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I can't see it happening this way. Nokia wouldn't have developed the graphics drivers itself but received them from the GPU manufacturer (due to the presence of HD protection keys these would have been delivered in binary form only), the baseband code is likely to be full of Nokia's IP and thus would have to be done by someone else (Nokia sold its modem team to Renesas before Symbian got axed) and will probably be of iffy quality. I'm not sure these Meego guys will have access to the radio testing rooms as they did under Nokia. Best of luck to them though

You're the lucky one. Most people are on a waiting list for several months now

Power and syntax of C, safety of C++, useful compiler errors like Java. NO HEADER FILES!!!

You mean someone actually got their Pi delivered?

Not sure, I was sold to Accenture and didn't hang around long there.

I worked for Nokia when the MS alliance was announced. Elop is ex-MS, he brought in some higher management from MS. The company is already drinking the MS kool-aid internally, the takeover is complete in every way except financially. Nokia shareholders would not object to getting the company out of Finland, it's expensive to hire people there and expensive to fire them. Fortunately for MS a whole lot have already been fired.

Not Microsoft. It was even highlighted in the article. Sheesh!

I hate this resolution. I seems to me that screen resolutions have gone backwards, it's nigh on impossible to do any development with this shitty resolution. My old 5 year old Dell laptop supports 1600x1200 compared to my more modern Acer laptop despite the Acer having a far more powerful graphics card. It's not even a native HD resolution so your graphics card has to scale the 720p image up to display it on fullscreen... which totally defeats the purpose of 720p as the scaling hardware is probably crap. It seems to me that laptop manufacturers are shooting themselves in the foot with this crap.

Anthony Zappero has some really interesting things to say about space travel http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf It's a bit scattered but I found it really, really interesting.

It doesn't matter. When it comes to platform choice the end-user's opinioin rarely matters, especially those of nerds. Nokia's N900 was one of the most customisable and Linux-based etc, etc, mobile phones ever developed. They only sold 100,000 of them worldwide, the geek market is unprofitable. Operators are uninterested in WebOS, they're too busy right now trying to make Windows Phone compete with iOS and Android.

Let me guess, you work in QA?

This is exactly the reason why Nokia is now struggling for survival.

You beat me to it. Agile is growing like a cancer, every job description at least mentions it if not requiring some experience in it. It seems to me that managers believe that it's 'Agile or die'. It isn't, if you're poor development practices and processes already in place suddenly 'becoming Agile' won't help anything. I've read employee comments about startups like Zygna, while they probably proudly proclaim to be Agile their developers consider it chaotic.