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by frik 9y ago
How has Microsoft realised their Windows 8 mistake? Win10 and WinPhone10 are more of the same (Win8), just even more buggy. Guess how many control panel dialog styles has Win10, oh right more than 5, dating all the way back to Win95. In wha
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by frik 9y ago
and now that Microsoft bought it, it's even more offputting.
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by frik 9y ago
You can read the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Early_leadership_... Stephen Elop is now an infamous business book case. He was a Microsoft manager, than a trajan horse as Nokia CEO who burned t
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by frik 9y ago
Thanks for the write up, I fully agree. Ad 12: the current management has little clue and no technical knowledge, they are milking Windows and Office, until its too late. They fired their QA departments - their products are getting more and
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by frik 9y ago
Google Fuchsia is a capability-based, real-time operating system (RTOS) being developed by Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia 15 years ago I waited for GNU Hurd, but now I am very interested how Googl
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by frik 9y ago
Oh my... dbus something like OLE2/ActiveX, just 10 years too late and full of XML.
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by frik 9y ago
You are spot on. Chinese food in china is good and different from what you get in Chinese restaurants in US/Europe - you really have to look for restaurants there to get real Chinese food. Also the Turkish food, your writing is spot on
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by frik 9y ago
The Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building (just got finished), has the fastest elevator in the world. The Burj Khalifa, while it's the highest skyscrapper, the top spire contains nothing, the visitor platform in the Shanghai Towe
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by frik 9y ago
The concept itself is simple. The complexity is added by the API layer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by frik 9y ago
I am starting to wonder, why not just execute processes directly with cgroups commands? $ cgcreate -g memory,cpu:groupname/foo $ cgexec -g memory,cpu:groupname/foo bash https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.
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by frik 9y ago
Impressive. Several years ago I designed an industrial machine that is used untangle and sort nails, screws, etc for feeding robots in automatic product lines. Main elements were vibration beds (using eccentric), slopes with geometry to sor
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by frik 9y ago
This looks totally like a copy cat of old school books about electric cars and the future. So nothing special at all, people had such visions for some decades. Funny thing is projects like "Hyperloop", "Boring Company",
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by frik 9y ago
How much does a Hello World programm require elsewhere? VB6 1.3MB msvbvm60.dll Java8 150MB C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8x\ dotNet 250MB C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\
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by frik 9y ago
It's pretty good summary. It makes it totally understandable that they voted no.
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by frik 10y ago
Read the Wikipedia article about XMP. It's a newer metadata format to Exif and IPTC. XMP comes from Adobe, it contains a lot of Adobe strings in the XML schema. I wrote about the metadata handling in Explorer/shell32. It's a
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by frik 10y ago
> MacOS 10 wasn't rebranded from OS X until 2016 X means 10 in latin. Look at old MacOS X 10.3 books, X always stood for 10.
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by frik 10y ago
digiKam runs on Windows too, it's good, it's open source. But only photos. Photo Gallery supports video too, and is s lot easier to use and has s polished UI and stable path-like-metadata support. DigiKam can read such metadata ta
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by frik 10y ago
Thanks! I previously copy&pasted the folder to another PC, and manually patched the registry and copied some dlls to get it working.
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by frik 10y ago
File metadata is not cruft. It's a very good thing. Vista's/Win7 Explorer.exe with its metadata columns is GREAT. Even better was Windows (Live) Photo Gallery. Sadly it's dead since Feb 2017, you can't even install
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by frik 10y ago
Microsoft could have fixed it with Win 64bit (Win64). They had done such a step before with the switch from Win16 to Win32 and the help of Win32s. With Win32 they cleaned up the old API, fixed things yet kept it source compatible when possi
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by frik 10y ago
Ask someone who is older than 20, everyone remember the trivia sections on many Wiki pages on Wikipedia. Search for trivia eg on this page: http://www.slashdot.org/story/91607 It of course not easy to point to older e
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by frik 10y ago
It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage, like Wikia was carved out of Wikipedia trivia sections. It's again Jimmy who launches a private company and suddenly Wikipedia changes the rules to forbid trivi
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by frik 10y ago
What will Microsoft do without him? All of Cutlers former team members that worked on WinNT series kernel retired long ago. Less and less devs understand the internals and the Win32 userland. You see new bolted on frameworks, and new apps i
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by frik 10y ago
Good post! A lot of manual work with various perf tools. What's a bit missing is some production performance monitoring (APM) that gives you such data, with no manual interaction.
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by frik 10y ago
LinkedIn changed the backend in 2012 from Rails to Node.js: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/4/linkedin-moved-fro... Are there any more recent write ups what LinkedIn uses on Frontend on Backend a
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by frik 10y ago
At least this one Interestingly, the build host architecture does not matter. In other words, builds are reproducible across cross- compiling. Is there a list of what compilers embed what identifier to binaries? Thinking about i
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by frik 10y ago
I would favour a tool that has a DSL with C-syntax and requires no environment dependencies. Go lang seems like a good fit to build such a tool (for no dependencies, just drop a singe binary). Or a Ansible alternative with a C-like-syntax.
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by frik 10y ago
Would be great if some newspapers and other media cooperate and found a new friendly-minded ad-network. Provide old-school picture based banner ads with pay-per-click or pay-per-view models and no (or very small and fast) JS third party cod
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Google NCR (No Country Redirection) Feature Stop Working(searchengineland.com)
2 points by frik 10y ago|0 comments
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by frik 10y ago
/ncr stopped working in Dec 2015. Google broke it, and hasn't fixed it. They new parameters that do the same thing are a lot longer :( http://searchengineland.com/google-ncr-no-country-redirectio... Despite the po

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