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by frik 9y ago
From the Guardian article: "The account required only a single password and did not have ”two-step“ verification, sources said." "In 2012, Deloitte, which has offices all over the world, was ranked the best cybersecurity cons
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by frik 9y ago
It's the MP3 model (digital music file with no DRM), sure it would work for movies too. I buy physical DVD & Blueray discs, as then I own the disc and can play it when I want. BUT I avoid 4K Bluerays with their online-dongle. I per
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by frik 9y ago
I follow Godot since it got open sourced some years ago - great project. What scripting language beside visual scripting does it support? Lua? Squirrel? or only C++? (I saw some screenshots there: https://godotengine.org/fea
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by frik 9y ago
Nestle and Coca-Cola have many sub-companies that bottle water from wells and ship them around the world with a big (2000+% mark up). There is the saying the next wars will not be about oil but about drink water. Just 3 days ago on HN front
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by frik 9y ago
I second this, please remove the forced GOPATH with the upcoming Go 2.0. (GOPATH is annoying to handle with multiple repositories in different paths, and probably there is no reason to have it anymore anyway.) I really like Go, it's so
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by frik 9y ago
About VCs: Isn't cold calling/mailing the worst thing you can do? - so how does this list help?
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by frik 9y ago
I still have a iPad 2 with iOS6. Its battery lasts days, with the same duration for 6 years. All the old apps work fine. Only some ad-ladden websites crash the browser from time to time - but the same is true for all 512MB memory devices in
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by frik 9y ago
I fear this too. First they try to make HTTP impossible to use (nag pop up) to limit the websites, then they try to introduce pay-per-view model and subscription model. Welcome back to the pre-1999 AOL/MicrosoftNetwork/Compuserve&
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by frik 9y ago
I test with HTTP, locally. This forcing of opinionated things goes on my nerves. How about develop the browser, and let the mass decide what they use. Amazon was 100% HTTP for 20 years (except the single login page) - it worked very well.
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by frik 9y ago
I always wondered why Twitter has so much friction in its UI. I suppose it's on purpose, right? But what are they trying to achieve - more page views? Following conversations is so hard, one has to click around so many times.
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by frik 9y ago
Play/try out Grand Theft Auto IV (or V). (The GTA4 is more realistic simulation.)
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by frik 9y ago
What's the MTTF of HDDs filled with helium vs conventional HDDs? Do all 3 HDD manufacturers experiment with helium filled HDDs? Or have one or the other found a different method to innovate? (prefer HDDs that have MTTF of 7+ years)
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by frik 9y ago
BeOS was single user and wasn't it also preemptive multi-tasking (like Win95). BeOS had innovative features like BeFS filesystem with metadata search engine, etc. In the end NeXT OS was the more advanced OS with a OO UI based on Unix.
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by frik 9y ago
Can we get a 'British Gentleman' as actor for reboot of James Bond franchise? like previously Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan All the James Bond USP got lost in recent years - where is the humor, the British gentleman be
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by frik 9y ago
ReactOS ships with more translations than any Microsoft Windows. But translation does take much space, it's just text in RC files linked to binary files.
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by frik 9y ago
There was OpenSolaris OpenSolaris is a discontinued, open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the
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by frik 9y ago
Why not just give the NEW browser that is incompatible but faster a different brand name? Why is the NEW browser not based on Servo? The potential new users don't know Firefox anyway, and the current user that still use Firefox despite
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by frik 9y ago
Yes. It's called shadow profile, they know your name from your friends address book.
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by frik 9y ago
Thank you, good summarization of the unfortunate drama around Mozilla. What ever is going on in their management, they give a shit about the Firefox and Thunderbird community. The last 5 years they did so many stupid things. It's time
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by frik 9y ago
Incredible short sighted decisions on Mozilla side, destroying their legacy plugin & addon platform. It's like Microsoft would switch off WinAPI support and kill thereby their platform. Firefox is all about "legacy API",
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by frik 9y ago
Thanks, well said. More and more sites remove comment functionality or hide comments they don't like, forced real-name policy for accounts, etc. Many sites lost any credibility these days.
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by frik 9y ago
JQueryMobile was the slowest ugliest thing back in 2011-13 timeframe. Faking the iOS1-6 UI controls even on Android - no words.
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by frik 9y ago
Very good comparision, thx for posting. From using both iOS maps and Google maps on streets in NYC and SF - I like both. In case iOS maps is light on detail I open Google maps or Uber app to inspect things nearby.
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by frik 9y ago
I was expecting some thin e-ink-paper (Kindle like). E-ink supports colors and videos nowadays. (unfortunately the ebook readers still use the older monochrome e-ink generation. e.g. Amazon has little initiative as the went with LCD Kindle
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by frik 9y ago
Unfortunately. It's a very important news. I don't understand what's going on here.
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by frik 9y ago
Please change the title to "Chrome OS Enterprise" - it's not Chrome browser enterprise.
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by frik 9y ago
I love playing true RTS like AoE 1-3/Mythology, Empire Earth and C&C Generals - games that can be played in single player against really good AI bots on random generated maps. Unfortunately the RTS genre is dead for 13 years (excep
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by frik 9y ago
Relic is know for Real Time Tactic, not Real Time Strategy (RTS) games. Guess what AoE series was - RTS. Base building and mass of units are part of AoE RTS gameplay. Relic with it's Halo 2 casual game, no free base building and it car
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by frik 9y ago
"AoE4 is being developed by Relic Entertainment, which previously worked on the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War serie" Exactly. Relic has no track record of RTS games. Real a Time Strategy (RTS) is completely different to Real T
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by frik 9y ago
"WiFi Assistant Auto-connects you to high quality open WiFi and secures your connection with a VPN back to Google." Let's hope the VPN can be set to non-Google too, or it's optional or opt-out feature.

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