FreezerburnV

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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
There might actually be more to the "if it's niche, some people are more interested in it" mentality. It's anecdotal, yes, but I know that I have an odd tendency to prefer games that aren't hyper popular. New Call o
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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
Doesn't Windows 8 come with a built-in "remove everything and fresh install the OS" button now? Can always use that.
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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
> and website owners can create separate Live Tiles that can be pinned to the Start Screen to access RSS feeds. That little tidbit really stood out as interesting to me. I seriously hope that MS does this well, and I can have live tiles
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Ask HN: What are the best hosting services?
1 points by FreezerburnV 13y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How should I go about learning Emacs?
6 points by FreezerburnV 13y ago|2 comments
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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
XKCD explains this effect quite nicely, I think: http://xkcd.com/978/
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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
I'll definitely admit that the browser plugin is a piece of crap which should be moved away from. Sadly, there's still a ways to go for that as a number of countries use them pretty extensively. (bank interfaces are brought up a lot on HN)
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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
As a developer, I kind of take offense to the allegations of Java (and Flash as well, I suppose, it's supposed to be pretty good) being "crappy software". The JVM is actually a rather awesome piece of software which offers good performance
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by FreezerburnV 13y ago
You should double-check what kind of projects are being worked on before saying that it isn't being used for non-toy projects :) I can list at least two off the top of my head: Q^3, which can render Quake 3 maps and will eventually be its o
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
As someone who had a grandmother with dementia, I can sympathize with this somewhat. She was a strong, feisty lady that I always loved to be with as a child, and it was always hard to spend time with her after she started to lose her mind.
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
I agree about the tables. Personally, I find Lua to just be a more honest language, in a sense. Languages like Python or OCaml really just use tables under the hood for objects and what not (from what I understand), but Lua shows you that o
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
Clojure actually has a lot of stuff in its design specifically for multithreading. Like the GP post said, Clojuer has Software Transactional Memory (STM) on top of immutable data structures to make messing up multithreaded programs hard, an
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
And yet, the president originally supported the sequestration cuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=... And Republicans were willing to give the administration more flexibility in how the cuts were made: http:
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
Puppy Linux is another distro that does the same. It's one I've used before and is actually rather pleasant, and seems to "just work" for most anything. (including an awkward Windows-only USB wireless network interface) The interface can be
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
No, this gives the control of the cloud to the people using it. Security conscious people or people that want to keep their data as their own data (rather than in the nebulous state of being on someone else's hardware, thus ownership is mur
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by FreezerburnV 14y ago
http://pinboard.in is my bookmarking organizer of choice. Simple. Powerful. Fast. Initial entry fee (<$10 right now I think), but in my opinion worth it.