cmircea

There's nothing you cand do and nobody will sue you. They can use other methods to grab the data, if they really wanted to. It's not as if you'll be completely secure if you don't use Amazon's services.

Yes.

Well the web doesn't have a native UI. But iOS and Android DO have one.

We're not talking about games here, we're talking about regular apps, with a regular UI, which needs to be native.

Otherwise it sucks.

Sure, but blowing the cache just to count is nuts.

I think everyone will agree that using 4 bytes to store the size a much better idea than potentially enumerating millions of nodes just to count them, in the process completely blowing the cache and any optimizations the processors may do.

It's four goddamn bytes. Or eight if you really want more than 4 billion elements.

Isn't that effectively bitcoin laundering?

So why don't you get the drivers directly from AMD, Intel or NVIDIA, as appropriate? Don't rely on computer manufacturers to supply up to date drivers.

4.3 is okay, but 4.1 was pretty damn quick. Oh well...

ASP.NET`s performance can be improved further, but that requires application specific tuning. That said, it's pretty damn good, for a full framework.

I'm impressed by the Java options. Definitely something to consider if absolute performance is the requirement.

Thank you very fucking much Google. 4.2 and 4.3 trashed the experience for GNex users, now that 4.4 is "butter smooth" again it ain't coming to the phone. Excellent

God bless CyanogenMod.

Bogosort is the best.

C# has had type inference for a long while. It's a pain using Java, which doesn't.

C# also sort of implements type classes. For your example, there's IComparable in C#; implement it and a List<SomeObject> can be directly sorted.

For pure functions, there's the [Pure] attribute, but it isn't enforced by the compiler, it's just a contract, a promise.

Expect it doesn't use an interpreter these days, it is JIT compiled (a la V8). It's quite fast now.

The UI in MonoDevelop / Visual Studio will show the differences during autocomplete. Also, fields should NEVER be public in a class.

On what grounds?

Those cases are inherently platform specific and are impossible to abstract completely.

UI for example. Pure Java UIs plain suck; you can use Gtk# in C# for the same thing, but none will be up to the platform's UI standards.

Besides, the JVM isn't available on iOS and Android, so it isn't universally available either.

Well gee, what about the other email clients? Not everyone uses Apple Mail.

All of this is just the symptom of not providing a goddamn good service. If these media companies would provide a good service DRM wouldn't make sense even in their minds. But no, they're stuck in the dark ages, with their heads up their asses.

I mean, look at what Steam has done to the video game industry; or iOS/Android app stores. When it's easier to buy the copy pretty much nobody is going to bother stealing it.

Cause Google has mostly equal traffic levels 24/7/365, while Netflix has huge spikes, which are impossible to efficiently sustain with bare metal hardware.

Also, Google's revenue is more than 10 times that of Netflix, and they have highly custom software and hardware.

Try telling Netflix that.

DigitalOcean is small... Windows Azure does not support multiple IPs except for hosted websites. Cloud Services or Virtual Machines get only one IP.

And dedicated IPs for websites are extremely expensive.

Vista tops out at 9. You may or may not care.

To be fair few IDEs support advanced functionality (like refactoring) with C++, due to the monstrosity that it is and the amount of UB.

Visual Studio + ReSharper is awesome for C#, IntelliJ is awesome for Java. For C++ you're pretty much screwed.

await will unwrap exceptions from the task object

Spreading terror.

Azure supports private VLANs, any number, between any virtual machines or cloud services, with the possibility to VPN to that.

Other major cloud providers provide similar functionality as well. This is common in a cloud environment and taken for granted with dedicated hosting.

This is absolutely fucking brilliant. Loved it!

It will. The question is whether Galaxy Nexus will get it, as Nexus S will certainly not (stopped at 4.1).

I say again: good luck with that.

You're going to have lots of fun losing 25% of your customers (more or less depending on regional IE usage), many of them companies with oodles of cash. Heck, here IE usage is 14% while Firefox is 31% and Chrome 47%, according to StatCounter. Not as bad as the US, but still a huge piece of the pie.

Sure, it makes technical sense - IE sucks (well IE 9 and 10 are much better, but still).

It makes NEGATIVE NINE THOUSAND business sense - you've got to be crazy to refuse to support IE 8+.

Both are available. Any app can request complete control over the system, at which point it can do whatever the hell it wants, short of root. Update? Sure thing, install an APK.

Of course the user has to accept your huge list of permissions first.