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by nxc18 10y ago
A little bit of functionality (and a lot of speed) was lost with the move to 8, but then all the unique things about Windows Phone (hubs in particular) were killed around 8.1. It was really sad, because as a Windows Phone user, I loved fina
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by nxc18 10y ago
But are their engineering practices better? They used to take test seriously, but then they fired all the testers and quality of basic things has slipped. They don't even hire for dedicated testing roles any more. I get that devs are
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by nxc18 10y ago
It tends to only be higher quality pdfs. I use a lot of pdfs made by textbook publishers and they are tagged appropriately.
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by nxc18 10y ago
I don't understand how these antivirus vendors are still in business. Even when they do have marginally better detection rates than the built in solution, the licensing, annoying popups, system slowdown, and security-defeating 'fe
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by nxc18 10y ago
A more subtle bug: go to page broke. Before the update, going to page 100 in a textbook would consistently get you to the page labeled 100. Now it takes you to the hundredth physical page, which thanks to the cover, toc, etc. is probably no
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by nxc18 10y ago
This is a great website, but the title claims to find "everyone" who represents you, but it doesn't. Its a good product decision to limit the scope, but the title needs to be clear about the limitations. It is important that
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by nxc18 10y ago
That seems particularly absurd (which isn't to doubt you, but as much as I like the EU, they have some absurd policies). If you take a very narrow view of data as just bits on a hard drive somewhere, then this seems reasonable. But if
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by nxc18 10y ago
Facebook does that data collection, but not the data that the article discusses - no social widget is responsible for figuring out your income or what you do at physical retailers.
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by nxc18 10y ago
It isn't your data. It is their data about you, which is a very important distinction. Facebook and Oracle aren't the bad actors here, if you think there is a bad actor. The baddies are the people giving Oracle (and others) that d
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by nxc18 10y ago
I don't see how this is being on the wrong side of an ethical issue. Perhaps it is (somehow, after years of this being in the news) shocking that that data is collected about your life, but Facebook isn't doing the collection. Any
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by nxc18 10y ago
Since when is voting with your wallet a liberal thing? If anything, that whole concept is a strong argument against traditional regulation (driven by actual votes), trusting the market to take care of it.
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by nxc18 10y ago
It doesn't matter which way you look at it, Java today, after all the work put into catching up, still pales in comparison to the C# of 2007. Really, C# is a public service to correct for something that for so many reasons should be aw
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by nxc18 10y ago
I recently installed office 97 on my Surface 3 (not pro, so think atom processor) on a lark. It is extremely fast (no waiting for anything at all, ever). Now, even modern office is surprisingly fast on desktop, despite having lots more feat
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by nxc18 10y ago
Depending on a pseudonym for anonymity is dangerous... It would be better to adopt a real-name policy and consciously remember to only take actions that you don't mind being associated with your real identity forever and always. When y
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by nxc18 10y ago
I always liked those buildings. I thought it was an interesting coincidence that their HQ looks exactly like the stereotypical database icon: https://www.google.com/search?q=database+logo
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by nxc18 10y ago
Does anyone have insight on why we're getting this for Firefox in (very late) 2016 while Chrome has had this since 2008 and IE since 2009? Seriously, I understand the need for competition in the browser, and wish there was a viable alt
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by nxc18 10y ago
Its cool that you can run Swift on the server, but that sure does seem like a lot of hoops to jump through, coupled with equally many gotchas. No threading on Linux, NSUnimplemented all the time, no built in random, poorly implemented found
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by nxc18 10y ago
Having a "meaning" that you have given to yourself, that you truly believe in, and that is used to guide your life as a "meaning" should is, I think the bedrock of happiness, productivity and mental stability. Certainly,
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by nxc18 10y ago
The article mentioned testing on macOs and Linux implementations. I was curious and I tried the author's demo program on Windows Subsystem for Linux; it performs quite well, running almost instantly on a low-end Surface 3. Its definite
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by nxc18 10y ago
Noise 'on the wire' in a neural network is going to look different from noise on an actual copper wire. E.g. noise in the brain might be an increased incidence of errant impulses/signals. There's evidence that sleep invo
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by nxc18 10y ago
It seems to happen while sitting down doing repetitive editing after ~40 hours wakefulness after a short night of sleep. I'm also looking into evidence that a blood sugar deficit may have been involved. Reportedly some of the technique
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by nxc18 10y ago
Taking some time to reflect on and consider my own thinking behavior has been interesting. Just like exploring any other system, subjecting myself to sleep stress (in order to meet aggressive deadlines) has allowed me to see what happens wh
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by nxc18 10y ago
I don't understand this obsession with the "purpose" of dreaming. As far as I have experienced its just noise on the wire that we sometimes are conscious enough to recognize. Having spent enough time in extremely sleep-depriv
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by nxc18 10y ago
To make matters worse, most programmers don't really know regex well enough to use it without reference, and even if they think they do, they probably don't know the problem domain or the nature of their regex to get it bug-free
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by nxc18 10y ago
Its not a single page application though. That really hurts usability. As a user I want to load the entire web application up front, then deal with JavaScript loading nonsense constantly. Why should big powerful servers do the work when I h
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by nxc18 10y ago
Windows phones already do this, less development tools. Its cool because e.g. Word mobile has the desktop and phone UI in the same package and presents itself appropriately. I would be surprised if, with more competitive Intel chips or x86
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by nxc18 10y ago
Coming from the candidates perspective, I loved it. The whole process was efficient and flexible. The coding questions were realistic. The workday simulation was really cool. I get that the author cares about privacy, but without doing what
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by nxc18 10y ago
There's different types of coding. Using xyz UI framework or fancy runtime environment will of course require reference. Sorting a list of points or finding a simple pattern in an array will not. If you need SO to answer the types of q
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by nxc18 10y ago
I also did that question. You had access to the full Java docs. I left a nice note explaining how I spent a lot of time trying to do it with the language feature, but couldn't due to runtime restrictions, and gave them a working non-op
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by nxc18 10y ago
I think a core issue here is that despite being a buzzword, 'free' just isn't all that meaningful or important to most developers, especially since the freedom that is granted to end users is explicitly not given to creators

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