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.
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.
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All the primary dealers do this.
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.
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).
Android works great if you're not an idiot. iOS works great if you are an idiot. Quick: which do you choose?
Android is great if you're an idiot developer. You don't know what you're missing. iOS is great if you are not an idiot developer. Quick: Which do you choose?
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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