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Comment Re:You know why Apple's winning? It's not about sp (Score 1) 390

Could it be that Android phones are cheap?

One may argue that Android tablets are also cheaper, but a phone is (almost) a necessity, whereas a tablet is a luxury item. If you have to buy something, you go buy the one you can afford. If you don't have to, you just wait to be able to afford the one you actually like.

Comment Re:Is declining enrollment a problem? (Score 1) 292

I agree... Of about 300+ newly graduates (mostly from CS, some from engineering) I interviewed, only a few knew how to sort an array. Hell, I interviewed math majors who doesn't have a fricking idea what is the logarithm of 8 in base 2 or even what is the definition of logarithm.

Comment Re:Rolling your own (Score 2) 93

Lotus Notes does (maybe better). If you ignore the hate about its user interface, the server component (Lotus Domino) is very robust and scalable as a NoSQL provider.

Actually, Damien (author of CouchDB) is a former Lotus engineer and modeled his creation similar to Notes Storage File (NSF) structure.

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