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DoJ Backs Oracle in Case Against Google Android's Java Based APIs(ft.com)
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
It's #2 in the organic search results for me.
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Mandriva Linux goes out of business(businessinsider.com)
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Indian Americans dominate the National Spelling Bee and take abuse for it(washingtonpost.com)
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Earlier discussion of the actual source here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9606188 Looks like it was quickly knocked off the front page by the flamebait detector thanks to the offtopic toxic comments accusing MS empl
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Then why does Microsoft say this in their blog post: >Although the functionality will be very helpful, because it’s “just an app” there will be certain things that Cortana does on Windows phones that won’t work on Android devices or iPho
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
It's the people's fault because they elected the Congress.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Don't think lifelock will prevent fraudulent tax returns.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>Realistically Microsoft could strike a deal and make an Android phone use Cortana by default (which might be really good) which would be quite interesting (especially if it could integrate with third party apps on Android, too). Is ther
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Not sure about Android, but I doubt Apple provides a way to sync stuff to a desktop app. iTunes is heavily locked down and there have been cases in the past where they deliberately broke compatibility with sync apps.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>Microsofties would receive these urls internally, and if only 20 or so of them immediately submitted them to HN, it would go to the top of the frontage. >Although personally and knowing the extremes Microsoft goes to with marketing,
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Thanks. In that case, isn't someone taking on risk by moving coupons around?
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
> Nobody believes that the guy who is moving coupons back and forth between various piles with specific timing has truly earned the load of goods he gains. Instead, they rightly feel like he is cheating the system and taking without givi
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
The phones sold last quarter were not branded Nokia.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>The year of the Linux desktop was brought about by Android What's the marketshare of Android on desktops?
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>Linux on the desktop is happening What makes you think so?
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
They could have lived a few(or many) more years.
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Paper finds a surprising link between warm temperatures and math test scores(washingtonpost.com)
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New US attorney general refuses to drop Microsoft foreign data warrant(zdnet.com)
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
The Surface table and Surface hub use quite different touch tracking technologies. The table used cameras sitting at the floor level IIRC because touch technology was not that advanced at the time. You cannot bolt that to a wall without it
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Elon Musk: Demand for Tesla Energy batteries is 'crazy off the hook'(finance.yahoo.com)
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Dice Report: Fastest-Growing Tech Skills(insights.dice.com)
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>I know of at least one occurrence where a half-billionaire SAVED money by donating some to charity. Link?
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DOJ looking at Apple as it is pushes record labels to ditch free Spotify streams(theverge.com)
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
He also gave at least $100 million to Ebola, $500 million to charity, and funded several health science and general science initiatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Paul_G._Allen_Family... >Paul Allen ha
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Would you say the same for WINE or ReactOS? Or Pages, OpenOffice and Google Docs 'copying' the docx format? Samba and SMB? It's more about compatibility with an existing ecosystem than copying.
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Deep Dive into ASP.NET 5 [Build Video](channel9.msdn.com)
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Sorry grandma, That $42M slot machine jackpot was a computer glitch(arstechnica.com)
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Analysis of first 200 LinkedIn users by changing IDs in URL(reddit.com)
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Nomi tracked customers phones MAC addresses in stores without in-store opt-out(arstechnica.com)
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