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I see your point. Based on @SpotifyStatus [0], it wasn't uncommon for Spotify to have service disruptions before they did the move though. [0]: https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus

A typical fanboyism argument when one's favorite company screws up. Just mention the other rivals and add zero insight into the original idea being discussed. > In case of Android …

That's actually a good explanation of your point. Thanks.

Assuming Facebook is lying isn't a very good technical argument. There are other ways for them to make profit than doing the shady things you are implicitly accusing them of doing …

> whatever you're sending over WhatsApp is likely going to be used by FB The article links to the technical white paper[0] which explains why your points are invalid. > I'm still i…

> It's a shame to see key words be killed off by internationalisation concerns. I think it's actually a solid decision from WhatsApp since the majority of their users are from non …

I have a big respect for Jon Skeet, but to dismiss Jeff Dean's work because Skeet is the one who provides copy-and-paste snippets for programmers is wrong on so many levels.

Thanks for the informative post. I know you didn't make it to advertise, but do you mind sharing your product name/info? It might be interesting to people following the discussion …

What I meant to say is that all companies try to follow where the market is. Microsoft isn't doing that just because they are losing their leadership in the market (which the OP cl…

I've been using Visual Studio for more than 10 years, it never required a login to work or sent any information to Microsoft without a clear permission. Having said that, if you re…

Xamarin session is on March 31 at 2:00PM PDT.

> Uh, any company that sells niche or upmarket offerings of commodity products, for one. I.e. Apple Without thinking much I can come up with a list of instances where Apple did exa…

Could you name a single company that doesn't follow where the market is and try to monopolises it later? Plus, Windows is still the leader in the desktop and laptop market until to…

You missed the idea. He was discussing that even complicated programs (and games) can be converted to use Windows 10 features (i.e. modern desktop) flawlessly without breaking exis…

Yes, it does. Source and build instructions: https://github.com/accord-net/framework

They have an excellent tutorial [0] that shows using Accord.NET to implement a well known paper called "A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis" [1]. I highly recommend reading…

That sounds insulting to the scientific research itself. Comparing the huge amount of research Microsoft Research division does to whatever Apple does to produce their consumer dev…

Hello, I'm a self-taught professional programmer who didn't have the chance to study computer science in a decent university (I'm in a 3rd world country), but have been studying me…

I'm a web developer with experience of technical editing, a native speaker of Arabic, have translated many popular Firefox extensions to Arabic, and worked in "Google in your langu…

I would quote a sentence from your own profile: "Those who are afraid to make fools of themselves are fools already." :)