cygwin98

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by cygwin98 13y ago
Don't be silly. We're having a world war in the IT scene at this moment among a number of monstrous companies: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and their allies. This proposal is like suggesting of partitioning the Soviet Union in
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Is the new motto being Do Evil ?
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Chromecast update breaks AllCast(plus.google.com)
176 points by cygwin98 13y ago|121 comments
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I don't know why Japan can get away with this for so long. I remember when the Chernobyl disaster happened, Soviet Union was shamed to death by all western media for years. I had high respect for the Russians for their great efforts to
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Sounds like communist countries used to be.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Does it mean that we reach peak Google now?
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by cygwin98 13y ago
GOOG is the new bully.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
So instead of ramen profitable , we have tent profitable now.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Your link is broken. Here is the one that works and is print-friendly: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/192935/revisiting_andr...
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Seeing The (Northern) Light: A Temporary Arctic Retirement (npr.org)
3 points by cygwin98 13y ago|0 comments
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by cygwin98 13y ago
It's coming, with the head of ChromeOS taking over Android now.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I always wonder if it's a better strategy for Microsoft to introduce the Windows AppStore in Windows 7 first and grow the eco-system there, just like what Apple did MacAppStore to Lion, heck, even 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard) has access to it. Oh,
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by cygwin98 13y ago
No, thanks. Bring back the Reader so we can talk.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Notification messages?
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by cygwin98 13y ago
<rant> I thought programming community is so bad for being trend-chasing, UI designing is even worse, which is basically a fashion industry. Come on, why does everything has to be flat, it's not the DOS era in 80's, you have access
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Surprisingly, that one has been making lots of money though. That fact changed my impression that Android users don't pay much for non-game apps.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
No problem. Maybe just me (perhaps quite some people here as well) had a high expectation over Google. I thought Google pulled off that stunt from a human right stand, rather than from simply being patriotic to the USA. GOOG has much more r
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Do you see the contradiction here? Google pulled out of China a few years ago because Chinese government was supposedly doing shits like this. Google followed its unofficial "Do not Evil" motto. That's cool. Then this time it is OK for the
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Though I would disagree on the roles and power of politicians. I appreciate your inputs and some of them are quite insightful.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
For me...my MBA taught me how the world works. It is surprising how few people understand how it truly works - yet they speak as if they know. For that single achievement alone, I would encourage everyone to get an MBA. That sounds like q
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by cygwin98 13y ago
For those are curious about how the guy found all these webcams. Here is the answer from his FAQ: Various techniques. A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I als
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I think they a lot of developers that didn't start with front-end work find Javascript disgusting, maybe this team is in that group. I am not a Javascript fanboy, but the syntax of GoLang is not better either.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
That's lots of money nowadays.
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by cygwin98 14y ago
Don't disagree with what you said. Maybe I didn't put it clear. But I wasn't referring to apprenticeship, trade union or anything relevant to them, I was simply joking about the "plumbing" factor of any computer-related jobs/roles, the majo
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by cygwin98 14y ago
How about Computer Plumber, Network Plumber, System Plumber, Data Plumber?
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by cygwin98 14y ago
What kind of trade secrets this guy could possess that made GOOG feel so threatened to make this offer, since nobody is indispensable, right? Care to shed some lights on this? I know GOOG has been dominating the search market for more than
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by cygwin98 14y ago
Agreed on the link-bait factor. Though the perfect timing of these two stories got me think why so many great programmers go indie: if you are great at building stuff, try to be next Persson, or if you have great vision, PG will be your mod
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by cygwin98 14y ago
How so? The GOOG exec story is about how to get rich by climbing the "Corporate Ladder", while Persson's way is to become successful by going indie and producing games people want. The interesting fact is that their wealth are comparable nu
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by cygwin98 14y ago
Not really. I have been curious on what kind of compensation Paul Buchheit obtained for his creation of gmail and adsense, the former being the one of the two GOOG services I depend on daily, the latter built the empire financially. I am pr
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by cygwin98 14y ago
Compared to the other story of a $100M GOOG Exec, this is a story I really like, as a programmer.

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