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by frik 9y ago
We need a future of advertising, a company that disrupts that sad state of ads. Leaner ads, less junk, bare pics, little JS, more trusted content, more generic content related to the page itself, less specific to the visitor and his browsin
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by frik 9y ago
FB prepends a "for(;;);" which is 1 char shorter than "while(1);", has been the case since 2012/13. Firebug v2 and ChromeTools know how to parse such JSON and ignore that first part. (IE11 and Firefox newer DevTools
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by frik 9y ago
I've done the oscilloscope thing, but it was for IoT stuff - debugging broken a I2C communication with Arduino (8-bit 16MHz ATMega CPU). The Arduino software stack is not huge, there is no operating system involved. Our application is
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by frik 9y ago
But it's more of the same, and it's cheap for them. It's a far cry what would be possible if they do a real reboot of the AoE franchise, with a triple-A budget doing a new RTS game in the AoE universe. Not just milking the co
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by frik 9y ago
Isn't the Facebook HQ (former Sun Microsystems campus) located right next to the salt ponds?
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by frik 9y ago
Not really, consoles are just one category. With the open PC hardware PC gaming gained traction with Wing Commander in 1992/93. And before that home computers like C64/Amiga/etc were popular. Only since 2002/03 PC games
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by frik 9y ago
How do you carry a 5.5 inch device? In an extra handbag? I find such devices too big for my pockets. I rather prefer 4.8 inch smartphone and a 10 inch tablet. A tablet is much nicer to consume websites, type in short text and watch videos -
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by frik 9y ago
Make the smartphones smaller again, make high end 10 inch tablets again with a competitive price. All I want is high end smaller than 5 inch smartphones, and a 10 inch high end tablet, and a 12 or 14 inch notebook and a 30 inch 4k monitor.
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by frik 9y ago
Why is the story hidden? Ever since Cloudbleed effected so many sites and exposed TLS protected data to everyone incl search engine spiders, we should have moved on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13721452
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by frik 9y ago
Super NES CD-ROM System lead to Playstation 1 and Nintendo 64 after the split. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM
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by frik 9y ago
The article mentions this article: "Why Cloudera’s IPO Pricing Isn’t As Bad As It Looks": http://fortune.com/2017/04/25/cloudera-ipo-down-valuation/ https://finance.yahoo.com/ch
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by frik 9y ago
Or EML/MHT. It's the format the email programs use to store the HTML mail incl all pictures, JS, CSS, ... in one plain text file. IE 9-11 also supports that format (file -> save as...) but calls it MHT?
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by frik 9y ago
But what do you do when a website has a broken media query, essentially destroying the print layout? Then a PDF is useless. Well, I took a screenshot, better than nothing.
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by frik 9y ago
Would be interesting to see a comparison running WordPress, Redis, Postgres, etc on Linux: BareMetal vs VirtualBox vs VMware vs KVM (Qemu) vs XEN vs Docker, etc - with CPU, Memory, IO r/w and energy consumption (all measured from host
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by frik 9y ago
First install the prerequisites: SquashFS Tools 4.3 Python 2.6 or 2.7 Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, all editions including the Community edition (remember to select "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" feature durin
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by frik 9y ago
Why has HaProxy still such a 20 year old website? http://www.haproxy.org And then there is a blog on a new http://www.haproxy.com site. Is there a comparision of HaProxy, Varnish, Squid, Traffic Server (ATS), Nginx,
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by frik 9y ago
I agree. cardTAN and old iTAN are more secure for bank accounts according to an article I read, have no the link atm.
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by frik 9y ago
I use IDEA, Eclipse, VS, etc on an e-ink. Use the light-theme that comes with your IDE (not the Dracula theme). You will see the colors as different shades of gray (not just b&w) - it's fine, one gets used too. And color e-ink exis
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by frik 9y ago
I bought an 10" / A4 size e-ink Android tablet last year and use it as second/third screen. And I take it outside park/garden and use it with the stylus and a bluetooth keyboard. I feared the latency common with e-ink bu
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by frik 9y ago
> Facebook is approaching 2B users. If you count also their sister properties including FB Chat and WhatsApp and Instagram. But Facebook the social network hasn't 2B monthly active user, as many left or rarely return.
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by frik 9y ago
How does it compare to Google's closure compiler? It is considered by many best in class. It understands the code (uses Java based Rhino Javascript engine), while most alternatives (UglifyJS & co) just monkey patch things. You can
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by frik 9y ago
They are as bad as in the 1990s. The 2000s after Bill and the lawsuits, they were softer. Windows 10 and the whole debacle about phone home data (sending microphone audio, webcam pics, keystrokes) and now this closed eco system on their des
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by frik 9y ago
"and it is the reason other parts of the web are blue – like Facebook, which is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind." didn't know that. In its early years there was a quite popular Facebook 1:1 clone with the
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by frik 9y ago
vBulletin 3 was the gold standard and phpBB the second best. StackOverflow has such a nice UI and UX. The UI is nice in Discourse too, but its UX needs more work. Bigger forums are hard to follow, infinite scroll comes with its own problems
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by frik 9y ago
It's probably part of the choosen language and framework, and certainly helps sales that it's not so easy to get it running. It's certainly not as simple to get started as with Nodejs npm or LAMP stack. But there are already
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by frik 9y ago
Let's hope one of the other CPU manufacturers (e.g. AMD) starts supporting LibreBoot and allows to officially disable the ME-equivalent hardware feature, so that Intel get's forced by market-pressur to follow. Intel needs more com
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by frik 9y ago
HN has audience from both sides of the pond. Smart people from both sides write insightful comments. Some people should add a disclaimer to their comments, as it's rather obvious they are related to the company mention in the news.
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by frik 9y ago
Does anyone use a small treadmill with slow speed at a standing desk? I saw a video a year ago, looks like a good idea, I am planing to buy a small one
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by frik 9y ago
I have experience with Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL Server and DB2. Postgres is in the same range of relational enterise SQL database engines. Postgres offers even Oracle PL/SQL compatible syntax, so you can think of Postgres as the Linux
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by frik 9y ago
To convince the, guide would also need more words from the enterprise world like OLAP and OLTP, XML, SOAP, etc

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