Not a bad idea, but it means deploying a surface to everyone, and frankly most people want to use Macs, so I'd have to give two devices to everyone, one of which would only get used for whiteboarding, which doesn't happen that often.
ah yeah, I actually use a macbook and surface pro 2 at the same time as pictured: (http://imgur.com/a/fqf3P) combined specs are actually similar to a new mb pro (combined 512 gb ssd, 16 gb ram, ~4.7 pounds), and cost is less, given that the sp2 was bought used so total ~ $1900.
For windows, conemu ( http://conemu.github.io ) is a bit more annoying to configure than terminal.app, but works just as well, and even has the more powerful built in features like tmux. Of course you have to run something like msys2 (or maybe the bash for windows, but I haven't tried it yet) to get the "unix" environment.
Well, I wasn't there so idk about that, but it looks like 3/7 of the "most important announcements of build 2016" are directly related to windows 10 mobile ^[1]
1. "Microsoft is launching its latest version of Windows 10"
(you realize this is for pc and mobile?)
3. "Facebook committed to bringing native apps to Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform"
7. "Windows 10 Mobile users will be able to "beam" Continuum sessions to compatible monitors."
The point I take from this is that they seem to be considering windows 10 as one platform (desktop and mobile), which makes sense to me since the several apps I've written for UWP worked on mobile/desktop with the same code. Also I think the react-native-windows news isn't listed there, but I personally consider it fairly huge news for win 10 mobile (and desktop) as someone who uses react-native for android / ios
Well, I haven't used the 620, but my anecdotal experience has been the opposite.
List of recent devices I own that are unbroken:
lumia 521, 950, and Kyocera Rise.
broken:
nexus 7 (screen after 2 months), asus fonepad note 6 (screen after ~1 year), galaxy s4 (won't connect to tower, probably my fault for installing roms incorrectly)
In particular the 950 has been dropped in the river in breckenridge, and the 521 in a natural hotspring / taken on many rainy hikes / dropped more times than I can count.
My 820 took one hell of a beating over the time between purchase and replacement. Its replacement seems pretty hardy too. Though I get the impression the build quality and sturdiness were far more variable between models than found around the 3110/3210/3310 era.
>So, in that case, I don't feel like Facebook is really being contrary here. They are basically saying, "As long as you don't sue us for patent infringement, we promise not to sue you for any patent infringement related to our open source software (including React).
So basically if you have this awesome, let's say, middle out compression algorithm patent, and have an interface in react, then they can use your middle out without being sued? (Just trying to clarify what you are saying here..)
If you patent a compression algorithm, and Facebook infringes, and you are also using React, and you sue Facebook over your compression algorithm patent then:
Your license to any patents which Faceboook may or may not have that cover elements of React will terminate. At that point, Facebook may choose to initiate a lawsuit against you over your infringement of whatever React patents (if any) they have.
So if you have (or are planning on obtaining) software patents, the React patent grant may not be very valuable. (Then again, Facebook may not have any patents actually covered by the grant, in which case it's not valuable to anyone.)
So, basically if you plan to compete with facebook territory as a small startup, then it seems to follow that you either
(1) Have patents / use a react alternative, such as vue (note this is annoying since there is no cross-platform native app version of vue )
(2) Don't have patents / protect your intellectual property in other ways (maybe by publishing a public whitepaper or something) / use React / Bust your ass since facebook can likely implement better and faster than any small team.
Afaik there is lightning, thunder, raiden, and now bolt. That said, bolt looks pretty useful on first skim, and I wouldn't be surprised if it gets implemented for monero (I know the authors are the zcash authors, but on first skim looks applicable to any coin)
One downside compared to micro-usb in my experience was having my macbook stop charging after (apparently) using the wrong usb-C adapter. I don't think I ever worried about which actual adapter I used for a micro-usb device, but I guess you have to be more careful which usb-c chargers you use... another example: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-finds... )
>Why is okay for mathemeticians to abbreviate things but programmers? Is it because they deal in more abstract entities where the name is irrelevant?
for example, xyz^2 in a piece of written math means something different than it would in a program (in the math case we are obviously not taking the variable "xyz" and squaring it). I guess what I am trying to say with this example is that perhaps variable names in math are one symbol because concatenation, in many cases, already means "multiply".
