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by castell 11y ago
HHVM is still a bit faster than PHP7 in most benchmarks (wordpress, etc.). HHVM has also JIT and consumes less memory per request. Though PHP7 is more backward compatible with real word PHP5 code bases and is easier to install.
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by castell 11y ago
The Hubot workflow sounds interesting. It seems more and more DevOps prefer it. Has someone first hand experience with such Hubot usage? Do you prefer such commands or would you want to write more informal short sentences?
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by castell 11y ago
[...] Thunderbird, the free email, chat and news client it first developed in 2004 [...] In 2004 Thunderbird spun off the Mozilla Suite (Browser, Mail, WYSIWYG HTML editor, IRC-chat client), like Firefox. And Mozilla Suite is bas
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by castell 11y ago
Yes, especially the MULTICS operating system was so advanced and dozens of decades ahead that we still borrow from its concepts. It had for example 16 security rings. Intel CPUs support only 4 CPU rings, and Windows e.g. uses only 2 rings (
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by castell 11y ago
I welcome a Servo based browser with an HTML UI. An one-page email app running on Servo that is inspired by GMails interface would be great. At the moment I use Thunderbird, Outlook 2010 and GMail. Outlook has good calendar integration and
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by castell 11y ago
I upvoted you, because you are right. We would be better off, adding optional typing to JavaScript 6/7. They already added "class" syntactic sugar thanks to them. Dart and TypeScript just divide the devs and open code base. I
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by castell 11y ago
That's sad, because Adobe Edge was an open source web app running in a webkit/blink window. I always thought it would replace Flash IDE.
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by castell 11y ago
The Zero, which like its predecessors is being manufactured in Wales I have an original RPI made in China. That was right before the made them in UK, as far as I remember. The Zero would need an Ethernet-port addon-board. And for fu
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by castell 11y ago
When do you use UUIDs and why? I use traditional auto increment integer IDs as primary keys in SQL databases. I use those SQL query results in application code. Debugging seems a lot easier with smaller integer values rather than UUIDs that
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by castell 11y ago
I was about to join Whatsapp but heard rumors that FB is about to buy it, back then. I am still on FB and never gave FB my number, and never joined Whatsapp. Though FB has my number (hidden from me on), as many of my friends uploaded or syn
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by castell 11y ago
The content creators has a dilemma too. Without ads, no money. The party who can solve that are the ad networks. We need a disruptive ad provider that offers non-shitty ads (like ads before the Flash era) and pays reasonable ad-money. Block
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by castell 11y ago
Delayed PC version like in GTA V have mainly business reasons. The PC version is usually the most advanced version and the highest graphical details. Some people bought GTA V for PS3/X360, later for PS4/XOne and later for PC.
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by castell 11y ago
Your parent meant in his last sentence the Xbox One (aka Xbox #3), you wrote correctly about Xbox 1.
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by castell 11y ago
Not at all. Even IBM Deep Blue chess computer relied heavily on opening and ending chess databases. It's a common thing. Also does the app rely on a server to do the processing? As many F2P and online games do.
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by castell 11y ago
What's next? Develop a common executable standard? Develop a common UI standard?
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by castell 11y ago
Go and Rust have different purposes. You can think of Go as a leaner Java/C#. And Rust as a safer C/C++. Despite both Go and Rust are labeled as "system programming languages" by some, there are different understandings
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by castell 11y ago
It's the same. All iOS devices except the iPad Air 2 have less than 2GB RAM (most 512 MB). Android 1-4 devices have often less than 1GB RAM. It's common that only 1-3 apps can stay in RAM depending on the platform and the apps mem
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by castell 11y ago
Wrong. The current Etherpad open source project and what you mean are not the same. The first one is the predecessor of Google Wave Java based product, and the current one "Etherpad Lite" is a JavaScript & Node.js based open s
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by castell 11y ago
Beside PR talk, technically it's this way: Bing through Yahoo BOSS API (which isn't free anymore) is the main source (and Yandex is used instead of Bing for certain countries in Europe&Asia). All other sources are smaller sour
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by castell 11y ago
Does DuckDuckGo still use Yahoo BOSS search API? (based on Bing) $1.80 / 1000 queries: https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/#pricing
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by castell 11y ago
I would consider to contribute to Servo and Servo-shell. But my dev PC is Win7. And dog fooding only works when you use it for your own usage too.
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by castell 11y ago
another one is "Iron browser"
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by castell 11y ago
Good that Google reverted it back and don't bring it back - keep it optional. I am just moving away from IE11 (as Edge won't come to Win7) and Chrome is a good alternative and the bookmark functionality was fine. If there would be
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by castell 11y ago
Ah, isn't Google (among others) one of the "problems"? * The lack of quality control of their ads displays a "download" button next to real download links and trick casual users to download malware. * Ads that follo
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by castell 11y ago
There are one-stack programmers that use only Java/C# with an ORM and all the SAP ABAP developers. Some seem to prefer such jobs, I am not one of them, but to each his own.
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by castell 11y ago
> Visual Studio Code It is based on Visual Studio Online. Its text editor component is non-trivial and Microsoft spent a lot of money on it. The editor (codename "Monaco") is from Erich Gamma (ex-IBM/Rational), the "D
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by castell 11y ago
Which text editor do you use to open and edit 100+MB files (on Windows, Linux, OSX)? Which text editor can handle a 100GB text file and has a fast search and replace function? On Windows notepad.exe, wordpad and notepad++ aren't really
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by castell 11y ago
It was similar after Microsoft's BUILD conference and Google's IO conference. Though, comparing all three conferences, there were only big flame wars and bad behavior in MS conf related news.
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by castell 11y ago
Please make it an official Mozilla (sub) project and keep us updated with reoccurring news. Great work, it works really smooth on a highend smartphone, comparable to Android UI and iOS.
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by castell 11y ago
> Is it because we are past the point of no return? If you look at the computer history, we already had several cycles from single computer to timesharing to mainframes/supercomputers to PC to thin-clients/mobile to (?). There

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