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by crag 14y ago
You only have to go on the job market to see what languages are the most popular; PHP, JAVA and the various .Net (Mostly VB and C#). JS is on the rise, but no one hires anyone to write just JS. It's usually JS and PHP (and of course, HTML
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by crag 14y ago
I love that rant. I still (re)read it. Gives me a few laughs every time.
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by crag 14y ago
That's right, Office is everywhere. And they use that to leverage Sharepoint, Exchange and other systems. There's no shame in being number 1 in the corporate world and number 4 or 5 in the consumer market. :) Though they do have the xbox.
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by crag 14y ago
"Again, this fails for a lot of electronic music though." It also fails for classical music. But since I ripped CD's I just scanned in the cover and added the art. Trust me, it was time consuming. But there is hope, iTunes has added much mo
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by crag 14y ago
Spotify is good for popular music. But try being classical/opera fan and using Spotify. Though I hear it's getting better. I have a 120GB music library in iTunes. And most of it was ripped from CD's. I'm not happy about iTunes 11 due to Co
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by crag 14y ago
Other than Tatooine (which isn't a desert planet, by the way) and a sand worm (which appears in many stories), what parts of Dune you see lifted for Star Wars? The whole point of Dune was the vulnerability of the empire to a single resource
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by crag 14y ago
It's also about sustainability. It cost money/resources to ship product assembled in China. Lots of money.
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by crag 14y ago
" How do you think Samsung feels?" Samsung feels fine. They're making billions. Oh by the way, Samsung deserves everything they get from Apple. Since Samsung has been down this road before; TV, business phones - it's a long list of products
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by crag 14y ago
It's not just Apple. It's all companies. When was the last time you tried to repair your washing machine under the warranty? Good luck. And it's software too. I can't remember the last time I installed a piece of software that wasn't fille
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by crag 14y ago
"tech community is cleverer than this yes, but the consumers aren't " I think consumers "can" be smarter. Given a chance. Right now they (we) are inundated with marketing. It's everywhere. So much so, that's hard to make an informed decisio
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by crag 14y ago
Good old Lotus 1-2-3. Brings back memories and a few horror stories. I remember Word Star from that era too. And dBase. Those 3 apps were in every office in New York.
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by crag 14y ago
Who cares? Kill him; don't kill him.. just shut him up already.
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by crag 14y ago
Maybe he left because, you know... he wanted too?
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by crag 14y ago
Considering all the complaining he's done, I'm surprised not to see Donald Trump on the list.
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by crag 14y ago
But he wasn't president. Romney was managing a campaign. And a function critical to his campaign - you gonna tell me he wasn't involved? Or at least briefed? I mean, wasn't he expecting to see the results?
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by crag 14y ago
"If it was my campaign, I'd hang them out to dry." I doubt Romney even knew the details of this mess. I'd be surprised if he knows it now. As is typical of many "high level" exec's; Romney relied on the wrong people.
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by crag 14y ago
"The worst is the regression of html, xml and javascript we are forced to use.." History repeats itself. Full screen apps, to me are a throw back to the 80's (before Windows and the Mac); and "Cloud Services" sounds awfully like time sharin
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by crag 14y ago
Apple isn't even going after the "enterprise" market. The Mac works very well in a Windows server based network, with Exchange. So in other words, it's perfectly fine having Server 2012 (or 2008) with Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint (and a
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by crag 14y ago
"...that any bootstrap post on HN hops the popularity train right to the front page...." Doesn't mean you should jump on someone else' headline to promote Foundation. That's rude. Make you own thread. If it isn't as "popular", that's your
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by crag 14y ago
I learned a long time ago honesty and taking ownership is the best policy. It possible that he though he did no wrong. Or maybe he thought he was above the fray. But if he wanted to save his job, owning the wrong is the best way. People for
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by crag 14y ago
There is another angle to this: a distracted population is a happy population. Or at least a population that isn't marching and burning in the streets.
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by crag 14y ago
Look. It's not that hard. Don't like the story don't click the story.
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by crag 14y ago
Ive been running Windows 8 on a Mac inside a VM (Fusion) for about a month. I like Metro (but this is coming from a mec geek - so there you go). BUT I agree it will take time to get used to. But I suspect a hack will be out shortly allowing
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by crag 14y ago
I'm 49 and still write code. Though I don't have too. I got 3 "youngsters" to do the work for me. But I love the code. I also like learning new languages. Over the years I've found learning new languages to be easy peasy. it's learning the
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by crag 14y ago
Really? I was just at the mail the other day, and I didn't see one iPad being used as a cash register. The only place I see people using their iPads to cash out are at the farmers market. And that makes sense since you are outside and need
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by crag 14y ago
Yeah, this is gonna be a serious problem for MS. Frankly I can't believe their marketing/PR division is so inept. I hope MS will come up with some kind of "cross-over coupon" for those who brought RT thinking it was a full version of the OS
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by crag 14y ago
"But he appears to be oblivious to a signifiant new problem facing Windows 8: people and businesses aren’t buying as many PCs as they once were. They’re buying iPads." I don't know what office you work in.. but no; iPads have not replaced P
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by crag 14y ago
QFT. I mean why even waste the time writing an article about it? The answer is obvious.
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by crag 14y ago
"I'm left with no alternative. " How about Firefox (I'm running 15.01), and Firebug?
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by crag 14y ago
The problem with Zynga is that they are dependent on FB (who takes a share of their revenue - which is even worse). That's a huge risk. Despite trying to step out from FB's shadow, they are still there- between a rock and a hard place.

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