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by hughw 16y ago
"Email is much more complex than your home phone..." That doesn't seem like a slam dunk obvious truth to me. The PSTN is no mean feat either.
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by hughw 16y ago
The guy didn't write the article to say he was innocent. He wrote the article to say Google provides no human to discuss the issue with.
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by hughw 16y ago
"Emotion can trump facts". I think the guy's point is, emotion should sometimes trump facts. No Google human was involved. A big chunk of the internet economy is controlled by a heartless robot who can't tell the difference between a middle
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by hughw 16y ago
Good for you alnayyir. I also doubt in 1867 "buy[ing] more...technology" was a concern. Sign of a good Snopes target.
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by hughw 16y ago
Right. The article was about consumer products but you've identified the major differentiator between MS and the others. MS never gets developer buy-in and then hangs you out to dry. You can still build and support OLE controls TWO DECADES
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by hughw 16y ago
Vuze aka Azureus
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by hughw 16y ago
They could call it Multifinder.
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by hughw 16y ago
A bigger point Bruce makes is the issue of confidence in Google. Groups is consumer oriented, but as developers we've seen Google turn on a dime, change its mind, and leave developers who've bought in to their technology, out in the cold. B
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by hughw 16y ago
My name is Steve and Windows was my idea.
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by hughw 16y ago
> There simply is no point in talking about the morality of inanimate, non-sentient objects. Agree, and I would add: but they have the legal status of persons, and they invoke human "rights" like the right to own property. They even hav
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by hughw 16y ago
I always assumed Google had done their legal homework before building Dalvik. If they truly did a thoroughly clean implementation and if they truly examined all the patent issues they could foresee, then this case would prove that nobody, n
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by hughw 16y ago
That's the point of reading the books: it offers something more than "it could happen".
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by hughw 16y ago
I recommend reading David Irving's Hitler's War and Churchill's War as an antidote to the Churchill hagiography. You'll be able to filter out Irving's opinions and still see another perspective on the war. One in which Chamberlain and Halif
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by hughw 16y ago
Probably explains why Basecamp didn't click for us.
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by hughw 16y ago
Srsly? You're surprised?
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by hughw 17y ago
Yeah. The command line is dead too. That's what purists believed in 1986. The Mac killed it. Except, it just keeps coming back because it's so danged useful.