ergomarky

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by ergomarky 8y ago
I think the shift from a traditional sales focus to one on subscriptions and "The Cloud" is a pretty monumental change. Losing traditional sales markets like selling phones really hastened that change. I don't think you'
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by ergomarky 8y ago
I'd be surprised if the announcement didn't also come with that change. Easiest way to even the field.
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by ergomarky 8y ago
Xamarin has improved, they've improved how git handles large repos, typescript is extremely stable... I mean, on the consumer end they're definitely kind of failing, with the notable exception of minecraft being supported far more
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by ergomarky 8y ago
It's actually really interesting. Seems like internally, MSFT has kind of been let loose and no longer has to adhere to the more strict style Ballmer was a fan of. We've seen this with them hiring OSS talent (Miguel de Icaza, who
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by ergomarky 8y ago
Were they skeptical at all though? Or did they just want more control over the content? Whenever I talk to people who would very much be in that category, they don't hate TV at all, in fact they love it and sub to Netflix and Prime (or
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by ergomarky 8y ago
Shortcut Win + Ctrl + C. I've known a couple people accidentally press it and think their display is broken! Use it quite often for quick visibility testing.
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by ergomarky 8y ago
It's still powerful if it impacts people. Manipulation, is still powerful if it works. Which is where you might be confused, you can be incredibly insincere and abusive (seems common in business) but still a great leader (great in this
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by ergomarky 8y ago
In the same vein though, the Windows team added in an Eye Control accessibility option [0] allowing users to control the OS with just their eyes. So the answer here would just be that the teams are so large that they can make phenomenal dec
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by ergomarky 8y ago
>I don't think this generally is a change in the person so much as fundamental changes in how the modern internet is experienced. It's not a change in the person, it's a shift in perspective due to boredom. There was a pod
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by ergomarky 8y ago
Amazon Prime, Office 365, and now Google One. Definitely the major players are looking towards a unified mainline of income for their services.
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by ergomarky 8y ago
This would still encourage people to buy iPhones though, it's just a bridge between Your Phone (the app on Windows in question) and your iPhone so you can reply to (i)Messages on windows as you do a Mac. Don't really see why they