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by craigvn 14y ago
Sorry, you are wrong and trying to rewrite history. But this is Hackernews.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Correct. Tablet computers were nothing new when the iPad was released just as smart phones were nothing new when the iPhone was released. Apple just has the knack of getting them right for consumer adoption.
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by craigvn 14y ago
The problem with developers is they have no idea what is ugly or not. That's why they wear so many geeky and trade polo shirts! Typescript is not ugly at all, and the majority of web application developers in my office liked the look of it.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Only programmers could argue about the rules of using To Do lists.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Yes they will. Problem solved.
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by craigvn 14y ago
> Second, I think the WP8 UI very divisive On the desktop this is the case. But on phones and tablets it has been universally praised, except by Android fanboys.
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by craigvn 14y ago
The other big winner, Windows Phone.
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by craigvn 14y ago
If your going to include iPad's why not phones as well?
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by craigvn 14y ago
Because the baby was dead.
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by craigvn 14y ago
How's Sausage Software going?
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by craigvn 14y ago
Shows how pointless TIOBE is. C++ is still light years ahead of Objective-C use in the field.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Most developers still think language and framework is important. Mostly it isn't. Jeff just has a higher soapbox. Use Java, PHP, .NET, RoR, Python, it doesn't really matter.
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by craigvn 14y ago
No. There was some FUD that because they didn't do things like rewriting Office in C# they weren't committed. Because rewriting 100 million lines of C++ just to prove a point would be such a good investment in time.
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by craigvn 14y ago
I think you are the minority. Ribbon is much better.
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by craigvn 14y ago
The long held philosophy is that men are problem solvers, and when someone comes to them with an issue they want to solve it. Often what people really want is just for you to listen. So when your wife says "I hate this tap", she doesn't act
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by craigvn 14y ago
Seriously, every company does this.
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by craigvn 14y ago
12. If your startup can only afford 16 year old wanna be hackers you will have no problem finding them.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Only paranoid geeks browse without Javascript.
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by craigvn 14y ago
It's got nothing to do with learning skills for jobs.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Considering the proliferation of religion, there are bigger magic issue facing the world than coding.
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by craigvn 14y ago
People do have no idea how cars work.
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by craigvn 14y ago
I'm pretty sure most people leave high school and if you asked them 12 months later about gravity they couldn't give any kind of coherent answer, just something along the lines of "it stops us floating off into space". Just like all people
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by craigvn 14y ago
I am pretty sure he has thought about this.
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by craigvn 14y ago
Getting the vast majority of sites working in IE9 is trivial (no changes required). IE8 some changes, but not a major hassle. I don't support IE7 or before. If you use a lot of HTML5 features it is hit or miss on all browsers.
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by craigvn 15y ago
Exactly, therefore torrent gets a workout and I watch Game of Thrones the day after it is televised in the US.
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by craigvn 15y ago
Spot on. Piracy is not because people are not willing to pay, it is because it is the only option to get content without waiting months after it's US release. When is Game of Thrones on Aussie TV? I would pay $5 to download each episode leg
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by craigvn 15y ago
I am basically thinking that Bing 'sponsors' many other pages to use it as the default search engine so they will stumble across it.
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by craigvn 15y ago
I agree developers are more biased towards Google (or away from Bing) than the general population. But I used to run a real estate website which crosses a wider cross section of the population than stackoverflow and all the non-Google searc
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by craigvn 15y ago
The lesson is that you need to make sure you have a market before wasting time building a product. Most tech guys get this the wrong way around (but don't really care cause they like building stuff).