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by ergo98 16y ago
Historically untrue. What's untrue about it? While SO had a CC policy since the early days, the actual CC database, which was the subject of my post, was made available well over a year later, coinciding with a outpouring of foolish devel
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by ergo98 16y ago
SO made available a CC'd database during a period when many -- including many on here -- were arguing that there should be an open-source, wikipedia-like alternative, coupled with a lot of nonsensical "I could make that on a weekend" claims
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by ergo98 16y ago
Quora is a bit like Twitter in the sense that many signed up because Bruce Willis' son was on it. On Quora there's that elite selection of superstars who draw the proles in. It's entirely unsustainable though. It is a community destined to
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by ergo98 16y ago
I've had my public email address, with no obfuscation, on quite a few very high traffic pages. Remarkably little spam gets through to me. I actually see more spam in my non-public gmail account where, I suspect, the spammers are simply name
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by ergo98 16y ago
This is the most important post in this thread. It looks like they created their own "conformance tests", in some cases using the Java implementation as the baseline. On the scale of concerns, that is somewhere around 0.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I once did several hours of work trying to optimize my use of Redis to avoid having to upgrade my VPS I would think RAM preservation would be a much greater concern in the VPS world as the hard limits are ever present, and quickly become
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by ergo98 16y ago
Why all the hate for Apple? This article is about how opinion of Google has soured. There's no hate for Apple. There is, however, perspective on human behavior, one of which is a "with us or against us" mentality.
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by ergo98 16y ago
What kills the warm and fuzzies I have about the 360 (a game like Assassin's Creed 2 is just...gorgeous. To see it running so incredibly on 5 year old hardware is a marvel) is Xbox Live. The operations of that service take an enjoyable plat
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by ergo98 16y ago
I think that's a product of the same initiative, honestly. Like some sort of attempt to strike the achilles heal of Google. "Ha ha, your search stinks!" Searching for programming questions always sucked on Google proper. The only redeemin
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by ergo98 16y ago
"But it’s remarkable how much my appreciation for Google has shifted over the last year or two" I suspect this shift in sentiment has more to do with Google evolving from being Microsoft's competitor (back when Microsoft was the boogeyma
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by ergo98 16y ago
So why is anyone investing in them? That would only strengthen the bubble observation, with people just desperately throwing money at anything that has ever achieved any success (or simulates something that once had success). "NOW WITH MOR
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by ergo98 16y ago
What bubble?
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by ergo98 16y ago
As Zero mentioned, Galaxy Tab's count in Google's numbers. Google publishes numbers for devices that access the market, which is essentially every non-intentionally crippled device. They don't give the number just for smartphones, it just h
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by ergo98 16y ago
Sure, but the Android tablet + media player market has been generally a giant bust thus far. A tonne of vapor, but very little action. I think that was a strategic failing on Google's part, as they intentionally kept criteria that crippled
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by ergo98 16y ago
It's better to look Year on Year (except for the iPad) Sure, but in this case the input in question is the renewed competition courtesy of Android. The natural question everyone will have is how that impacts the iPhone. For reference, for
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by ergo98 16y ago
Apple is simply printing money now. Remarkable financial success. It is notable that between Q4 2010 and Q1 2011 (the latter includes the holiday season), the growth areas were the iPod [115%] and the iPad [75%]. Macs increased 6%, but actu
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by ergo98 16y ago
True to a point, but they don't have the luxury of assuming that you'll buy from them. Not upgrading their devices works against a repeat consumer, really, so you're just as, if not more, likely to help the bottom line of one of their compe
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by ergo98 16y ago
I have no idea how the Windows Phone 7 dev kit works, however with CE it literally was configuring some flags and resources, and that was it. Microsoft did a tonne of heavy lifting to make it so. There were boxed in drivers for virtually ev
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by ergo98 16y ago
I am talking purely from a market perspective. The X10 was hotly anticipated and was set to make waves...but then it was announced that it was coming with 1.6 and that balloon deflated almost instantly. It is a gorgeous device, but a simple
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by ergo98 16y ago
After letting a profile languish for some time, I got pulled onto Facebook by people who insisted upon messaging me via Facebook rather than via email. I quit and deleted the account, however, when the demands of reciprocity got not only to
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by ergo98 16y ago
That would just be a different user-hostile incentive. How so? It aligns interests in virtually every way.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Just as one aside on this, it's pretty clear by now that it isn't simply a matter of doing a source control get and the vendor's work is done. Aside from simply having technical insight into the individual ROMs, you needn't look further tha
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by ergo98 16y ago
The conflicting interests issue is really a problem in the Android space. As has been shown time and time again, vendors really don't want the burden of keeping your handset up to date forever because there is nothing in it for them, aside
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by ergo98 16y ago
The cult of personality around Jobs cuts both ways. For years he (and Ives) has been viewed, if not held, as the rock of Apple, and the font of its inspiration. That perception can't just suddenly change overnight when its no longer conveni
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by ergo98 16y ago
The entrepreneurial immigration path is a way of jumping the queue, so yes it requires significant personal assets if you want to take advantage of it. Otherwise you can just utilize the normal immigration path.
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by ergo98 16y ago
What makes you think that without Android nobody else would launch an App Store, or that nobody else would have the clout to get the sorts of apps that users are interested in? Android didn't prevent anyone else from entering the space. Y
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by ergo98 16y ago
I didn't forget anything. The iPhone had overwhelming dominance in the consumer smartphone space. That is absolutely without question. That dominance is how it moved into the enterprise market, the gaming market, and so on. Exactly how Wi
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by ergo98 16y ago
While the iPhone may have had a temporary large majority in the "smart phones consumers actually want to buy" field, they never had more than a fraction of the cell phone market, The Windows monopoly was entrenched when the market was a f
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by ergo98 16y ago
I mean, it's a phone OS. Neither iOS nor Android is going to have a monopoly. Many fail to see how perilously close we actually came to an iPhone monopoly. While work-issued Blackberries and not-really-smartphone Nokias made the chart loo
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by ergo98 16y ago
Fantastic article. This is one of very few entries on this debacle that is actually informed and insightful.

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