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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I think Surface can mount up to Core i7 processors ? Something much thicker would kind of defeat the purpose of being portable. I believe what we have today is limited more by physical constraints (i.e. I can´t see myself writing code on a
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Related: http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/149151... Recommended read by Gates and Zuckerberg.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Yes, it's great and I have been using it for quite a while (on Chrome as well), but it's nothing new, unless I am missing something. It would be helpful if the submitter also wrote a comment about the reasons of the submission, wh
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Having all that funding means having the luxury of shipping a properly debugged and refined product, instead of having to chase the holiday season with a potentially bugged and broken one (which is far from an exceptional occurrence in the
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Yes, I have a pair of Grado S60 (supra-aural) which are by far my best sounding headphones, but I cannot use them for many hours on end for this reason, as loose as I try to set them, they eventually become uncomfortable.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I think that the term esports is a bit prententious and misleading. That said, I personally love games and game mechanics, and I find that watching people playing competitively a game that you like makes for decent entertainment, especially
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I agree: my understanding is that Apple is releasing just an API, and allowing ad-blocking EXTENSIONS, basically putting Safari and their mobile web browsing (almost) on par with desktop browsers (including Chrome, as you say). I don't
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
> Generally speaking, if you have to pay people to do it, there is something nasty about the work. No, generally speaking, it just means that the work you do has some value for the people paying for it, since they need it done and they l
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
It's just a matter of using Linux: you must know also about setting up a database server, replication, load balancing, security, logging... things that App Engine gives you for "free".
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Facebook is not a startup, it's a publicly traded company, meaning that its value is given by the numer of shares in the market times the stock price (which by this date is more than 226bn). If we are talking about liquid cash, FB is s
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I actually was expecting it to have a greater hit on performance. After all, a go executable can be 2x - 8x slower than a C one (which is still good enough for many uses).
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken, these graphs refer to the speed of the code generated with the compiler, not of the compiler itself.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Unless I missed it, it is surprising the lack of benchmarks or mentioning how compile speed compares with the previous iteration. I'm not saying it would be necessary slower than a compiler written in C, if they wrote the more critical
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I don't think it's meant to be a comprehensive list, just a reminder that languages that many people consider "dead" or just "old fashioned" are in reality quite pervasive and power up many of our daily tools a
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Law triumphs again! (as in "Lawyers") Still, it's better for this to be in the open, with all the bad PR associated to it, so that companies will think about it twice before pulling similar stunts in the future.
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Also tobacco and alcohol are big moneymakers, but there is a large consensus about their negative effects, and that's why their use (or abuse) is discouraged, by doctors and governments alike. So either: - The coffee "lobby"
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I beg you to look for the definition of "rational", and I take issue in you calling me an "apologist" without knowing anything about my ideas or positions. I find it atrocious, and possibly should have been avoided, but
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
I´m neither American nor a fan of US foreign policy, but you seem to be overlooking the small fact that the US was at war with Japan at the time. The bombs made clear that the US had the upper hand in warfare technology (and no scruples in
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Are there valid alternatives ? What is the preferred platform for freelances looking for remote work at decent rates, today ?
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by Kurtz79 11y ago
Couldn't such a simple question be asked on a phone screen ?
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Not really, programming is 'solely' programming, as in the ability to generate code that is reliable, readable, well organized, efficient, etc... . What you are talking about is programmers that in addition to their technical skil
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It is unpopular because the average employee being laid off will have had much less influence than a CEO on the reasons that ultimately led to the (necessary) measure, but he/she will be the one facing the consequences. The worst that
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"But this demonstrates that he's not some high-level politician that's completely out of touch with today's reality" It demonstrates he can write a sudoku solver in C++, I don't see how this has anything to do
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
That's great! We already have three data points. A couple of thousand more and our anecdotal evidence could turn into a factual one.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
My anecdotal evidence against yours, I haven't experienced a single crash on my iPad(s) in three years.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Some data to back your assertions up ? App store revenue has been increasing constantly since its launch. http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/15/app-store-google-play-re... http://www.macrumors.com&#x
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Thank you. As many other sticking points GMO tend to be polarizing, and acritically defending them makes a disservice to science same as considering them "evil". Humans have been genetically modifying food (and animals) long befor
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I believe you, but I really think that has absolutely nothing to do with GMO, raher than the simple fact that fresh, homemade food is intrinsically better than store bought food, which is usually tuned for aesthetics and long shelf life as
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"Back in the days many SSD vendors were only focusing on high peak performance, which unfortunately came at the cost of sustained performance. In other words, the drives would push high IOPS in certain synthetic scenarios to provide ni
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Fanboys are plentiful in both fields, and a good way of recognizing one is a post of the type "Can't help but feel..." I'm an iPhone and Mac user and still the prank made me chuckle.

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