Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 10y ago
It would have been ironic 10 years ago, but not today. If someone only has a single Internet-capable device, it is much more likely to be smartphone, rather than a PC running Windows. Of course it wouldn't have hurt to add: "or ca
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Had Q1 support for 3D acceleration on launch ? I remember playing Q1 CPU only, on a crappy PC and wasn't really blown away by it. Q2 I believe was bundled with my first graphic card, and it really made a huge difference.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
...compared to those outlets where is not that evident ? Because I cannot think of any publication that I would call completely impartial (it also would make for pretty dry reading).
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
"In my opinion, Valve also has the same shortcomings as google: practically zero customer support..." This strikes me as something you can afford because you are in a factual monopoly ("You are not OK with our service ? Find
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
You are right in the case of Apple, but I don't think it is the normal process. Although my experience in this matter is limited, this is was I was able to find: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-Apple-can-push-out-u
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
> and in a mobile device OS and application SW are tightly coupled I call bullshit. There's no reason Google can't update everything AOSP-y in /system - libc, libart, libwebkit etc. That's not the point. Even if it we
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Google in most cases is not the device's manufacturer, and in a mobile device OS and application SW are tightly coupled, so you cannot really have OS updates separate from firmware updates, bypassing the actual manufacturer's own
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
I think there are already quite a few ports of early Bioware/Black Isle RPGs (Baldur's Gate I and II, Icewind Dale) on iOS. Also the new Shadowrun games (isometric/turn based) are worth a look.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
I thought F3 was a pretty good "reimagining" of the originals, in terms of adapting the mechanics for modern audiences (especially VATS), and the visuals were spot-on. But it lacked the quirky humor and characters that were part o
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Instant impulse buy for me. Thanks for the lead.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
What about mobile phones, tablets, laptops ? It is a given that wired is a better option, but I cannot imagine any modern SOHO environment without a wireless router/access point.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Of course, in the context of github.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
C++/C# repositories have more or less doubled since Jan16 (from 10000ish to 20000ish) and so have Java ones (75000ish to 150000ish). So, there is not really an uptick in terms of percentage, the rise is more apparent in Java (and Javas
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Can't speak for the US, but the Brexit result in large part was driven by "traditional" media, in the form of tabloids that have a large circulation among the bulk of Brexit supporters and have long held nationalist and anti-
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
The best laptop I ever had was an i5 2010 Macbook Air (paid about 1000€ at the time). Reasonably fast, incredibly think and light, instant wake-from-sleep, great screen (for the time), great trackpad, decent keyboard, long battery life. Hav
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
The worst thing is that I can't really tell if you are being serious or not.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
I would say that the US is pretty much unique in this respect, and you would experience the same tradeoffs in most (all ?) of Western countries outside of it. Even in countries where gross salaries are comparable, you would pay a ton more t
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Waiting for the 2017 update: http://thebulletin.org/timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock We definitely live in interesting times.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
(1) are banned in the EU for human consumption, a reasonable choice I think until we have more data. I thought so as well, but after a quick search my understanding is that they are not, they are subject to approval at EU level, and the mem
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
I think this is due to the fact the word "Engineer" historically was meant in the sense of "Technician", "Repairman", if I'n not mistaken. From Wikipedia: "In the UK, "engineering" was more
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
"An opinionated and needlessly specific list." Opinionated, maybe (although it seems to me most rules are reasoned and a justification is given). But something practical has to be specific. It has happened time and again to come a
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Nice. These are reasoned, common sense measures, most of which I have seen in one form or another in the coding guidelines of the companies I have worked for as an embedded SW engineer. Some of them are easy to enforce (no dynamic memory al
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Same here. When the application has been designed from the ground-up with the target platform in mind, the user experience is almost always better than the equivalent in-browser, at least for me. Apart from performance-intensive apps/s
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
I think it really matters when looking for your first professional job. Some formal education shows that you have at least the commitment and self-discipline to achieve a goal. If not, you should be able to show off some professional work t
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
That's maybe the theory, maybe. In practice, in my personal experience, mass layoffs are a nightmare for everybody, and end up affecting also those not directly involved (especially since in most cases they don't know if they are
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
I find really amusing that after the Macbook reveal last year half of the response comments (in sites like ArsTechnica) were of the gist "just give me an updated Macbook Air, with the same form factor and a better screen". Well, t
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Thanks for the very detailed and useful post, I will definitely try it. I should have specified that my last experience using it was with Windows 8.1, I don't think I have tried yet on 10.
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Every time I fired up powershell to give it a try, I'm always immediately turned off by: - How sluggish it feels. A remote bash shell on a raspberry pi feels more responsive to me than a local PS on a beefy PC. - The way it is opened a
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
It is an interesting and valid point, but hasn't this been always the case ? Media distort perception almost by definition, the difference is that now there are new actors and technologies, which are mostly outside of governments'
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by Kurtz79 10y ago
Is this what is considered as an opinion article, these days ? Two paragraphs of loose one-line sentences with no information whatsoever besides what already comes in the title ? Why is the author not surprised ? It comes from some deeper

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