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by melted 11y ago
Cutler has been in Xbox for a couple of years now.
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by melted 11y ago
Why not? A strong premium hardware manufacturer is needed pretty badly right now in the PC industry. The last one standing is Lenovo, and most of its product line is shameful garbage. When manufacturers compete on merit, everyone wins.
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by melted 11y ago
My observation as well. Bought a Surface Book earlier this year and it was crashy as hell. Took it back to the store. Good luck competing with Apple in the premium segment with this level of QA.
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by melted 11y ago
The company's name sounds vaguely like "tear anus". What did they expect?
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by melted 11y ago
Haven't you heard? They fired all the testers recently.
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by melted 11y ago
Patents are usually pretty broad, so they may have things that cover cell tower stuff as well. And since pricing is more or less arbitrary, they could eke out some cash for the more fundamental ones.
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by melted 11y ago
India has no way to go but up, IMO. Half the country is illiterate, fer chrissakes. Get that number down and growth is more or less inevitable. Social unrest is inevitable as well, though.
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by melted 11y ago
I wonder how much Ericsson is paying Apple for _their_ portfolio, though. These patent deals usually imply reciprocity, including licensing fee reciprocity.
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by melted 11y ago
Turd of a language, but very popular.
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by melted 11y ago
Too bad most of it is in Java.
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by melted 11y ago
It doesn't have to run faster than the bear. It only has to run faster than the other guy.
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by melted 11y ago
Easy to fix for a lot of comp sci papers. Require that to be accepted into a conference the papers must have a working, open source implementation that confirms the results, preferably in the form of a Docker container(s) or a VM image(s).
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by melted 11y ago
1. Be that as it may, no one is idiot enough to create their life's work on a proprietary platform. 2. Which is why commercial unixes are being supplanted by FOSS. And it far easier to do than, eg porting anything from Windows to anyth
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by melted 11y ago
Do you always only read the first sentence?
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by melted 11y ago
How recent is your experience?
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by melted 11y ago
>> And what bothers you about the interactive command line? Try zsh with a decent dotfile setup, and you'll undersstand. Until then it's like explaining colors to a color blind person.
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by melted 11y ago
How is it "first class" then if it's like 35% slower on CPU-bound workloads?
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by melted 11y ago
One thing I don't get is why does powershell have to be so shitty as a programming language? It literally doesn't look like anything else on Windows. Also, the handling of _interactive_ command line in powershell is atrocious.
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by melted 11y ago
Maybe that's what it is now, but there was a window of time when Microsoft offered it as a free download off MSDN to anyone who wants it. That's when I got my copy.
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by melted 11y ago
Huh? For the past several years I've been doing C++ development in Vim, with YouCompleteMe providing excellent code completion. Eclipse works pretty great for C++ too, especially for browsing code. Seems to me you haven't seriousl
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by melted 11y ago
Midori is dead, so it doesn't push any envelopes. So the dude is reduced to essentially maintenance work on a 20 year old unstable pile of garbage. What "operating systems research" does Windows 10 actually represent? It&#x27
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by melted 11y ago
Try to compare performance of their Linux VMs against Amazon and Google, then come back and tell me if it's first class or not.
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by melted 11y ago
You're mistaking a few noobs for "the Linux scene". The actual Linux scene is basically running the world by now. Not even Microsoft can ignore this fact. In fact I suspect Microsoft will recognize just how shitty Windows is
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by melted 11y ago
When it comes to my eyesight, why settle for anything but the best? Consolas is free as in beer to use. I just checked it into my dotfiles which I clone to all my machines.
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by melted 11y ago
Lawyers won't allow it, I'm sure.
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by melted 11y ago
It's sad that such otherwise smart people choose to stay at Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't yet realize it, but the would really would be a better place if it were to die. They did a lot of interesting things over the years, but thei
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by melted 11y ago
IMO, Microsoft got it right way back when with LINQ syntax. They did it for a different reason (to make things easier to convert to a sequence of plain, old fashioned method invocations), but the idea was the right one. For those who don&#x
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by melted 11y ago
After so many years, there's still no better coding font than MS Consolas. I use it everywhere (where by "everywhere" I mean Linux and OSX, since I don't use any MS products other than this font).
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by melted 11y ago
Z80 has beautiful assembly. Super intuitive and user friendly. I had a Spectrum growing up, and 13 year old me had no issues writing complex programs in Z80 assembly. In retrospect, it's kind of incredible that those programs worked, s
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by melted 11y ago
How do you know a proprietary product is "properly built"?

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