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by norswap 17y ago
Some insight on this, both personal and inspired by a semiotics course I took : Code is not avoidable because, be it text or image, you're still facing elements that are given a conventional meaning. That is the definition of a code. Text i
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by norswap 17y ago
The strong focus on Microsoft made this article sound suspicious to me from the start, but it got worse as I read.
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by norswap 17y ago
Wikipedia : The Global Times is a daily Chinese newspaper produced under the auspices of the official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, focusing on international issues. Yikes ! Communist-endorsed BS !
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by norswap 17y ago
This keeps popping up every month. We really need some kind of "best of" to avoid this.
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by norswap 17y ago
"Let's use only web applications so that we don't waste time on desktop application !" Really ?
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by norswap 17y ago
I surely wouldn't be willing to take that kind of chance if it were my start-up. Moreover, Google is aware of the startup existence, and probably wouldn't hesitate to sue it would it violate the TOS. And if they did, they'd probably get awa
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by norswap 17y ago
Evidence shows that big companies tends to ignore that kind of problems altogether. Think of Microsoft and Apple with their Appstore.
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by norswap 17y ago
Theorically speaking, you could recreate youtube whitout the ads juste by running a crawler that would create an html page embedding each video it finds. Of course the API facilitate that - but if the website doesn't have some solid added v
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by norswap 17y ago
Paid ? Seriously.
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by norswap 17y ago
There is something that puzzles me in all this : why didn't he spoke of it earlier ? Especially since it's advertised that he did it "so he could tell others the truth". Perhaps he spoke about it and it didn't catch media's attention. Anywa
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by norswap 17y ago
Ok thanks for clarification :)
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by norswap 17y ago
I don't really get it, is it 1) C language that gets translated into other languages ? 2) A C compiler optimized for the high level languages mentioned ? 3) Something else ?
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by norswap 17y ago
What about computer science specifically ? In Belgium, we're at 100% of cs students getting a job, most often even before they graduated (they get employed before-hand).
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by norswap 18y ago
Building some mobile syndication thingy is by no mean comparable to designing the first mac.