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by ergo98 16y ago
>The Harmony VM is a cleanroom VM and spec-compliant VM. Dalvik is a cleanroom VM. I'm not quite sure what you're saying with this? The OpenJDK comes with a patent grant. Cleanroom VMs have no such grant and it's impossible to make one
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by ergo98 16y ago
Yet clearly you don't understand this lawsuit at all. It's a patent lawsuit. Harmony's VM is just as subject to the FUD.
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by ergo98 16y ago
> think bringing up Harmony (or OpenJDK, or Clojure, or a bit of Java you wrote in college, etc) is either being a worrywart or taking Google's verbiage at face value. Oracle is suing based upon relatively general patents that it would
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by ergo98 16y ago
Both are extorting open source projects based upon dubious claims. In the SCO case the claim was that Linux consciously or unconsciously borrowed from SCO's purported property because there are superficial similarities. In this case, Oracle
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by ergo98 16y ago
If you attack an open-source project (which the pertinent parts are) with general software patents, how is that not an attack on open source? What Oracle is doing is absolutely no different than what SCO was engaged in. Note that Oracle's
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by ergo98 16y ago
I'm not quite following, however the projects I am talking about have pissed away hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars. That is what makes them significant.
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by ergo98 16y ago
The primary API was provided in Java, so yes from the NDK for many needs you have to step back to Java-world momentarily. This is a simply a limit of time however (given that Dalvik was their primary app runtime for other reasons) -- Googl
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by ergo98 16y ago
"A system that's actually running is more useful than one just planned" Absolutely. To go back to the original point, I don't think it's document-centric or not that causes the massive cost overruns. Instead it's that big consulting compani
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I blame the whole failure on a drive to systematize data, which SQL databases foster. If you just view health records as a bunch of bits of paper, and just say we want to store them in one place, in a way that is vaguely sequential, th
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by ergo98 16y ago
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/05/05/intel-moorestown-mee... Indeed.
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by ergo98 16y ago
The author completely devastates their core point when they say- "Now I've told you why Android's use of a Java-like VM was demonstrably wrong (Apple demonstrated it) from the beginning" What was demonstrated, the author claims, was that An
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by ergo98 16y ago
They use it to store aggregated reports for distribution and analysis. It isn't doing any heavy lifting, and it's not a terribly compelling case study of anything.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>it's not built into the HTTP request process, even though async HTTP is what you want... basically always In the Android world that simply isn't the case, and thread-oriented (as opposed to evented) development is the most common strat
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by ergo98 16y ago
>You can accuse me of being "confused and ignorant" It isn't an accusation or an insult: Every developer on the planet has recurring periods where they are confused and ignorant. I can't make any such a claim in this case, but can only
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by ergo98 16y ago
There are absolutely pros and cons of both. There is no question about it. However Joe is being used as a pawn with people quoting over his over-the-top hyperbole like "Android tools are horrendous, OS is hideous". That isn't a "pro and con
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by ergo98 16y ago
Reading his comments, he sounds like many developers when faced with tools they aren't accustomed to using languages they aren't competent at: Instead of acknowledging confusion and ignorance (in the polite way of saying it), turn it into c
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Flickr's probably quite a good example of this. Flickr had contextual ads since, I believe, day one. Then they added paid accounts and I subscribed and have never regretted it. I've been a paid "pro" subscriber to Flickr for many years
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by ergo98 16y ago
They'll start putting "not canceled" overlays, and then you really won't know what to think. Seriously, though, it's clever even if it isn't sustainable. They'll just have to remain clever and adapt. "Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever
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by ergo98 16y ago
EDIT: Daring Fireball just linked this ridiculous story (with a big old selective quote), right on schedule. Now that Gruber has led the way, expect it to appear on many other iPhone/Apple sites over the coming hours. So predictable.
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by ergo98 16y ago
There was a period where they did. Where one of the reasons people buy a certain brand of PC (like Packard-Bell) was that it came with a unique UI experience. But then that got to be seen as a negative, the market reacted, and those custom
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by ergo98 16y ago
Windows is a remarkably open operating system for users and integrators. While Microsoft doesn't give out the source, they don't have to -- you can dramatically customize virtually every part of it, install whatever you'd like, do whatever
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by ergo98 16y ago
Indeed. The post I responded to opined that you shouldn't have to root to unlock functionality of your phone, and this was relative to Android devices. Yet to tether your iphone you have to either root, or pay an extra $20 a month to AT&#38
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by ergo98 16y ago
The carriers aren't changing the OS. The handset makers are on behalf of the carriers. The handset makers have their own motivations and restraints limiting just what they'll do on behalf of a carrier. So if Verizon tells Samsung to install
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by ergo98 16y ago
So how does tethering on the iPhone under AT&T work out. Surely you just click a checkbox, correct?
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by ergo98 16y ago
>That's not true. HTC added sense UI on top of android. They are 100% allowed to do that. Not only are they allowed, they would never have all worked cooperatively to forward Android if they couldn't. However it's in all of their common
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by ergo98 16y ago
While there are kernels of truth, this is a garbage article that has no place on a site like HN. The author is pandering to the iPhone fanbase where it will certainly see traction. Do a "news" search of it in the next 6 hours and you'll fin
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by ergo98 16y ago
Have you noticed the SELL rating just applied to RIM? The endless analysts pointing out that RIMs lockhold has largely disappeared? I don't need to point out specific examples because they're pervasive.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I'm not sure if you really got the point of the article: The wave happens because everyone wants to be {X} behind the person in front (usually because they desperately want to block anyone else getting between them and {X}). If you can enfo
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by ergo98 16y ago
Windows Mobile 7 is not available: You haven't used it or even read a reasonably accurate review of it, and your assumptions about its usability are completely baseless. The app store is not available. Further, Windows Mobile in no way will
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by ergo98 16y ago
There seems to be a lot of debate based on emotion with remarkably little fact. Many corporations are moving to a bring-your-own smartphone policy. My organization did exactly that recently, and no new Blackberry has been purchased in some

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