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ZTE to launch webOS phone later this year?(translate.google.com)
6 points by j_col 14y ago|5 comments
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by j_col 14y ago
Press release from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Sep12/09-18RI...
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Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with BlackBerry manufacturer RIM(twitter.com)
4 points by j_col 14y ago|1 comments
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by j_col 14y ago
Wow sorry to hear about IT Conversations going dark, really enjoyed listening to that.
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by j_col 14y ago
Thanks for this, just looking at Django for the first time right now so the timing is perfect.
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HP CEO: We Have to Ultimately Offer a Smartphone(nasdaq.com)
27 points by j_col 14y ago|29 comments
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by j_col 14y ago
The World already has it: http://www.openwebosproject.org/
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by j_col 14y ago
> (Wait, what's that? A company/community can work on more than one thing at a time?) But that's the whole point: they're not, at least not in the case of Thunderbird. Firefox OS clearly has a higher priority for them than Thunderbird.
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by j_col 14y ago
Yes I read that from your other comment, the engineer begins with: > There are many similarities Indeed. And he then goes on to admit that a new version of Enjo JS will address many of the perceived shortcomings in webOS: > This is
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by j_col 14y ago
Giving how shockingly similar Firefox OS is to webOS (now also open source), I would have much rather that they support that OS instead of reinventing the wheel. Some strange strategic decisions coming out of Mozilla inc. these days, I woul
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by j_col 14y ago
He probably just lost the non-US audience with all those baseball references (certainly lost me).
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by j_col 14y ago
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with Google (a large corporation driven by advertising profits) owning the desktop too. > It has openness and it has the big support of Google. Google did not open up Android 3.0 when it did not suit them to
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by j_col 14y ago
Wireless charging comes three years after Palm.
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Google: The Case for Hawkish Regulation(kernelmag.com)
1 points by j_col 14y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 14y ago
Any thoughts on how possible Scottish independence might affect this?
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The Great Fragmentation(blog.aweissman.com)
2 points by j_col 14y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 14y ago
Fixed (I just copied-and-pasted the original).
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1 million accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites(theregister.co.uk)
89 points by j_col 14y ago|35 comments
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Consolidating a dot zero release(alphadevx.com)
2 points by j_col 14y ago|1 comments
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WebOS GBU to become quasi-independent cloud and UX company: meet GRAM(webosnation.com)
2 points by j_col 14y ago|0 comments
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Dropbox confirms hack, announces 2-factor authentication(net-security.org)
2 points by j_col 14y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 14y ago
If you take outside funding, you're not bootstrapping. According to Wikipedia: "Bootstrapping in business means starting a business without external help or capital." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Business There is
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by j_col 14y ago
I thought the same thing when I read it: starts by mentioning $2.5m in funding, then talks about bootstrapping. Those things are mutually exclusive.
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by j_col 14y ago
Kudos to the Enyo team for making this happen (despite it being widely and inaccurately reported that Google hired "the whole team" a few months back). Clearly there are still some very talented engineers working there, can't wait to see wh
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by j_col 14y ago
> The architects in the article refer to a particular kind of person who finds it beneath himself to actually implement something, and spends his day making slide deck and uml diagrams. And yes, they should be fired, unless they are cap
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by j_col 14y ago
I thought SCP was the new FTP. Or rsync.
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by j_col 14y ago
English is not his first language.
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by j_col 14y ago
With regard to the "is dead" proclamation in this title, this comment from a previous commenter sums up my feeling perfectly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554397 Once I see "X is dead" in a article title, I stop reading.
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by j_col 14y ago
But it is still an open source cross-platform HTML5/Javascript based platform. Of course it will not enable you to, for example, send an SMS via an app running in a Chrome web browser, but I would have thought that was a given for any such
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by j_col 14y ago
> ...but a very specific SDK/framework designed for writing applications specifically for webOS, not for other platforms or the web. That is incorrect. Apps written for webOS that use the EnyoJS framework are currently seen running on i

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