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Telcos CEOs and big shareholders are extremely arrogant, but not dumb. IMHO in the US, the balance of power between telcos and phone manufacturers is still in favour of the telcos. To have any chance Apple will have to bring back most of their foreign profits (and that will cost a ton of taxes) and ally with other vendors (Google, Samsung, etc.). So not likely at all.

By making it very easy to port Android apps and having lower fees.

But nobody has payed Google for store access in this scenario. They may cut you off any time.

That's interesting. Can you recommend any articles or books on this?

You're underestimating Amazon's software muscle, they have some very hard hitting teams. Plenty of PhDs, old-time Lispers, etc.

I have a Kindle Fire HDX 8.9' tablet, the hardware is top notch and there are plenty of apps. From what I know, if an Android app doesn't heavily rely on Google proprietary APIs, like Maps, it's trivial to put it on the Amazon store.

But yeah, the phone needed to be 2-3 times cheaper to sell well.

These guys did it right. You first build a simulator and publish a paper and then join a hedge fund for $$$$$$ and actually try the algo.

HN has become very negative in the recent years. Only stuff build by Apple and Google gets mostly positive comments.

It was bootstrapped, from what I know the original 4 founders used to own 80% of the company a year or so ago.

You just need to be more agile.

Both Telerik and Infragistics have their main development offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. From what I've heard most of Infragististics developers/testers/managers have worked for Telerik in the past and there is a considerable current in the other direction as well. I wouldn't expect a massive difference in the quality.

I have run a few small companies (up to 30 employees/contractors), and FWIW my experience doesn't match your assumptions. At the end of a year you've made a limited amount of profit and you want to distribute part of it to the personal. The most efficient way I found is to give 80% to the few top performers - the people who work 100+ hour work weeks or have more connections (sales) or are smarter (IT). The others you can easily replace plus bonuses don't seem to increase much the productivity of the averagely lazy. Surely this is just another anecdote.

Haha, quite self-sentric, aren't we.

I've been reading sci fi books since the 1980s. I guess, by your logic, any title I haven't heard about is just bad ...

I've been using AdMuncher since 2002 or so and IMHO it's absolutely great. It's the number 1 reason I didn't switch my desktop to Linux. It's also the reason I'm using a Windows tablet (Dell Venue 11 Pro).

This is the statistics, since last I installed Windows:

Statistics for Ad Muncher v4.93.33707/5539 Adverts removed: 181,604 Bandwidth saved: 5,346 MB Counter started: June 7, 2014

I've tried AdBlockPlus and uBlock many times, but they leave way more ads than AdMuncher. One of the reasons may be that they are more popular, so advertisers put more effort in defeating them.

> don't make people compete by limiting the prize pool

That is an interesting idea and it probably works in some rare situations. But unfortunately, most of the time, we only have limited resources and so a limited prize pool. The question, for managers/politicians/capitalists, usually is how do we get maximum motivation out of a limited rewards budget.

Seriously what? Is it politically incorrect to mention racial differences at all now?

IMHO WPF doesn't have so much of a good reputation, to be used to market other products.

Now that's a reassuring yes :)

What I meant is it seems (I've never used or seen it before) to be closer to a message broker than a bus - http://www.udidahan.com/2011/03/24/bus-and-broker-pubsub-dif...

So Flux is poor man's BizTalk.

> aren't real journalists meant to check sources and get both sides of a story

No, they are meant to sell as much ads as possible.

And that's one of the reasons if you're not a security expert and stumble upon someone's security problems, you do nothing (at least in US).

Well the point is any other API will face the same restrictions in the browser. It isn't something JavaScript code can fix directly. If you need to call external services from the browser (and not everybody does), the isobuild APIs certainly don't make the situation worse.

Also HTTP.get() may be smart enough to detect cross-domain call failure and try to automatically proxy the call. Meteor has a server-side component that can act as a proxy.

Apple has 99 faults, but your lack of touch typing skills ain't one :)

Browserify is just a hack, Meteor seems to be looking for a clean, long term solution.

I believe Twitter is trying to kill their API, hence no CORS or JSONP.

Yes, we can :)

Working around CORS is just a matter of server configuration. With the same API you only fix the servers, with different APIs you have to fix both the servers and the code.

>> HTTP.get() will have to deal with CORS on the web, but not in apps

You can still use exactly the same code in the browser and on the server. Allowing stuff like server-side rendering on old browsers and JS rendering for the majority of users from a single piece of code.

>> Ukraine is being invaded by a bull with big plans for how to re-shape Europe

Yeah, you're completely right. That bull is our MIC complex, that needs fake enemy to continue stealing over a trillion dollars annually.

Intel is starting to offer custom customer silicon on its chips. They signed a contract with Rockchip a couple months ago are now marketing that product to customers in China.

What do you use it for?

I have Moto G, and Moto G 4G phones and they are very, very good. And they are selling well.

I remember when the iPhone 1 was introduced there were comments here that it will inevitably kill Nokia. At the time I was wondering what those guys are smoking :)