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by Teckla 11y ago
This is a timely article because I was just talking to a friend of mine that works at Google and is about to start an internal project that will be written in Go. I told him I'm not sure I'd ever fit into the Go community because
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by Teckla 11y ago
I had trouble with Google Drive on Windows. The Google Drive process would frequently take 100% of a core even if just a single 1k file was in the Google Drive folder. It's broken. This really bummed me out because I was evaluating i
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by Teckla 12y ago
For proper backups, backup to a local external disk Is a backup really a backup if it's onsite? You don't want a fire to take out your PC and external disk located in the same house.
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by Teckla 12y ago
- Games are "fire and forget". That means technical debt is very different. It is bad at the start of a 3 year cycle, but at the end it is totally ok. Game companies don't "copy and paste" old versions of games to
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by Teckla 12y ago
I agree with this: "well, its my body" but not with this: "I don't find it moral to prevent somebody from doing something today, because $HYPOTHETICAL_BAD_THING might happen tomorrow" You do realize that in many,
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by Teckla 12y ago
I sincerely apologize, I just now noticed you've answered my same query on other threads.
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by Teckla 12y ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond! I'd love a Java AOT compiler that produces native binaries with no additional dependencies. (I'd even be okay if, as a side effect, some Java features were not supported, making it technical
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by Teckla 12y ago
Omg, what the hell kind of dark pattern is it that waits 10 minutes to start playing an audio ad? Slashdot's audio ads don't wait 10 minutes to start. Slashdot's much hated auto-refresh "feature" is to blame. It
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by Teckla 12y ago
Truthfully, I've never run an ad blocker before, until over the summer I got extremely fed up with a particular web site that I keep going to out of old habit (slashdot.org). A couple times I left a browser tab on the site, and in the
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by Teckla 12y ago
Java AOT compilers Java AOT compilers? What Java AOT compilers? I know about Excelsior JET ($$$$) and gcj (abandoned). Do you know of any free and good Java AOT compilers?
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by Teckla 12y ago
There's also Excelsior, which is an AOT JVM, but it's for Windows only. Unfortunately, it's also extremely expensive. That's not to say it isn't worth every penny in some situations, but I've gotten kind o
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by Teckla 12y ago
From the article: In many ways, it feels like the Firefox team is mostly fighting a battle of perceptions. Ask anybody why they don’t use Firefox and they’ll say: “It’s too slow.” That’s not actually the case anymore. I'm sorry, but
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by Teckla 12y ago
...quite a few of those allow for AOT compilation to native code Do you know of any good and free ahead-of-time Java compilers that produce native binaries without any additional dependencies? I haven't been able to find any, but
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by Teckla 12y ago
You will be excited to learn about gcj, then. The Gnu Java compiler compiles to native code, but it's currently not maintained, so newer Java features are out of reach. gcj has been abandoned. It was last updated over 5 years ago.
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by Teckla 12y ago
I'll second the ASUS laptop recommendation. I bought one a few months ago, and it's easily the best constructed non-Apple laptop I've ever seen or used.
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by Teckla 12y ago
For modern cars, maintenance is not a significant expense compared to the purchase price and fuel. Insurance is cheap if one's not driving an expensive truck. I disagree with both of these assertions. No need to buy new, let some ot
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by Teckla 12y ago
Today we are more taxed and more regulated than ever. Say what? Tax rates in the U.S. have been trending down for decades, especially for the wealthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States S
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by Teckla 12y ago
Getting interrupted partway through the edits. I call this the "working out of your home office when you have kids" error. I'm interrupted by my boss far, far more often than I'm interrupted by my kid. A dozen times a
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by Teckla 12y ago
There was time ,maybe a year back, where Microsoft turned out to be one of the Top contributors to Linux Kernel. They had to fix some issue on Linux kernel to run on HyperV Let's be very clear on this subject, though: Microsoft was d
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by Teckla 13y ago
C offers simplicity. Sure, there are some quirks that are complex, but by and large it is one of the simplest languages in existence. People keep saying this, and it keeps not being true. C has something like over 200 undefined and implem
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by Teckla 13y ago
Outlook.com is an acceptable replacement for Gmail. It's not. I've tried for days to login to Outlook.com, and verification text messages aren't coming through. I finally had to start the email recovery procedure, which req
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by Teckla 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. I wish it had gotten more up-votes. This whole "some words are BAD" thing is ridiculous. I allow my child to swear, but of course, with a warning that some adults will take offense, because those adults ar
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by Teckla 13y ago
I wouldn't say Firefox is slow, but the UI still has weird latency issues that I don't see in Chrome. For the record, I use both Chrome and Firefox, heavily. The Chrome UI is very rarely laggy. The Firefox UI is often laggy. It&#x
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by Teckla 13y ago
It's because of VMware Fusion and Parallels. Simple. That's not the only reason, and perhaps not the primary reason. My wife made the jump to Mac four years ago. Yes, we bought VMware Fusion so she could run her "must have&
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by Teckla 13y ago
You obviously don't have to write numerical code. I also guess, if you had to, you'd also be fast to start avoiding language that forces you to do the above dance everywhere. I didn't claim it would be pretty, I was just de
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by Teckla 13y ago
Just a couple of examples. Arrays and Objects are the same type of structure in JavaScript. Arrays just happen to be indexed by integers and Objects by strings. This description doesn't tell the whole story, leading people to a false
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by Teckla 13y ago
OO has brought us a lot of extremely bloated, over-engineered, "enterprise" monstrosities over the years, and imho should not be encouraged. When done correctly, object oriented programming is a lot like the Unix philosophy. The
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by Teckla 13y ago
That's what the power cover is for. And now it's too heavy to carry around all day every day.
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by Teckla 13y ago
I'm not a iPhone (I have Nexus 4) user but looking at the screenshots of iOS 7 it looks way better than iOS 6, why are the people complaining? Have they made the usability worse, or are they used to the "old" (in my opinion
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by Teckla 13y ago
Okay, and all of the data that I send off to my GPU for either computation or rendering - I should just accept the huge performance hit I get when using double on them? When necessary, manually cast your floats to doubles, perform the cal

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