Posts by sebbie

Google's DeepMind says its AI coding bot is 'competitive' with humans

Now Google interview can be passed by AI

Probably more consistently than humans. This would be groundbreaking if you believe typical developer spends most of their time coding and not communicating, planning and translating confusing and imprecise human language into machine-friendly concepts.

iPhone slips in Europe as Windows Phone claims OVER 10% market share

Re: Lolz

Developers are looking after income from their apps, not sold devices nor market share. Average iThing user is much more likely to spend money on AppStore than Android or WinPho user. Most of developers report approx. 80% of revenue from iOS, 20% from Android and single sales on WindowsPhone. If you are developer that wants to make money iOS is no brainer choice. When that's estabilished you can look after Android (or WinPho if you're really bored).

Android approaches 80% smartphone share as Apple's iPhone grows old

Re: Instead

There's much more money in iOS development than in Android. Every developer will tell you the same story, iOS will account to 60-80% revenue with your app.

As long as users do not buy my apps I don't care how many Android devices are sold/shipped/activated.

Seven snazzy smartphones for seven sorts of shoppers

Low regards of author

iPhone for "incompetent newbies", quite insulting.

Judging people by their phone is as shallow as saying "I'm better person than you because my car is worth 10x more than yours". Pathetic.

Microsoft says WinPhone outselling iPhone, BlackBerry

Subsidised phones

Being from Poland I can explain this "phenomenon" easily. There are no reasonable Apple offers from carriers, handset is available at handful of places and availability is very restricted. In Poland main criteria for buying phone is to get it free on 2-3 years contract. Nokia Lumias are free so people get them instead of feature phones. They do not use them as smartphones, rarely ever picking up handset for something other than calls, text and picture.

Is Microsoft successful only when people don't have a choice? That does remind me something... ;)

Corporates! Bring in all-purpose filler for IT skills gap, thunders Steelie Neelie

There is short supply and wages are sky rocketing, at least in London, South East and South West (regions I know). If you posses reasonable skills you can land yourself £45k+ job within days. That's not too bad IMO.

Problem is majority does not have any skills and they call themselves "IT" because they know how to install MS Word and explain over phone how to insert SUM in Excel.

"IT" is too broad

"IT" is too broad. There are programmers, consultants, administrators, infrastructure, support, help desk people, they all fall in "IT" category despite having completely different skill set. Sentences like "I work in IT" is as accurate as "I work with mechanical devices" and may mean anything.

As a programmer I can tell there is serious shortage of developers in UK. Salaries advertised are at all time high and if you're good you can negotiate them up by further 10-20%. If head hunters activity is any indication then crisis is over - at least for programmers...

BlackBerry Z10: Prices pruned despite eager iPunter interest

Re: Z10 - Frustration beyond words

It is exactly that, that's what pushed me off from Z10/Q10. iPhone/Android/WinPho text editing capabilities and general usability is laughable when comparing with BB9900. Shame they lost it with new generation :(((