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Comment Re:Tablets (Score -1) 77

Some people don't like change.

For me, viewing pdf's on a laptop is a really horrible experience. Being able to switch between portrait and landscape is very useful.

Personally, I have no use for a desktop. Maybe it's just me, but a desktop is just a waste of money. And I don't see how having a different operating system would be an advantage.

I'll get off your lawn now.

Comment Re:One more issue (Score -1) 1065

This kind of thing could easily be gamed. Suppose at the end of the year someone arranged to sell a small block of securities at an artificially low price right at the closing bell? Presumably regulations could be passed to inhibit this, but I'm sure there would still be plenty of possibilities.

Repo 105

All the primary dealers do this.

Comment How about this (Score -1) 575

Why don't you just write a C++ compiler in JavaScript? Or just write a wrapper for JavaScript in C++?

C++ and Java aren't really old school, a better way to describe them is that they are LFM's. They're both dead-end and they both have brain-dead designs. C is good though.

My suggestion? Write your own Scheme/Lisp interpreter in your language of choice, and write macros to generate JavaScript. Or write a good JavaScript engine, because they all seem to crash and consume heaps of resources.

Comment solution (Score -1) 1002

The safest course of action is to leave the country. Don't put anything on servers physically located in Amerika. Don't do business in Amerika directly, but through an intermediary. If you are a US citizen get citizenship for another country and leave while you can. This is going to get much worse before it gets better.

Comment Re:Ups and Downs (Score -1) 519

If OP's goal is to get something done, just use what you are comfortable with. You'll find out the advantages and disadvantages for yourself. You shouldn't listen to what the majority of people tell you because the majority of people are idiots.

FWIW, here's a couple more options:

7) Weblocks

8) Seaside

Both use a continuation-passing style which is useful for maintaining state over a stateless connection (HTTP).

Comment Re:Computer as appliance = user as commodity (Score 0) 266

Android is not as open as the ideologues claim it is, it is still controlled by Google and the carriers. Google doesn't actually care about Android, they just care that Android exists. The freedom people associate with Android can be taken away. And the freedom is more perception than reality. Android has a long way to go before it equals the freedom of Linux and general purpose computers.

The UX of iOS may provide fewer options than Android and in that sense it is dumbed down, but from a developer's point of view Android is dumbed down compared to iOS. The fact is, it is easier to solve difficult problems with the iOS SDK versus the Android SDK. iOS is infinitely more powerful than Android in this sense. You will often find that the iOS version of an app will be developed first, then ported to Android, and it will be of lower quality and take longer to develop than the iOS counterpart.

It would be trivial for Apple to change its policies and make iOS more open. To solve Android's design problems you would have rewrite it from scratch, and I doubt Google has the skills necessary to develop something as nice as the iOS SDK.

I prefer Apple's walled garden to Android's inferior SDK where you are pretty much forced to develop in Java, an inferior language. Android exists within its own type of walled garden, despite what the ideologues say.

Android = developer as commodity

In the end, Windows won because people are idiots, they don't know any better, and that's why Android will win, because people are idiots.

That's also why popular music is shit, because people are idiots.

Android = popular music = shit

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