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Very true, big companies are usually as good as their despot. At least when it comes to taking risks and "saying no". Apple could go all-in because Jobs had the clout to give march…

"We heard you like tablets, so we took your tablet and made it a laptop so you can pretend it's a tablet while you're using Windows!"

Thats what made it so funny. I can see the Microsoft meeting: -Hey so everyone talking about this Retina thing how are we going to compete? -Let's make up our own word! Do we have …

I'd be very surprised if Microsoft sold these under their own brand. Perhaps they're more like the Intel proof of concepts and "the real thing" will be announced by Nokia?

I'm not going into an originality discussion, certainly that argument has been made thousand of thousand times on forums all over the internet. Very few companies are truly origina…

I'm actually a Windows user (although I own an iPad), but you have to be a bit humored by all this. As usual where Apple has used a feather Microsoft have used the whole chicken wi…

It was quite serendipitous how although Rocket jumping was "incidental" to Q1 most levels still played extremely well using that feature. Still level-designers who later knew about…

Every time I watch an episode of House or read a story like this I think "Why isn't there an expert system for diagnostics". The notion of a person being able to manage such vasts …

Obviously Eurovision is something of a subgenre which is more about its own "brand" of music rather than for established artists (otherwise we'd just send Robyn and win every year)…

I find that once you realize there's a problem that can be solved it's often the case that a solution is available if you look for it. My bank for instance makes it easy to set up …

The key is to combine "minimalistic living" with life hacks. Reduce your life down to the essentials, then use life hacks to go even further. For example: you probably won't get aw…

I've had an ipad for a while, in the beginning I hardly used it at all, I read some books or watched some video/tv on it occasionally, but mostly at home. But after a while I found…

I used to be a gamer but then I realized something. While gaming is fun, sometimes fulfilling and a source of "flow" it's ultimately without higher meaning. Imagine spending hundre…

I've had a similar experience, in school I got hooked on chess. Having an unfortunate tendency to try to master anything I suck at that I find interesting I dedicated quite a lot o…

Some day there'll probably be a nextgen language that addresses at least some of these issues. One way to resolve some of them today however is code generation. While not appropria…

I agree that single dispatch seems to be a pretty obvious problem with most oop languages, if you have a method that has two different types as parameters, on which do it belong? T…

As I've become more experienced over the years I've come to believe that the prolification of patterns to "fix" oop problems (dependency injection, immutability, builder patterns, …

Loved the story and it's very good advice indeed. I'd like to add one thing though. Having a "fuck them" or "they are losers" attitude (not saying the article advocates that) isn't…

While file-less source control would be a very interesting concept I don't see how the lack of it would affect the editor. Simply present code as file-less and behind the scenes pu…

I'm not arguing for patents, only that a programming language should probably be patentable if other similar creative efforts are, I don't see why they should be exempt. I agree wi…

Aren't all patents ideas? Surely the difference between a patent or not can't be whether the ideas is a physical object or not. If all patents were abolished tomorrow I wouldn't mi…

Are they arguing that all languages are free or that the Java language specifically was free? If it's the former it seems a little strange. If I tomorrow invented some programming …

Personally I prefer the more hackerish: "h*n", harder to prounciate though :)

Am I the only one that would like to see some kind of locking support in the API? So if you have multiple clients working against the same file it could take out a lock for x minut…

I think the best way I managed to wrap my head around the refutation of that is this: First off, some foods make you hungrier so you consume more calories. People have a very stron…