nickpp

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by nickpp 17y ago
Laptops displaced desktops?! You are deluded. We develop on 8GB i7s with dual 24" screens. We have one at home and one at work, Remote Desktop-ing from each other. Gigabit ethernet and optical fiber internet. No molasses wifi here. We work
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by nickpp 17y ago
He lost ANY credibility when he started bashing IE's font rendering. Not only that is the same OS rendering used by Firefox, but with Cleartype is one of the best font rendering out there. Some think of it as better than OS X's. As the pare
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by nickpp 17y ago
That space is already there for aesthetic reasons (visual separation of content, etc.). You'll notice that the scrollgadget is overlayed ON TOP of the that separation space/margins. Very visible when switching beteen a very short (non-scoll
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by nickpp 17y ago
The scrollbars are ALWAS there. Even when not needed. Taking up valuable screen real estate. Just for the eventuality that they will be necessary. In the future. Maybe not misguided, but not an ideal solution either. Google's seems better.
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by nickpp 17y ago
Two major reasons Google added this new scrollbar: 1. Stop "jumping document width madness". With the OS scrollbar (on windows at least) the document would shrink with the scrollbar width when its length starts requiring a scrollbar. Collap
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by nickpp 17y ago
Do you have any more data about this? I mean, the Standard edition included an optimizing compiler, libraries like ATL and MFC, etc. Are you sure they will be free? I knew about the free Express editions but Community... never heard of it.
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by nickpp 17y ago
What happened to the Standard Edition?
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by nickpp 17y ago
I see that you would, but have you? Or did anybody ?
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by nickpp 17y ago
Same here - after trying hard to read each long, pointless paragraph I was wondering: what is she saying? I gave up after the first third of the article.
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by nickpp 17y ago
A solution in search of a problem.
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by nickpp 18y ago
Tells us that they are mature, strong, proven programming languages and we should use them in large-scale developement UNLESS we have a better alternative, ALSO mature, strong and proven. Thankfully, we do: C++
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by nickpp 18y ago
Reality, however, contradicts you. C++ is one of the only languages out there PROVEN in the field by being used in thousands of large-scale developments. Operating Systems, Office applications, Browsers, Search Engines, etc. - aren't these
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by nickpp 18y ago
Maybe this is it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385297/whats-wrong-with-c... Summarizing: "C++ is hard but makes some things possible that aren't in other languages." The FQA dude is a troll: he criticizes without offering better a
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by nickpp 18y ago
Read the comments: turns out the author was ignorant of C++ templates (including Blitz++ scientific computing library) and he was lumping C and C++ together in his "benchmarks". It always annoys me when clueless people judge a language they
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by nickpp 18y ago
I very much enjoyed the answers to this very question on Digg (oops sorry I mean Reddit): http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8f4dk/any_progr...
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by nickpp 18y ago
A VISA?! Are you f..ing kidding me? Do you know what a fragile status one has while on a VISA? Any day you your visa can be revoked and you can be thrown out. Do you expect me to risk everything, to pour my life and blood into a business wh
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by nickpp 18y ago
I did, but I am not there yet. Soon, but not today. All my cash, time and energy are invested into my existing business. And trying to expand that business into US slowly without a massive and risky upfront investment would only give me a n
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by nickpp 18y ago
I do have a master's but I've never stayed too long in Canada. I am actually planning to go over there later this year for a couple of months to see how I like it. But its regular immigration process takes years... And I'm not big fan of it
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by nickpp 18y ago
Sucky, for all I know. Either expensive (you need 1 mil. USD - I may have a successful business but I am not rich until I sell it or something) or extremely risky: if your US business fails to grow as specified you may lose your visa. Now I
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by nickpp 18y ago
Don't laugh, but it's a kind of patriotism. I love the country. It's beautiful. I like its philosophy. American values resonate close to my values. In the years I lived there I grew to think of it as my home much more than the country I was
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by nickpp 18y ago
I left USA after being an H1B for 5 years with delay after delay in my GC application. HARD decision. Hated leaving... Went to my home country, created a software company with successful products. Now a few dozen jobs are here instead of th