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by mxh 19y ago
Just to clarify: The whole point of a healthy industry (i.e. a vibrant, competitive one) is to provide low-cost, high-quality products to the consumer. Standards are a means to that end. Vendor lock-in, on the other hand, stifles competi
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by mxh 19y ago
An excellent put-down of vendor lock-in. For the good of the industry, I hope he's right, and the standards-based web continues (for the most part, i.e. overlooking multimedia) to thump vendor-specific solutions. However, MSFT has a much g
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by mxh 19y ago
Question: Is silverlight really part of "the web"? For that matter, is Flash? (Were applets?) It seems to me that "the web" consists of things built around W3C standards, to a first approximation. Just because something plugs into a bro
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by mxh 19y ago
FYI, 'x' is Jessica Livingston, according to the YC site. TLB presumably lives in the Bay Area; his Anybots company is here, anyway, and hosts the WC YC offices. Which raises an interesting question as to how the YC partners handle the EC/
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by mxh 19y ago
As a practical matter, if I read the article correctly, VBA is only going away for the Mac. Is that the platform you're working on? If not, no problem. If so: 1.) Not upgrading sounds good .... it's cheap! 2.) You could move to a PC. 3.)
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by mxh 19y ago
"and 99% of what we program" That seems consistent w/the "95% of what we teach" number. As Douglas Adams wrote, a computer "...was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil. ... And the more slow, and dim-witted