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by ergo98 16y ago
They replaced one software package (a custom solution by Accenture) with another (a company they bought, as an aside, for a solution that they now sell: Ergo, take their claims with a grain of salt). Drawing assumptions about underlying sys
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If you can't see how choice and a competitive ecosystem benefits consumers, then I don't think you're really looking.
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I'm not missing any point: An ancestor post made the very correct statement that Android's "fragmentation" is also its strength. You went off about how it doesn't benefit consumers. That is simply wrong. Sidenote: The phone companies don't
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"Pick up the phone I find it surprising how out-of-vogue the phone is — so much stuff is just faster on the phone!" As a general rule I very strongly disagree with this. The phone is a good tool if you enjoy revisiting the same discussion a
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>This is beneficial for the phone companies only, not for the customers. I have a number of top notch companies fighting for my attention and purchases, all of them generally on a common "app level": None have the comfort of sitting bac
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>Ultimately, he was doomed to fail. Ozzie was essentially given reign to plow some green fields. He failed miserably at giving Microsoft any credibility or initiative.
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Android 2.2 is excellent . It easily competes with iOS on many metrics, beating it in some areas. Phones like the Samsung Galaxy S (esp. the Pro), the Droid 2, the Droid X -- excellent devices that are hyper-competitive. Few with such a
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by ergo98 16y ago
"The touchscreen on the iPhone is state of the art, with my N1, I need to touch something once or twice, which never happens with iPhone." Apple didn't design their touchscreen (nor do they design their processor, RAM, display, wireless chi
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by ergo98 16y ago
Yes, you are in a minority. Aside from simply promulgating best-practices of JavaScript usage, jQuery (and similar tools like prototype) have done tremendous good in moving the rich web forward: No longer were countless teams dealing with t
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>I did a report back in high school on it and speculated you'd never really see processors over 4GHz. I guess I was right. I'm not sure whether you're being serious or if you're actually claiming some sort of advanced insight here. Ther
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How is that a result of cloud computing? Your browser is often the most resource intensive application you use nowadays. CPUs have passed a curve where there just aren't any killer applications demanding more CPU power. For me the biggest "
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Sunspider is a particularly bad benchmark: Virtually all of the components are heavily weighted by string concatenation. http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/String_Concatenation_and_Immuta...
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EC2 nodes are terribly underpowered, particularly in the I/O realm (the biggest weakness of virtually every site) where a standard desktop absolutely annihilates the I/O performance of an S3 connection (where you have to perform software RA
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ASP pages could be written in Microsoft's ECMAScript variation of JavaScript (JScript), and they even carried the tradition on to JScript.NET (with blazing fast performance. JScript.NET was the underappreciated step-child of the .NET ecosys
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They should add a guideline making the obvious observation that the age of any given account says nothing about the length of site use by the account holder. Maybe then we could can the typical "semi-noob illusion" junk. There was an imgur
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Digg and Reddit pander to this. Don't kill HN.
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Slightly offtopic, I know, but the use of "contest" in the post confused me. For instance- "Again, while we contest that there was NO pornography or adult material on vb.ly," ... (It is used in that manner several times) That statement is e
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They don't put something like this together in a couple of days. Further a part of the complaint is that they're been trying to muscle Apple into licensing but Apple has been non-compliant. Really though, who would people expect to have the
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How is getting the data? EDIT: It sounds like periodic scraping coupled with a lot of made up data to add flavor.
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Just to fully grasp the incredibly stretch you're attempting here, what you're saying is that if you combine the worst restriction of all possible implementations of Android together, apply some hyperbole worst-case scenarios about offshoot
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>It seems like being a professional IS about understanding costs and making tradeoffs. This is the core essence of it. Professionalism is communicating and offering transparency, while adapting to, essentially, the real world. When I he
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>but we have killed people - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 Are you working on a radiation dosing machine? If you are (or you work on aircraft control systems or nuclear power plant safety systems, etc), then a completely diff
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>You may hate Apple, or the iPhone, or Steve Jobs, or whatever, but that doesn't mean Google does everything right, or that they never sacrifice consumer interests for their own. What a weird perspective. Do you think I hate Apple, or S
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Not a bad thing at all. I just don't buy that it's a good thing for anyone but Apple. And in an ideal world Windows Mobile, the Blackberry OS, QNX, Meebo, iOS, Android, and others play along in a friendly manner, where developers find eff
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Did you take that right from the Book of Jobs? I realize that's the newest talking point of the pro-Apple hordes, but I thought this crowd was above it. Apple replaced one evil (carrier control) with another evil (maker control). I suppose
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Denial is the first stage. Anger will come next.
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No one made that bed but Apple, and it is but another example of Apple putting Apple first. It also seemed remarkably irrelevant back when the iPhone, still just on AT&T, dominated the my-company-didnt-buy-it ranks. It is interesting th
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"And for all the haters... it's better than flash." Silverlight is a me-too Flash clone that came at a time when Flash is a barely-tolerated but waning evil. It is by a company that has a severe conflicts of interest problem. It isn't hat
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Sorry, I suppose I worded confusingly, however I was offering that as a non-Flash option. My point being that if they assume that Android will offer that soon because of Flash, it will also offer it natively.
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If you're talking about Flash, note that at the last Google device convention they promised that soon they would have Android JavaScript access to the cameras sans Flash. I'm sure that will carry to ChromeOS and Chrome as well. http://stac

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