DrPizza

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by DrPizza 11y ago
> Trust me I have a friend who loves breaking into my personal server. Sterling work establishing your own competence there.
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by DrPizza 12y ago
> it really is not clear that even Google can force Dart down others' throats It's peculiar that Google claims that it is utterly impotent to persuade developers to use Pointer Events, and so it is going to give up even trying,
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by DrPizza 12y ago
External requests might have motivated the initial foray into supporting agile processes, but it's internal users that make it worth a damn, IMO. My view is that you can't develop effective general purpose application software wit
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by DrPizza 12y ago
[author here] You know, I should have written about that a bit more. It makes sense in retrospect, I didn't even think about it at the time, even after leading off with the problems of the VS2010 cycle. But, yes. If one looks at how VS
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by DrPizza 13y ago
But it would have lousy app compatibility... so what advantage would it offer over Windows Phone?
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by DrPizza 13y ago
I thought Gonk took bits from Android, but was not a direct copy of the kernel.
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by DrPizza 13y ago
I think you miss my point about Intel phones. Intel is threatening to have processors that will be somewhere between "credible" and "best in class" for smartphones. It's not guaranteed at this stage, but it's a
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by DrPizza 13y ago
1) Chrome doesn't show "all passwords". It only shows passwords that Chrome knows about. The two categories might overlap, but they're not actually the same. 2) Either the browser demands an unlock password every single
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by DrPizza 13y ago
Yes, sorry, I meant SSE intrinsics. As I think I note later in the article, the compiler I used emitted scalar SSE2 for floating point.
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by DrPizza 14y ago
> Back to the article. WebKit won't allow hooking in random JS engines. Allowing this slows things down because many DOM access optimizations can be achieved by assuming a specific engine. This is totally reasonable thing. I agree, it's
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by DrPizza 14y ago
The only reason that people are willing to do it for free is because they believe the "exposure" myth and think that it will lead to paid work. What they don't realize is that in aggregate, their willingness to do it for free jeopardizes th
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by DrPizza 14y ago
The RTM update to Office on Windows RT was delivered the week before Windows RT went on sale.
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by DrPizza 14y ago
It is. The poster is just parroting moronic right-wing talking points.
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by DrPizza 14y ago
Good grief. First, marginal tax rates are taxed on marginal income, not gross income. The $250K bracket only kicks in for dollars earned over $250K. Second... there are, in fact, points on the income ladder with a marginal rate that is grea
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by DrPizza 14y ago
I've now removed that update, as further experimentation shows that it does work after all.
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by DrPizza 14y ago
My intended audience is, I guess, anyone who's ever taken something apart in a bid to figure out how it works. The ability to put the thing back together again such that the thing continues to work is strictly optional. I hope it's deep eno
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by DrPizza 15y ago
Every C programmer has the tools they need to not create buffer overflows _and yet buffer overflows are abundant_. Saying "we'll provide the tools and insist that developers use them safely and securely" is a bullshit answer, and always has
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by DrPizza 15y ago
Although maybe he was right: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/oorgn/microsoft_keep...
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by DrPizza 15y ago
Re: the last paragraph: Sadly I lost that battle. I didn't want to include it, but sometimes we writers do not get to make those decisions.
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by DrPizza 15y ago
What is there that is "interesting" about the platform? Power consumption was mentioned at a number of points in the article. It's just there's not a whole lot to say about it--it's not exactly a strength of the architecture.
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by DrPizza 15y ago
I don't think most server systems are doing much in the way of MP3 or H.264 encoding. Rendering is more or less equivalent to HPC. Different markets, but similar problem sets (lots of computation, minimal communication or dependencies betwe
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by DrPizza 15y ago
The Phoronix benchmarks, like most others, suggest that the only area where Bulldozer appears at all competent is HPC. To describe this as niche is an understatement. a) I agree it remains unclear how much difference the SSD makes. That's w
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by DrPizza 15y ago
Yes.
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by DrPizza 15y ago
My understanding is that it can give every cycle to a given thread just as long as the other thread doesn't need it to decode anything (if it's idle or whatever). i.e. it can give one thread 4 ops/cycle sustained, given the right workload.
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by DrPizza 15y ago
> This article is impressively bad. Cheers! > While the 8-module chip does share a few things (mainly a vector processing unit, that becomes two when doing the 128-bit SSE operations) A few things? No, it shares a lot of things. The
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by DrPizza 15y ago
That's what I do on my MacBook Pro. It was much more palatable than discarding years of typing experience. I don't dispute that it works. But it does rather detract from, well, the aesthetic elegance of the machine. Apple has these fancy ba
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by DrPizza 15y ago
On the other hand, bad virus updates have a habit of purging critical system files, leaving machines unbootable. They have the power to be extraordinarily destructive; good luck getting a browser to do that.
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by DrPizza 15y ago
I like the parts where he related the 5Ps directly to WP7's development, the context is useful and interesting. It also explains, I think, why WP7 is such an un-Microsoft product in so many ways, and why I love using it. It's focused in a w