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by illumen 12y ago
Complex.
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by illumen 12y ago
Best of class UI requires at least 60fps consistently, not just for games. Of course JavaScript is not great here, but this can be achieved now on the latest mobile browsers. First run time is important, and interpreters are faster in this
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by illumen 12y ago
Jail time for fraud?
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by illumen 12y ago
Yeah, many captive portals do have a problem with HTTPS. From my experience in 50+ hotels in the last years.
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by illumen 12y ago
The GC, and the JIT are the two main problems with Java for this use case. Both require pauses in execution, which for real time apps is a mode of failure. Also, doing things in separate threads means that scheduling of tasks also causes p
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by illumen 12y ago
Java Applets were TERRIBLE. Seriously. Native apps, and web pages were better. If you had a $30k work station with 8 times the ram of a high end PC at the time they weren't too bad.
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by illumen 12y ago
python 3 forever!
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by illumen 12y ago
Background mode for apps! You know, so apps can be actually useful for mobile applications. This is the biggest missing feature by Mozilla, and it really shows their lack of understanding of how mobile apps work.
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by illumen 12y ago
Java Is anyone really surprised that Java is not so good for interactive applications? It's never been in first place for that type of app.
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by illumen 12y ago
Mining companies own, or control much of the Australian media. There was only one newspaper who didn't go for the coalition in the last election. It was the Age, which was mostly critical of Labor, but not entirely. There were big leg
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by illumen 12y ago
WiFi
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by illumen 12y ago
People should be able to write on their blogs their thoughts. It's a really good way to learn, and to get feedback on your ideas. Hopefully Armin listens to people who have been thinking about this for a long time, and done work in thi
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by illumen 12y ago
Knowing the people who have left Google, who collected a lot of that data, who we trusted, who are now gone, I wonder what other non-public data is being used, and how is it being used, and for only good purposes, or for nefarious purposes?
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by illumen 12y ago
Haha. Good idea.
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by illumen 12y ago
Sarcasm? Justified, with different spacing between words seems really hard to me. The thin stems also make it hard to read the letters. Finally the column width is not adjustable by the browser (double tap on mobile, or resize window on d
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by illumen 12y ago
There are plenty of little nice things like this in python that save you. So if you're porting python code to other platforms... be very careful!
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by illumen 12y ago
The words realise and capitalise should be spelt with an 's', not a 'z'.
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by illumen 12y ago
As does Objective-C, and JavaScript.
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by illumen 12y ago
Arg. The findings are that low salt is bad for you, which is what people have thought for ages. They did NOT find high salt wasn't actually bad for you.
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by illumen 12y ago
Yeah, the London tech scene is big. It's funny how meetups have taken over universities as the place to be for the best knowledge transfer. As you say, it is way easier to host things at companies, coworking spaces, coffee shops, and p
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by illumen 12y ago
This is a big thing that GPUs have been doing for decades. I'm honestly surprised this has not been done until now. Scientific, and many other data processing workloads use compression because memory bandwidth is the slow part. Mostl
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by illumen 12y ago
You also get 1.4MB of code, which takes 1 hour to load on a mobile connection, and reimplements functionality that host JS/Browser provides which goes much quicker ;) Most C++ code does not care about compiled size(especially with tem
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by illumen 12y ago
That is a weakness for all maps I've seen. There should be some sort of heuristic based on the number of edits which could guess at Goodness.
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by illumen 12y ago
From the abstract of the PDF we are reading... right at the top: "avoid $103 (31-232) billion/yr in health costs" 103 * 10 years == $1 trillion As you can see from the first paragraph in the article, the saved health care cos
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by illumen 12y ago
Batteries in cars can be used to store excess energy (proven). Solar thermal can be used for base load (proven). The 12,000 people dying per year from pollution in California costs the health system billions. This saving can be used to fun
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by illumen 12y ago
Your point? Merck & Bayer have done exponentially more work than that - and they invented it. Reading this article it sounds like he invented it. People have been drinking the bread juice, or eating the mushrooms for millennia and wr
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by illumen 12y ago
Americans taking credit again... lol. "MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck chemist Anton Köllisch" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#History
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by illumen 12y ago
... and the crowd goes mild.
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by illumen 12y ago
For your type of industry or company perhaps. Not all jobs or companies are the same, and different styles of questions will be more useful depending on those. A lot of development shops work by picking the best technology for the job. Th
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by illumen 12y ago
Sometimes when people use terms they know the meaning behind them ;) This is the original article which named the technique: http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/ Although the technique was being us

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