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by frik 10y ago
Is it stored "real UTF-16" or in USC2 wide-chars like in NTFS? The later would be a big problem.
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by frik 10y ago
What were the big changes? Beside the obvious changes in hardware components like different custom ARM SoC, different modem chip, added fingerprint sensor, etc. what are the software changes? I guess you use now fuzzing, static code analysi
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by frik 10y ago
Now such companies lobby for WebAssembly. A software blob running in your browser. It's actually similar evil as ECE. They will recompile their old rusty software to the web. eg Newspapers will make websites as blob-applications - Adbl
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by frik 10y ago
ECE provider is Adobe (can we assume it shares some code from Flash DRM ?).
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by frik 10y ago
> the day will come when view source won't work Yes, with WebAssembly. (With ASM.js, the predecessor it was still JS, but hard to read as human.) that's why WebAssembly is bad for the open web. In near future we will see binary
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by frik 10y ago
EME is a binary blob from Adobe. Welcome again the Flash days - not.
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by frik 10y ago
Who coined the "democratize" and "disrupt" words? (the usage/meaning of the words in the startup scene) (maybe the first usage is well know, like "Web 2.0")
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by frik 10y ago
* Regarding "Pied Piper", funny that some refer to it * "massively democratizes" is the new "disrupt"
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by frik 10y ago
The program looks like Excel except it isn't. In some cases you have to enter the data in a different column, in some cases you have to enter 0, in some cases you leave it out. It could be SAP or some other old fashion ERP system. Or
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by frik 10y ago
"The iPad 2 is still in use today," IDC Senior Analyst Jitesh Ubrani tells TechCrunch. “The [original] iPad Minis and Air are all still in use today. They were being supported by Apple until very recently. People have been hangin
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by frik 10y ago
Isn't it crazy that certain new tractors (eg John Deere) and cars (eg Tesla S) come with dongled software? Just to destroy the reseller and after market, such evil things got introduced. If one buys a good, it should be his very own, l
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by frik 10y ago
MSSQL's SQL syntax like that found in MSSQL 2012 is very outdated. Many old rusty parts of MSSQL date back to the Sybase, MSSQL is a fork of it. Also WinNT (incl Win10), MSSQL and most other MSFT software is UCS-2 which they often misl
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by frik 10y ago
IBM also bought Blekko, a general purpose web search emgine like Google and Bing. They use it to harvest data to build something like Freebase internally, now that Googe closed down Freebase (to ise it as well internally only). https:&#x2F
644.
by frik 10y ago
How much VRAM is required?
645.
by frik 10y ago
What's the minimum nVidia GPU spec (VRAM) and SSD/HDD disc space (TB) required, from your perspective?
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by frik 10y ago
I sent details to HN per mail and other means. One of the companies is MSFT (others here named the other companies), they created manys accounts around BUILD confernce 2015. Before that event HN was a pro-Apple, pro-open source with little
647.
by frik 10y ago
Then use ASM.js, at least it's JS and works with all browsers. Then it would work on mobile browsers too.
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by frik 10y ago
Sadly it's true. Some companies game the HN ranking algo, and employ shills to divert the discussion of their product. At least two companies (that are infamous for such shady tactics anyway) do it actively regularly on HN. The first t
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by frik 10y ago
Star Citizen is one of the only Triple-A games in development that is PC first. Good that they value their Win7, Mac and Linux gamers. Both DirectX 12 (which has nothing in common with DirectX 11) and Vulcan originate from AMD Mantel and th
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by frik 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_War_(series) Total War is a computer series of strategy games developed by The Creative Assembly. These combine turn-based strategy and resource management, with real-time tactical c
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by frik 10y ago
You can play old games for many years yes. But after a while it gets boring anyway. Some of the 10-20 year old RTS games got released as HD-editions recently. But they are just the same old games. What is really needed are new games with ne
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by frik 10y ago
As a MSFT employee: Provide a proof that Win10 is not sending home the data I mentioned. Oh wait, it has been documented by third parties. Win10 has a whitelist in the signed 64bit kernel mode network driver, so you can't stop it excep
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by frik 10y ago
There used to be a PC game genre called Real-Time-Strategy (RTS). Former famous game series were Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, War Craft, Empire Earth (and some more). The genre was very popular in 1997-2005. Sadly casual Free2Play F
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by frik 10y ago
When will Microsoft stop with this shit, and do a 180 degree U-turn? What does it need? It's unbelievable how MSFT turned Windows from the great Win7 to the worst spyware operating system in human history aka Win10 in just 5 years. Is
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by frik 10y ago
I am a PC gamer as well. But Microsoft agenda with Win8/10 is so off-putting I will stay on Win7. Plus I opened myself to other consoles (Nintendo, Sony). I know it feels so wrong to play a shooter on condole with a gamepad, and I wish
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by frik 10y ago
Sphinx does NOT use an RDBMS as store. It just provide a convienient interface so you can query Sphinx like you would do a SQL database, just one of several APIs to interact with Sphinx. The data store is very similar to Lucene, a folder wi
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by frik 10y ago
Sphinx search is C++, and uses little memory compared to Lucene. It has many advanced features like Lucene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(search_engine)
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by frik 10y ago
Additionally to RT2, I have found memories of Industry Giant 2 . Does anyone remember this 2002 game? What are Bruce Shelley (RT, Age of Empire), Rick Goodman (Age of Empire, Empire Earth), Chris Sawyer (Transport Tycoon, Roller Coaster Ty
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by frik 10y ago
Buy a PS4, use Wine in Linux or keep Windows 7 around. There is no single game that doesn't run on Win7, except FH3 with its WinStore shit - anyway it seems so arcady to me I wouldn't want to touch it.
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by frik 10y ago
Yes. Even removing it with Autoruns brought it back, so I tracked down all nVidia EXE and services and removed the files physically and just kept the graphics driver, the HD audio and the physics driver. Now I have to do that everytime I up

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