jorgecastillo

Since everyone is entitled to have an opinion. In my opinion Chrome is the best web browser available today.

I think this is more accurate:

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

I love UNIX too much, nothing can replace C in my heart! :)

>Yet most people won't even touch .NET because it's not hip.

To be fair .NET can't replace the Java ecosystem now and will not replace the Java ecosystem in the following years. It's just not the same thing. Yes C# is way better than Java, but there is so much more going on for Java. For starters Java is truly multi platform and the ecosystem is way richer. So no "people won't even touch .NET because it's not hip", people won't touch .NET because even though it's really good it's not that good, at least not when you take into consideration the whole ecosystem.

>as Mono does exist

Sure but truth be told, Mono is not as good as the official .NET Framework, even more so when it comes to doing GUI applications. I don't think most people would choose Mono to do a serious cross platform application, when Qt and Java are so much better for this.

>You won’t find Apple Music on Windows.

Must be dreaming then, just last week I was using my Apple Music subscription on iTunes for Windows!

AWESOME!

At first I was like 'AWESOME', than I was like 'oh fuck, not ready yet'. I am not upvoting this, until there is a GitHub repository that I can clone!

Yeah I don't think so. You'd have to be a mad men to bet against the US Dollar short term (couple of decades). After that who knows!

>This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP but they need to up their game when it comes to the qualities of apps.

That ship sailed a long time ago. I think it's is more probable that I become a millionaire (which won't happen), than for WP to become a significant player in the mobile market. Once a platform starts running software from the competition you know it's game over. WP won't be more successful than OS/2.

>I'm actually beginning to feel bad for the Android vendors.

I don't, I think I paid a fair price for my smartphone (LG-D280f) considering all the crap it comes bundle with (which I can't uninstall) and that I'll never get operating system updates. Even so I still like LG smartphones. I even recommend this brand!

I am sticking with Windows 7 until I get out of college and after that I am ditching Windows forever.

>If I need Flash, I open a different browser.

If I need Flash, I open a different user account!

Yeah ... I doubt it!

The only piece of software I really miss on OpenBSD is the Android SDK, other than that it has everything I use and it works great. So once again I want to tell everyone reading this, if you haven't tried it and if your hardware is supported I invite you to give OpenBSD a spin.

>Then on top of that, to me, one of the great structural pieces is we don't have with Windows is this problem of Mac OS/iOS. I'm not in some quest to say let me try and replicate Mac OS and iOS or iOS and Mac OS. We don't have the Chrome versus Android.

I love the direction Microsoft is going. I almost feel like this is a new company totally different from the Microsoft of the past. But I seriously disagree with this we are Windows mantra. Having two different operating systems one for desktop another for mobile is a no brainier. To date my favorite Windows is still 7. Frankly I don't see the point of WinRT in the desktop.

I think Windows Phone will never be able to compete with Android/iOS. But a good restart would be to make Windows Phone less restrictive (side loading) and to make the SDK compatible with Windows 7.

If it comes out before next semester starts I'll be sure to give it a try. Otherwise I think I'll have to wait until winter.

I don't know what to say, this feels so wrong (APIs being copyrighted). If any tech company deserves hate it's Oracle without a doubt. I just hope common sense prevails at the end and Google wins.

I think learning would be one guaranteed win. If you put the time to learn X, sooner or later your going to learn X.

I really liked it, I invite every college student to read it. Thanks.

I won't go into details, I'll just tell you I hate college, yet I do the logical thing and keep going. Just make yourself a favor and finish, it's only two years. Don't you think, than in the next half century, you will be be founder of something awesome? Do you really think this will be your only chance? Do you really want to gamble your future, for the low equity they are going to offer you?

I don't have the insider info you have! So finally I'll tell you this, do a list of pros and cons, be truthful, analyze it and decide. Good luck with your choice.

My comment was in the context of big company X, "releasing something in a permissive license" vs "releasing something in a copyleft license". Either way I prefer to use, support and contribute to permissively licensed projects.

As I see it permissively licensed code puts every one on equal terms. We all can make open source forks & we all can make proprietary forks. With copyleft some one is more equal and it is not the users, since we can only make copyleft forks.

I invite you to google "Contributor Licence Agreement". Either way I don't see why we are arguing about it, Swift will be released with a permissive license, which is a good thing :-).

CUPS is owned by Apple. Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL & Apache are not copyleft. The success of Apple has nothing to do with the copyleft software they use, most code used by Apple has been based on permissively licensed code or written by them. The main software asset Apple has is Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which are as far from copyleft as you can get. Apple could replace every piece of copyleft software they have left in OS X tomorrow and no mainstream news source would bother to inform of this. That's how relevant copyleft software is to the success of Apple.

Now if you say "open source has been an integral part on the success of Apple", I would agree with that. Still Apple owes its success to it's own code not to code from others. If taking open source code and modifying it a little was all it took to make a successful company, all of us would be millionaires.

Since you didn't put Oracle on the list I must assume you're not serious. But if Oracle was on the list I would vote for Oracle. Otherwise to me, "They're all as good as each other".

>It has grown under Oracle -- both in openness and adoption.

No it has not, basically Sun did all the hard work on this areas.

If Google looses (lets hope not) the lawsuit vs Oracle, I hope they give Oracle what they deserve and switch to C#. Either way I am not using Java (I don't dislike it!) for anything outside of Android.

>after organizers discovered that the Baidu scientists broke the contest’s rules.

I don't have any particular use for Lua now and maybe never but Lua is such a beautiful language, that I can't avoid liking it. I invite anyone reading this to give serious consideration to Lua even if just for the novelty factor.

If you really want this, rent a VPS for a few hours/days and use it as temporary storage.