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by frik 10y ago
Several independent review article about Hololens mention the limited view (relatively small view angle), underwhelming and off putting. (You can immediately spot a sponsored article if it doesn't even mention that issue at all.) iPhon
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by frik 10y ago
Global Smartphone Marketshare Q2/2016 Android ... 86.2 iOS ... 12.9 Windows ... 0.6 Blackberry ... 0.1 Other ... 0.2 http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3415117
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by frik 10y ago
Jazz Jackrabbit 1 plus addon. Great game and music. I also played the second game and the unfinished third (3D) one - they were interesting, but lacked in comparison to the first one. Another composer who had a similar music style was Chris
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by frik 10y ago
Deus Ex 1 was superb. It's one of the top five PC games. Not only the awesome music score, basically every element of the game was great, and still is to this day (only the Unreal Tournament era graphics hasn't aged that well, a r
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by frik 10y ago
I wonder why hotels have no vending machine to buy a toothpaste, etc in the middle of the night when no shop is opened or in general when no shop is in walking distance.
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Windows falls to 0.6 percent share in the smartphone market(betanews.com)
6 points by frik 10y ago|0 comments
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Gartner Says Five of Top Worldwide Mobile Phone Vendors Increased Sales Q2/16(gartner.com)
1 points by frik 10y ago|0 comments
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by frik 10y ago
Yes. The browser is already like second OS. So if Google provides the Android API through Chrome. And if Chrome comes with PlayStore, then a lot of people will be able to run Android apps on Windows 7+, macOS and Linux. And as a next step,
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by frik 10y ago
You wouldn't see such an article on WashingtonPost before 2013. The former owner of the Post Donald Edward Graham was the mentor of Zuckerberg and Mr Graham is the lead independent director of Facebook's board of directors.
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by frik 10y ago
Ads that are related to the page content yes, as they might be even useful (eg book suggestion). But ads about things I already bought on another website five days ago - personalised ads are both scary and useless, every single time - you a
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by frik 10y ago
I suggest to create an internal view that lists the top 50% (story vote count) per day ordered by date descending. Mark all stories that are currently on the HN frontpage in a certain color. Also include all stories that got flagged, delete
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by frik 10y ago
A nVidia GForce GT580 was less than $500 (like $400), and a mid-to-highend GT570 around $250. The same class of cards the GTX 1080 costs now $650-$700 and the GTX 1070 $450. "GTX 1070 prices start at $429 instead of $379, while GTX 108
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by frik 10y ago
> There is every reason to believe that a modern VW will last for 60 years as well in similar situations. I would guess the new one will last longer than the old one That's funny and must be a joke. Cars since at least the late nine
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by frik 10y ago
The other day I read a Volkswagen (VW Golf) today is ten times more expensive today then thirty years ago. And the modern one is cheating so it will be hard to sell, while the older models still work like a clock if there is no rust issue i
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by frik 10y ago
> I've stopped using sites like Reddit, because the comment sections are just toxic. Not just Reddit, HN stories about Microsoft are very toxic as well. These company sponsored trolls are like poison for the great HN community. It&#
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by frik 10y ago
429 points by laurent123456 4 hours ago | 289 comments And already pushed off the frontpage, yet stories with 16 votes are now on the frontpage.
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by frik 10y ago
I would favour that HN investigate in this. HN puts a lot of energy to mobilise its employees/whatever to take over a HN thread like this. Their minions write a lot of blub comments so that the comment count is higher than the voting c
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by frik 10y ago
You are definitely not crazy nor alone with watching these PR tactics. I dislike that so many MSFT employees/puppets/bots/fanboys frequent HN since Build conference 2015. I would prefer the HN of pre-Spring-2015 with news abo
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by frik 10y ago
Why are the charts that old? (2011, 2012) With newer charts from 2015/2016, it's clearly visible that Microsoft lost the mobile war, with less than 1% market share. Not that grim, but bad as well is the XBoxOne marketshare compare
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by frik 10y ago
> Linux desktop development seems to have gone off the rails thanks to that thing. It started earlier. KDE3 used to be great and very Windows-like desktop experience on Linux/*BSD. Then they choose to rewrite KDE and make it more li
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Skully Founders Allegedly Used Funding as “Personal Piggy Banks”(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by frik 10y ago|0 comments
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by frik 10y ago
MS actively has been trying to negated PC gaming to get consumer to XBox (closed all MS Game Studios, stopped all franchises like Age ofvEmpire and FlightSimulator series (everyone is angry about the Farmville style cheap F2P knockoffs), cl
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by frik 10y ago
Interesting. The movie is great, and the true story very sad. Let's hope at least Boston Globe has a backup of the spreadsheets and other original research documents. I wonder why a former journalist and current research scientist has
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by frik 10y ago
Quick, 1998 is calling.
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by frik 10y ago
It works in a rather different way under the hood, right?
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by frik 10y ago
I get rendering issues after waking the notebook from sleep in Win7 as well. Also I get rendering issues in a Remote Desktop session. If the PC is running for days Firefox crashes automatically after some days. Firefox crashes (whole browse
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by frik 10y ago
I think the clear path is launching a new browser (eg Firefox NT) based on Servo engine (coded in Rust) with an HTML UI and an compatibility layer to support legacy plugins from Firefox era (at least the simpler newer API). With great multi
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by frik 10y ago
So far it's been very bad for us. The always-on telemetry in Win10 draws a big question mark if we can depend on Windows in future. While Windows 7 is great and around until at least 2020, an expensive move to Linux, FreeBSD or Android
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by frik 10y ago
Companies focus on iOS and Android on mobile and Win32 and macOS, sometimes Linux, and many apps are nowadays web apps. Look at the Windows store, for years it is a wasteland with just a few good apps and lots of junk. WinRT/UniversalR
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by frik 10y ago
The cool telemetry phone home features that cannot be turned off in a reliable way (think updates). It's the feel good vibe that runs through all new MS apps and Win10. We should thank the third CEO for his great vision and be happy to

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