ConstantineXVI

There's always USB booting [0], you can still tinker but can't muck up CrOS

[0] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung-chromebook

The ARM Chromebook looks to be a much nicer piece of hardware than anything under $250 on Amazon's top 20 list of netbooks[0]; bigger screen, dead silent (no spinning HDD, no fans), great battery life, and a keyboard/touchpad better than nearly every low/mid-end PC laptop I've used.

And you lose this benefit if you go outside CrOS as described in the article (I'm fine using it as a SSH terminal myself), but they're more or less disposable. I could chuck mine out the window, watch it get trampled in a conveniently timed parade, run out to Best Buy and pick up another one, and I'm right back where I was minus only $250 and an hour (incl. drive time and re-syncing).

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computer-Accessories-Netb...

Besides the easier embedability (it's plain C with no dependencies and MIT licensed), it's (subjectively) a nicer language than JS and more accessible to the general public than Scheme/Guile, while being just as powerful as both.

And for some reason I can't pin down, it's just fun to hack with.

Many possible reasons:

- still part of current Windows (unsure about specific code, but 32-bit Win7 still has enough code to run Win3x apps, possible Win8 does but haven't confirmed personally)

- third-party code they don't have full rights to

- trade secrets

- pride

- simply don't care

It's not vanilla Python but RPython, and presumably to take advantage of the PyPy toolchain to get similar results in Ruby as PyPy has in Python.

PowerShell's a massive improvement, but the terminal itself hasn't changed in ages (barely any change since NT4/W95 if I had to guess). There's replacements, but you can't count on arbitrary servers having them installed.

I'd imagine there's a market for a generic push-button "insert dev-provided VM, recieve app" hosting service for these kind of people without being limited to PHP. AWS Marketplace already does this to a degree, just a matter of making a similar service accessible to the GoDaddy crowd.

I'd never imagine a git UI that totally replaces the CLI (/git bash), but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from IDE integration alongside it.

MS's enterprise customers already on TFVC would be mighty ticked if they outright killed or deprecated it; wouldn't be terribly surprised if development slowed down though.

IIRC from my time with the PlayBook, everything has to be signed, but there's minimal hoops to getting your own signing key (no fee). Unclear if you could load arbitrary apps that you haven't personally signed, never tried.

Old BlackBerry, everything had to be signed by RIM's servers, even for dev builds. Which is incredibly entertaining when their servers go down while you're trying to get a release out (those days are far, far behind me now)

They've totally tossed the old SDK; you use either[0] "Cascades" (Qt derivative, looks like), WebWorks (HTML5), Android, or AIR.

[0] https://developer.blackberry.com/develop/platform_choice/bb1...

Unless you're one of those that need to run Java applets, I don't see the issue. I used to have issues with the Android SDK and 64-bit Java on Windows, but those seem to be resolved lately.

I vaguely remember the Google Toolbar and OpenOffice being shovelware'd with the Java installer pre-Oracle; the choice of bundles has changed but the practice hasn't.

It's got noticeably better performance than Firefox for Android (on a N7, using [0] as a "benchmark"); but Chrome doesn't seem to have audio support.

EDIT: hm, Chrome doesn't seem to want to grab the audio at all; on both the pages I've tried, the audio downloads just hang as "Pending" in the inspector [1] [2]

[0] http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

[1] http://monosnap.com/image/5F201GaEW7UUfEZKOSfPjTLQW

[2] http://monosnap.com/image/G9U7tpuoCVlvMFli8NgOBB9tD

`git grep` within repos as well

Try -16 days:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3832250/facebook-messenger-...

For what it's worth, this looks like a CrOS variant of the existing X131e[0] which is also an .edu-only model. Not new and shiny, but gets Lenovo in the CrOS market. I'd like to think this is a precursor to a mass-market CrOS ThinkPad.

EDIT: it's available to mass-market as well[1], but the sales pitch still makes the target market fairly clear

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/education/us/en/edu-series.html

[1] http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x...

I've never been anything but pleased with Schwab. Their service over the phone is better than I've got from most banks in person.

That's right, I set up my account with them with just $25 in the banking account. The rep I talked to when I signed up verified you aren't required to use the brokerage acct at all, it merely has to exist.

I lost that argument; we ended up killing the app entirely (and the company itself eventually went south)

Our now-dead app got absolutely slaughtered in the ratings (IMHO rightly) simply over our use of Facebook auth. Took forever for our ratings to rebound to this[0]

[0] http://monosnap.com/image/ULCknIobEcO6KarrfxwmHdHJC

Adobe is more or less neutral, though (they just want you to buy their tools). Apple, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, etc. all would very much like the others to cease existing; yet they're all contributing to a project that keeps each other on a level playing field (in the context of HTML/JS engines, anyway).

WebKit core gets commits from nearly every major hardware manufacturer and OS vendor that isn't Microsoft. Unless Apple's stripping all those commits out of spite, iOS WebKit contains code from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, HPalm, Google, and many others that might be seen as competitors otherwise.

Stairs are only a requirement for humans; drones can be far more flexible. Attach hoists to the side of the building, let them in through windows (or cut doors for them). Easier on both parties: no additional stairwell traffic, less chance of the drone tipping over and hitting someone.

As I happen to be such a thing: hello.

(Not for much longer, I'd like to think)

Note that Stash isn't the same product as Bitbucket; and doesn't include a bug tracker or wiki.

Which isn't so different from the cableco/network dynamic we've had forever.

Me and a former boss a while back:

Me: "When I was taking C++ back in high school-"

Boss: "Dear god, what kind of high school did you go to?"

Me: "A Catholic one"

Boss: "Ah, that explains it"

Yes, it actually was a bit of a hard-line place. Wouldn't trade it for the world though, even the C++ class (since that's where I discovered Python).

Pedantry: BBX hasn't shipped yet outside the PlayBook, and I'd hardly call that popular. The phones are still running the original since-1999 BlackBerry OS.

And why not BSD? I'd mainly say mindshare, and portability to a degree. You don't have to release your source every time you port BSD to a shiny new platform. BSD code is out there (networking stacks, a handful of the base *nix utils in OSX), but the permissive license cuts both ways.

Amazon and Netflix are now direct competitors to HBO; "partnering" with them would be at best surrender, and at worst suicide. Apple's a non-option; if they wanted in the subscription streaming business, they'd do it themselves. Independence or death are their only choices outside of cable.

He mentions "slightly larger tablets like the dead (and rooted) HP TouchSmart."; unless 20"[0] is his definition of a 'slightly larger tablet' and Windows can be rooted (in the Android sense) now, I think it's safe to assume he mis-typed TouchPad.

[0] http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Desk...