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by sker 13y ago
Nothing in this press release points towards such an implementation. Mono and Linux aren't even mentioned in the entire article. This is all about C# -> Android/iOS. In fact, it weakens the future of Mono by making Xamarin stro
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by sker 13y ago
Wikileaks again messing up the world's economy and putting lives at risk. Won't somebody shut them down? On a more serious note, wasn't there a reward if they got their hands on this leak? Also, as a mexican, it sucks that we
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by sker 13y ago
It's not a first. It happens all the time. And for the first time I'm glad we have editorializing mods. The original article was blatant blogspam. It even said so in the title: Oh look, let's focus only on the negative aspec
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by sker 13y ago
> I find that being hungry is very distracting --hunger constantly nagging you out of your task with the urge of getting up and grabbing a snack That only applies if you are actually experiencing hunger. I've been doing intermitte
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by sker 13y ago
Companies like LinkedIn are training users (at least me) to report as spam instead of unsubscribing because it's an exercise in futility to try to opt-out of their spam.
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by sker 13y ago
> analyst Rick Sherlund said the sale of Bing and Xbox, along with other moves, could lift fiscal 2015 earnings by 40 percent Short term, quarterly numbers-focused business people. Lying off 50% of their employees will also improve the
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by sker 13y ago
Yes, there has always been people complaining in forums. I've seen steps to recover some of the lost stuff, but I no longer bother. My original account predates the Google acquisition and I lost everything when they made the username -
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by sker 13y ago
I've pretty much given up. Google has deleted my playlists and favorites countless times. Every time they try to integrate YouTube with one of their services/account management, I end up losing everything. My only consolation is t
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by sker 13y ago
I always thought HTC and Samsung were exempt from these royalties by releasing their own Windows Phones. That's why Samsung doesn't care at all about their WP offerings. Samsung, HTC, Apple and Nokia should account for over 50% of
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by sker 13y ago
At the end of the day, this is what Google wanted, to push Internet adoption forward. If others want to compete, mission accomplished.
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by sker 13y ago
How exactly would AT&T acquire the second largest mobile network operator in the world, who happens to have a similar market cap and apparently larger profits? Obviously it would be a merger, but the article makes it sound like an aquis
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by sker 13y ago
Most of the Latin America mobile market is in the hands of Telefonica (Spain) and America Movil (Mexico): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operator...
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by sker 13y ago
What would it take for MS to make C# fully open source with no threat whatsoever of patent or copyright litigation? Is it really a strong selling point keeping companies using Windows? Now that MS is the underdog in the mobile wars, wouldn&
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by sker 13y ago
I'll look into it, although I was thinking more of a Lumia 92x or 1020, mostly for the camera.
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by sker 13y ago
Nothing wrong with it, but MS decided to go the Apple route by providing a locked-down system. That works well for 90%+ of the population, but I need to be able to use my device as I use my PC, installing and configuring anything I want. An
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by sker 13y ago
Yes, Nokia is the only company that gives me hardware envy. I've been wanting to run Android on one of those gorgeous Lumias for a long time. I've never felt like running Android on an iPhone. Maybe if they reach 10%+ someone will
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Nokia Becomes The Fourth Largest Smartphone Brand in USA in Q3 2013(counterpointresearch.com)
92 points by sker 13y ago|60 comments
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by sker 13y ago
Slightly glad to see ASP.NET improved a little (at least the stripped/raw/barebones version). Slightly sad to see the Mono performance is still abysmal. Edit: link to the blog. It was submitted earlier, but apparently got killed:
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by sker 13y ago
VMware is currently valued at 35B. Who is to say Docker couldn't be the next VMware? I would invest in these guys if I could.
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by sker 13y ago
> The US isn't a democratic republic anymore. I also used to think that my government wasn't a democracy because they don't represent me . But the truth is, they do represent the majority of the population. If no branch
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by sker 13y ago
> isn't there a sociological theory that basically says that an organization tends to be controlled by the people who care about the continuity of the organization, instead of the goals it represents? Yes, what you describe is the
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by sker 13y ago
> The question is whether we can get to a point of no return with self-driving cars before that effect takes hold. Insurance companies can take care of that too. Just charge a huge premium to drivers who want to drive by themselves. Yo
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by sker 13y ago
They'll have to fight the insurance companies. Insurance companies will probably love to be collecting rent on every vehicle while having to cover 90% less accidents.
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by sker 13y ago
That promise was made when Schmidt was running things. We all know by now that Page is much more aggressive at monetizing existing products and killing off non-essential ones. We can expect more of these things in the future.
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by sker 13y ago
Great movie. It goes to show that, just like in video games, graphics aren't that important. The producer even thanked piracy for spreading awareness of the movie: http://torrentfreak.com/producer-thanks-pirates-for-ste
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by sker 13y ago
Your post went from #24 to #79 in five minutes: http://hnrankings.info/6498675/ It happens all the time. I often comment on one of the top 5 articles, only to come back a few minutes later unable to find it on the fron
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by sker 13y ago
I suppose that's a rhetorical wondering. There's plenty of people who think the government can do no wrong, even here on HN.
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by sker 13y ago
I feel you there buddy, gotta get the whole (yeoman, bower, grunt, angularjs, batarang, postman, karma, typescript, git, git deployment, ci, visual studio support, assorted js librariers) setup ready to kick some ass.
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by sker 13y ago
If daringfireball upvoters never got banned, I doubt you have anything to worry about.
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by sker 13y ago
As Kevin said, I was paraphrasing. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYDhMmVLXI

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