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by cooldeal 14y ago
> If enough people are dissatisfied with the quality, they'll turn to new business, and the monopoly will cease to exist. Wish it were so simple, but the problem is the ecosystem. A new business will not start out with 500K apps and dev
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The fact that there is no reason given to the app developer for the rejection is a separate and bigger(IMO) problem here. >I can't wait for the official explanation Is there a guarantee of one? If the issue becomes a PR nightmare, maybe
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Why are restrictions on WinRT boneheaded? Windows on the desktop and Android on mobile shows us how spyware and viruses are a very big problem without those restrictions, compared to, say iOS. Not to mention battery life and security.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Meanwhile, MS won another round in Germany against Motorola. http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/microsoft-motorola-sms-pa...
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by cooldeal 14y ago
So when can we do $ camera | fb-photo | facebook | sed 4 | awk ? Chaining the utilities is the crux of the Unix paradigm, remove that and you're left with individual utilities that are far less powerful than when chained together.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Thank you HN for making me bleed karma for my posts in this story and turning them light gray. Meanwhile, not a single downmod(and probably many upvotes) on someone calling Florian a dick and a bastard(so much for HN etiquette). http://new
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by cooldeal 14y ago
> but his trail of activity as corporate consultant tells a different story. So.. as I said, if he hadn't associated his blog with his corporate consultant activity, he would be doing just fine right? The pseudonym's trail would've simp
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>libel Ms. Jones? See, this is the exact attitude I am talking about. Anyone even questioning PJ's funding sources is immediately vilified, hated on and modded down to death. While the same about Florian are modded up to the sky and it'
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Then why is the article and people here making such a big deal about Florian then?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>I called Florian as a corporate shill here more than a year ago based on publicly available information. I believe him "outing himself" is more recent. So if Florian made up a pseudonym like PJ did, and posted articles only with it, he
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It makes a lot of difference, see how Florian gets treated by the crowd around here(not to mention the jabs at him in the article linked), in spite of coming clean about his affiliations with Oracle. There's a big perception by many here th
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Is there any evidence that PJ is not a paid blogger herself? At least Florian was honest to declare on his blog that he was paid by Oracle to do some work and his blog might be tainted by that.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Sorry you got downvoted to oblivion, but it is to be expected. It's taboo around these parts to question if PJ gets paid for her efforts. However, it's totally acceptable and in fact expected to probe deep into sources of funding for people
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Windows 8 boots 'too quickly' to be interrupted, MS adding 'boot options' menu(theverge.com)
4 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Yes, "Teen pwns Chrome in 10 days, how long will it take China?" can easily be the headline.
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Samsung Chromebox gets a premature outing, $330 price tag(engadget.com)
4 points by cooldeal 14y ago|1 comments
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Windows 8 boots too quickly, first world OS problem(neowin.net)
2 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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Building Windows 8: Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before(blogs.msdn.com)
9 points by cooldeal 14y ago|1 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Interesting, when Bing used click data(only search term and link that was clicked) from the Bing bar users who gave permission to do it, Google raised a big fuss about it. But now, the user data belongs to the user and not Facebook and they
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by cooldeal 14y ago
That makes no sense whatsoever. There are a few websites which do request it, and the header will do no harm to the ones that don't. So Chrome users will be unable to use that feature (going to be?) supported by Twitter, for example. Did Go
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Even if what you said is true, it's definitely interesting that the browser that is on the forefront of implementation of almost every new web feature is about a year behind on only this one while all the other major browsers have already i
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ITC bans all Motorola phones in the US for infringing Microsoft patent(engadget.com)
3 points by cooldeal 14y ago|1 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Two ways I can think of now. Microsoft got docked for just bundling IE with their OS. I just installed Netscape back in the day(before switching to IE coz Netscape started sucking). Apple bans all competing browsers. (Windows RT is a differ
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Senate Committee Probing MS on Windows on ARM Browser Complaints (pcmag.com)
1 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla fires startling broadside at Apple (techradar.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
By that metric, neither iOS nor Android are new, they're just castrated versions of OS X and Linux. An OS is much more than it's kernel.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I fail to see how a random post by a dev on Usenet is remotely close to an official statement by the General Counsel of Mozilla on the company blog.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I don't see the article as a troll, but raises a legitimate question about why Mozilla is only targeting Microsoft and not Apple. First of all I think we can agree that Apple's actions with iOS and Microsoft's actions with Windows RT are ex
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Mozilla has been critical of Apple too. Care to link to them? I am not being facetious, I am genuinely interested in seeing their official statements on this and if they've publicly called Apple to open up iOS to Firefox. Bonus points
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Also, iOS was closed from the start and Microsoft is closing Windows down now... Err what? You do realize that every single program that will run on Windows 7 will run on Windows 8 right? What do you mean by MS is closing Windows now?

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