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by nbevans 13y ago
I agree with you. Gzip is merely a container format, just like AVI, MKV are for video/audio content. Gzip supports several compression encodings with Deflate being the the most common one I believe.
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by nbevans 13y ago
You're really digging in on this aren't you? I wrote very clearly that it was only a suspicion clearly in an attempt to explain why they are so much slower at improving their OS kernel than Microsoft is. So any time somebody mak
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by nbevans 13y ago
It feels like this article is getting confused between an application storing its own "application state" versus a user's own "authored files". There is a massive distinction. The example of a fitness tracker app st
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by nbevans 13y ago
Why is it so slow to add new features and technologies then? It took them, what, like 3 years? To add TRIM support for SSDs? Their first attempt at ASLR was woeful and badly broken and even that was a year after Vista got it.
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by nbevans 13y ago
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/meet Search in a page with plenty of marketing blurb for "mobile". Zero results. So since they aren't marketing it as how you perceive perhaps you should
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by nbevans 13y ago
To the contrary, Microsoft, Nokia and partners are actively looking at bringing WP8 tablets to the market. Thus completely sidestepping the Windows RT issue.
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by nbevans 13y ago
Stop comparing Windows, a desktop OS, to mobile-first optimised OSes like Android and iOS. Even Windows RT is not technically mobile-first optimised like those two. Windows Phone 8 vs Android/iOS would be a fair comparison. Because WP8
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by nbevans 13y ago
I don't really think that WinFS was a core OS kernel feature. It was built on top of SQL Server, so I doubt it even had a kernel-mode component either. ReFS would be a better example. And that's just another example of how Microso
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by nbevans 13y ago
I would argue that the Windows NT kernel is both newer and more maintainable for Microsoft than OSX is for Apple. At the core of OSX is a ton of legacy Unix monolith written in the 70s that I suspect very few in Apple dare ever touch. This
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by nbevans 13y ago
They could learn a lot from how UK.gov ( http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ ) operates these days. It's a true agile shop, that's been ridiculously productive and forward-thinking for at least the last 5 years.
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by nbevans 13y ago
If you consider sets and trees from CompSci 101 to be "quite sophisticated".
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by nbevans 13y ago
The problem with that argument is that prototyping rarely needs a database. Just store stuff in memory. Who the f k in the real world is seriously writing data-layer code for a prototype?
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by nbevans 13y ago
I would put it out there by suggesting that you probably have low standards when it comes to databases. Have you used anything else other than MongoDB and MySQL? These are basically two of the worst NoSQL and SQL implementations in existenc
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by nbevans 13y ago
Controller is an adapter or anti-corruption layer designed to couple together two separate bounded contexts. It's feasible and likely there would be two variants of BorrowABook, one in the UI model and one in the service/domain mo
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by nbevans 13y ago
BorrowABook is a Command. What the article is, albeit unknowingly, discussing is roughly the CQRS pattern. CQRS can rarely ever be considered to be a bad practice. As good developers mature, they come to realise that generally all the good
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by nbevans 13y ago
http://i.imgur.com/RHxoW5J.png 1. Security flaw in leaking that much error info. 2. Who uses ColdFusion in 2013?
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by nbevans 13y ago
Always a conspiracy on HN when it involves Microsoft, eh?
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by nbevans 13y ago
On-screen keyboard for "not on a table" scenarios. Compromise? Yes. But acceptable compromise? Probably; how many people do "productive" input-oriented work that isn't on a table?
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by nbevans 13y ago
You do realise there is a massively expanding market for tablets don't you? That tablet PC's are actively cannibalising the laptop market?
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by nbevans 13y ago
Why? Did you even look at the specs? They are far in advance of the capabilities of an iPad. It's a full blown "PC as a Tablet". Even having a DisplayPort output and single USB port on a tablet device immediately makes it wor
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by nbevans 13y ago
I use the Android app of this: http://hn.premii.com It summarises the content so you don't have to even visit Space.com. Problem solved.
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by nbevans 13y ago
There's plenty of HackerNews apps you can use rather than the website.
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by nbevans 13y ago
This is intolerant of network partitions.
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by nbevans 13y ago
In my experience, all SSDs are a bad batch unless they're Intel 520 or Samsung's high end range. A big mistake to make is to fill an SSD drive completely up with data. This is a huge no-no unless it's an enterprise drive whic
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by nbevans 13y ago
It works well. It takes advantage of Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) in .NET which can target just about any platform including Xbox's. Basically all your UI logic sits within these PCLs. And the only stuff you have to write/desig
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by nbevans 13y ago
Yes it does. Look at the MvvmCross project. Also struggling to verify that claim re. executable size, can you provide a link? Either way, average app size on Android seems to be around 3MB. A typical Xamarin-compiled app is around 4 to 4.5M
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by nbevans 13y ago
Save 5 MB and condemn yourself/your team/your company to the hell of maintaining multiple code bases that all do basically the same thing but subtly different and written in different languages. Sounds like a dumb ass decision. It
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by nbevans 13y ago
You're an idiot if you can't see why this would be unreasonable.
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by nbevans 13y ago
"Objective-C and Java rule 2013 since web apps are not as pleasant to use on mobile." Or with some MVVM, Xamarin and some C# or F#... write once, compile for all mobile platforms. Never having to once touch the nastiness of Obj-C
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