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by frik 9y ago
Especially the dirty UI patterns that Amazon uses to trick one into Prime membership is really off putting. No I don't want a Prime, in fact this permanent nagging made sure I decided to never ever want your Prime membership! Now they
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by frik 9y ago
Is Redis a one-man show? (plus contributors) I am still using memcached, but consider Redis in future. I am looking for a Redis-based high-performance message-queue that can be filled from Nodejs and consumed with PHP. Basically a high-perf
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by frik 9y ago
One day we will find out what Windows 10 sends home too. Is it "only" ad tracking data like ads, or what several security advisors suggest it acts like a key logger? The problem I see, a smartphone is me thing. A PC of your lawyer
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by frik 9y ago
Google's 111 8th Ave NYC building completed in 1932, at 2.9 million square feet (270,000 m2), it is currently the city's fourth largest building in terms of floor area as of 2014. It was the largest building until 1963 when the 3.
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by frik 9y ago
It sucks, there is no way to view the code in Chrome DevTools. The WASM file isn't listed in DevTools "source" tab at all. https://aochagavia.github.io/js/rocket.wasm A binary blob, that cannot be viewed
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by frik 9y ago
End of patch support of Windows 7 is 2020, of Windows 8 is 2023, of Windows 10 Mobile is 2020, of rest of Windows 10 is 2025. No one cares about your PR speak. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/wi
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by frik 9y ago
We should sometimes pause, and think about the disadvantages a new technique will bring to the web. I am completely fine with asm.js. Though WebASM is a like a wet dream for big corp with mass of legacy code in C++. We will see Office runni
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by frik 9y ago
So next, let's run Windows on a DEC PDP-10? Why DEC PDP-10? Gates and Allen had neither an interpreter nor even an Altair system, for their first Altair BASIC product of Microsoft. However, Allen had written an Intel 8008 emulator for
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by frik 9y ago
DisplayPort might be cheap, as it's royalty free, but one has to buy a cable dongle to convert it, as displays rarely feature a DisplayPort. None of my business monitors, TV nor projectors have DisplayPort, but every notebook, discrete
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by frik 9y ago
I would favor if monitors, displays, and projectors have both USB-C and Ethernet. At the moment all types of displays still have DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI or even legacy like VGA, SCART. USB-C and Ethernet are capable of 10+ Gbit speed, and th
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by frik 9y ago
> https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/12/a-weird-system-call-process-... > does this tool, that can spit out Ruby stack traces quickly for any Ruby program with debugging symbols enabled, actually exist s
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by frik 9y ago
MySpace was ColdFusion, running on dotNet based ColdFusion runtime on Windows servers. SunOS - which well known dotCom era startups run their web servers on SunOS? (beside Sun) There was also SGI with Irix, etc but beside some graphical nic
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by frik 9y ago
> Yes, a lot of terrible engineering happened during the dotcom boom, and most of it was proprietary code running on old-school Unix servers. That's not true. Linux was very popular in 1998-2000 already, with RedHat and SuSE distros
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by frik 9y ago
Does Facebook use Python 3 for Facebook frontend website? Or in PHP/Hack? (Facebook website frontend is well known to be in PHP/Hack)
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by frik 9y ago
All these disposable temporary email providers don't support IMAP and are temporary. I need aa hassle free solution (also on smartphone - IMAP). Can someone suggest more free traditional email providers (beside GMail, Outlook.com, Yaho
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by frik 9y ago
Can you suggest a email provider. It's getting harder, as there are only a few remaining free email provider. And if you don't login, some delete the account after 6 months, or some don't have proper spam protection in case I
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by frik 9y ago
Love that Alpine Linux uses OpenRC, and has no plans to switch to systemd. https://forum.alpinelinux.org/forum/general-discussion/alpin... Edit: why downvote, I like it that way, leaner OpenRC is great
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by frik 9y ago
Unfortunately iTAN's are no more. iTAN is solid secure concept, if you take normal post service for granted, handle the paper with care, and don't fall for "phishing attacks" where the attacker tricks the user into loggi
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by frik 9y ago
CATIA is the defacto industry leader in 3D CAD. AutoCAD is the defacto industry leader in 2D CAD (given got some 3D support too). Though as more and more companies are moving to 3D CAD, they are looking for 3D CAD software built from the gr
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by frik 9y ago
UUID are ugly, hard to remember in your head, take a lot of space, etc. I favor auto increment IDs any day, except in specific situations. It's worth to consider to learn how other sites dealt with IDs in public, while internally using
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by frik 9y ago
It will get killed by him (isn't Jim involved in both Wikipedia AND Wikia), just like Wikia meant the end of the "trivia" sections that were very popular on Wikipedia and featured on most articles up to the release of Wikia,
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by frik 9y ago
If RISC-V turns out a competitor to ARM based Raspberry PI than it would be great. If this initiative turns out to be a smart hard disk (HDD) that runs yet another full CPU with Minix like the infamous Intel ME gate. Then we don't need
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by frik 9y ago
I guess this will mean the dead to WikiNews ( https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page ) of Wikipedia. The history showed us... Jim has the power to remove things of Wikipedia and turn it t his own startup for profit. Rem
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by frik 9y ago
Is it too much to ask for a simple shortcut, like Ctrl+K Ctrl+T ... new Tab Ctrl+K ... dublicate Tab Ctrl+W ... close Tab I won't start clicking around on the tabs. Please add the missing shortcut (Ctrl+K)
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by frik 9y ago
It reminds me of the Windows 95/98 login. At the logon screen, just pressing ESC got you to the desktop. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAH2j9mRgUM
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by frik 9y ago
* addition of duplicate tab option Why can't Firefox and Chrome add this functionality? How it should work: In IE11 it's Ctrl+K and it opens a new tab (a deep-copy of the current one, incl history so one click on the back
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by frik 9y ago
Formula 1 is okay. I am not sure if Liberty Media knows what treasure they bought, at the moment all their minor adjustments were only confusing. Sure, I wouldn't mind if they go back to V12 engines like in 1999. But the current season
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by frik 9y ago
F1 2017 is not a simulator. It is a okay game, that lacks some love (presentation and menu is boring and lackluster). I fondly remember Grand Prix 1-4 games, that at least realistically represented everything going on in Formula 1 and had q
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by frik 9y ago
Is it a Unity app exported to HTML5 (w JS and WebGL)?
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by frik 9y ago
Will try. At least with Ubuntu 17 from spring, it had no related menu entries to open a tab in Terminal app.

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