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by rontr 19y ago
At the risk of getting downvoted due to a negative-sounding comment, I must say that I don't find Xobni's plugin so useful (at least to me) by what I've read about it. I use Outlook at work and Gmail for my personal email, and I think that
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by rontr 19y ago
Google is employing a small army of Java developers -- are they mediocre? :) I think Google picked Java because J2ME has already won a big midshare among mobile developers and Google wanted to appeal to them by providing a familiar tool.
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by rontr 19y ago
Google Gears is multi-threaded.
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by rontr 19y ago
This article would have been so much more interesting if it had said, "Not only did Leopard not ship with Java 6, but Apple, in typical fashion, apparently thinks it has no obligation to its customers to inform them it replaced Java with Ha
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by rontr 19y ago
Different people find satisfaction in different ways. Tycoons like Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch are driven to build empires -- they strive over decades to increase the dominance of their companies in their markets. Many Wall Street bankers
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by rontr 19y ago
I agree that many desktop apps can't be entirely replaced by web-based equivalents. However, if a webapp can provide 80% of the features of a similar desktop app but with a much lower barrier to entry (nothing to install, cross-platform) an
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by rontr 19y ago
"Superstar" is a word that should be reserved for a select few. For example, the hackers who built the Google search engine are superstars. I somehow doubt people of such caliber send their resumes to Fog Creek Software seeking opportunitie
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by rontr 19y ago
Clearly, only superstar hackers are skilled enough to add features to FogzBugz.