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   by frik 11y ago

   All can be turned off in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch) - it's very expensive and not sold to consumer nor small business at all. But think about your doctor, your lawyer, etc. many smaller business, cheaper Wi
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   by frik 11y ago

   Azure is their cloud OS and runs on a special Windows server cluster in huge datacenters. (One can run Linux VMs on it, but that's just a byproduct) Azure and software as a service are their mid term future plans. Not for a reason Dave
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   by frik 11y ago

   > It's easy to run Windows 10 without any calling home at all. Not true at all! It's impossible, without a hardware firewall. Their kernel network driver whitelists several microsoft domains and IP address ranges. What's w
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   by frik 11y ago

   Without developers Microsoft tools and platform will shrink a lot and fast. It was basically their only chance to open source the new dotNet core. And try everything incl. their TypeScript tactics on JavaScript to get developers back into t
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   by frik 11y ago

   Microsoft actions were ambivalent in 2015. On the one side the open sourced quite a few code bases, though very strategic ones but non of the high profile old cash cows. Azure is doing well. On the other site, XBoxOne and WinPhone10 had a l
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   by frik 11y ago

   What's about the recent wave of Wirth's almost forgotten languages on HN? Pascal, Modula and Oberon and its silbings/etc were pretty niche last time I checked and most of their maintainer moved on.
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   by frik 11y ago

   What we need is Shadow DOM support: http://caniuse.com/#feat=shadowdom
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   by frik 11y ago

   You are so right! I hand tuned web apps (vanilla JS5, no libs/frameworks) and opimized them for mobile, and they are very fast. But most don't care and use bloated JS libraries/frameworks and the end user has to wait several
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   by frik 11y ago

   I agree with your standpoint (first two paragraphs). > Intercooler.js Why not '<a data-action="/click">' (HTML5 data-* attributes feature!) instead of the non-standard '<a ic-post-to="/cli
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    by frik 11y ago

    It's interesting that first little JavaScript libraries and one-liners were popular in the 1990s. Then AJAX and large framework libraries like Yahoo YUI, Ext JS, Google Web Toolkit (GWT) got popular. Then JQuery a more lightweight libr
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    by frik 11y ago

    ReactJS is used for the Facebook's people search page (mobile web version). Most Facebook web pages are renderer on server with PHP/HACK.
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    by frik 11y ago

    What I tried to point out it complicates the schema-update step a lot. Lot's code as stored procedures was counter productive at least in my experience. Several blog posts (post mortems) mention they avoid stored procedures as much as
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    by frik 11y ago

    > stored routines in a cloud DB Application code in stored procedures? Is this still a thing? SQL2003 standard was completely into it with Java as stored procedures and XML, etc. - but wasn't that just an enterprise fade with big ex
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    by frik 11y ago

    Better would be an e-ink display. OLED consumes too much battery. Using e-ink and writing power efficient code such a watch weeks or even months on battery.
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    by frik 11y ago

    Let's hope AMD and various ARM CPU vendors catch up. Intel Xenon are overpriced i7 with enabled ECC memory. And we are stuck with ~3GHz single core raw speed since 2004 (memory got faster, etc - we know!). We would benefit from 10GHz s
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    by frik 11y ago

    Lua would certainly be a good choice. A really good language syntax, the language is small, and LuaJIT2 is very very fast. Though, it's better to stay with one language, JavaScript - it's a good language, and everyone should learn
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    by frik 11y ago

    It's impressive how different the languages Perl (5 -> 6), PHP (5 -> 7; no 6) and Python (2 -> 3) developed in the last 10 years. And how their community reacted and their transition to newer releases.
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    by frik 11y ago

    "In my opinion, the web isn't going to last forever" sounds quite bitter.
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    by frik 11y ago

    Looks like as easy to use as SketchUp. Sadly Google sold SketchUp, and the new company turned SketchUp in a trialware product.
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    by frik 11y ago

    Windows NT series . It should be common knowledge that Win 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008 Server, Win7, Win8, 2012 Server, Win10 (and XBox-OS, WinPhone8/10, HoloLens-OS, Azure cloud) are all NT based and just an incremental new ve
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    by frik 11y ago

    This. Exactly this. A personal software agent will make a lot of "smart" devices and many apps irrelevant. See Apple's vision from early ’90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E
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    by frik 11y ago

    A cool little known feature about the old Win95 (Win32API) dialogs and error messages was: one could press Ctrl + C to copy the text content. Sadly the devs who created Windows NT, the Windows shell, Office in the 1989-1998 era all retired.
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    by frik 11y ago

    SpeedCrunch is great too, it was originally inspired by the WinXP PowerCalc - probably the best calculator from Microsoft: http://dan.hersam.com/2010/11/10/powercalc-in-windows-7/ (SpeedCrunch still lack
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    by frik 11y ago

    On the otherside Windows Live Photo Gallery has no vendor lock-in (maintains the file metadata) and is a superb photo management application that was introduced with Vista (similar to iPhoto/Photos/Lightroom). It stays in low main
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    by frik 11y ago

    btw. Win8 calc got a loading splash screen as "feature". http://betanews.com/2013/10/28/windows-8-1s-calculator-app-s... The Win10 calc app still takes a second or two to start up: https:/&#x2
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    by frik 11y ago

    Isn't it the same with software? Office suites, map-apps, email-apps, Android (from different vendors), etc. try to more or less mimic the most successful one.
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    by frik 11y ago

    LTS isn't a compelling reason for servers? Troll!
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    by frik 11y ago

    RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu are all viable server OS. RHEL/CentOS are more common in US. Debian/Ubuntu are very common in Europe, etc. and with cloud instances.
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    by frik 11y ago

    You meant wasn't so bad (Win7). The Win10 privacy issues are a showstopper on desktop.
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    by frik 11y ago

    16.04 LTS planned release date 2016-04-21, will be the next great release.