babuskov

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by babuskov 11y ago
Exactly. Running Gimp or Inkscape on OSX is really painful experience at some times. I wish they choose wx instead of GTK. You usually cannot tell wxWidgets application from any other system one (unless the developer is clueless about platf
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by babuskov 11y ago
Nice to see a Starbucks hotspot in the middle of Thames river (London)... doesn't show the depth ;)
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Samsung SmartTV and privacy(twitter.com)
2 points by babuskov 11y ago|0 comments
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by babuskov 11y ago
So, you're suggesting that SoundCloud seeds all the files instead of offering the download option. Perhaps this could work if "play-in-browser" vs "download" ratio is not too big.
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by babuskov 11y ago
Now I understand why players complain about Destiny being too slow with adding any new features.
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by babuskov 11y ago
Well, there is one specific thing not common to other types of programming: large amount of small-to-large binary files to handle. Most of those files are in proprietary formats which makes it hard to automate stuff. I believe OP was asking
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by babuskov 11y ago
It's the default for Firefox on some devices. I wonder what this Yahoo situation means for Firefox in the long run.
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by babuskov 11y ago
"The current best option for privacy-conscious users working with Windows 10 is..." to re-partition the hard drive and install another operating system.
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by babuskov 11y ago
As long as convenience trumps security in people's minds, there won't be real security anywhere. I have to admit I'm lazy and still allow some stuff too. Making security both functional and comfortable is a really hard (impos
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by babuskov 11y ago
You can start with C++14, because C++ is backward compatible. Basically, you will learn a superset of previous versions, so if your C++14 knowledge covers all the C++ code written before as well. For a cross-platform GUI library to develop
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by babuskov 11y ago
Yep. Keep-alive is your friend. If you use Apache or similar web server where keep alive means using a lot of RAM, you can place HAProxy or similar load balancer in front of it. HAProxy keeps the connections with browser alive, while connec
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by babuskov 11y ago
Slack is re-doing Google Wave in such a way that people can understand it ;)
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by babuskov 11y ago
Agreed. When I work, IM is turned off and phone is set to silent. E-mail/Twitter notifications are set to silent at all times. I still find it strange when someone's phone rings and they drop everything (sometimes literally) to an
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A Fecal Transplant Saved My Life(upvoted.com)
4 points by babuskov 11y ago|0 comments
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by babuskov 11y ago
Microsoft lost all the developer credibility by launching that spyware OS called Windows 10. They had a great shot. After seeing so many bugs in Lollipop, and really slow updates coming in from Google, I considered MS ecosystem. First time
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by babuskov 11y ago
I wondered the same. Wikipedia page sums it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_%28company%29 "...back-end tools for mobile developers that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-i
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by babuskov 11y ago
You could repeat the exact same sentences for Facebook usage of videos as well. Both FB and YT are benefiting from copyrighted content used illegally. The copyright owners don't have time to search and hunt down every last one of thous
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by babuskov 11y ago
Many people don't consider search quality at all and just use what's served to them. I understand that someone reading HN would find that hard to believe, but when I look at some people around me who are not working in tech - many
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by babuskov 11y ago
Please read my post. I could put together a PC in about 3-4 hours max. But getting all the software I need to patch, compile and configure to work properly on Linux would take the rest of the period. Your 64 year old senile-ish father proba
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by babuskov 11y ago
Looking from this distance, developing Chrome and working hard to gain market share for it looks like a really smart move by Google.
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by babuskov 11y ago
Unless you do this all day, there's no way it would take 10 minutes to research all the components that go into a PC and put it all together. Heck, even researching which model of Mac to buy took me more than two hours. 15 minutes to u
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by babuskov 11y ago
When time is scarce, you start to prioritize things that are really important to you. If your main life goal is to ship great software, then building your own PC is just taking away precious time. As DHH said in Twist interview: "If yo
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by babuskov 11y ago
Matches my experience. I switched from Linux to Mac after 7 years of knowing exactly which patch to apply to what piece of system (either kernel or various libs and apps) to make it work properly. And I think twice before starting new proje
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by babuskov 11y ago
Showing your intelligence at full usually requires that you are not distracted. That is hard to come by these days. I can calculate 16x180 in my head, but I would still pull out my smartphone to do it if the result is in any way important.
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by babuskov 11y ago
As one of the developers I can confirm that the Winter Sale brings in the most money. In my case, I got more sales now than at game launch.
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SCP parameters you should know about(tecmint.com)
8 points by babuskov 11y ago|1 comments
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by babuskov 11y ago
There is Firefox on iOS: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ios/
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by babuskov 11y ago
It really depends on your usage patterns. I watch YT mostly for audio in the videos. Either it's music or some documentary or interviews or shows like This Week in Startups. Video is really not important and I don't want to waste
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by babuskov 11y ago
Supertux definitely does have that effect (I hate it ;). I only played the original Mario in emulators, so I can't tell you whether it's copied from original.
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by babuskov 11y ago
If you love such games, take a look at Secret Maryo (another open-source Mario clone): http://www.secretmaryo.org/

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