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>>the company is literally re-writing all of its code > > Wow. Good to know they are "literally" re-writing code instead of "figuratively". Why is the adverb "literally" overused s…

With crap and hassle like this in the year 2017 for something as "simple" as a web browser, be sure to remind your boss Ray Kurzweil at Google, "the singularity is near" ROFLOL

The 2017 iPad Pro compares favorably on some benchmarks with 2017 13" Dual-Core i7 MacBook Pro.

> MacBook hard drives can be removed and replaced. This is not entirely true. The flash drive on the 2015 and 2016 Retina MacBooks are "soldered to the logic board" according to iF…

> nobody is going to let you write a critical system in some new relatively unknown language. Whose permission do you seek who will "let you" or not "let you" write a critical syst…

I recently invested in learning Clojure, enough to get some practical things deployed, but I am far from being a Clojure advanced developer. I wanted to learn a Lisp dialect and am…

I recently (past few years) invested in learning Clojure, enough to get some practical things deployed, but I am far from being a Clojure advanced developer. I wanted to learn a Li…

Yeah. Apple announced today they've sold 1 billion iPhones: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/27/apple-has-sold-1-billion...

How fascinating considering Facebook sends emails to those who have resigned from Facebook, playing and preying on people's emotions with marketing messages the likes of, "you may …

And just think ... Uber and (mostly Silicon Valley) companies like it thought all along how easy it would be for "software to eat the world" and thus merely "disrupt" the establish…

> This will effectively counter IBM/Apple's Swift strategy with iOS devices for the enterprise. In a similar vein, Satya Nadella's new "vision" expressed in yesterday's keynote, ak…

Agreed. This is an astute observation.

> The open source advocates (Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Damien Edwards, and many others) won the internal struggle. This is truly an amazing feat. Imagine the cultural headwin…

> Even react-native isn't ready yet if you're a windows based shop. Don't forget, Facebook's annual developer conference F8 is coming up next (April 12th 2016). They will surely ha…

> - Having an open source alternative like this will be a blow to Phonegap's/Apache Cordova's use for new apps. Really? Do you think Zuckerberg is now shaking in his boots thinking…

> This is a personal, spare-time project ... I very much admire and appreciate the work you've done bootstrapping Abot in your spare time. Now that Microsoft is in the game, my con…

> If Microsoft ever decided to pull support, nobody would be left unable to run their software. These are the same Ubuntu binaries that run on Linux, and anyone could move over to …

> Microsoft during their monopolic era was much more beyond that, they were going for all. Yes, absolutely. Bill Gates was not a "nice" man. These days many people fawn over him "o…

Yes partycoder, it sure would be interesting to hear what "neckbeard" RMS has to say about this move by Microsoft today, would it not?

"Resistance Is Futile"

Perception is important as always: being perceived as "open source" is now vogue and seems to be more of a marketing function for large corporate behemoths (most mere mortals have …

Wow, amazing world progress, "hello world" has finally been deprecated in favor of YAPOD (yet another pizza ordering demo). Quick, someone ping Ray Kurzweil to alert him of the ris…

This makes sense. The tight knit NeXT community used the "app" meme regularly staring at least in 1990 if not sooner.