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by randomfool 14y ago
"Strategically, it makes a lot of sense to own the browsing experience e2e" Can you expand on this? There are a couple of benefits I can think of, but no major ones. - Quality of experience: owning the browser ensures that sub-par browsers
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by randomfool 14y ago
Google's maps on Android kicks iOS's butt- the vector rendering makes it much much faster, turn-by-turn navigation and offline mode. In case you aren't aware, the Android version doesn't download the image tiles, rather it downloads the raw
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by randomfool 14y ago
Not necessarily- CLR could ngen on install. I'd actually say this is most likely. You get a hit on install times but after that startup times get much better. Getting fast app launch times are incredibly important.
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by randomfool 14y ago
Worth noting that Celebrex is very similar to Vioxx (COX-2 inhibitor), and that researchers do not know if Celebrex has the same issues as Vioxx- they've avoided repeating this study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COX-2_inhibitor#Adverse_ef
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by randomfool 14y ago
With Microsoft's newfound love for HTML, this adds significant pressure to keep IE decent and updated regularly. IE10 is OK today but will be outdated in a year. Will IE11 ship within 12 months (from now, not Win8 RTM). Otherwise MS has an
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by randomfool 14y ago
Specifically, my understanding is that Oracle is saying that the Structure, Sequence and Organization (SSO) of method names, parameters and return values is copyrightable. Looking at the documentation for the List interface ( http://docs.or
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If SSO is copyrightable, am I infringing on their copyright when I implement an interface?
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This is basically Microsoft's internal organizations being forced outward, and powerful marketing people attempting to either latch onto existing brands where inappropriate (Windows, also often Office) or build new ones (Live, SQL, Visual S
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by randomfool 14y ago
Lack of C++ code is a significant limitation for high end mobile games- both from performance and porting costs. MS absolutely knows this (and hears it regularly from game dev houses). Dunno if it'll be solved in WP8, but they have somethi
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Agree- SVG probably has broader support than CSS animations and you can create something much better. I'm really curious about the lack of love for SVG.
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I believe that Scott Jenson put it best in 'Why Mobile Apps Must Die'- http://vimeo.com/33692624 Watch it. The problem with native apps is the installation barrier- if I had apps installed to do everything that I'd love my phone to do, I'