Encosia

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by Encosia 12y ago
This seems potentially very shortsighted, as difficult as it must be to measure exactly how much of their success on mobile was due to the free advertising on Armor Games, in and out of game.
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by Encosia 12y ago
I'm glad they do. IE9 spurred a lot of competition around GPU accelerated 2D rendering and we all benefited. Even now, IE11 and 12 are dramatically faster than Chrome on my laptop in terms of how quickly pages load, scroll, etc. Even
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by Encosia 12y ago
The Windows 10 preview that's out right now works well enough for casual use today. I've been running it on my laptop since it was available and have had a few minor issues, but haven't had any real trouble using it as my pri
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by Encosia 12y ago
Yeah, that's the main thing to take away from these events. I've never seen a system (cloud, local, co-located, or otherwise) with 100% uptime, despite every effort to the contrary. Even sites like Facebook and Google have downtim
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by Encosia 12y ago
For what it's worth, I've been watching several Azure-hosted sites that I control and they've been coming back online sequentially (and are all back online now). Whatever they're fixing, it seems to be taking some time,
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by Encosia 12y ago
I appreciate being on the winning end of your double standard! I'm with you on the caps. It seems superficial, but it was such a pleasant relief to see the all caps menus gone when I opened VS14 for the first time.
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by Encosia 12y ago
The uppercase menus are gone in VS2015.
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by Encosia 12y ago
.NET has a higher level built-in mechanism for dealing with translated content (Resource files). I don't think this new language feature is intended to replace that.
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by Encosia 12y ago
Reminds me of the bit about Chopin leading listeners on for the satisfying note/chord in this Benjamin Zander talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passio...
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by Encosia 12y ago
It really depends on the hardware you choose. I switched from a MacBook Air to a Samsung ATIV Book Plus (what a name...) and can't say that I've noticed a difference between the trackpads.
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by Encosia 12y ago
I'm planning to do the same soon. There are three Microsoft stores here in the Atlanta area. I'd just rather do just about anything other than fight traffic to get to one.
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by Encosia 12y ago
It's sold out online now: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productI... I wonder how many that was.
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by Encosia 12y ago
I recently migrated a couple of my sites away from directly sending transactional email, to using MailChimp's Mandrill service. A few months later, I only wish I had done that sooner.
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by Encosia 12y ago
According to http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/10/27/mic... , they sold $908 million in Surfaces, out of 2.45 billion total hardware sales (including Xbox), last quarter. Total reven
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by Encosia 12y ago
I was pretty underwhelmed by Apple's watch and have actively disliked the Android watches that I've seen so far. I use a Fitbit One every day currently, so the new Fitbit Charge bands with some phone integration kind of piqued my
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by Encosia 12y ago
IIRC, Surface is one of the key reasons Microsoft did so well in the last quarter.
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by Encosia 12y ago
Same here. I almost always end up with quite a bit of custom CSS for a 480px breakpoint between XS and SM.
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by Encosia 12y ago
For what it's worth, and not to take away from your interpretation of "Compat", that made sense to me at first glance. I'm not sure most people will misunderstand the meaning.
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by Encosia 12y ago
+1 for IE's touchscreen support. I keep holding out and using Chrome on my laptop for a few extensions and all of the bookmarks/passwords I have synced over the years, but IE makes Chrome look absolutely kludgy and clunky when it
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by Encosia 12y ago
For what it's worth, I rented a Home Depot truck just a few days after posting that, and it really was $19 for the first 75 minutes (plus sales tax). I know because I was doing exactly what some people in this thread would suggest. We
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by Encosia 12y ago
You can rent a truck at Home Depot for $20 that will haul a couch.
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by Encosia 12y ago
A single data point, but I get a noticeable bump in battery life when I run my QHD+ laptop display at half resolution.
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by Encosia 12y ago
It sounds like you're using OneDrive for Business (aka SkyDrive Pro), which is something like a hosted SharePoint solution. Regular OneDrive is comparable to Dropbox, will sync any files you want, doesn't add metadata to Office do
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by Encosia 12y ago
In case you're curious, you're being downvoted because Tomte was not quoting Armageddon .
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by Encosia 12y ago
He had a couple high profile successes before Windows 8 too though (Office 2007/10 and Win7).
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by Encosia 12y ago
I read the comment "what about them?" along with the poorly headlined link, as insinuating that Microsoft Research was being shut down. If someone thought that Silicon Valley was their main lab or didn't know either way, that
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by Encosia 12y ago
Still, probably proportionally less layoffs in MSR than the rest of the company overall during these cuts. The insinuation was that Microsoft is shuttering Research entirely, which is very far from true.
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by Encosia 12y ago
That headline is confusingly worded, but Microsoft only laid off 50-75 people in one MSR location. That was far from the entire division: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/default.aspx
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by Encosia 12y ago
You can still revert back to the old GChat interface and get the old (better) VoIP functionality back.
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by Encosia 12y ago
Same here. I tried very hard to transition to Hangouts to get a jump on what will probably be unavoidable at some point anyway, but I had to revert back to the old interface after a few weeks because GV/VoIP is so unusable on Hangouts.

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