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I have zero problem with the fail-fast, fail-earlier strategy and attitude. ultimately it's business. there is no point to continue if it's obviously not going to work. there is a …

Unlike Microsoft, who had the will and executive ability to expand to new territories and destroy competitors, Google has a remarkable record of half-baked works and giving up. it'…

I don't think the fruit company will approve apps programmed other than objc or swift.

I totally agree with the article except one thing: it's much much more a pleasant experience to code iOS app than Android, even without considering the fragmentation problem.

Luckily Peter Bright does not quit covering MS/web/programming yet.

looks good, only 7 years late to the game.

it's a dumb only because it failed. will you do it again if the conversion/reply rate was good? If I were you, i'll probably setup a competition project repo, invite folks to contr…

who was the last business leader in tech sector close to politics? john scully?

Well done! I hope Google would do the same when related to NSA and other 3 letters agencies. when was the last time Google made headline of hn for its technology?

absolutely! In general I trust pure commercial organisations more than govt. and non-profit orgs.

according to my understanding, there is no "fact" in science. there are observations, hypotheses (and null hypotheses if related to stats) and theories. i think "fact" is used in t…

https://github.com/zserge/android-virtual-layout

which comes first, a good consumer product or a healthy ecosystem around it? it's a positive feedback loop thing in later stage but product always comes first. it's not a big secre…

Were Steve Jobs, John Ive, Tim Cook and other Apple guys crystal clear about the theory when they started iPod/iPhone? I don't think so. Apple has a unique weapon called design and…

the behaviour of an individual does affect his creditability though.

why this quote got down voted? it's exactly how Opensource progresses.

> ... and trains have needed to be rebooted. Since when that default solution to any problem of any device embedded with CPU, is to reboot ? Welcome to the digital age!

I think Liu is more inline with Isaac Asimov than Arthur Clarke. Liu is clearly an atheist and intentionally avoid cheap reading gratification achieved by science-religion associat…

I stopped reading Ni Kuang's work since 14. I'd consider comparing Ni Kuang with Liu a serious offence to Liu's readers. In my opinion, the second and third instalments of The Thre…

"This is something that I’ve [p]raised directly with President Xi," Obama said.

I'm no fan of either Obama or W, but I do think your comment is unfair. The truth is, given the peak status US enjoyed, there is no foreign policy would bring meaningful and tangib…

One question: when can we have a real look at react-native ?

emacs doesn't have decent support of jsx: the jsx-mode is actually for another tech with same name, the js2-mode is great except xml support. i love vim a lot (use evil in emacs), …

amazing! more than 6 months of hard work to strip out 140 pages of info. My 5 years old son could do the job faster.