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by rlmw 15y ago
Neither Java, nor c#, are simple. They're arguable less complex than things like f# and scala, but its quite a lot about the question of familiarity. If you're coming from an imperative, oop, background then these languages will require mo
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by rlmw 15y ago
I've got to say that that is an epic pivot. I'm somewhat fascinated about: a. When you knew it was time to pivot? b. How much time you spent on your social network before moving on? c. How much code/idea reuse there was between the two ide
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by rlmw 15y ago
Really can't help but think that their sales and conversion data is stronger evidence than your hunch.
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by rlmw 15y ago
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/apple-fan... is quite interesting in this regard. I know its focused on Apple users, but I wouldn't be surprised if you get similar results by putting evangelists for different platforms
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by rlmw 15y ago
I don't really see why people felt the need to downvote, it seemed like he was doing a shameless plug entirely appropriately.
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by rlmw 15y ago
He's also ignoring the existence of youtube, which is an incredibly popular platform for watching video on. In the UK we have several platforms for watching on demand TV, which are available in any web browser. The author clearly hasn't d
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by rlmw 15y ago
Indeed, I think the author needs to rephrase 'Java' as 'Java ME' for a lot of that.
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by rlmw 15y ago
good spot. Lets hope more people flag this.
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by rlmw 15y ago
Your second example includes 'M$' which is a rather childish and antagonistic way to abbreviate. The tone of the first comment seems to be a little immature as well. I'm not trying to have a go at you personally, but I've found HN to be a
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Ask HN: Choices for Start Blogging
5 points by rlmw 15y ago|6 comments
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by rlmw 15y ago
Its interesting because Android was outselling the iphone when the iphone was the most desired platform. It wouldn't be surprising if android took an even greater market share lead in future.
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by rlmw 15y ago
Its guaranteed that 50% to either prefer the winning candidate to the other electable candidates or have not expressed a preference.
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by rlmw 15y ago
Can you be more specific about what Java libraries you're missing? Is it just the payment gateway? I think the following is his question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2242653/java-payment-gate...
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by rlmw 15y ago
I hope you've got tech4some.com registered, so you can add facebook in April 2012.
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by rlmw 16y ago
I think you've made a bit of a misconception here in confusing the underlying programming language (Java) with the UI library. Assuming you want a program to act and function naturally, like an OS X application - in which your problem is r
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by rlmw 16y ago
Just seems like the typical Cathedral vs Bazaar discussion to me. Android always has been a Cathedral.
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by rlmw 16y ago
Its a bit of a mockery to talk about something being 'cross platform' when you're talking about running on three different versions of Windows. It might make sense to focus on Windows as a Desktop OS, but the xbox doesn't have equivalent m
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Groupon Anxiety(economist.com)
1 points by rlmw 16y ago|0 comments
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by rlmw 16y ago
Its not a bad idea though. Its only been the last few years where people have been blogging about their business' finances, this is a similar kind of change to my mind.
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Why is US Broadband so slow?(corp.sonic.net)
5 points by rlmw 16y ago|1 comments
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by rlmw 16y ago
Does it matter whether 404 pages are ugly or not? I mean its a nice experience for a confused user, but I'd frankly rather it made suggestions as to similar urls that might exist, where possible.
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by rlmw 16y ago
Have I missed something, surely this is entirely pointless? You need to have a blank single colour surface behind it, or the images on the transparent screen get obscured by the colours of whatever is behind it. This is even demonstrable
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by rlmw 16y ago
Its a really interesting article, but their methodology doesn't support their conclusion. I'm willing to accept critical rankings as a measure of quality, since I can't think of a better way of mapping the subjective notion of quality to a
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by rlmw 16y ago
It doesn't really help that Apple have a huge online digital music distribution business, and are trying to build an online digital book distribution business. Once you take this into account its hard to believe that they're really doing a
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by rlmw 16y ago
You can't explain that!
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by rlmw 16y ago
I suppose I submitted this link really because it opens up some interesting business ethics questions. I noted recent news talking about Apple using their control of the iOS platform in order to obtain more revenue from people selling non-
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You're boycotting Apple over charges whilst this happens?(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by rlmw 16y ago|2 comments
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by rlmw 16y ago
Its obvious he means standard library by 'API'. Also the type returned doesn't need to be an integer, or even a number. If you need to write a min function then the type merely needs to form a partially ordered set. A string could fulfil
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by rlmw 16y ago
Minor issue - your front page has a block of text thats an image. As a result at least three kittens have died. Had a quick look around. The idea seems nice, but I think stuff like this has to look more 'fun' in order to succeed. Its a r
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by rlmw 16y ago
This is true, I forgot to mention that the haskell version trivially scales to infinite lists. You can use partial application to encourage code reuse as well: evens = filter even

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