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by frik 10y ago
Will there ever be a dotNetFramework 5 ?? Version 4 is from 2012 which was already a minor update from v3 from 2007. The new dotNetCoreFramework 1.0 just got released. It wouldn't sense to add mayor new features to dotNetFramework 4.6x
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by frik 10y ago
If we speak about Quip as word processor with collaboration and chat capability. You get almost the same word processor capabilities with Etherpad (+ plugins) - sure less polished - for free, open source: http://etherpad.org&#x2
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by frik 10y ago
Can someone debunk the myth I read about the FreeBSD package management system? In Debian/Ubuntu/Mint style Linux it's enough to use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and only the changed packages including all interdep
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by frik 10y ago
Probably Microsoft want to take over NodeJS ecosystem. They are lobbying to replace v8 engine with their chakra engine for Win32 builds. Read up about the history of the company, it can be very bad if the official NodeJS project switches to
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by frik 10y ago
Also check out highscalability.com for more stories that value MySQL and its great InnoDB engine: http://highscalability.com/blog/category/mysql
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by frik 10y ago
Has anyone looked at the screenshot section? Is that Windows 98 and a photo from a CRT screen? Looks like a pretty old page.
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by frik 10y ago
Portal was a acquire hire, the originsl game was a free game from a students competition. It was a freeware but full game that takes about two hours to complete. Of course the graphic looked worse and there was little narrative, it was a st
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by frik 10y ago
> shiny tech and new games You mean Half Life with it's last full iteration from 10 years ago, and the second episode with a cliffhanger from 2009? Or the Source engine (HL2) which evolved from GoldSource (HL1) which was based on Qu
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by frik 10y ago
I like how it was called "beowulf cluster" back then, it's a while I read that name. We had an 160 node beowulf cluster (had already USB support, no floppy drives) for OpenMP and CILK jobs it was amazing. https://e
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by frik 10y ago
How is this news related to the "Cyanogen launches the 'Mod' platform with lots of Microsoft integration"? Is it a consequence of the mentioned strategic partnership? http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/
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by frik 10y ago
SETI@home style / GRID-computing could be used to run jobs on numerous idle Raspberry PIs (the location doesn't matter aka no cluster setup needed).
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by frik 10y ago
Full live coverage on CNN, BBC World and Al Jazeera should be evident enough that this is not a misc "local news". I dislike this downvoting/flagging and think the site could work fine with just public up-voting.
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by frik 10y ago
Why is the news hidden/flagged? A terror attack is ongoing in Munich right now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12145252 Edit: and Nizza terror attacks and Turkish events recently? They were on HN. Double-standard
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by frik 10y ago
It was replace by Microsoft Commerce Server which was sold to another company, there is the rest of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitecore_Commerce_Server
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by frik 10y ago
Is this a calculated derailment technique? Why MS? Because MS is the subject of the article. Feel free to submit articles about others. As mentioned above, you simply cannot compare a smartphone operating system where one handles, emails (i
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by frik 10y ago
You are right, but I bag to differ. Giving out your personal emails or your private life to advertisers is one thing. But an operating system is the lowest dominator and the PC platform is where most data is stored and real work in being do
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by frik 10y ago
It's more C with some macros. The Arduino UNO and older classic Arduino models like Mega had only a few KB of memory, you want to keep an eye on the resources and in many cases even avoid malloc. The compiler supports a limited C++ dia
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by frik 10y ago
The GodMode allows one to access many useful settings from a curated grouped single list view that isn't available anywhere else. The hidden feature is available since WinNT 6 (Vista). The Win10 DevMode doesn't give you anything t
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by frik 10y ago
Windows 7 has already a Developer mode (called "God Mode"): 1. Create a new folder 2. Rename the folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} 3. Double-click on it, the God Mode control panel window opens
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by frik 10y ago
Yahoo "had" plenty of own expertise - they created Hadoop afterall and used it for their own search engine. Until they closed it around 2010 for a deal with Microsoft Bing. DuckDuckGo uses Yahoo BOSS search API (closed down for ev
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by frik 10y ago
Is the Powerset technology still used somewhere for Bing? Bing used to be more intelligent right after the acquisition than today. Somehow it looks like they dropped the Powerset features after a few years. Also non EN-US Bing still looks
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by frik 10y ago
Hasn't the Bing map technology been recently sold out to Uber? It seems so. http://www.recode.net/2015/6/29/11563964/microsoft-to-stop-c...
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by frik 10y ago
Btw DuckDuckGo is based on Yahoo search which itself is based on Bing. I tried DDG but I cannot live with its high response time (obviously can't be improve due two times indirection) and the Bing results are worse.
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by frik 10y ago
Let's hope there is some supervison. There had been kids who built atomic reactor in their parents house and garden shed. Needless to say it's nowadays a superfund site and some people suffer from poising and radioactive materials
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by frik 10y ago
Wouldn't be allowed, right? That would position Intel as absolute monopolist on desktop, server and mobile CPU. Intel CPU cost already way to much due to lacking competition from the only left x64 vendor AMD which is years behind. And
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by frik 10y ago
Vivaldi feels like the old Opera 12, so great. But it's partly closed software, especially the nice HTML5 based UI. I am waiting until they release everything under open source license.
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by frik 10y ago
Removing light bulbs from retail market and enforcing mercury based CFLs - that was the latest act of such a cartel. Good the the paradigm shift to LED was quicker and different then they hoped. Now Philips, GE and OSRAM are a shadow of its
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by frik 10y ago
Right. Google has employed a lot of human curators. Though it's little known. Some articles covered it over the years but with little details.
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by frik 10y ago
"Surfing the web" used to be a common term one to two decades ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01... http://www.dictionary.com/browse/surfing-
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by frik 10y ago
In late 2015 there was a lot of fear about a dot com like bubble burst. I read and hear little about it these days. Might be a good sign.

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