hydromet

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by hydromet 9y ago
>>the company is literally re-writing all of its code > > Wow. Good to know they are "literally" re-writing code instead of "figuratively". Why is the adverb "literally" overused so often?
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by hydromet 9y ago
With crap and hassle like this in the year 2017 for something as "simple" as a web browser, be sure to remind your boss Ray Kurzweil at Google, "the singularity is near" ROFLOL
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by hydromet 9y ago
The 2017 iPad Pro compares favorably on some benchmarks with 2017 13" Dual-Core i7 MacBook Pro.
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SHOOTOUT: 2017 iPad Pro versus 2017 MacBook Pro 13-inch(barefeats.com)
2 points by hydromet 9y ago|1 comments
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by hydromet 9y ago
> MacBook hard drives can be removed and replaced. This is not entirely true. The flash drive on the 2015 and 2016 Retina MacBooks are "soldered to the logic board" according to iFixit [1], [2]. What happens to the soldered-in
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by hydromet 9y ago
> nobody is going to let you write a critical system in some new relatively unknown language. Whose permission do you seek who will "let you" or not "let you" write a critical system in some new relatively unknown lan
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by hydromet 9y ago
I recently invested in learning Clojure, enough to get some practical things deployed, but I am far from being a Clojure advanced developer. I wanted to learn a Lisp dialect and am glad I chose Clojure. Rich Hickey is a guru. I don't
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by hydromet 9y ago
I recently (past few years) invested in learning Clojure, enough to get some practical things deployed, but I am far from being a Clojure advanced developer. I wanted to learn a Lisp dialect and am glad I chose Clojure. Rich Hickey is a g
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iPhone 7 has an FPGA chip(forbes.com)
3 points by hydromet 10y ago|1 comments
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by hydromet 10y ago
Yeah. Apple announced today they've sold 1 billion iPhones: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/27/apple-has-sold-1-billion...
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by hydromet 10y ago
How fascinating considering Facebook sends emails to those who have resigned from Facebook, playing and preying on people's emotions with marketing messages the likes of, "you may have more friends than you realize awaiting you on
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by hydromet 10y ago
And just think ... Uber and (mostly Silicon Valley) companies like it thought all along how easy it would be for "software to eat the world" and thus merely "disrupt" the establishment, "disrupt" the old school
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by hydromet 11y ago
> This will effectively counter IBM/Apple's Swift strategy with iOS devices for the enterprise. In a similar vein, Satya Nadella's new "vision" expressed in yesterday's keynote, aka the future of chat bots w
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by hydromet 11y ago
Agreed. This is an astute observation.
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by hydromet 11y ago
> The open source advocates (Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Damien Edwards, and many others) won the internal struggle. This is truly an amazing feat. Imagine the cultural headwinds these guys were up against. They also won over the Mic
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by hydromet 11y ago
> Even react-native isn't ready yet if you're a windows based shop. Don't forget, Facebook's annual developer conference F8 is coming up next (April 12th 2016). They will surely have some new announcements in a few we
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by hydromet 11y ago
> - Having an open source alternative like this will be a blow to Phonegap's/Apache Cordova's use for new apps. Really? Do you think Zuckerberg is now shaking in his boots thinking Facebook will have to pull out of React N
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by hydromet 11y ago
> This is a personal, spare-time project ... I very much admire and appreciate the work you've done bootstrapping Abot in your spare time. Now that Microsoft is in the game, my concern is we will see a "tower of babel" typ
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by hydromet 11y ago
> If Microsoft ever decided to pull support, nobody would be left unable to run their software. These are the same Ubuntu binaries that run on Linux, and anyone could move over to that if they wanted to. That's a good point. Its all
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by hydromet 11y ago
> Microsoft during their monopolic era was much more beyond that, they were going for all. Yes, absolutely. Bill Gates was not a "nice" man. These days many people fawn over him "oh he's so lovey dovey, he's goin
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by hydromet 11y ago
Yes partycoder, it sure would be interesting to hear what "neckbeard" RMS has to say about this move by Microsoft today, would it not?
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by hydromet 11y ago
"Resistance Is Futile"
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by hydromet 11y ago
Perception is important as always: being perceived as "open source" is now vogue and seems to be more of a marketing function for large corporate behemoths (most mere mortals have no idea what a "pull request" is but the
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by hydromet 11y ago
Wow, amazing world progress, "hello world" has finally been deprecated in favor of YAPOD (yet another pizza ordering demo). Quick, someone ping Ray Kurzweil to alert him of the rise of pizza ordering chat bots comprised of hidden
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by hydromet 11y ago
This makes sense. The tight knit NeXT community used the "app" meme regularly staring at least in 1990 if not sooner.
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by hydromet 11y ago
Its almost certainly a reaction to IBM which has been cackling about how everything is "cognitive" in their marketing of Watson.