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by frik 9y ago
Scrolling is broken on this site! Upon starting to scroll it reloads the page!?! (iPad)
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by frik 9y ago
Me too, I am looking always for more modern planes, as they are often quieter - e.g. Airbus A380. Or at least not sitting near the jet engines.
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by frik 9y ago
It seems Paul Allen is the real-life Dirk Pitt (from the famous Clive Cussler book series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Pitt There is even a Hollywood movie about one of the books: https://en.wikipedia
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by frik 9y ago
PS4 and Switch have at least no peer-to-peer download. Win10 and XboxOne have peer-to-peer download - who would want that, bad for users, wasting upload bandwidth and counts against your monthly internet consumption. https://www.
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by frik 9y ago
Can we get revived WebSQL support? We can thank it a rough Mozilla devs that long moved one, that WebSQL got stopped and is support in Webkit and Blink (100% mobile devices, 80% notebook), but not on Firefox. Instead this NoSQL IndexedDB wa
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by frik 9y ago
Interesting is that all Google related news (in the last two weeks) got flagged/hidden ("it's the algorithm", "it's the user", blabla). And now HN had time to post their own opinion piece - this one stays.
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by frik 9y ago
Now that Intel got competition again with very competitive new AMD CPUs, Intel is releasing "new" CPU to the public that waited in their basement for some time. AMD CPUs are a lot faster than they hoped, so Intel has to skip one g
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by frik 9y ago
Yes, the video mentions the machine is a used one, formerly used in SF. They mention it wasn't altered at all to keep the certificates but they try to learn and in future may improve it. The Tesla reference is about a vehicle that woul
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by frik 9y ago
Was on HN yesterday, see also for insightful comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997725
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by frik 9y ago
I can code in Julia, Python, R and Matlab. It's just the ignorance of some from the AI field. R and Matlab might be good for prototyping but not for long running stable web server applications. Julia is still too new. Python syntax has
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by frik 9y ago
Are there good Deep Learning tutorials or blog posts with code (github) in Java, NodeJS, PHP, Lua, Swift or Go ?
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by frik 9y ago
Since when is destroying web standards acceptable? There are so many internet and intranet pages from 1994+. In the name of security the change way too many moving parts lately to push their hidden agenda. Using HTTP in local LAN is fine. U
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by frik 9y ago
The same news got posted on HN 1h ago, got flagged after 36 up votes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15001403
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by frik 9y ago
This whole OpenAI gets hyped a lot on HN - it's interesting who is behind OpenAI. They are misusing the "Open" name as there is no substantial open in OpenAI - it's also no open source project - it's not related to
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by frik 9y ago
Why do a TechCrunch article get flagged? Somehow there are a lot of flagged news on HN lately. What's wrong? I don't think the direction is good
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by frik 9y ago
Initial 1996 design document of The Sims, when it was still called "Happy-Friends-Home" from the same website: http://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/HappyFrien...
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by frik 9y ago
Could be one of the few lines of source code survived, as an small office fire in 2001 caused troubles. Basically the predecessor of The Sims was SimTown (also by Maxis). It was a smaller scale SimCity meets The Sims gameplay. https:/
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by frik 9y ago
Prototype based inheritance (e.g. JavaScript, Lua) is a much better concept. (It's much more powerful and allows you even to implement class based inheritance.) Also functional programming has its benefits. The 1990s/2000s with th
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by frik 9y ago
They have. All Google related news of the last two days got censored. "The user flagged it", "the algorithm flagged it" - blabla. Disgusting. Over at NYT, an many other media, one can read the stories from both sides.
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by frik 9y ago
All Microsoft products after 2010 are worst offenders. The nice Office 2010 and Windows 7 and beautiful high res icons and very nice color schemes - gone. I cannot stand the Win8/10 and Office 2016 bland look and mix of legacy icons bo
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by frik 9y ago
Maybe it's time to label "Ubuntu Mate" as the new default Ubuntu, and the current one Ubuntu Gnome3. Ubuntu Mate comes with the nice Gnome 2 look&feel but based on GTK3.
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by frik 9y ago
I bought a PlayStation 4 and couldn't be happier, and I keep Win7 around for old games. The "new Microsoft" sucks big time, and they drive the company against the wall - Win10/WinPhone10/Xbone crash.
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by frik 9y ago
Downgrade to the better Win7, or use Linux as host and Win in a VM.
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by frik 9y ago
UX and UI brutalism meets in MetroUI/ModernUI of Win8/10, ugly as hell color schemes and designs. It reminds me of ugly brutalism/"modern architecture" that was so common in 1960s (prefab buildings). The Win3x/
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by frik 9y ago
Apple iTunes/Apple ID pwd rules is really annoying. Microsoft online service incl (based still on the decades old 1997's Hotmail login system is archaic) has an upper limit of 8 (or so) chars. (Office365/Outlook.com/etc
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by frik 9y ago
Would be interested as well. How good is the ecosystem for server side applications on other OS? I like the syntax of Swift, it would be awesome to be able to use it for iOS apps as well as server apps.
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by frik 9y ago
It had a big effect for a short timeframe. Look at photos of Bill Gates, he aged like 15 years in just three years time. And he stepped off as CEO. It followed Ballmer, a softer CEO timeframe. Now Gates with his strawman Nadella got back th
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by frik 9y ago
> Maybe when I am 60, 70 or 80 the film industry will get their shi* together and finally agree on a solution that has long been found in the music business. You mean DRM free video MP4 files like the DRM free audio MP3 files on Amazon.c
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by frik 9y ago
We will quickly find out that while WebAssembly might sound like a next step is a bad thing to happen to the web - ads will be binary blobs that consume 100% CPU and adblockers won't work and cannot be implemented without wasting even
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by frik 9y ago
You mean "go a full Pets.com" like in millennium dotCom bubble.

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