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    Comment #9634787

    It would be nice if Economist could post an article discussing the supply of "marriageable women" (using their words). Also, plenty of old failing "you can have it all" narrative l…

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    Comment #9634009

    > ... kills Dropbox/Box/etc at consumer level ... It takes more than just being better when you are late to market. > Self driving cars are fast approaching. Will anyone beat Googl…

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    Comment #9627780

    If something is nice Google either kills it or makes it not nice.

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    Comment #9626411

    Please add Metal & Swift to the title: mentioning these proprietary closed-source technologies might change peoples' expectation.

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    Comment #9620852

    No pixel-perfect alignment. Embracing the flaws.

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    Comment #9620842

    Well done Microsoft: inspiring not one, but two major competitors. Metro aka Modern aka Material rocks!

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    Comment #9601268

    I was expecting one of those trendy HTML5 logo generators...

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    Comment #9601250

    That's part of their agenda. If they will let people easily use other languages, naturally only JS devs will use JS.

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    Comment #9596008

    You can use non-legacy non-ubiquitous languages (as opposed to HTML/JS/CSS), because it's not public-facing. Microsoft is sending a mixed message to enterprise: should they bet on …

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    Comment #9596002

    XAML is quite verbose, they are not making any radical changes - that's the problem. There is no daring attitude that you can see in the ASP team.

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    Comment #9595996

    So you can easily just change a build flag without touching any XAML or creating a new project and everything just works?

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    Comment #9595994

    Is Visual Studio Code made with WPF? Is Visual Studio Online made with WPF? Is WPF open-source and multi-platform? Guess which one(s) will survive in 5 years?

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    Comment #9594406

    They were desperate to release something ASAP. The enemy is at the gates.

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    Comment #9594393

    That's cool, as long as everyone has both options. Thousand years later, first colonists in a different galaxy: - Remember that dude from our childhood? - Yeah, choosing to live a …

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    Comment #9594378

    Becoming rich within 1000 years is more plausible than within ~80 years. Unless the concept of being "rich" disappears due to progress.

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    Comment #9594370

    Most lives already end with a disease. You don't die from old age. Investing in things other than not-freaking-dying - now that's awkward.

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    Comment #9594364

    In other words, investing in future will actually make sense.

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    Comment #9592817

    Appointing her as a CEO was such a great idea. Reddit thrives on censorship and social justice.

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    Comment #9591266

    "Python-based scripting language, designed to make games." :(

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    Comment #9591256

    "is the language named after some design philosophy that it is supposed to embody" They stole it from a previous language and then swiftly forged the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/…

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    Comment #9585778

    You can add Akka.NET stats: 2,352 commits, 6 branches, 28 releases, 52 contributors. https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net

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    Comment #9585753

    They have conveniently omitted the fact of existence of Akka.NET which gives C#, F#, .NET support. This is not a minor feature. http://getakka.net

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    Comment #9585601

    Let Unity3d eat them.

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    Comment #9585590

    What about chicks?

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    Comment #9579405

    Scala is definitely type-safe but Akka is not really reactive: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/255047/why-is...