the IPO to steal/keep the best talent in the industry?
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by borisk 16y ago
Here's a comparison of Retina and Samsung Galaxy S screen: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/iphone-4-retina-display-v...
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by borisk 16y ago
Does it really matter? Most people can believe in witches, intelligent design and what not while doing their jobs good enough. Europe, Far East, Russia trust science way more, but it doesn't seem to lead to any significant advantage.
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by borisk 16y ago
No idea, Apple may require a valid OSX/Mac serial number before registering a developer.
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by borisk 16y ago
There are torrents with Vmware images with preinstalled OS X (including 10.6). BTW as far as I understand running OS X on non Apple hardware is forbidden in the EULA.
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Will It Blend? - iPhone 4 (youtube.com)
2 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
Microsoft wanted ppl to develop Win32/.NET apps, not Web stuff. So no reason to improve IE 6.
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by borisk 16y ago
For an electrical engineer transistor is a black box 99.9% of the time. It's enogh to know it's interface.
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by borisk 16y ago
Interesting stuff, some more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor
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IPhone 4 Retina Display vs. Galaxy S Super AMOLED(engadget.com)
1 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
Some ppl in Microsoft see F# as exactly this fresh start.
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by borisk 16y ago
So is an IntelliJ license on the Java side.
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by borisk 16y ago
Interesting, how else have you seen lambdas implemented in a compiled language?
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by borisk 16y ago
Microsoft has kept introducing major features in .NET every few years - generics, WCF, WWF, WPF, LINQ, EF, PE, Rx... So most of the millions .NET developers spent most of their learning time on those. On the other hand since 1.2 the only ma
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by borisk 16y ago
Yeap, so they had to use the inferior IPS.
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by borisk 16y ago
Super AMOLED =/= AMOLED http://www.9to5mac.com/samsung-displays-ipad-3420963243 http://www.techeye.net/business/samsungs-apple-ipad-displays...
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by borisk 16y ago
How about '180 degree viewing angle', 'Quadrupling the resolution on the screen would only increase the clarity at most only three to five percent' and 'the Retina Display is too power-hungry, which drains the battery up to 30% faster than
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by borisk 16y ago
Super AMOLED consumes 30% less power because it doesn't need back light. It's also thinner. Samsung Galaxy S has 4'' screen and is cheaper than iPhone 4 (with 3.5''). Also LG is unable to produce enough IPS screens for iPad and soon part of
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by borisk 16y ago
Start an open source project related to the book.
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by borisk 16y ago
Can't you write a CMS installer/themer/configurator tool? You already have the domain knowledge and potential clients.
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by borisk 16y ago
Super AMOLED > IPS http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/22/samsung-galaxy-s-super-...
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SP1 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 beta is out(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
IE, Firefox, Chrome (probably Opera and Safari also) already have hardware accelerated graphics in their preview/beta/whatever builds. And just like ActionScript, JavaScript is JITed nowadays.
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Android 2.2 source code released(androidandme.com)
2 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
They don't deliver to hotels, so the guy from Norway was out of luck. Some ppl don't have bank cards or don't trust e-commerce security. Some don't want their partners/parents to know they bought a new expensive toy.
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by borisk 16y ago
The result of Professor Carreira ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455037 ) and colleagues hard work.
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by borisk 16y ago
Dressing well, shaving, etc. takes lots and lots of time. Best programmers spend all their time programming or thinking/dreaming about programming ;)

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