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by dahauns 10y ago
"They don't expect to take on responsibility"? No. It's just that most of the time, employees having a say in leadership decisions is a pipe dream in practice, ergo: Paid in shares = all of the risk and none of the autho
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by dahauns 10y ago
Bah yes, this drives me nuts. I don't get it, compound words aren't rocket science, and even some level of grammar awareness shouldn't be so hard considering the rather low expectations towards autocorrect when it comes to co
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by dahauns 10y ago
As an Austrian I'd like to know what keyboard app this is - I wasn't aware of any that did this on Android (with Umlauts in my case). Nokia were actually the only company I know of consistently providing extra keys for umlauts sin
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by dahauns 10y ago
Huh? I'm talking LED backlights and lamps that regulate brightness with PWM. No color generation involved here. And these can get really ugly: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Lenovo-Ideapad-310-15ISK-...
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by dahauns 10y ago
I'm afraid he does indeed talk about PWM. Sadly, lots of LED fixtures and displays (especially in laptops) still have atrociously low PWM frequencies...
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by dahauns 10y ago
Erm...click on the display you want to change (1,2,3) and simply drag the slider?
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by dahauns 10y ago
Heh...I think Windows 3.11 already had that feature (Ctrl -> Circle zooming in to mouse) :)
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by dahauns 10y ago
> I wonder if the companies are different (greedier?) now No. Stuff like UK rail privatization or US electricity deregulation happened. It's just that today, even in die-hard free market countries, people have come to realize that i
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by dahauns 10y ago
30 seats, no standees? Yeah...if public transit were designed to waste resources as much as possible - that's what I'd call failure.
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by dahauns 10y ago
Sorry to burst that bubble - that couldn't be further from the truth, especially when it comes to high-tech automation, i.e. industrial robotics. Japan is still THE undisputed powerhouse in this field (Yasakawa, Kawasaki, Fanuc, Mitsub
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by dahauns 10y ago
What is the difference, apart from the notation?
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by dahauns 10y ago
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13944757 :)
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by dahauns 10y ago
Of course - I should have added that I don't neccessarily share the sentiment behind those jokes (quite the contrary). For me they are just inevitable (social) indicators for "non-native" software (i.e. I'd say anything
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by dahauns 10y ago
Lots of emacs functionality runs via its lisp VM. I'd hardly call that 'native'. I mean, Emacs had jokes about being bloated decades before Javascript (and Java, another contender for these jokes) even existed. :)
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by dahauns 10y ago
Substitute "your own country" with "most countries outside the US" and you're about right. iOS prevalence simply isn't there. While SMS fallback is handled brilliantly by iMessage, as soon as people are using i
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by dahauns 10y ago
Hah. Haven't even connected any with Mail.app nowadays since it was always such a resource hog with even only two accounts (especially in the earlier iOS days). But, no offense, don't measures like these feel rather ridiculous? Th
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by dahauns 10y ago
Sorry, but no. Did a factory reset and installed only a minimum of stuff, turned off as much as is sensible. Still runs like a dog.
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by dahauns 10y ago
> It could take 5 years at university to get it working at all, 5 years as a startup to get the first product to market, 5 years to scale up the marked from zero. Then you only have 5 years left where you actually have a chance to make m
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by dahauns 10y ago
So, basically the Chinese Room brouhaha all over again...
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by dahauns 10y ago
> It's why video compression is very different from image compression. Is it? I was under the impression that I-Frames in current video compression formats are encoded rather similarily to current still image formats. (JPG's co
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by dahauns 10y ago
Tell that to my spleen.
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by dahauns 10y ago
Dunno...I know the style is intentionaly and maybe I'm just not the right target audience for these kinds of essay, but I find this kind of "storytelling" style incredibly longwinded, verbose and actually rather annoying. It&
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by dahauns 10y ago
What documentation? The only info they've got is transferred in the transport payload.
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by dahauns 10y ago
Yep. I do it, for example. A few of my colleagues do it. Others work more like described in the article. (But I know that I myself are somewhat of an outlier, since I'm a rather extreme top-down learner.)
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by dahauns 10y ago
Still making it only anecdotal - and even more obviously biased (I'd hazard a guess that the interviewees are quite far from the norm in how they learn...)
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by dahauns 10y ago
While he might make a few usable points, this article is drenched in non-recognized bias. He takes his (as I see it, heavily bottom-up leaning -> 'in order to grok it I have to essentially rewrite it.') cognitive style and app
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by dahauns 10y ago
> Neither of these are distributed systems On the contrary - Erlang and its runtime were built from the ground up for use in distributed systems.
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by dahauns 10y ago
Whatsapp is indeed a bad example for 'Code monkeyism', since it's quite the opposite. The Whatsapp guys were smart enough to think about using the right tool for the right job in the first place, i.e. stuff like Erlang - whic
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by dahauns 10y ago
What is this, the 90s? No one cares about RISC vs CISC or ARM vs. x86-64 (on a high-level ISA level) anymore. It's all in the implementation.
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by dahauns 10y ago
> TFAA Huh. What does this abbreviation mean in this context? I'm at a total loss here, and the only relevant google result is this thread.

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