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As a young developer, I always wondered why Google didn't buy Java from Sun. Wouldn't it be a strategic buy?
Not sure what to make of that, but I'm just glad we don't live in a world in which Google + Java is the winning horse
+2.5 billion Google Android devices running their apps overwhelmingly in Java.
Wasn't a coincidence this was chosen that way.
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Unfortunate about slack. It really seems to have stagnated. At least we have discord; I'm really glad they turned down Microsoft's 12 billion offer.
Discord is yet another walled garden to be fair. It might be good replacement for some little, private communities. But also large communities are moving into Discord instead of using some public, index-able and findable platforms. They used to be public in the past and people very able to read information about them without going process for creating account, acceptance or even finding whole community. Discord is te…
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If you want it cheaper: https://how2terminal.com This is when I build a product and then Microsoft releases it three weeks later -_-
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I think this should contain a list of what's in the filter: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/filters/!-*f(6s6U8Q9b
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vscode is an incredible piece of software, better than all the paid options in my opinion, the amount of features they pump out month to month is outstanding, just a bit slow due to electron. I never understood why they put so much effort into a free product that I run from Linux and Mac, but I'm happily paying the copilot subscription so it all makes sense now.
better than PyCharm for python?
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I use macOS in large part because its a *nix OS under the hood. WSL gives a lot of that power to Windows.
macOS is tempting but it's a pretty bad nix IMHO. The amount of times I had to change ad-hoc scripts to work around macOS limitations is absurd.
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Just watch the introduction of the Siri product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzItTz35QQ "Your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking" I suspect Scott Forstall and Jobs wanted it to be what LLMs show the potential for it to be. Not the crappy barely functioning timer setting app it currently is. Siri is dumb as rocks, it's so bad at basic queries it's not worth trying to use.
The tooling that it was designed for was things like https://youtu.be/agzItTz35QQ?t=709 Those were the intents that were set up. Yes, it would be nice to have LLM style power - but that isn't how Siri was architected even from the very start. Word combinations are recognized as certain intents and parsed for functions to call into apps that register that they are able to handle that function call. If there was no mat…
Since that time in 2011 it has gotten no closer to “intelligent assistant”. That’s a failure imo.
Google’s is much better at answering basic queries.
There are 5 different sign-up waiting lists. Each one needs to be signed-up for separately. [1] Copilot X: https://github.com/github-copilot/chat_waitlist_signup/ [2] Copilot Voice: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/ [3] Copilot Docs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/ [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ [5] Copilot CLI: https://githubnext.com/pro…
Soon - Introducing Copilot Copilot - to help you navigate the Copilot offerings.
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Apple has always had its own hardware based silo to some extent (excellent products and design, fully integrated). Still, I suspect the AI stuff will be hard for them. They were first to market with Siri and it’s still trash 13yrs(?!) later. It’s always been what they’re weakest at, I’m not sure LLMs will be different for them. The headset could still give them a nice hardware platform advantage though if that UX bec…
Really surprised Apple didn't buy OpenAI; they will regret that MSFT did so.
[1] - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...