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by frik 9y ago
1998 was still a great year in Windows world. In 1999 the DotNet vision made lot's of things kind of legacy - kind of, because despite all odds Win32 and shell32/Explorer are still thriving where as DotNet Framework is now officia
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by frik 9y ago
The "Grande Arche" in Paris has some glass protection wall to minimize channel winds. Still a very windy place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche
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by frik 9y ago
The page constantly re-renders on mobile - worst "responsive design" coded in JS ever seen. Firefox market share is in free fall for months. Sad, but no wonder. They don't care about users. Support the old API as long you cal
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by frik 9y ago
VS for Mac is a rebranded MonoDevelop IDE (former Xamarin company) http://www.monodevelop.com/
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by frik 9y ago
> Re your Statscounter link http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/de... Win 7 is rising again for months Win10 and WinXP are shrinking
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by frik 9y ago
You can use 16 bit Win 3.1 apps on 64 bit Linux with Wine.
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by frik 9y ago
What a garbage blog post. Who codes a Web facing service in C, C++ (or Rust) nowadays. It takes way to much development time, and Rust network code and frameworks are still underdeveloped and still a weak spot. If you need high performance
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by frik 9y ago
They just say: " You found a bug. Thank you. This product will move to extended support period in 10 months. We cannot promise to fix it by then, if you really need this bug to be fixed for you, you can pay us xxx USD for a hotfix. &qu
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by frik 9y ago
Old 1990s hardware from them was awesome. IntelliMouse, Joysticks, keyboards, etc very good devices. Even the Comfort Mouse 6000 was still great (though the die too fast, and have a hardware bug - middle click is delayed) But nowadays it&#x
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by frik 9y ago
@CockroachDB dev: Has CockroachDB some health status page or REST api? (like Nginx/Apache/Redis/Memcached or a special table like MySQL) It would be helpful to monitor the CockroachDB database in production. I see there is so
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by frik 9y ago
Why Windows must die. For the third time. http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-windows-must-die-for-the-th... Was a pretty interesting read today.
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by frik 9y ago
In an alternative reality were DotNet never happened and MS evolved Win32API with COM (so basically continue the strategy of 1989-1998 until the great break with DotNet happened), yes then a new "Win64API" with modern C++ would ha
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by frik 9y ago
Me too. Wake me up when Office and Visual Studio are built as DotNet UWP apps. Their codebase is still C with classes and C++ mixed, dating back to 1989/90.
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by frik 9y ago
UWP is worse than Win32API, right. It's still half finished (many things aren't possible) and it sits on top of Win32 subsystem. Another API and framework the good 16 year old DotNet never replaced Win32 either. All process that s
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by frik 9y ago
There is the WebSQL standard, it's works for the majority of web users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database Only Mozilla dev, a die-hard NoSQL fan, prevented adoption in Firefox (he since left Mozilla)
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by frik 9y ago
I can recommend HeidiSQL, a useful GUI for MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL and Postgres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeidiSQL They probably meant SQL Server Compact, which is a smaller package and comparable to SQLite. It was
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by frik 9y ago
How can one join the EC? Smaller and larger companies with very different focus, and even a community. Interesting. Azul Systems, Inc. Yes Credit Suisse No Eclipse Foundation, Inc No Fujitsu Limited
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by frik 9y ago
A Bright Future The Thunderbird Council is optimistic about the future. With the organizational question settled, we can focus on the technical challenges ahead. Thunderbird will remain a Gecko-based application at least in the midterm, bu
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by frik 9y ago
As mpengine will unpack arbitrarily deeply nested archives and supports many obscure and esoteric archive formats (such as Amiga ZOO and MagicISO UIF), there is no practical way to identify an exploit at the network level, and administrato
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by frik 9y ago
Exactly. It's all about logic. They other types of bugs are caught by the IDE, the compiler or the first run anyway. Let someone else look over your code, they might spot logic bugs that you oversee. If you write tests yourself, you wi
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by frik 9y ago
WhatsApp is dongled to ones phone number. Changing the phone number means loosing your WhatsApp account. Whereas WeChat, iMessage and others aren't dongled to a phone number. How do the WhatsApp users change their workplace? Do you use
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by frik 9y ago
What monitoring solution do you use these days? You were one of the early NR adopters, but the graph looks like DG. (In case you can share this info.)
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by frik 9y ago
Completely with you. The goal of Wikipedia should be to spread the content and allow more new content. Sadly it seems the opposite is true, whole parts of Wikipedia are infested by cancer (aka corrupt/out-od-mind admins who are acting
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by frik 9y ago
Closure compiler understands your code, it is using Java based Rhino Javascript engine. And using "advanced mode" it is really good - just make sure you read the docu to understand advanced mode! edit: What you meant with "it
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by frik 9y ago
But OCaml has a non C-like syntax. So it would be even more strange to OP.
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by frik 9y ago
Rust is important, it has a great chance being a first modern native system language (memory safety). Though, I wish it has less exotic syntax. It's like C++ and Erlang had a baby. Look at modern languages with nice syntax like Go, Jul
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by frik 9y ago
Is Rambus still a thing? I remember their vendor lockin RAM memory from Pentium 4 era. Later there were some bad PR and lawsuits, and the PC world moved on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus
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by frik 9y ago
Linode has a featureful but very old interface. This is were newer competitors shine. Though I heard Linode wants to replace the old interface
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by frik 9y ago
What kind of sensor technology can "smell"? I mean the CMOS was a break through for image sensors. There are air quality sensors and various kind of gas sensors. But what sensor tech can be used to smell odor? There are dogs that
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by frik 9y ago
Pricing page? Essential $ - Standard $$ - Enterprise (contact us) or just 14-day-trial and "contact us". What's your stand on that? What makes more sense to launch a SaaS?

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