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by kvb 14y ago
Perhaps running their existing applications is a consideration? Or retraining costs? There are plenty of reasons that the total cost of ownership might be lower with Windows.
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by kvb 14y ago
They have no obligation to do so. But then why not be honest about refusing service to users of a competing platform, rather than claiming that it's about the technical capabilities of the browser? This is something that was working on WP
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by kvb 14y ago
Of course it's anti-competitive! They took something that was working on a competitor's phone platform and intentionally caused it to stop working. It's probably not illegal , but if it's designed to harm a competitor it is by definition
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by kvb 14y ago
Sure, there are definitely benefits to tracking, and if TV advertisers could do it I'm sure they would. I just wanted to address the contention that DNT implied that ads would be blocked. And I wonder how much benefit tracking cookies rea
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by kvb 14y ago
DNT doesn't block ads, it prevents tracking (ideally). Other ad-supported businesses (e.g. most TV in the US) seem to get by fine without needing tracking cookies.
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by kvb 14y ago
I don't think that was an attack; Sinofsky says "super excited" a lot.
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by kvb 14y ago
First of all, he's not personally buying it, so it's not like this would reduce his personal taxes. Secondly, your first sentence is clearly speculative, but then you act as if it's definitely true for the rest of your comment - do you hav
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by kvb 14y ago
It's not a flaw. Arguably it's worse than having a generic mechanism, but it's certainly not worse than having to use explicit callbacks, as in essentially all other popular languages (and previous versions of C#).
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by kvb 14y ago
There are several other limitations. For instance, method signatures can't be inferred. In F#, you can write member this.AddOne(i) = i + 1 and AddOne will be inferred to have the signature (int -> int). There are plenty of ot
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by kvb 14y ago
Can you expand on what exactly you mean by LINQ? Do you mean the .NET library support (extension methods on IEnumerable/IQueryable)? Do you mean the language features added to C# (anonymous types, expression trees, nicer lambdas, query sy
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by kvb 14y ago
Probably not as a researcher, but as a software engineer I suspect only an undergrad degree is needed for some positions.
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by kvb 14y ago
See http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions for one measure of MSR's published work...
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by kvb 14y ago
In the US, my understanding is that consideration is necessary for contract formation, but by contrast promissory estoppel applies only when there is no consideration. A quick perusal of Wikipedia's coverage of the topic [1] makes it look
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by kvb 14y ago
If someone is using an Android phone as a glorified feature phone, does that still count as "computing"?
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by kvb 14y ago
The evidence in that article seems quite weak to me. It reads like an opinion piece - it nicely fits some statistics into a narrative, but it hardly seems like a conclusive demonstration that "medical patents have caused regressions in inn
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by kvb 14y ago
This seems like a silly way to analyze things. If, as you seem to assume, the US is currently at the forefront of innovation, then why shouldn't we attribute the status quo to the US's strong IP regime by the same logic?
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by kvb 14y ago
Indeed. On a pedantic side note, the correct phrase is perhaps surprisingly "just deserts", not "just desserts" (it has to do with things that are deserved, not with after dinner treats).
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by kvb 14y ago
Be sure to check out the content on the Learn pages [1], which present a structured introduction to various aspects of the language (as opposed to the blank slate of the Create page). The examples really show off what you can do with F#, e
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by kvb 14y ago
What are the consequences of your preferred approach for legacy code? While there are certainly disadvantages of duplicating APIs in terms of cruft, I think that many customers appreciate that old code continues to run (and compile) agains
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by kvb 14y ago
What alternative do you suggest? Markets have their failures, but so do governments, etc.
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by kvb 14y ago
No they don't. Chemical agents (e.g. detergents) and drugs are often very cheap to reverse engineer, compared to the cost of developing them originally.
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by kvb 14y ago
Patents undoubtedly hinder the development of certain technologies. They almost surely incentivize the development of other technologies (e.g. drugs, chemical formulations). It is far from clear to me that the complete abolishment of pate
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by kvb 14y ago
Because the attach rate isn't high enough for tablets. As far as I'm aware, even Apple's not making a ton on their app store (I mean, it's profitable, but it's a pittance compared to their hardware profits). I don't understand your emphasi
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by kvb 14y ago
Surely the combination of research and smart designers is better than either in isolation, though, right? Do you have evidence that the designers of the ribbon were not "smart"? Are you aware of a better design for surfacing hundreds of f
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by kvb 14y ago
Or maybe he has a different perspective on what would constitute "struggling". The company did post its highest revenues ever this year, right?
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by kvb 14y ago
I don't know that it's sexist, but it's certainly a non sequitur. Then again, the whole article is devoid of facts, so maybe it's not too surprising that there are some gaps in its reasoning.
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by kvb 14y ago
This doesn't make any sense to me... You think that the problem with Bing is that it's too focused on revenue for Windows? I suspect the problem is that it's really hard to build a better search engine than Google (and that even if it were
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by kvb 14y ago
This neglects one important consideration (for me, anyway), which is convenience. It's nice not to have to maintain a stock of bottles or cans.
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by kvb 14y ago
Is that really an issue with Microsoft/UEFI/secure boot, or is the problem that OEMs aren't building firmware that does what you want?
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by kvb 14y ago
Does MSFT's approach make it harder to write rootkits? Doesn't that have value to their users? Is there a plausible alternative that protects their users to the same degree? If not, then even if it makes it harder for users to install Li

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