Comment Re:not where from, where to? (Score 5, Informative) 523
League of Legends.
League of Legends.
Larry Page is going to drive Google to the ground, IMHO.
Talent is leaving the company because they found themselves being forced to work on a product they weren't passionate about. (Hello, G+!)
So no, I don't think he knows how to be a good CEO like Eric Schmidt who made Google what it is today, which makes him unworthy of both the title and money.
*sheer.
How is this different from Chakra?
Nothing on the internet truly is.
You'll be sacrificing the availability of tons of apps if you go with WP7 though.
Is more than enough to feed the entire population of Somalia, a nation that is struggling with starvation.
And they want to spend this much money on computers?
If you don't like JNI, you can use SWIG, it generates JNI code for you.
I suggest reading this book, it's gotten a lot of good reviews, I've seen a lot of people recommend it to people starting out with JS.
It explains a subset of Javascript that's simple to use, and also the most used in practice.
I personally think of it as a feature, it prevents you from blindly copy pasting code.
Sure, I had my problems with indentation when I first started learning it, but now I'm used to it, I think of it like curly braces in the C family of languages.
Hobbyist programmers don't write BASIC code these days, the question you should be asking is "why can't we put python/ruby on the phone?".
Proof?
Care to elaborate on why Android is an awful platform?
Oh, and Android is NOT a cross platform API, Android apps only work on Android, unless you mean that the SDK and tools are cross platform.
The rate at which a disease spreads through a corn field is a precise measurement of the speed of blight.