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by chalupa-man 8y ago
The Starbucks app in Edge is _miles_ faster than Amazon.com or eBay.com for me on my slow satellite connection. I think this is one often underlooked feature of SPAs. SSR stuff is a blank white screen about 50% of the time for people on slo
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by chalupa-man 8y ago
I couldn't possibly disagree more. Voice comms are _hideously_ inefficient and limited compared to chats and virtually always an inferior option in a group context, in a professional context, and especially for a professional team. The
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by chalupa-man 8y ago
It is generational, rather than tied to education. Even very well-educated Koreans born before around 1980 tend to believe in this. I would say it is close to 100% of people over 40. My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles would call you
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by chalupa-man 8y ago
One of the increasingly popular uses of JS is to save bandwidth. Using JS, you can ask the browser if the user is on a metered connection or an unlimited one, what their estimated bandwidth capacity is, what their real resolution is, and lo
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
Firefox recently switched to a design that tends towards a higher base memory usage than Chrome, but a lower usage for each new tab. With the same 30 tabs open and no extensions, the current Firefox uses ~30% less memory than Chrome. But op
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
There are dozens of fully-automated train lines, some with attendants but many with absolutely zero personnel onboard, and the number is expected to quadruple within 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autom
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
This is surprising, I've never seen anyone say that IDEA is faster than VSC. In my experience it's _vastly_ slower.
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
It applies to men and to women, and not to blemishes or colours but to reshaping silhouettes. It's worth taking thirty seconds to read something before attacking it as stupid based on your imagination.
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
"Than any other large country" is a big stretch. The US is ranked 43rd on this year's Press Freedom Index.
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
It is worth noting though that those figures are American, but Netflix and the Disney decision are global. The US is a bit of an outlier in terms of both the cost and popularity of cable TV. For example in Australia, a country very similar
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
I'd say that's a bad example, because the US is a bit of an outlier in struggling with adoption. Most developed countries switched without a hassle a long time ago (25 years ago in some cases). I actually wasn't aware there w
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by chalupa-man 9y ago
It's the word or similar to the word for the USA in a few languages, like Esperanto ("Usono": the USA, "Usonano": a USA citizen, "Ameriko" already being used for the continent and "Amerikano" for
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
Note though that disabling JavaScript can also slow down many sites. One good use of JavaScript is to detect the speed of the user's connection and then load in smaller and lower-quality assets. Disabling JavaScript can result in the
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
Elm is a language, but it's sort of automatically a framework as well. There's a function in the standard library called Html.program that takes four functions as arguments and returns a React+Redux style application from them. Th
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
I find it really fortunate. SPAs can use much much less data for the same content, which is a big plus when you're on a data-limited connection, as most users in the developing world are. If you spend much time on a site they also dema
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
You can stream anything at any bitrate, but 2x 720p on 5 Mbps would be a very extreme case. That would be a third to a quarter the bitrate of a 20-year-old DVD, or 3.5 - 7% the bitrate of a Blu-ray disc. That's less than half the &#x27
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
You'd want to stream more than one movie at a time if you had more than one person in a house. For example, I used to live in a house where there were 5 of us. I really wanted to subscribe to Netflix, because it was 1/10th the cos
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
They've sold 63.3 million 3DS units (counting the 2DS) and 14.7 million copies of Pokemon X & Y, the bestselling Pokemon game on the platform. So while it's undoubtedly a very popular game I don't think you can rank it ab
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
I have an iPhone 6S and my battery life when 3D gaming is about smack in the middle of the Switch's range. Admittedly the Switch is presumably going to run better graphics, but still -- its battery life is about the same as cellphone b
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
I think something had to change eventually. When the 3DS was announced, iPads weren't on the market (so tablets were still a very niche thing) and smartphones were still quite new. In the 7 years since, they've become omnipresent,
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
The PS2 beat the GCN to market by a year and had not only analogue shoulder buttons, but analogue face buttons too. Even the d-pad was analogue -- everything except Start/Select/L3/R3. It wasn't very widely used, and cau
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
I do want to point out that it matches current consoles in the US, but is actually going to be significantly more expensive than anything on the market in many countries. Where I am, for example, if they release at exactly the US price -- w
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by chalupa-man 10y ago
I'm surprised to see JS described as easier than Python. I'd say it's considerably harder and more complex. The first reason being that it forces you to think about asynchronosity constantly, and that's something a begin