DeepDuh

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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I agree that it's always a target conflict. I'm just not convinced that gc is the way to go in an environment where optimization might become important. GC lets you get a correctly working program easier, but once you are into optimizing ru
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I'm curious how one can file garbage collection under doing less, especially for a language intended for systems programming.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
How is the Windows 8 UX in any way familiar to the bulk of today's Windows users? I would argue that it will be more foreign to them than OSX.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I think you got it exactly right. Of course they want to keep having the best native App catalogue, but for those devs who DO decide to go the mobile web app route they don't want to block their users from using it on iOS devices, since thi
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
iPad 1 won't get iOS6 though. I've seen that coming though, they have deliberately restricted it with only 256MB Ram.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Did Samsung really restrict an E-Mail application to one maildomain? Yes I read the article, but I still can't believe it... why would anyone want to use such crapware? Are they even asking themselves this question?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Also don't forget that their dock connector does a bit more than USB<=2.0, namely audio/video up to 1080p. The signal quality has always been a strong point as well, at least for a portable device. It's no wonder many audio professional
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Ironically, we could see THE man land on moon who (kind of) built up paypal.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Thanks for the input. So you can do cross platform if you use these portable class libraries from start. How about about porting win32 code from the .net era? I would guess that most of today's windows applications are running on those lib
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
MS seems to be pretty much betting their company on their company on the metro interface and their win RT core. I'm curious about how well this core scales to low power devices. What's also important is the migration path from win32 to winR
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I can totally understand his point about iTunes content. I bought an iPad for my wife at first, with teaching purposes in mind (she teaches Japanese language). After a while, I recognized how great it is for consuming media. Nowadays we ren
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
It's not that hard with a bit of electronics: Japanese homes usually have big electric kettles with temperature control. Green tea, as an example, needs 80C I think. Japan in general is a great example for optimizing people's daily lives wi
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Oh ok, so it wasn't just my SSD then. Something fishy going on with that streaming, it's so proprietary that it needs Safari AND Lion..
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Does anyone else have problems with the sound? I've had two videos stop the sound at some point while the slides still continue. Reloading doesn't seem to help, it still stops at the same point. edit: Nevermind, I think it was my SSD runnin
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Mozilla's lightweight iOS browser(macrumors.com)
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Well, Microsoft's marketing was never really known for consistency, was it? Compare it to this IE9 ad for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFE4rkSaKOY . Imagine an average consumer seeing these ads and then he sees this: http://www
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
DOES it perform well though? And by that I mean things like native hardware video decompression without having too much impact on the battery, real-timeyness of the touch UI and overall low power consumption. These are IMO the underlying te
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
What are you telling me? Our servers are hosted by a book store? You must be joking!
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Do we have any good sources on the claim that newer laws are less balanced? This subject should be taken very seriously. If a well founded study were to indicate this true, it would be a call to arms for heavy reforms on our democratic syst
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
While I agree with you that MS Office has -in general- the most features of any common WYSIWYG document suite (note: that's just how I categorize this kind of software), Word isn't really the best example for it. Pretty much any feature in
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Are you Gordon E. Moore?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
You're lucky if your average customer knows what AWS is, let alone Heroku.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
OS installation has been easy for quite some time now. That doesn't make Linux catch on in the consumer desktop / notebook market. A typical windows user has no idea why he SHOULD install linux. Furthermore, even the ones that do try often
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Unformatted text (as in text that doesn't follow a machine-understandable format like xml or json) is not a good interface today, I absolutely believe that. Imagine if "ls" would return an xml table that you could easily reuse in other prog
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I'd argue that the tools (if they're 'good' in itself) reflect the principles with which they have been designed. And no, I don't think that these principles are eternal. We should look at the context under which these principles have been
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Thanks alot for that link, it lead me to this very interesting talk by Brent Victor, as kind of a counter argument to that principle: http://vimeo.com/36579366 . And holy shit does he have a point. Many of today's programmers seem to be tr
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
One thing I don't understand: Apple offers battery replacements for more or less reasonable prices, right? How in hell are they going to replace this battery? Do they have some special fluid that can quickly dissolve that glue?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Since it's an interesting mindgame I thought about it a little further: There IS a hard problem to solve here: If your train takes 5min to stop from 4000km/h, its breaking distance would be 166km (assuming linear deceleration)! This means t
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Good point. Obviously you would have to restrict the applied g-forces, therefore the time to stop would be longer. If I'm not mistaken, this should only a linear relationship though, e.g. if you restrict the acceleration, the time to do 10x
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Oh, this post was in reply to the underwater part? Yes, I also think that this one isn't feasible for quite some time. My reply was in response to vacuum tubes over sea level. Right now we can't even have floating tubes anchored to the sea

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