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by teyc 15y ago
It is vast. The libraries and frameworks are being added at a dizzying pace by MS. Not all are good. Do you have a particular stack you wish to learn? Choices are web, desktop Winforms, desktop WPF, silverlight, jquery, SOA.
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by teyc 15y ago
OS Virtualization is necessary because the software stack has got very complicated. This is true not only of Windows, but on Linux as well. A working server has moving parts from web config files to database configuration to PAM. All these
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Yes, and I believe that includes email client etc. There is no reason why they can't do that with VOIP.
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by teyc 15y ago
Actually, I think it is that whether bad memories can get institutionalised. If Balmer leaves, that body of bad memories will be gone, and people more willing to take risks again. We need to remember the software landscape has changed consi
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by teyc 15y ago
A) Pros - viral, Cons - monetization, fickle hardware/drivers/bandwidth B) Pros - enterprise space, Cons - enterprise space C) Pros - Would run well on tablets, a growth market. Cons - You are trying to build a search engine.
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by teyc 15y ago
Pre-antitrust days, that would be exactly what MS would have done. But it has been battered and bruised by the investigations and must have sworn to themselves "never again" will they ever devote managerial time to do what could have been s
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by teyc 15y ago
Yeah, I remembered your old site. It was on HN not too long ago. Cool stuff. Have you had a go at building Android Webkit for running on PCs? It'll be a lot more useful than using the Android emulator for testing web layout.
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by teyc 15y ago
Interesting Adam. You need to be clearer to your audience, who are presumably technical, what the product actually is. If I read this correctly, you have refactored WebKit into an embeddable layout engine that can composite offscreen. It in
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by teyc 15y ago
You are quite right there. Windows environments are a haphazard mess of personal firewalls, routers. There is probably a reason why Jobs didn't want to go there. Having said that, Skype showed that they could make it work. Apple's valuation
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by teyc 15y ago
Exactly, especially if the PC Facetime is crippled so that it can only chat to iOS devices.
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by teyc 15y ago
There is always a persistent threat of Apple bringing Facetime to the PC desktop so that people on iPhones could call people with PC. By purchasing Skype, MS could bring Skype to WP7 and offer it preloaded. There used to be a time when MS c
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by teyc 15y ago
You have existing customers right? Pick the customer who believes you the most, and ask him to honestly tell you why this product is important to him. What kind of disasters does the software prevent in his business. How does this software
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by teyc 15y ago
There is no mention of missing firewall in the report. http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/Heari... Quote: In the Sony case, the majority of the victims are likely young people whose sense of risk, privacy and
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Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse(java.dzone.com)
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by teyc 16y ago
Colourlovers is a cool site. I'm not a colour geek, but I can appreciate what darius has achieved (and congrats) with cultivating such a large community and I'm glad it has worked out financially well for the team. I'm just as curious as an
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by teyc 16y ago
I'm reminded of Alister Croll's article that "Twitter is a protocol, not a site" http://www.bitcurrent.com/twitters-not-a-site-its-a-protocol... There is no reason why Tweetdeck couldn't co-exist with Twitter's main clients. Twitter power
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by teyc 16y ago
Thanks.
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At the moment, I believe it is only the Android phones which sport GPS. (Although Nokia feature phones already have Ovimaps). Bringing maps to the table means WP7 will be on par with Android on such a basic feature. Does this mean MS has ba
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by teyc 16y ago
I disagree. It is forcing you to think for yourself. What do you want to learn here? What most HNers believe to be true, or do you want to learn to be independent?
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by teyc 16y ago
insufficient explanation is not necessarily a problem for the first program as long as it is handled later on. Java has chosen to make certain things explicit. These design choices have their tradeoffs. Being easy to grasp fully in the firs
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by teyc 16y ago
The author makes several claims, of which unfortunately, I could only agree with the final one. Claims: 1. Projects that shouldn't be written in a scripting language should be written in C++, not Java because it is more efficient. [Author p
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by teyc 16y ago
Standing all day in a single spot can be pretty tiring too. A footstool can help a little, but it is probably best to have a mix of postures.
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by teyc 16y ago
> Central planning is very rarely the answer I disagree. That's dogma. Dogma is rarely the answer. The a lot of university's research already relies on public funds which is disbursed by a central committee. There is little private mone
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by teyc 16y ago
The same problem was true for engineering/CS graduates in developing countries. The problem in that case was that the skills available did not meet the economic profile of the countries they were working in. For instance, labour may be so c
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by teyc 16y ago
There are times when this is required. For instance, where I find there is a line of code that shouldn't be called. Commenting it out and explaining that it breaks so and so is preferable to deleting it all together because there is a risk
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by teyc 16y ago
The design is absolutely beautiful too. Congrats. Did you do the design yourself?
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by teyc 16y ago
The same can be said for 99cent apps. The access to sales channel has been democratized and this creates a massive inventory of software. Some of which are very good, but still forced to price at a very low level. A piece of software like i
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by teyc 16y ago
Back in the days of text mode applications, we do not complain about user interface design. Either it is seen as a lesser problem, or text mode itself is better for presenting user interfaces. I'd argue that the latter is true. Firstly, in
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by teyc 16y ago
This is the usual demographic problem. However, the problem is bigger on the military end - you can't defend your interests if 1) you don't have the money 2) if you don't have the manpower. However, the back to the problem with taxing jobs
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by teyc 16y ago
I've just been discussing this point with my daughter a couple of weekends ago. The same I suspect applies to all the cool programming languages I wanted to learn.

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