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by frik 9y ago
The sad thing is that Pay2Win is coming to triple A games like Need for Speed Payday, Forza 7, Star Wars B2. These completely wrong trend deserves all the outcry that happens right now. If EA and MS try to destroy video games, it's jus
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by frik 9y ago
> reminds us that nuclear kills much less than regular earthquakes Stupid comment. Would you relocated near Fukushima or Chernobyl? Maybe you should. You would educate yourself and change your mind. And you would have to life with the re
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by frik 9y ago
The Russians handled the catastrophe better and faster. International help sender them low tech robots, Russians poured tunnels below within days/weeks with lot of human contractors. But Japan is doing little. Contaminated fluids leak
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by frik 9y ago
Great image quality! Definitely better a lot than ffmpeg with palette option. (are there other gif tools, how do they compare?) GIF format may be really dated, but it's really light on resources. I learned the hard way that playing doz
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by frik 9y ago
Ideally yes, but the world changed. There are a constant stream of updates for your OS, graphic card driver, etc which constantly break things left and right. If it affects a big software, even an outdated version) the user outcry will make
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by frik 9y ago
I don't like the pattern Apple is using there. But comparing it with Microsoft?!? Microsoft was a lot more aggressive and shady, and used a bunch of evil UI patterns, like installing it by clicking "Cancel" button. Or display
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by frik 9y ago
It's just meta-search engine (like DuckDuckGo) that relies on Bing search engine, plus a small scale crawler for French sites. Exalead, a former real Google competitor made in France is a real search engine, used to be sponsored by Eur
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by frik 9y ago
Show them somehow it is still supported, update the minor version or something. In general: If I come across a 3 year old binary, and no news article about dev activity it looks "dead and unsupported". Also on GitHub, if there is
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by frik 9y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to put InnoDB to a kernel mode filesystem driver to create a new database filesystem. (BeFS/WinFS-style)
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by frik 9y ago
I bought a Motorola F3 phone like 10 years ago for relatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone E-ink display, good for elder people, you can drop it from 100 feets height, or run a tank over it, drop it in a
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by frik 9y ago
Will move to Percona or MySQL community ed. I applauded MariaDB at first, but they almost went bankrupt, merged with another company, changed he business model (release new code parts in a different license). And on the other side I still r
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by frik 9y ago
What? My decision is based on years of observation. I applauded MariaDB at first, but they almost went bankrupt, merged with another company, changed he business model (release new code parts in a different license). And on the other side I
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by frik 9y ago
They probably don't have the Office 97 or 2000 build pipeline around anymore. And back then for Office XP or 2003 copied the equation editor in binary form to the new repository.
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by frik 9y ago
I wonder how a AWD system works, when the Roaster has 3 motors (according to the Tesla live stream today only 3 motors). Why not 4 motors, one for each wheel.
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by frik 9y ago
Good to know. Will move to Percona or MySQL.
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by frik 9y ago
The semi is quite interesting. The presentation was a bit underwhelming, Elon was very nervous and the stuttering wasn't something I expected. To me this shows how great Steve Jobs was salesman, when he did his presentations.
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by frik 9y ago
TL;DR: "just use an MySQL or Postgres or SQLite"
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by frik 9y ago
I wish Douglas Crockford would update his great "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It's still great and aged okayish, but doesn't cover ES2015+.
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by frik 9y ago
And? So did PHP 5.x. So do all languages. That's what I mentioned with "baby steps". You can run PHP3, PHP4 and PHP5 projects with little or no change at all, code dating back to 1990s with PHP7. If you cared a bit and adjust
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by frik 9y ago
*I can feel the pain of devs that have to deal with Python 2 and 3. To me the beginning of the ugly Python 3.0 announcement was too off putting, it stopped my interest in Python and I went back to PHP, Java and later also NodeJS, Go. In com
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by frik 9y ago
Thanks!
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by frik 9y ago
Curious, Why does it matter to you? On the Atom.io website https://atom.io/ it reads "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Well I can code in JavaScript 5 and 6. I love love it when a project sticks to we
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by frik 9y ago
While Atom's Teletype works today. VSC Live Share is still unreleased "vamporware" (a term coined by MSFT). The ripping of Atom, rebranding it as VSC and doing a press release for such vital new feature is I guess pure coinci
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by frik 9y ago
What are the current plans about Coffeescript? I just looked at the code on Github, it says 85% Javascript, 12% Coffeescript. Is the plan to port the 12% to JS6? (and hopefully not Typescript) Great work with Atom editor. I successfully con
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by frik 9y ago
Is it relaying the data over Microsoft (or Azure/Skype/etc) server? Or is it a point-to-point / peer-to-peer connection? And if it relays the shared data over Microsoft server, what data beside currently opened source code fi
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by frik 9y ago
Reminds me of a scene in "The Social Network" movie (2010): Lawyer: What are you doing? Mark Zuckerberg: Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia. Lawyer: Bosnia? The don't have roads. But they do have Faceboo
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by frik 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware "... "Vaporware" was coined by a Microsoft engineer in 1982 to describe the company's Xenix operating system, and first appeared in print in a newsletter by
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by frik 9y ago
I am gladly switching back from a 'good type system' for web development. Why? For fast development and interactions. Native types like int/string/float/etc in Java/C# help little, but are a lot more write. Wit
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by frik 9y ago
I wonder why Unity doesn't adopt the 'open source' approaches of UnrealEngine and CryEngine ? (not free software license though, a pitty) Developed an AR game in Unity, but won't touch Unity anymore, it's a closed s
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by frik 9y ago
Yes, they picked Steve Jobs, and NeXTSTEP was quite advanced with ObjectOriented-UI and its UI-builder - most of the stuff is still there with a new Theme and called MacOS X. Companies like Pixar used NeXTSTEP. BeOS was quite interesting to

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