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811.
by frik 10y ago
WhatsApp already replaced FB chat in various regions. And FB is already kind of a ghost town, beside elder 50+ new-comers who got their first smartphone just recently - in various regions. If you live in a filter bubble, where FB is still v
812.
by frik 10y ago
Opera got bought by an Asian ads company. Vivaldi browser seems to be the spiritual successor of Opera by its previous developers.
813.
by frik 10y ago
Isn't DDG a meta-search engine based mainly on search results from Yahoo/Bing and Yandex (from Russia). It is. And that's why it has this rather annoying latency or load time until the search results show up. And the results
814.
by frik 10y ago
Zuck is right (and before Gates in 1995 "The Road Ahead" book). We need a common API, so that AI agents can interact with various types of hardware (home automation, IoT) as well as other AI agents over the internet. I propose we
815.
by frik 10y ago
Facebook will censor/shadow-ban such a "good bye" post. It won't show up at most of your friends news feed. You also cannot advertise a competiting social network. The same goes fr private messages to more than a few peo
816.
by frik 10y ago
Safari and nowadays Chrome DevTools are great. I miss the "DOM" tab, that Firebug for Firefox had features had, and I haven't found anywhere else. You can browse the DOM tree state and edit - similar to Smalltalk and Windows
817.
by frik 10y ago
Instead of accusing me, maybe look at yourself. I correctly mentioned that it started as a fork of Sybase, and if you would have spent a minute with my first link, it's clearly mentioned that they refactored the codebase from C to C++
818.
by frik 10y ago
MS SQL Server database is a very old codebase. It dates back to Sybase SQL Server database (1980). Microsoft licensed and forked Sybase SQL in late 1980s and early 1990s and branded t as MS SQL Server. The strategic manoeuvre to get this da
819.
by frik 10y ago
I want to read the full story, including how Microsoft was involved with Cyanogen(Inc/Mod). At one point CyanogenInc partnered with MSFT so they have a Microsoft sponsored Android flavour with several Microsoft apps preinstalled. http
820.
by frik 10y ago
My Android phone was practically dead in China.* My iPhone worked completely fine. And like everyone use an iPhone 7 and an AppleWatch 2 in tier 1 cities. And the rest of China seem to use non-Google Android phones with a different AppStor
821.
by frik 10y ago
Speech recognition worked fine in the late 90s. You could optionally train it for 15min with your own voive to improve the results. The Nuance software was better back then than what shipped with Win Vista inbuilt by default in 2006 and lat
822.
by frik 10y ago
Windows 2000 was dog slow even with 128MB memory. Similar like WinNT 4 under 64MB run like a pig. Or WinXP under 256MB. Of course WinNT OS series is rock solid and cannot be compared to Win9x in that way.
823.
by frik 10y ago
One had to reinstall Win95/98 every year or two. It got really slow, the Windows registry implementation was really sub par and caused a major slow down. (if you installed new programs, something that was a major problem up to WinXP) I
824.
by frik 10y ago
> computational costs alone of doing NLP The speech recognition part could run on a Pentium 133 in the nineties (Nuance software, Dragon naturally speaking), the Echo device has probably a more powerful CPU than that. The NLP part could
825.
by frik 10y ago
SSL only, yet SSL error - website doesn't work. A good reason to offer HTTP too.
826.
by frik 10y ago
I want to read the full story, including how Microsoft was involved with Cyanogen(Inc/Mod). (yes, it was involved, use Google to search for previous news. For example at one point CyanogenInc partnered with MSFT so they have a Microsof
827.
by frik 10y ago
I want to read the full story, including how Microsoft was involved. (yes, it was involved, use Google to search for previous news)
828.
by frik 10y ago
Amazon Lumberyard game engine = fork of CryEngine maintained by Amazon. So they just changed from were they get Engine support, the engine is the same. CryEngine got forked and improved from Ubisoft before and is used in FarCry 2-4 series (
829.
by frik 10y ago
The points are: * Force it upon user * Advertising "revert back", which restarts Firefox but Firefox crashes and after another restart forgets its settings - no one tested that option * Firebug theme is just a theme, and several f
830.
by frik 10y ago
Safari/Webkit DevTools (a fork also in Chome) is a web app as well and older.
831.
by frik 10y ago
How can I revert it back? We had a major incident, I started Firefox to debug, of course it updated upon start, and replaced Firebug with this shit. Then Firefox crashed while I tried to click on the bubble which advertised to switch back.
832.
by frik 10y ago
Let's hope the new Nintendo Switch console gets a good UI. The Wii, 3DS and Wii U have a UI that does look outdated and is clunky. Everything is separate app that takes ages to load. The XBox UI isn't good as well. The PS4 UI is e
833.
by frik 10y ago
Any news? Is it a new version. I have it installed for at least a year.
834.
by frik 10y ago
Wow. But they probably try to achieve the same strategy as with Android. It could work out very well. Sadly it seems in contrary to Android it won't be open source.
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by frik 10y ago
I got a new MacBookPro 13" without the touchbar. It's a good device. The only strange thing is it has only two USB-C ports and an analog audio ports. One of the USB-C ports is used for the power adapter, so one port left.
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by frik 10y ago
As long as Bill Gates understands atomic energy as "clean energy", and even wants to build small micro-size atomic reactors for home owners he should just retired, and does what he understands best - as this is clearly way over hi
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by frik 10y ago
not offering quick-save is bad game design. a game should be about fun. nowadays it's often more about work (boring grinding gameplay, save-points were you have to play the same passage several times again... oh what great game design
838.
by frik 10y ago
PC games never had a title screens, until the first bad console ports around 2003 came along. Instead of a title screen, PC games used to go to the main menu directly. Even today, some console games like GTA V don't have a title screen
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by frik 10y ago
Yes, that's the ugly truth. And their PR departments do their best to hide this almost deal-breaking fact. The current experience is underwhelming (limited FOV) in comparision to the faked PR demonstration videos.
840.
by frik 10y ago
N64 had press Start to start, years before XBox was even a thing. And yes, many/most PC ports are of very low quality. Gone are the days of PC-first Triple-A games with forgotten features like Quick-save/load, LAN-multiplayer, Map

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