Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1
by torrent-of-ions on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:24AM
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That they can mess up even text chat is unbelievable. These are problems in networking that have been solved for decades. An undergraduate should be capable of writing a text chat program with 100% accuracy. This is pathetic.
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Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1
by sangnoir on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:09PM
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> An undergraduate should be capable of writing a text chat program with 100% accuracy
That maybe true, but I assure you that program will not scale to millions of messages. The reason so many companies "get it wrong" isnt because their developers are less skilled than graduates. Syncing M:N state at scale is hard.
Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1
by torrent-of-ions on Sunday June 11, 2017 @09:15AM
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Really? The Internet scaled effortlessly across the entire world because it was designed correctly. I'm not saying it's easy, but these problems have been solved.