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by axilmar 13y ago
Or Microsoft could have the same Operating System but different GUIs. Remember that Operating System != GUI.
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by axilmar 13y ago
Dear Mr Nadella, if you want Microsoft to innovate, simply throw out everything you have done so far and bring us a real object-oriented operating system that can work seamlessly on one machine, many machines on a lan or many machines on a
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by axilmar 13y ago
Does she really eat all that food or some of it and the rest of it is thrown out by a magic finger trick? she would have quite an economic incentive to do that.
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by axilmar 13y ago
Greece's unemployment is 28% (unofficially over 40% - my estimation) not because of the banks being saved, but because of a bureaucratic economic model that is stuck in the 70s.
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by axilmar 13y ago
After typing next about 20 times without seeing anything interesting, I quit.
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by axilmar 13y ago
1. Time. Not much free time. 2. Risk. I have to support a family.
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by axilmar 13y ago
Em...no. The author goes at it in a very wrong way. Networking code goes to a network controller which sends outs requests and updates the model when the results arrive from the network. The network controller can easily be unit tested. A c
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by axilmar 13y ago
I think the difference lies in finding the security hole and testing the security hole. In most of the cases that the hacker is persecuted, the hacker has tested the hole, i.e. downloaded data illegally. If the hacker simply notified the pe
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by axilmar 13y ago
“If you see the stars, those are real stars. They have their own planets around them, and you can go there” There goes my dream.
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by axilmar 13y ago
So many words to say that people in finance prefer short term investments that are more profitable than long term investments, no matter what the consequences of the short term investments are.
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by axilmar 13y ago
What truly disappointed me is the lack of any hardware for 3d graphics. It was around 1990-91 where it was obvious that computer games were going 3d. In the arcade, the most amazing coin-ops with 3d graphics had been consistently Sega'
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by axilmar 13y ago
In Greek, there exists the exact same construct from ancient times: "ΛΟΓΩ FOO", i.e. "BECAUSE OF foo". It's fascinating how languages converge.
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by axilmar 13y ago
Absolutely understandable by me, I am in the exact same situation. Having kids alters your life dramatically.
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by axilmar 13y ago
What does this mean for Scaleform? if Flash stops being developed, then will Scaleform continue to be developed independently? lots of game studios are using Scaleform for their games.
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by axilmar 13y ago
What are the consequences of it regarding P = NP? can this be used as a proof that P = NP since a 9 page formula is reduced to a simple function? can we use geometry to solve programs in the NP space?
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by axilmar 13y ago
The reason Zambia is poor is the exact same reason other countries are poor: the people of Zambia don't sell enough products to other economies in order to get richer. Why don't they do that? it's a matter of culture. They do
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by axilmar 13y ago
Although his death was a sad fact, the truth is it was his choice. In a free world, every adult is responsible for his/her actions. If he did not feel nice working such long hours, he should have quit. The real issue is if he was paid
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by axilmar 13y ago
Qt has layout managers. There is no need for such things.
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by axilmar 13y ago
Were would the money needed for BIG come from? Increased taxes on the rich? And why Medicare and Medicaid would cost so much in the future?
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by axilmar 14y ago
Does FP really help reasoning about programs in a better way? I have a hard time believing that, since what ever logical errors I do in programs can easily manifest themselves in FP programs as well. Having tried a little Haskell myself, th
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by axilmar 14y ago
Well, if the game state is so small, then it's quite easy to combine all these functions together in FRP style. How about big games though? for example, World Of Warcraft or Eve Online. The game states of these are humongous, and the game s