jmfayard

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by jmfayard 9y ago
> Competition, including taxes, is great for Europeans. If we study history we see that competition is one of the components that resulted in the dominance of the west. (see Civilization: Is the West History? I don't know. Competiti
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by jmfayard 9y ago
Booleans having only three values would be an improvement for JavaScript where they actually have four : true, false, null and undefined
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by jmfayard 10y ago
> I really don't get how anybody can take a look at the mess at https://angular.io/docs/js/latest/api/ and think to themselves, yep - that's for me! ANY web developer is someone that once up
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by jmfayard 10y ago
I have to say I enjoyed how you guys argue wether or not something would exist in a pure capitalist economic system, that itself could not possibly exist outside of an Ayn Rand novel
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Using kotlin you get a much nicer language right now without any need of Google to switch off its Java API I doubt it will be officially acknowledged by Google, but hey they never acknowledge third party good things, and the official Androi
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by jmfayard 10y ago
kotlin 1.1 will have coroutines which cover generators/yield async/await stack-less continuations https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-coroutines/blob/master/kotl...
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by jmfayard 10y ago
The point is that given how cars and software work, "ios devices" is a meaningful category while "ford cars" is not. Or which things can monopolistic companies do that non-monopolistic companies can't do? Can or do
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Apple has a market share of 100% of the iOS platform.
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Sorry but I call bullshit on saying that "the arab spring" is the cause of ISIS and the syrian war. The sectarian corrupt violent syrian state and the U.S. invasion of Irak are much better suspects
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by jmfayard 10y ago
> Apple doesn’t give a shit about neckbeard hipsters who spent thousands of dollars on expensive audiophile gear that rely on 100-year-old technology to transmit audio signals. Is that stance from a reductio ad absurdum contest? Like nob
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by jmfayard 10y ago
You are perfectly correct each person (or each state) following its self interest leads in this case logically to a slow motion disaster Ethics, especially a la Kant, can help to address this shortcoming. "Act only according to that ma
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Apple do not have to pay taxes on the billions they choose to amass in Ireland in "every country". They have to pay them in Ireland where they decided to locate it. Had they pay the same rate as every other company located in Ire
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by jmfayard 10y ago
> I absolutely agree with their position that their profits should be taxed in the US, not in the EU. That's not their position, that's their words. Or why do they hide the billions since years if they want their profits to be
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Wait, can we actually choose which taxes we pay? Like maybe I can pay income tax but not VAT? Sound great!
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by jmfayard 10y ago
> the point here is that this scheme was entirely legal That is maybe your legal analysis of european union state aid legislation, but in the end it's the commission and the court of justice who have to assess it.
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Treaty of Rome and its state aid rules => 1957 Ireland accession to the EU => 1973 I don't think http://curia.europa.eu/ will be very impressed by those arguments
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything For Google, its entire product lineup is just a big series of A/B experiments. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...
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by jmfayard 10y ago
> I think it's probably more just a coincidence that England and then the U.S. were such global powers, and not related to characteristics of English ... and if you want to argue otherwise, you will have to explain why russian had s
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by jmfayard 10y ago
> Samsung being so powerful that it could fork Android. Samsung already maintains a (bad) fork(s?) of Android, as Android Devs who have have been fixing Samsung-specific bugs for years know very well.
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by jmfayard 10y ago
That's a very good reason to only install apps with a real package installer. On OSX, this is a no-brainer with brew[1] and brew cask[2] # On my old mac $ brew list $ brew cask list => then I save relevant parts for future
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Indeed this is more an aspect inspired by academia the point would have been better made by pointing out the excellent and extensive tooling built by jetbrains for kotlin. that's something the maker of the intellij platform has more
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Keep in mind that "Prior to java 8" is a time that belongs to the distant future for the android world
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by jmfayard 10y ago
That's important because IMHO the most important point in the language debate is that we must become much more efficient language learners. A part of my experience is that people start with grossly inefficient methods to speak foreign
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Fair point. They make things simpler, not easier
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by jmfayard 10y ago
They do exist. Check out rxjava from netflix, dagger and butterknife and okhttp and retrofit and picasso (and and....) from square, MVP libraries, kotlin and anko from jetbrains What is truly holding back many developers is the above cargo
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by jmfayard 10y ago
we are in a winner-takes-most world so the first strategy beats the second one every single day
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by jmfayard 10y ago
Actually the java-everywhere thing worked out pretty well, but Oracle is suing the OS that made that idea comes true.
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by jmfayard 10y ago
"Moving away from the jvm" means getting rid of the Android ecosystem. That would be the smartest project management decision since the codebase of Netscape 4 was thrown away
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by jmfayard 10y ago
"for a better language" that interoperate seamlessly with existing java apis and codebases, and had android restrictions in mind during the design phase. Fortunately, this language already exists https://kotlinlang.org&
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by jmfayard 11y ago
Technically speaking that's hardly a failed experiment. The bot has adapted herself just fine to Twitter, a platform optimized for trolling

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