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Comment · 7 years ago
My understanding is all kids moved to Instagram / Snapchat as soon as parents started using Facebook too, and now parents are on Instagram too so I expect kids are already using something else.
Comment · 7 years ago
Can people use or license Apple's version of DRM instead?
Comment · 7 years ago
> Why was anti-trust pursued against Microsoft then?

One example among the many things the court found they did was to tell OEMs that they wouldn't license Windows to them if they _also_ included Netscape preinstalled in their computers.

The stated purpose, from internal emails, was to prevent Java from becoming the de-facto API for writing applications, which at the time was win32. This was a gigantic barrier of entry that protected Windows' monopoly and they did all those shady things to keep it raised.

Comment · 7 years ago
No need to rejoin the lines, as HN will combine them as you say. Only need to add a new line before each bullet point.
Comment · 7 years ago
Who's "we"?
Comment · 7 years ago
That, and also insensitive to builds you might have done of other versions of the source code, etc. I.e. it's not affected by "files left behind" that would require you to do a clean build and lose incrementality.
Comment · 7 years ago
Does it produce hermetic builds?
Comment · 7 years ago
> every link they every clicked on, on every web site. [...] No content from google was transmitted back to Bing. Just the next site the users went to.

Your theory cannot explain how Bing associated that "next site" with the specific search term the user had entered in Google.

If you had clicked a link on HackerNews, it wouldn't have shown up in Bing under some random search phrase. It's obvious that Microsoft parsed the search query out of the google.com URL, and the only reason why you'd do that is to mine what results were being presented for each search query.

Comment · 7 years ago
> the whole container-push has been essentially people trying to achieve what the JVM already gave you (isolation, cross platform, etc etc)

Google did containers in Borg many years ago, and many of its servers are written in Java.

Comment · 7 years ago
Chromium (and so Chrome too) uses lambdas in its Java parts.
Comment · 7 years ago
Kotlin though. Everything you said, but a joy to write instead of a chore.
Comment · 7 years ago
> using opt-in data about what Bing Toolbar users click on

lol specifically, what Google search results Bing Toolbar users click on and what query they had entered in Google to get those results.

Comment · 7 years ago
Last LG I bought came with some vanilla non-Chrome browser preinstalled. I don't know if from AOSP or from LG themselves. Has that changed in the last years? If not, how does this affect companies like LG?
Comment · 7 years ago
Whatever is a car nanny?

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