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by mevile 10y ago
I've been very surprised so far by how little memory and how performant this terminal is even though it's written in JavaScript and runs on electron. All the other electron apps I know of are kind of known to be performance hogs (
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by mevile 10y ago
Have you looked at GoG Galaxy? https://www.gog.com/galaxy It's exactly what you want, but this service isn't poplar. It doesn't work because everyone is on Steam. Network effects. It's like when app.net
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by mevile 10y ago
> whilst Samsung ate up 20% market share in 1 year Right a 78 year old company with hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue is a startup killing big companies. I'll just note that while Samsung is about half of G&E's age
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by mevile 10y ago
Noo! This makes me so sad. I love my Pebble Time. Fitbit :( I don't want to own a FitBit. People should be snapping these watches up they make your life better. For example: no more ringing phones. No more pulling phones out of pockets
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by mevile 10y ago
I migrated away from Google years ago after a similar incident. I use Fastmail for email. It's decent enough. I am happy to pay for services. I still use Google's search, calendar, browser and location services and Google Play for
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by mevile 10y ago
In this comment thread there are many people who did not read the entire article to its conclusion, and then also failed to read the many comments about the very last and very important bit at the end of the article. There ought to be like
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by mevile 10y ago
You're achieving that with separate calls to render. In an ideal React application you only have a single render call. So no, you're not demonstrating a good use of React and you're certainly not showing this to be a strength
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by mevile 10y ago
I don't have much experience with Ember, but I have a spent a lot of professional time with React development, well over a year now. Initially I quite loved it but that love affair is over. My problem with React aren't complaints
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by mevile 10y ago
I just want to point out that Theranos is involved in lawsuits with nearly everyone now. Former employees, investors, its pivotal business partner Walgreens, the federal government, state governments and they've threatened legal action
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> was informed that my position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated for business reasons. Consequently. Business reasons to not have a head of automation for an Operating System? It truly could be the case, but h
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by mevile 10y ago
I saw two big issues on both right wing and left wing political blogs and news sources over the election: assumption of bad faith (and in the worst case intentionally taking the least favorable interpretation of some news item) and lack of
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by mevile 10y ago
This thread is full of people making the familiar mistake of treating an organization with hundreds of thousands of employees as a single entity with a single mind instead of a vast organization with multiple departments and different teams
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by mevile 10y ago
It will end up being made in the US though.
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by mevile 10y ago
I thought web assembly compiled to JavaScript, but it doesn't look like that's so. It looks like a binary format. I think that's great if so. Finally we can expand beyond JavaScript on front-end development.
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by mevile 10y ago
What is amazing to me considering these numbers is that there are enough people buying new cars every year to keep all these car manufacturers around. I'm a pretty decently employed individual, doing better than most my family and I&#x
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by mevile 10y ago
It's totally in the interests of the US to have people, governments and companies to give the US cash in exchange for bonds instead of giving that cash to other governments, like China.
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On the contrary, the FBI would love to prosecute a senator or their family.
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Being interested in the rest of it creates problems because you're getting involved in domains you don't have any expertise in.
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by mevile 10y ago
I personally don't care what you consider to be an engineer. I solve engineering problems, and I solve them well and I get compensated for it. I want to create great physics systems in game engines. It's not my problem to solve to
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by mevile 10y ago
> Yes, I can code that, but we can buy it just as cheaply, and let me focus on more important details of our business." Uh no. I code, that's what I do. I'm fine with being laid off if that's not creating value. I can
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by mevile 10y ago
I've worked multiple places and it's never been a problem, including big corporations. If you rolled badly roll again.
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by mevile 10y ago
Wherever this guy has worked is where I never want to work. If people can't appreciate the value your engineers create then that's not a place to work. If this guy's advice applies to your job, get a new job. I'm not goi
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by mevile 10y ago
When you're using a fully fledged game engine like Unreal why does the form it takes on the hardware matter? What devices or platforms does Vulkan support add to Unreal it didn't have before? Is there a measurable performance impr
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by mevile 10y ago
There already is competition. GoG's Galaxy. It's great. Nobody I know uses it. Not a single streamer on twitch I've ever watch uses it. I'm fine with competition too, but not from Facebook. They've already fucked up
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by mevile 10y ago
Facebook's Oculus has already tried to go the way of exclusives and walled gardens so I doubt it will take off. PC gamers are an opinionated noisy bunch and they will cause all kinds of drama for Facebook if they aren't as open as
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I don't know. I quite love starbound. This game feels less somehow.
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> But the planets all harbor the same kinds of structures. The same alien remnants. You do the same kinds of things on all of them. Watching this game on twitch and going from one stream to the next I was left with thinking exactly this,
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by mevile 10y ago
I'm not sure I like the idea of being able to connect to a prod db from a dev instance, but whatever floats your boat.
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by mevile 10y ago
> This bug is arguably more scary than those because it only requires the ability to send someone an image... I remember one of the jailbreaks was loading a PNG way back when. This happened before.
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by mevile 10y ago
I don't understand e-sports teams. They're not representative of a geographical region and a "team" can actually have players on multiple games. It's like if the New York Yankees were just the Yankees and also playe

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