-
I have just read what Apple shown at the WWDC 2016.
In the 1985 Windows 1.0 was born. In a snap, the IBM compatible system evolved, and the competitive advantage of the Macintosh dried up and disappeared.
IBM PC was cheaper and way more open.
Like in the 1985, now in the 2016 the iPhone revolution has come to an end. After the Retina Display introduction, no real new feature was introduced. The apple Watch was beaten by competition.
Two years passed with no true innovation (i.e. Apple Watch is not a revolution).
The last MusicApp removed the beautiful cover navigation, and try to sell you the apple music rent service all the time, instead of let me play the music I have already bought.
MacOSX is the oldest one nowadays.
Historically Apple system are very closed. The reason is simple: when you go to your shareholders and ask for money, you can show you have a competitive advantage, a strong set of feature no one can take apart from you. But Apple lost this war in 1985, when the high pricey Macs cannot compete with open IBMs clones.
To be fair, IBM could open to clone market because its business was on high-end server, and Microsoft alliance will help to sell more IBM PCs.
Read More -
Traditionally Lego bricks cost a lot. This guide will try to give you some guidelines on “brick best price”. First of all basic creative box seems the cheapest one. For instance the LEGO 10702 - Classic Set Creativo
has 583 pieces for less then 25 € on Amazon. The cost per brick is about 4.25 € every 100 bricks.
Read More -
After my first child reached 5 years old, I decided it was time to start my Lego Technic Revenge, together with KyloRen Star Wars lego-puppy (eh eh).It is very difficult to find out a good set to play with gears and so on. The big Lego Technic toys like cars and so on are sold without nice pieces to link with “normal bricks” (see below the red one).
Read More -
I have just read this insightful statement on this blog article about congitive load in Javascript
jQuery is undoubtedly useful when dealing with browser quirks, but once an application grows over a few thousand lines of code, unstructured jQuery code simply becomes too difficult to maintain, and you start needing the discipline of a framework to organize code. But when you're at tens of thousands of lines of code, you start to run out of entity types to CRUD, and your application growth starts to build on top of existing concepts. This is when you need the mental shift from being a library consumer to being a reusable component author,
This clever guy is the creator of Mithril, a very small, well crafted javascript library a friend of mine pointed to (via github…):
Read More -
L’Atari2600 è stata la prima console giochi casalinga, ed è stata commercializzata nel 1977. Ha resistito al collasso del mercato dei videogiochi del 83-84 ed è rimasta in produzione fino al 1992.
Read More -
Do you have cygwin base install right? So no dos2unix…you can convert a windows file to unix format with a small tr command like
tr -d '\\
15\\32' < winfile.txt > unixfile.txtI prefer the awk way of life:
[bash] awk ‘{ sub("\r$", ""); print }’ winfile.txt > unixfile.txt awk ‘sub("$", "\r")’ unixfile.txt > winfile.txt [/bash]
Read More -
Hi all,
I have released version 0.1.1 of org-mode-parser for nodejs
Org mode parser is a parser for reading Emacs org-mode files in nodejs.
This version has been ported to VisualStudio Community Edition 2015, so you can develop easily under windows too (but only if you really want :)
Read More -
Expo 2015 will close at the end of October. Because I enjoied it a lot, I’d like to give you some advice on Expo, Milan and Italy.
First of all, buy ticket on line and grab a map once in. The Mobile application suck a bit, so I preferred a paper map (I am too much analogic?).
Read More
