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by frik 9y ago
Zeta was illegal! magnussoft/yellowTAB never had a license but distributed a rebranded BeOS 5. After a years long drama they eventually ceased operation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft_ZETA#Criticism Exc
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by frik 9y ago
To your "YellowBook" point, yes, looks like possibility. And several Apple software like Safari 5 for Windows and iTunes already ship with macOS UI libraries ported to Windows. So in near future iOS apps may run on macOS and Windo
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by frik 9y ago
You are right. But speaking out the truth isn't compatible with HN users as of late. So see downvoting and getting flagged as a sign you are right, just the other try to hide your post and keep you from posting. Unfortunately the atmos
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Google shutting down Project Tango in March 2018(zdnet.com)
3 points by frik 9y ago|0 comments
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by frik 9y ago
Article reads like being from a crumpy snarky old age dev who lives in his XML-land filter bubble of the 1990s. Go back to XMLRPC and SOAP please. This site is getting more of these corporate old farts lately that don't want to adjust
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by frik 9y ago
Great blog post. Maybe he will post another article about MGSV5 open world rendering, as it's one of the highlights of the Fox engine. Anyway RAGE engine from Rockstar (GTA IV+V, RDR 1+2) is probably one of the most advanced engines, s
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by frik 9y ago
> I've learned to not give a rat's ass about downvoters. Well. I wouldn't care that much too. BUT HN comment rely on an invisible karma value and if it is below a certain threshold, the accounts "suffers" aka, ce
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by frik 9y ago
As Fox aka (Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.) got acquired by Disney yesterday and is in the HN news. This news (Fox-IT) is about a completely different company from another continent! "Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox" (t
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by frik 9y ago
17 days ago, Western Digital announce "Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801044 And one needed only calc one and one together to came
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by frik 9y ago
Look at "R" programming language, or look at "JavaScript" (-> TypeScript). They still do the EEE strategy. Fool me once...
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by frik 9y ago
What's wrong with W3C again? Are we on the same train we were with the ill-fated XHTML 1 strict and XHTML 2. Anyway what's going on anyway with Google+Microsoft+Apple+W3C, why is there such a big push to HTTPS and HTTP/2, and
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by frik 9y ago
Does Source ship nowadays with a recent Havok physics library nowadays? I heard they used to use an decade old physics library that just got bought by Havok company in the meantime and has nothing to do with the Havok physic engines everyon
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by frik 9y ago
Yeah, I am still mad at Chris Roberts that he sold his former company "Digital Anvil" to Bill Gates / Microsoft in 2000. Of course "Freelancer" (hyped like "Star Citizen" today, and basically the very same
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by frik 9y ago
What will happen to the Nakatomi Plaza / Fox Plaza (skyscraper in LA). Would like to see a remake with little CGI, like the original Die Hard 1/2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Plaza_(Los_Angeles)
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by frik 9y ago
Microsoft login is still the very old Hotmail login dating back to 1996 or so. The Hotmail mail and account system got rebranded several times like MSN, Live, Outlook, Microsoft ID, etc. Well, a login system is a very central part, and othe
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by frik 9y ago
Apple and Microsoft products are full prize products, so I fully trusted they don't come with crap. Unfortunately Microsoft alinated their end consumers starting in 2012 with Win8, and Windows 10 and Office365/2016 are well known
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Clark's Christmas Bonus(youtube.com)
3 points by frik 9y ago|0 comments
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by frik 9y ago
> In 1998, Wide-Band Systems demonstrates Gigabit Ethernet running on four pairs of old, rusty barbed wire. Yet in 2017 we still have only 1Gbit Ethernet in LANs :( 1Gbps = 125 MB/s !! I am running 1Gbit since 2003 at home. And all
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by frik 9y ago
Current "digital" microchips use electric "on" (1) and "off" (0) and base 2 (also called binary) mathematics is used. Someone explained me quantum mechanics that it supports more states, not just on (1) and off
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by frik 9y ago
Good that plain JavaScript 5/6 with no framework is still in the top 2 in all related charts. Looking back how many frameworks came and went dodo, I am using only small libraries and stay with plain vanilla JS 5/6. Writing modern
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by frik 9y ago
Can the idea of quantum computing be simplified/abstracted to say instead of doing binary (0 1) calculations, it do does calculation on arbitrary base? E.g. base 16 (hex) or base 1024? If this is true, it would be easier to code, and c
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by frik 9y ago
Increasing the DRAMproduction capacity is good. The memory product prize is very high and in a bubble. When a 16 memory costs more than a high end CPU. This has to end or it will hurt PC/notebook market.
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by frik 9y ago
Well not every Hollywood exec especially add value to scripts. And we can thank them for dozens of boring super hero movies. Nowadays we all know the infamous story of the Ex-Sony Movie Exec Amy Pascal the story is rather distusging.
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by frik 9y ago
Everything except coffee capsules/pods/bars. These pre-apportioned single-use container of ground coffee beans produce way too much waste, are 10 times more expensive and are no better than instant coffee. Your favorite traditiona
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by frik 9y ago
PHP is unique in several ways: it's especially designed for the web, is a Web framework itself, comes with everything inbuilt, has C/Java syntax, has a shared nothing architecture, replaced VB as the most popular language for begi
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by frik 9y ago
> The injection is currently for non-HTTPS only, but I can easily see this situation evolving for the worse as HTTPS becomes increasingly the default. That's my fear too. This has to be handled by other means and has to stop. If eve
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by frik 9y ago
In reality games cost already $160 not $69!! Gold premium pre-order special edition version plus season pass or seperate DLCs means $160 or even more. On top of $160 you really think it's fair that one should pay even more for microtra
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by frik 9y ago
The 3G/4G modem is a different chip with its own ARM CPU. Android and iOS communicate with it over a limited AT-API.
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by frik 9y ago
Not too long ago there were casinos and gambling for whales, there were offline board/card games, there were video games. Then Facebook with FarmVille (2011) came along, and introduced Free2Play aka Pay2Win to everyone. You had to spam
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by frik 9y ago
In August 2015, Rockefeller staffers tossed the oversize Rolodex machine ... custom-built Rolodex machine that stored about 200,000 3-by-5-inch cards ... They [cards] now nearly fill a wall of filing cabinet Any photos of t

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