You can take a look yourself and listen to the difference.

Thats what I was thinking.

Reminds me of Microsoft of old. Where they would buy competition or buy a company a competitor needs to bring their product to the market in order to hurt them. Google is turning into the new MS, as MS turned into the old IBM before.

FirefoxOS needs a good maping program to succeed and right now Google is the monopolist. Bing maps suck with Windows Phone and is one of the reasons why I didn't buy one.

Apple owns the market with music too. If you listen to music a lot on your phone than an iphone would be better than Android. Android better for those who travel. If another product ever came close and was available for all platforms say goodbye for needing a Droid.

But Google is more cool here so I wonder if it will be bashed as much?

Be careful what you wish for my friend.

When I created this name 12 years ago at the height of the MS jaggarnut I was prying Apple would take over. MacOSX came out and was open source too and thought nothing of good things of Apple. They were the good guys right? Boy, have things changed once they became powerfull and became more evil than Microsoft.

My opinions change as technology and the world around us rapidly change with it. Ironically I typed that about post on my Galaxy 4 which is webkit based. I am trying to warm up to Firefox again but after 3.6 and 4.0 I prefered Chrome and even IE to that pos.

IE 6 was a great browser in 2001 and I remember reading about and giving up on Netscape and early Mozilla betas at the time. Times change. It it really irritating when mobile sites insist on -webkit CSS extensions and hypocritcal webmasters who post here bash IE 6 then go on and on how modern IE 10 doesn't support animations and other shit (which by the way are webkit, not W3C standards they are refering too.) In 10 years Chrome today would be equally dreadfull and aweful trying to get it to work with a 2020 web.

Lets hope for Firefox OS and MS losening up more on Windows Phone allowing scripting so more browsers will come along. I actually hope Windows Phone takes up to at least 20% marketshare! I never thought I would say this but I want to see more competition and MS is being more forgiving than iOS and Google in its app store. I now feel comfortable with MS getting some marketshare. The competition also will force cheap ass corporations to upgrade and stop whinning.

I have IE 8 installed with toolkits to block any newer version on my windows 7 computer. Why? I am working on something that will cater to business and IE 8 is my target as these users who have invested millions simply locked into IE 8 after IE 6 and never learned their lesson of using W3C instead. Sigh. But business is business and more players out there upgrading all the time then the better.

Netscape 4 required a lot of js hacks and its css was b7ggier than even IE 6. If its possible to believe IE 6 was a breathe of fresh air to develop for in comparison! Thats pretty bad as IE 6 today is far buggy compared to a modern browser.

As late as 2010 or 2009 I wrote a piece on the dangers of Chrome as it would give webmasters a reason to make IE only sites as the mere 15% of Firefox users would be split in forcing webmasters to wonder if its worth it to make a site work with less than 10% of viewers?

Boy have things changed. IE will never come back. Phones and tablets are making up 25% of traffic. Windows Phone has 4% of that market. Webkit is the new bully on the block today.

Chrome is the most used browser outside of China. Its, not standards compliance as all the advanced css 3 are webkit specific. I wanted a cheaper Windows Phone but turned it down fo a galaxy 4 due to sites like newyorktimes not working with anything but webkit.

  IE is done. Unless MS convinces those that remember trying to get IE 6 at work to render modern sites and, all the droid and IPhone users to switch it aint happening

Netscape 4 required more hacks than IE. It was a supperior browser. Also every possible browser st the turn of the century couldnt pass the acid test. Opra and webkit had quirks too. IE 6 was the better one as browsers were buggy rushed experimental products. It was 7ntil Safari a mmd firefox 1.0 did IE 6 even have close competition. You are looking at this from a lems of today.

We've ported Dalvik to FreeBSD. The Binder IPC stuff also needs porting, however having done this the isolation between applications could be much better enforced using Capsicum. For real-world usage, you'd also need to port the GPU drivers, because Android has its own graphics stack.

Try again.

This is annoying, but it's something that legal tells most companies. If you were not hired for some reason that is not directly related to your ability to perform the job, then you might have grounds for a lawsuit. It's best not to give out any information.

I'd agree with the other poster. This kind of question is intended to see how you approach a problem. Can you think about intelligent solutions to a problem that you haven't seen before? The answer doesn't matter, the process of getting to it does. If they asked you to in-person interview, it means you passed the phone screening, which then isn't counted for the rest of the hiring process. The in-person interviews are fun. I turned down a job at Google, but I found the interviews fun - they ask you to think about things that you haven't thought about before (well, in theory - one of my interviewers hadn't done her homework and asked me a question about a subject I'd published papers on, expecting me to have no background knowledge). Whether you take the job or not, the experience is enjoyable (and you get to visit somewhere fun at their expense).

If you only got a free lunch, then you did the interview wrong. The trick with Google interviews is to make sure they take place in a country you want to visit. They'll pay for your flight, meals, and one night in a 4* hotel, and then you can tack on extra time if you want. If you visit somewhere where you have friends and can get free accommodation, then it's a good idea to go through it fairly frequently. Interestingly, even if you turn them down, their recruiters will start sending you emails about six months later about coming back to see if they have more interesting jobs for you.

Netflix is aggressively hiring anyone with FreeBSD kernel experience, irrespective of education, so if you want to work there now's a good time to start sending patches to FreeBSD - especially to the network stack.

We just did a round of hiring, and interviewers were asked to answer two questions about the candidate:

1. Is this person competent to do the job?
2. Would you be happy working on a team with this person?

For a lot of tech jobs, the answer to the second question would probably be 'no' for Woz, Jobs, Gates, Brin, and Page. That doesn't mean that they're not competent, it just means that they wouldn't fit in with the existing team, and that can be highly destructive to a creative environment. That same attribute makes them more likely to go and start a company, which also makes them less attractive to a big company: employees who leave to start a new company often take the best of their colleagues with them, so they increase turnover of the staff that you most want to keep.

If they're hiring you as a contractor, then they should be paying you contractor rates for that time, so they have an incentive to either hire you full time or let you go. Google doesn't like to do contracting, however, because they have a lot of trade secrets that they don't want to trust contractors with.

It's pretty easy. You ask the existing team whether they want to keep that person, and you pay the team bonuses according to the total team productivity. Developers are generally good at assessing the competence of other developers, and how well they fit in with the existing culture, but occasionally will try to sabotage competent people who they think might outshine them. If they get paid more for selecting better people as colleagues, then this incentive goes away.