Scuds

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by Scuds 12y ago
> I suspect I'd advise her to take the Facebook job and quit 1-2 years later. But I'm not sure my advice would be correct. No idea about the short term stay as they always have interesting challenges, but, yes, Facebook is a ho
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by Scuds 12y ago
For the people building the customer accessible stuff, yes. But they also have a need for things that aren't at the point where saving cycles will make a difference.
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by Scuds 12y ago
Eh... downloaded the ios 7.x file from Apple's servers and updated through itunes through the dialog where you specify the file. IOS wasn't stable afterwards, and I had to do a complete wipe, but it's back to where it was be
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by Scuds 12y ago
I had to downgrade from 8 to 7 on my 4s due to to thing like safari freezing when typing on the keyboard. But at the scale Apple works at, jailbreakers are probably %0.01 of the userbase. My guess is that people don't care enough to hi
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by Scuds 12y ago
Broadwell MBAs are coming, maybe before the year is out.
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by Scuds 12y ago
Why does Apple still sell the original iPad Mini? Is it just a mountain of unsold inventory?
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by Scuds 12y ago
it's called the Powershell ISE, and it's been around for awhile.
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by Scuds 12y ago
In Visual Studio 14 CTP4 you can still File -> New VB / C# Project -> Windows Forms in same as you could ten years ago, but with the next generation CLR in the new IDE. It's still _supported_ and there are a ton of vendors s
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by Scuds 12y ago
I suppose that would fall under marital martial arts...
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by Scuds 12y ago
> And would open-sourcing the browser really kill them? No idea why not, but it's a different group than MS's other Open Sourcing efforts; The Dev tools people are happy to show their ASP.net mvc work[1], among other things[2],
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Obviously the disadvantage is that hot-plugging doesn't work in other operating systems when run on Apple hardware, but obviously that's not Apple's focus or interest. Ah dang! I have an official Thunderbolt to Ethernet
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by Scuds 12y ago
This demo appears to be running on an emulator instead of an actual antique piece of hardware but you can get the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk the AI winter is something you don't hear too much abo
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by Scuds 12y ago
> the imgurl community is always asking for more servers and bandwidth They serve 2 billion images per day, and they never delete pictures that are still actively accessible from the internet. At no cost to the user. In any case, cache
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by Scuds 12y ago
Maybe a better title would be 'Shakespeare's Nonsense is Genius' :-D
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by Scuds 12y ago
Group within MS research, which runs more or less independent of MS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FUSE_Labs http://fuse.microsoft.com/ not really branding as it is a one-off "what if we.
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by Scuds 12y ago
> for (firsttime = 1; ; firsttime = 0) { does this line predate the while loop? or boolean values in C?
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by Scuds 12y ago
Well, they're quoting him, and people get impressed by big numbers... Veyron is a kind of research experiment for VAG. It might be $2M for an example, but they lose something like $1.5M per car. It's just like the Lexus LFA being
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by Scuds 12y ago
With a full suite of automated regression tests you'll have a great deal of confidence that any changes you've made didn't break anything. Go nuts and experiment!
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by Scuds 12y ago
IIRC there's an episode of the .NET Rocks podcast where games in F# (roughly oCaml for .NET) is being used as a backend for these gaming systems. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=846 That bug probably wo
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Now, however, potential experienced employees who actually live in the real world will be avoiding Reddit. I've worked for a certain popular online gaming service and have been threatened in my personal email by people who've
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by Scuds 12y ago
> "[someLanguage] practice problems" It might also be fall under "Études" such as 'Études for Elixir' http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001642 which is a collection of exerci
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Amtrak is great when you aren't on a schedule. Not on a schedule - or - for shorter trips the overhead of flying is just too much. Airports are far away from a city center, and there's always lines for security. I rode Amtrak
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by Scuds 12y ago
... said about a Douglas Coupland article in Wired ...
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Not sure how non-developers can get the .ipsw file. http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-8.0.1-download-links-for-iphon... straight from the apple CDNs. Holy shit, they offer IOS 8 for iPad 2! Who are they supporting with thi
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by Scuds 12y ago
running a defragment operation on a few of these makes them emit some electronic noise if you listen closely. :D
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by Scuds 12y ago
ENTERPRISE READY!
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by Scuds 12y ago
It might not have straightened my teeth and cleared my acne, but daily walking + listening to podcasts pulls me out of my own head.
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by Scuds 12y ago
I don't think there would be a similar reaction if a free game turned up in our respective Steam libraries, ready for downloading.
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Even in the 90s there were quite a few attempts to create movie like games Not just that - fancy animated cut scenes for intros and finales like in Dune 2 (1992) for PC. For a game that was maybe 10 MB on disk, those short animations w
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by Scuds 12y ago
The BSP* algorithm used in Doom was research paper material in 1991, and Carmack was among the first to apply it to low performance PC games. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning I keep thinking abo

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