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by frik 10y ago
Exactly. Now they killed Firebug. And their newer DevTool has a Firebug skin - just a skin. Very bad devision. So now I reverted back to an older Firebug version, which is actually the true Firebug addon. This means I will now have a zoo of
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by frik 10y ago
Video of The Microsoft Network - 1995 advertisement video with young Jennifer Aniston actress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc&t=17m44s
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by frik 10y ago
Windows subsystem stagnated since 2006. Win32 is on a standstill. All new efforts (Silverlight, UniversalRuntime, etc) are not very successful (and based on Win32 subsystem as well) and like a niche compared to the vast amount of WinAPI bas
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by frik 10y ago
He wanted a pay-to-view internet super-highway too. Only the consumers decided and favored the open WWW instead of his The Microsoft Network (as can be found preinstalled in Win95) - He had to rewrite his The Road Ahead 1995 book after 6 mo
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by frik 10y ago
It was pretty obvious for some time, but it's good that the dots are connected and documented, for some kind of proof. Fuchsia OS will be huge, even if it's hidden in the background. Samsung has its Tizen OS (previously Bada) for
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by frik 10y ago
I started with QuickBasic/QBasic and Pascal. Though I went with VB4-6 instead of Delphi. It's sad that RAD isn't popular anymore. 1995 - 1999 was great with Win95 era, everything was so consistent, good documentation. Then Mi
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by frik 10y ago
German Burda media is behind Cliqz. https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Burda-Tochter-Cliqz-... Edit: Major shareholder: Burda media (Focus, Bunte, etc) Minor shareholder: Mozilla
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by frik 10y ago
Exactly, Google is in the best situation. Their Android is by far the most used OS/shell (world wide market share). Apple's CEO lacks the vision and is milking the status quo. Their iOS market share is a lot smaller and limited to
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by frik 10y ago
Microsoft is lobbying to get their favorite syntax into JS6/7. Who wanted the class syntax? etc And TypeScript and WebAssembly are part of their plan. Ultimately, they want to recompile their 27 year old Office codebase from C/C++
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by frik 10y ago
I am more familar with MySQL as well, but I heard that Postgres uses forks, wheresas MySQL uses threads. So for heavy load (many users) like with public websites, threads or thread-pools scale better. Can someone tune in and answer how you
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by frik 10y ago
VB6 was awesome. Would be great if they could release it as open source. RAD (rapid application development) of GUI applications was never easier and such a joy then with VB6. I remember I was very sad when they announced their vision for d
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by frik 10y ago
Me too VS 6 and VB 6 were really awesome. Microsoft was at the tipping point in 1999, then the dotNet thing happened and a lot of failures like dotNet based Shell/Explorer and WinFS for the failed Longhorn what turned into WinVista. Th
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by frik 10y ago
I was about to write the same. I quite liked the monowiper.
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by frik 10y ago
AMD announced Ryzen supports Win7 (drivers). A few days later, they changed the marketing to Win10. If AMD wants to sell their new Ryzen make sure Win7 drivers are available (even if it's not marketed, as Microsoft is bitter about it -
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by frik 10y ago
Facebook messages are lock-in. Back when I used it a lot, you could connect via XMPP client. But there is now no way to get your own messages out of their eco-system that I am aware off. It's like switching a dumb-cellphone to another
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by frik 10y ago
What's wrong with email? It works fine for decades. SMTP, (POP3) and IMAP are fine protocols. Please disrupt chat instead, with a proper protocol. A new non-XML based XMPP version maybe? Anyway the big players need to support it. Now w
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by frik 10y ago
If you know German, it's the double meaning of the word, it's sarcasm. If you just look at the Duden dictionary, your findings are technically true.
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by frik 10y ago
"In April 2014, studies confirmed the presence of radioactive tuna off the coasts of the pacific U.S.[228] Researchers carried out tests on 26 albacore tuna caught prior to the 2011 power plant disaster and those caught after. However,
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by frik 10y ago
Lot's of comments (1600) on Heise: https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Von-... Several comments mention "läuft wie geschmiert" which can be translated as mobbed-up / br
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by frik 10y ago
Hasn't Microsoft flew in Ballmer back then to convince Munich, and they now placed a pro-Microsoft minded mayor, relocated Microsoft Germany office to Munich and lobbied to replace Linux. Not surprising. Lots of comments https:/&
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by frik 10y ago
Since the sort of dip last year it seems the clock is ticking. Look at unicorns that were about to IPOnin Q1. AppDynamics got bought by Cisco, other moved their plan to somewhen 2018 IPO. You read about more lay-offs then in previous times.
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by frik 10y ago
Are you a Microsoft employee? I mean "just out of curiosity".
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by frik 10y ago
IBM should instead buy Intel and Microsoft, that would at least be funny.
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by frik 10y ago
How hard is to build a simple HTML5 website with little CSS3 and little to no (vanilla) Javascript. You know a website can be very tiny and fast. Yet people who don't know need Google to market them AMP "technology" to do the
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by frik 10y ago
That explains the issues with the C2000 family. Various Linux distros crash randomly, and not just crash sometimes really just stop opening applications or stop processing e.g. apt-get. The BIOS is a piece of shit. It's buggy, the lega
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by frik 10y ago
IMDb seems to be in low maintenance mode for years. I don't understand why Amazon doesn't invest more in it's valuable sister company. Every slight renovation of the old IMDb website design makes it worse. They should just mo
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by frik 10y ago
Bad idea. Some contractors do that. Now they do the same maintainance every year, as the thin asphalt doesn't last long. It's a lot better to properly re-surface asphalt once every 10-15 years with a thicker layer. Just throwing a
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by frik 10y ago
What's really weird, because of Tepco bureaucracy and diplomatic reasons the world watched more than 24 hours live and so the catastrophe happening in slow motion. It would have been very easy to fly in backup generators from anywhere
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by frik 10y ago
No wonder that Win10 fails like Win8 - Microsoft doesn't care about users, they only care about their shareholders. Win8 and Win10 looks like designed by color blind designers with a bad taste the brutalism of UI design plus the phone-
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by frik 10y ago
.Net language strategy is to have no long term strategy. They just react to the market, and don't care that much about anything else. VB6 was a great eco-system, had most developers in the late 1990s yet they managed to completely fuck

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