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Re:The Decline of the Mobile Web on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:27AM (#7551568)
I spend an hour a day on Twitter during my Caltrain commute.

I click on links that open up a UIWebView and read articles on the web.

Does that count as one hour in an "app"? In reality, it's more like 20% in the app and 80% following shared web links.

Putting the merits of their technology aside, I've had numerous unpleasant experiences working with the CipherCloud Founders as both a Salesforce Partner and Customer. They use fear tactics to scare prospects into believing a) their data is unsafe in the cloud and b) their competition uses inferior encryption algorithms.

This DMCA takedown is unfortunately just another of their "just try and stop us" tactics.

Re:Confessions of A Job Destroyer on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @01:13AM (#5360331)
Agricultural age, industrial age, information age...

Cannibalizing our past has always been the path to creating more wealth.

Re:Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:41AM (#5265126)
There is more "soft skill" assessment going on with pair programming than "hard skills".
Re:How domains became backwards on Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:18PM (#5236762)
Java Developers staring at com.domain.specific namespaces are somewhat preconditioned to examining this discrepancy.
The balance of a subjective, sensationalist headline with objective statistical simulation was impressive.

I'm a huge Heroku fan using Cedar/Java, but can't help but wonder how many optimization options remain for Rails Developers, assuming nothing else changes on Heroku:

* Serving static HTML from CDN * Unicorn * Redis caching with multiget requests

Re:The End of x86? An Update on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:12PM (#4955501)
Displacing Intel's base != disrupting.

Innovators dilemma raises the question "will market demand shift to products where ARM has already displaced x86? (i.e. mobile and tablets)"