Tomis02

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> So it would be great if Chrome and other browsers would support MDI with tabs It's extremely unlikely that will ever happen (if they were to do it, they would've done it by now).
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> None of the mainstream browsers Fixed it for you. Like another person wrote, old Opera did it just fine in a period where PCs were much slower.
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I miss it dearly too, buddy, it was a real joy to use.
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There is no reasoning, it's only cargo-cult mentality and fashion choices. Old Opera got almost everything better, but it lost to inferior alternatives because users aren't rational when it comes to their choices. Chrome and Firef
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You had all that in the old Opera browser, but people liked slower and more resource-consuming alternatives better.
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> Currently the market is in favour of employees, as there is more demand for them than supply I don't think that's the case, most of the time it's just employers being unreasonably picky. "10 years of C++ experience?
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If that question somehow arises, management will probably say the new employee will pay for themselves very quickly by generating loads of value. There's always a rationalization available for justifying irrational decisions.
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> I would make it as easy for you as possible. I'm pretty sure you're an exception.
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Because it's easy to say "the employee is just doing the job they're paid to do, why give them a raise?". Also, "we need to give an extra 20% to convince this person to come aboard, whereas we already own these empl
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A rationalization that's likely to get you fired if you were to own up to it publicly. Although it's true, the company would benefit from you feeling excited about the task at hand.
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Well, 1998 didn't only bring Thief, it also gave Baldur's gate, Grim Fandango, Half Life and so on, masterpieces. AAA games were going where no one had gone before, and were not afraid to innovate. Fast-forward 19 years and not ev
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Not really. For example 90s gave us the RTS and FPS genres as we know them today, among others, and basically were the building blocks for making gaming mainstream. They were a renaissance of sorts, and many elements you see in games today
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Better is when games are treated like art, not consumables that you churn out every year to milk the brand/franchise. I knew I'd be accused of nostalgia because people have the tendency to talk out of their ass without knowing the
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Games like Papers please are outliers, not representative for today's gaming market. Back in the day you'd have AAA teams constantly trying to innovate (classic examples Bullfrog Lionhead Looking glass Westwood Black isle and so o
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Here's some random link to support my claim, since some people in the HN crowd prefer to downvote instead of discussing what makes them uncomfortable. https://thinkprogress.org/debunking-the-dumbest-denier-myth-...
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> global warming now renamed climate change Actually not true, the phrase 'climate change' has been coined more than half a century ago. The idea that there was a rebranding of the phenomenon is false beyond doubt, and actually
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Games have become more popular and potentially more addictive, not necessarily better (for my definition of better, games nowadays are generally worse than in the 90s and early 200s).
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I'm curious if you really couldn't tell it was a figure of speech or if you simply enjoy being overly pedantic.
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Google giving an advantage to its shopping service is peanuts. The way Chrome was promoted (not only through search, but other Google services as well) is the real abuse.
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I agree. Been there, done that. Not fun.
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I feel your pain. If only we could harness programmer frustration into energy, we could stop burning fossil fuel. And don't get me wrong, I have my own long list of gripes with Microsoft and Visual Studio, they're nowhere near per
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> But what about configuring additional libs in VS I'm not really following. Just add the other library's project to the solution? > or autoincrementing the version in the resource file There are probably multiple solutions,
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Without knowing the specifics of your software I can't really tell if the problem was with Visual Studio or the process itself. I do believe you can have a shitty work environment whatever you use, and that some tools aren't good
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OP mentioned an environment to learn C++. Having to additionally learn a build system is cumbersome at best, whereas Visual Studio provides all the right defaults for most use cases - especially good for beginners. > it always tried to c
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> Setting up cmake, or make, or the autotools on Linux, or setting up cmake Don't do this to yourself, just stick with regular Visual Studio and its build system. Nowadays you can even use it to build Linux binaries, so why put your
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I second Visual Studio, since it has a decent debugger (light years ahead of GDB when it comes to usability) and is relatively user-friendly (almost everything is customizable, but there are sane default values). I recommend starting a blan
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I think people got it backwards. Brace yourselves. You don't earn less money because you use tabs, but instead you use spaces because you earn more money. When I was working on my own small projects I was using tabs, or tabs combined w
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> I think for instance that Steve Jobs was really underpaid. Care to guess what job (or, equally likely, what prison) Steve Jobs would've found himself in had he not stumbled into Steve Wozniak? Because without Wozniak, Jobs' b
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> If by happy accident or by masterplan design I don't think any other person could have done that. Let me give you some insight that you might be unaware of. When the iPhone was announced, there were a few offices in Nokia where pe
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I think you and some other people posting on HN are high on crack, eating out of any big company CEO's hand. Honestly. > Also, Satya doesn't act like a clown in public Are we talking about the same Satya who said that women sho

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