Considering the price of phones today, the prominance of mobile use and development, it seems like a very reasonable question. There are a lot of blog and production site articles on the topic as well. If you're not interested then why not just ignore.
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Flagging was likely inappropriate, but the question itself is nonsense: "in or out"? What does it even mean? If you want a phone with a big display so you can have a phone with a big display, what does the nebulous terms "in" and "out" have to do with anything that matters? (That's an actual question, not snark.)
You said you wanted a phone with a big screen: it doesn't matter if they're "in" or "out" because you wanted one.
If your question was "should I bother developing for large-screen devices" (which IMO is less important than "developing for high-DPI devices", but that's a different issue) then just ask.
IIRC metrics on screen size (and more importantly, DPI) are available, but I have no idea where.
Using Hacker News (theoretically a forum about hacking and startup business, though that's clearly not quite true anymore) as a sort of lazy-man's Consumer Report is both a waste and disrespectful.
This looks great! I'd really love to see Google and Microsoft stop people from registering a new account to send spam to my accounts. If my humble Postfix/Spamassassin configuration can correctly identify them as spam; I'd expect Google and Microsoft to be able to do the same and stop those messages before they are sent, particularly when they have virus document attachments. I just got another one yesterday.
No. This is mostly about a bubble in China popping. Potemkin buildings have been a thing there for a very long time due to a series of perverse effects of policies by the Chinese government.
The Korea business is pretty much business as usual there.
The good news for the US is that we're a Chinese consumer, and they're not a major customer for our goods. Additionally, they're a competing consumer for resources. Basically, this means that the prices for American imports will drop, making the USD stronger internationally and encouraging international investment in the US economy.
The one thing to worry about is that the drop in import prices will likely cause a drop in the prices of domestic goods.
There is a cool down system if things become too volatile. They halt trading for 15 minutes or shut it down for a day. They mentioned that if S&P500 were to drop 7% they would halt trading for 15 minutes today.
It doesn't take much money to invest in the stock market. Do you consider yourself thrifty? That's the major criteria for becoming an investor. Living below your means and saving. I have been in the working world for ~8 weeks now and already have some investments lol.
> And downvoting instead of pointing out that there are cool down systems does nothing to reduce the ignorance.
It reduces the ignorance in those who read the comments and draw conclusions from what is upvoted and what is downvoted (even though most people won't admit that they do it even to themselves).
I am not an expert on the particular use, but I think it probably behooves people to disconnect a downvote of someones comment from an attack on the person.
A wildly ignorant comment (that could be remedied by a simple reading of the comments on this story) probably deserves downvotes as it doesn't add to the discussion at hand at all.
That said, this whole comment section probably deserves a big downvote as it is largely not very good from top to bottom.
It appears a good portion of comments in this thread have been, many of them not obviously bad. HN seems to have developed a contingent of people who downvote anything they disagree with, without explaining why they disagree, and this thread is particularly heavy on them.
Many people down vote every post in a discussion if it seems off topic. Considering single day drops are the kind of thing you see plastered over CNN many people consider it off topic for HN.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. you call all start having my photos and blogs and other stuff if you agree to share some of the profits you make off of me. Until then, no dice.
>> The thing that so many people fail to realize is that the data isn't valuable in and of itself.
It is valuable to the company you're giving it to since they get paid by the advertising. They also get money from their partners who we so graciously agree to allow them to "share" it with which happens to be for profit for them.
>> The data is a means to an end, which is showing you relevant ads.
>> If everyone stopped using Facebook tomorrow, the value of all the information Facebook has gathered would be negligible.
They can still sell your information to whomever they want which means even in your scenario they would still be making tons of money, I'm guessing here, hundreds of millions IMHO. So your arguments are not correct.
Right, that's why I said it's not valuable in and of itself. It helps them make money, no doubt, but there's not much of a market for that data alone. The only other potential buyers would be the people who already have a platform to display ads.
But let's play devil's advocate and say they could sell the data for $100M (I think that's extraordinarily high). Given Facebook's 1.4 Billion monthly active users, that values the data at about $.14 per user.
Facebook's market cap is $270B ($187.5 per user). In other words, using obviously sketchy numbers, your attention is worth approximately 2,800 times more than your data.
The blond haired kid with his face mushed against the window cracks me up every time. I wonder if some of these future developers will be using XAML and building Windows apps?
I'm trying my hand at getting back into some C# coding and found that apparently the language now has var. My first thought was why would a professional, statically typed language have var. Checking out the page I linked to in the submission, you can also do this cool if not slightly funky looking thing where it looks like an SQL predicate just reading from an ordinary array.
> My first thought was why would a professional, statically typed language have var.
It might be because C++ has auto. Kind of related Java has Object.
I haven't figured out if people want languages like C++ to be a loose typed language and just be able to type cast anything to a single type. Boost does introduce the variant type - but it's usage seems very unintuitive. I kind of get what they were trying to do - but overall Boost libraries seem overly complex for what they are trying to solve.
I wrote my own variant type based on Ptype's variant [1] [2]. To me a variant shouldn't just be a container for any object - it should have some basic intelligence for built in types (like what to do when adding a string and an int - the result should be a string. Conversely - when adding an int and a string the result should be an int.).
The 'cool but funky' thing is LINQ. Language Integrated Query. It can be used to query in-memory lists and arrays as well as build SQL to query a DB, or even query XML files.
It is C#'s support for monads.
In terms of var. It's best not to think of it as dynamic like javascript. You can't do this for example:
var a = 123;
a = "Hello";
The second line will throw an exception because 'a' is not a string, it's an int. So it's not dynamic like JS. It simply infers the type when it can so that you don't have to type it, otherwise its exactly the same.
Interestingly C# does have a dynamic aspect too, and that's with the 'dynamic' keyword.
dynamic x = 123;
x = "Hello";
That will work where the var example wouldn't. It's a rarely used feature, but comes in useful to avoid boilerplate when dealing with external 'stuff', like XML files, JSON, or REST responses.
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