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by cek 14y ago
The Windows team made a huge investment in HTML & Javascript. You could even say they bet on developers using that over XAML/C#. Looking at the apps in the Store though, and talking to insiders, and the picture is clear that over 80% of
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The future of .NET(haacked.com)
54 points by cek 14y ago|79 comments
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The Market Sides of the Mobile Ecosystem(ceklog.kindel.com)
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by cek 14y ago
And I wrote the forward to the book on it :-)
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by cek 14y ago
Horace's rule for distinguishing between an app and a service works only in the simplest cases. It ignores things like Facebook Connect or "Connect with Twitter". It also ignores pure-advertising based experiences such as American Idol. The
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by cek 14y ago
I pulled Source Code Pro out of brackets a few weeks ago and loved it in Sublime, VS, and ConEMU on Windows and iTerm2 on the Mac. Then someone pointed me at Envy Code R [1]... I find it much more pleasing with the benefit of great differe
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by cek 14y ago
The issue I have with Dyson Sphere's is in 1960 the idea of the singularity hadn't really been floated. I think it is far more likely that civilizations either die or upload.
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by cek 14y ago
Even if Mark’s view is correct (debatable), the only way HTML5 will ever ‘get there’ is if the developer community continues to build apps on HTML5 that push the boundaries of performance. The presumption that the developer community can
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by cek 14y ago
"COM is Love" - Don Box [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Box
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by cek 14y ago
Mono is now backed by Xamarin. They got something like 12M in VC funding this summer and appear to be on fire. From what I've seen, the future of cross platform .NET looks great.
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by cek 14y ago
I'm willing to bet MS has built runtime type support into the Chakra VM. The question is whether they will do it in a propitiatory way or push it as an extension of ECMAScript and try to get other VMs to implement it.
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by cek 14y ago
Say what you want about whether this is a good idea or not, it is clear at least part of MS is really serious about open source. * TypeScript is under the Apache 2.0 license [1] * Source is available via git on Codeplex [2] * Installation i
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Why Sr. People leave MSFT in September(ceklog.kindel.com)
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The truth about WP7 v. Win8(itwriting.com)
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by cek 14y ago
how would google block Kindle?
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by cek 14y ago
What an outrageous thing to say! This guy stole the iPad. Period. You also seem to be implying that his "mistake" was taking something easy to track. Wow.
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by cek 14y ago
The issue for the Samsungs and HTCs of the world is they don't really have the other assets that Amazon has. Thus they are less able/willing to turn down things like access to Google Play and Search.
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by cek 14y ago
It is never a good idea to pay developers to support a platform [1]. I struggle to find a single proof point of a successful platform where early dev adoption was kickstarted by the provider paying for apps. All that paying for apps does i
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Paying Developers is a Bad Idea(ceklog.kindel.com)
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by cek 14y ago
Codeplex didn't start supporting git until March of this year. Azure has been posting on github since 2011. I suspect Azure will continue to use Github; moving would disrupt a lot of developers. https://github.com/WindowsAzure
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Steve Ballmer on when MSFT was a Startup(rahulsood.com)
1 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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A git workflow for two machines(ceklog.kindel.com)
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Ballmer says screaming doesn't work(xconomy.com)
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by cek 14y ago
Google lost control of Android long ago. They are trying desperately to regain control. But this is futile as the allowed it to become too successful. http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/01/14/fragmentation-is-not-the...
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by cek 14y ago
Consider this: At Goto in Aarus [1] Anders is giving a keynote on "A yet to be disclosed project in the Development Tools space". Sometime in the last 2 days this page [1] changed. It previously listed a co-presenter with Anders from the Ch
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Is MS building a C# on JavaScript runtime?(zdnet.com)
32 points by cek 14y ago|41 comments
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This is written by someone who obviously lives within the tech bubble. The people who are buying the Nano are the same people who are still buying CDs at Walmart. Apple is still selling the Nano because people are still willing to buy them.
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by cek 14y ago
Apple makes almost no money, in relative terms, from app store sales (about 1% in '10)[1]. The business of running the appstore is not the reason they will never fully support cross-platform mobile development. The real reason is websites t
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by cek 14y ago
> It's strange how even 100+ years ago is getting more and more recent. I think you are absolutely right with this. As the rate of change increases (and it has been rapidly increasing for the last 150 years) it makes sense that histor
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by cek 14y ago
This is really about asymmetric competition. @asymco does a great job analyzing this; that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, while competitors have fundamentally different business models. Even if these companies had similar business mo

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