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by castell 11y ago
Thanks for the full picture! I have been relying on these drives for 10+ years too and hope Toshiba keeps producing them.
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by castell 11y ago
> not really seriously ?? Your comment is contrary to the Wikipedia article. And I recall big advertisement campaigns and hype around Swatch beat in 1999. And as the Wikipedia article mentioned several other companies supported it.
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by castell 11y ago
Don't forget Windows updates can update your CPU microcode. It's probably best to buy a device that doesn't come with Windows preinstalled. E.g. you can buy Lenovo notebooks that are 100$ cheaper and come with a DOS clone ins
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by castell 11y ago
SourceForge used to be okay though already looked a bit dated, back then. Slashdot and SF were owned by the same company. Though adding adware to binary downloads is downright incorrect and alarming. SF doesn't even host the binary fil
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by castell 11y ago
Or a bad player buys them and over night removes all traces of certain projects. I still remember how e.g. MaxDB (former open source database) vanished.
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by castell 11y ago
Why not a red "open lock" icon?
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by castell 11y ago
Reading their Twitter status messages. Microsoft sponsored Azure for Gitlab. Between Oct and Dec they were on Azure, and they had major issues with the Azure platform, pretty unreliable for their use case. Gitlab switched to IBM Softlayer b
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by castell 11y ago
What if many of your customers are VC backed startups?
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by castell 11y ago
Run an Linux application in a container like FreeBSD jail or Sandboxie, that's what I want. I don't need the management overhead Give me Docker "light" or a good tutorial for LXC(?).
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by castell 11y ago
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/
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by castell 11y ago
Take a dust and water proof smartphone, some of them do 20+ megapixel picture and 4k videos. Why would anyone still use a clumsy device? (except for rare action videos)
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by castell 11y ago
iOS7 made iPad2 and iPadMini very slow too.
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by castell 11y ago
Speaking about NetBSD. I never see any news about NetBSD and hardly any about FreeBSD. Though quite a few about OpenBSD. Why?
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by castell 11y ago
RemixOS uses GPLv2 code (Linux, etc) and other open source licenses. They might got away with proprietary devices, their official response on their old (closed) forum was telling. But now they will have to provide it. The idea of adding a s
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by castell 11y ago
Omikron (1999) was a great game. It was one of the first open world games with real 3D graphics. You could ride a taxi around the city, enter buildings, etc. Of course GTA3 (2001) took it to the next level, but in 1999 GTA still was 2D: ht
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by castell 11y ago
Complex protocols will bite you. All these over engineered XML based protocols... That's why REST and JSON are great. Very simple and perfect for many web use cases.
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by castell 11y ago
What's the difference between asm.js and WebAssembly? "The initial implementation of WebAssembly support in browsers will be based on asm.js and PNaCl". PNaCl? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly ,
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by castell 11y ago
Is the cooling off phase only in VC funded software companies in the SF area? Or also in Fintech, bio, med, etc? What about NY, London? Also what happened with public companies that had their IPO just a few months before the Dot-com bubble
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by castell 11y ago
The predecessor of Unix, Multics was written in PL/1 and was very innovative (modern OS still borrow "new ideas"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
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by castell 11y ago
Have you ever tried to parse DOCX/XMLX/PPTX anti-XML pattern? A XML-serialization of their old OLE based formats. SVG, OpenDocument, ... are real XML based formats.
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by castell 11y ago
I am not related to Baidu, I just see their crawlers regularly on English language websites. Example search result: http://www.baidu.com/s?rsv_idx=1&wd=duckduckgo&ie=utf-8&sl_l...
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by castell 11y ago
DDG depends on Yahoo Search API (BOSS) which depends on Bing. And Yahoo Search will be no more according to the news. As far as I know neither Google nor Bing offer a Search API for third parties. DDG already uses Yandex (RU) for certain ma
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by castell 11y ago
and Baidu.
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by castell 11y ago
It's not the first time I read about service (near) outages and post mortem that involve ElasticSearch. It's marketed as NoSQL solution, but some devs don't read the details in the documentation like "Elasticsearch is n
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by castell 11y ago
It got renamed to WebOS, and nowadays it runs in LG SmartTVs. There is also ChromeOS and its similar to WebOS and FirefoxOS and runs on low spec notebooks just fine. There is little performance difference between Android and FirefoxOS, for
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by castell 11y ago
The probably used DS9 DVDs as source. In fact DVD rental was their original core business.
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by castell 11y ago
Exactly. Yahoo had the largest Hadoop cluster in 2009. They used it for their search engine. They were the driving force and sponsor of Apache projects like Lucene and Hadoop. Then suddenly they outsourced their search engine business to Mi
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by castell 11y ago
You seem not to understand what open source means. Code released to the public under common free open source licenses mean someone can fork the code and put it on Github any time. If the company chooses to close source further development,
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by castell 11y ago
Ford Sync uses the inbuilt GPS antenna and your phone (connected via Bluetooth). Ford Sync calls the local emergency number and speak via an offline text-to-speech (Nuance software). The feature can be turned on/off in the on-board com
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by castell 11y ago
> legacy apps that were built in the PHP 5.2 or even PHP 4 days, be afraid. Be very afraid BS. Most PHP4 code runs just fine, as do PHP5 code. Almost no one used object oriented code in PHP4 days (it was slow!), so the incompatible chang

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