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901.
by frik 10y ago
Seriously, you have a very limited word view. Learn more about what Personal Computer means, have a look at Wikipedia.
902.
by frik 10y ago
The end user will stay longer on Google and Facebook. That's what they want. Anyway, it feels pretty broken on iOS. Would be great if Adblockers would mangle the Google search results to replace the AMP links with proper links to the f
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by frik 10y ago
That was the tipping point of Opera and IE/Edge too. Opera 12 had various methods to emulate other browsers behaviours and compatibility domain-lists, in the end Opera 12 died and the next version, Opera 15, was just a fork of Chromium
904.
by frik 10y ago
What is the current situation with Unreal and CryEngine? (both are at least state-of-the-art)
905.
by frik 10y ago
I imagine in near future, we will use smartphones as our personal computer in every situation. In the office, one can then interact with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse/touch pad and use a big monitor. Probably, one of the next iOS will co
906.
by frik 10y ago
What you describe about Finder is sadly similar with Windows Explorer. The tipping point was Explorer/Shell32 that came with Windows 2000. It remembered what you personalised for every folder, it had HTML support, it could be customise
907.
by frik 10y ago
The camera features are based on technology developed for MS Photosynth (also from Research department, former Live Labs), and originated from research projects from University of Washington.
908.
by frik 10y ago
> Documented by true standard body Is ECMA that "true", I don't know. At least they document a JavaScript without "JavaScript" in its name. MS Office (2010 at least) isn't compatible with the standard text.
909.
by frik 10y ago
Much nicer? Not really. It literally a transpilation of the binary format. The XML files a very abnormal for everyone but who are familar how the original older doc/xls/ppt fileformat works. E.g. Look at how the Bold-tag is implem
910.
by frik 10y ago
It was about two years ago. I removed the app, never looked back. But recently came across a news that Dropbox got hacked and all passwords were captured and leaked. At the same time I received an email from them, not mentioning that (as fa
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by frik 10y ago
Denuvo copy protection & DRM is the successor of SecoROM is from Sony DADC Austria (now a separate company, but you get the idea). Sony DADC is also the company who presses the DVD and BlueRay disks for most other companies. I avoid it
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by frik 10y ago
Uncharted 4 has good graphics. But some of the trees in certain levels are completely 2D bitmaps even in very near to the player areas. (eg the level after you emerge with the submarine to the surface) That is the only thing that could have
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by frik 10y ago
I removed the Dropbox app from my iPad when they started to require a active GPS to upload files. [about two years ago] If you disallow GPS for that app, it disallows you to upload files. Stupid decisions!?
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by frik 10y ago
You are right. Interesting. It may also depend on the gaming device. On PC I am used to be able to save a game at any point. (except for some console ports) I think that makes a huge difference, as there is then no need to play another leve
915.
by frik 10y ago
It's the typical salami tactic. And I am not falling for that. You know it's how Facebook changed their privacy settings all the time (at least in 2009-2012 timeframe). Or how Microsoft is changing the UI and user privacy Windows
916.
by frik 10y ago
Good that you mentioned that. I already though, wow, so many dumb users here (the other replies) on HN. Well, it seems some have a bad luck with their ISP that do some shaddy ad-injecting. But why not use another ISP or VPN? I would say mos
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by frik 10y ago
HTTP is fine for most websites. HTTPS makes sense for certain parts of websites like e-commerce. Even Amazon website (beside .com) is HTTP with only the login page and checkout page on a HTTPS sub-domain. It's fine since 1995, and no o
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by frik 10y ago
Good comment! As you mentioned video games provide both. On the one side there are games that are like slot machines, that attract causual players woth repitive grinding mechanics and be addictive and maybe even harmful for longer consumpti
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by frik 10y ago
I would really miss the DOM tab of Firebug. You can explorer the DOM state which is very useful. Non of the other DevTools anywhere has that feature to my knowlegde.
920.
by frik 10y ago
Windows 10 isn't very popular, and that is good. No other operating system is as hostile to the users privacy, and certainly no desktop operating system where everyone stores many private files. And not just personal files, but think o
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by frik 10y ago
It's just a marketing strategy, to get more people on board of the Windows-as-a-service train, a train without exit doors. Good that I hear about that, I will buy a current gen CPU than and install a Win7 for legacy applications for th
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by frik 10y ago
Watching the video, it reminds me of a old word-play: Upcoming next, Nero burning Rome Upcoming next, NERO Burning ROM (=official name of once popular CD burning application)
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by frik 10y ago
Beside Tesseract which was a state-of-the-art OCR software by HP in the early nineties and recovered by Google a few years ago and is open source. There is Cuneiform, a former main competitor to ABBYY Finereader. CuneiForm got open sourced
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by frik 10y ago
Good idea. It's like or at least similar to Node.js vs. IO.js. Finally they agreed to use IO.js branch but go with the Node.js name. So it would be great of LibreOffice would be rebranded to OpenOffice. And it needs an web initiative t
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by frik 10y ago
Thanks for the insightful explanation! What do PE companies do with more than one company with kind of dated offerings in the same/similar niche? Reduce the fat, merge them and sell them to a large company? E.g. Qlik, Riverbed and Dyna
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by frik 10y ago
Thoma Bravo has then * Qlik (BI) * Riverbed (APM, app & network analytics) * Dynatrace (APM, app & network analytics) * Compuware (mainframe maintenance, Dynatrace was a business unit of Compuware) https://th
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by frik 10y ago
I loved WinCE/WinMobile back then, except for RAM as document storage - only WinMobile 2005 or so and later supported Flash-storage as well. Though, it supported yet another Win32API implementation with less functions and you had to re
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by frik 10y ago
It is and it isn't. VB.Net is basically everything from C# with an syntax heavily inspired by VB6. But the similarity ends there. The RAD IDE of VB6 or Delphi are unmatched, and the compatibility is gone. As WinForms is legacy as well,
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by frik 10y ago
So true. Between 1998 and 2000 VB6 was perfect, you could develop Windows GUI applications in a rapid manner. The VB6 IDE, the Windows UI guideline, the VB6 API, everything was great. And PlanetSourceCode.com was what was later SourceForge
930.
by frik 10y ago
There is a huge game market, with people who really play games and buy their games for their PC, PS4, WiiU etc. Than there is an even bigger audience who own a smartphone/tablet and consider themself casual players. That's the cro

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