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by pawadu 10y ago
From the article: > “When you dropped these things, they didn’t break,” Nuovo says with pride. “They bounced.” Interestingly, the very first Lumias produced by Microsoft (950 and 950XL) have _significantly_ worse build quality compared t
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by pawadu 10y ago
I wonder if you can achieve the same thing by inserting a debug class that replaces the original parent. That is, change the code to go from View <-- MyView to View <-- DebugView <-- MyView You might even be able
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by pawadu 10y ago
How much work are we talking about here? Is it possible to do a clean-room implementation with reasonable effort?
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by pawadu 10y ago
Maybe this has been fixed with AU, but previously you had to practially dual-boot windows to use both: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SwitchEasilyBetweenVirtualBoxA...
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by pawadu 10y ago
Yes, but that applies only to very limited headless machines. As soon as you want to use graphics or peripherals hyper-v will not suffice.
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by pawadu 10y ago
HyperV and VirtualBox (or VMWare) cannot co-exist on the same machine. So basically, if you want to do windows development you have to give up the alternatives
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by pawadu 10y ago
While things have been a bit buggy since the anniversary update, Microsoft have been improving Windows a lot in the last 4-5 years. Sure, there have been some "1 step forward 2 steps back" moments, but in total the general reactio
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by pawadu 10y ago
At this point, I associate any technology used by Spotify with their super unresponsive desktop application. I guess having fashionable development office in NY, SF, Boston and Stockholm doesn't automatically give you good software.
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by pawadu 10y ago
> Vodafone told the Volkskrant it did not ‘collaborate’ with Appen. Appen said in a statement if it does collect data, it does so with the permission of ‘participants’. The company said it does not collaborate with ‘telecom companies’...
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by pawadu 10y ago
> Physicist Dr Paul Coxon has helpfully condensed the decade-long mission into a single tweet. Well I guess that's how you get kids attention these days The tweet: https://twitter.com/paulcoxon/status/78178
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by pawadu 10y ago
Lets hope they can make some money out of this. They really deserve it.
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by pawadu 10y ago
> Incompatible Changes None in this release, but previous releases often broke something . Thanks to that, I can no longer use the same configuration/scripts on multiple platforms. Are there really and valid reasons for breaking th
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by pawadu 10y ago
this was a very insightful comment, thank you!
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by pawadu 10y ago
What is the typical memory usage of this for normal web browsing?
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by pawadu 10y ago
Why should it save the whole page when it only needs to remember the URL? At most, maybe also any form data you have entered. Small enough to keep thousands of pages in memory.
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by pawadu 10y ago
This raises another imprtant question: Is it okay for a private company to have detailed positioning data from inside of your office or home? Who would really need that sort of information? I understand how this can be useful at the mall bu
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by pawadu 10y ago
This is not tower triangulation. Android searches for access points even when wifi is turned off. If anyone (with GPS enabled) uses that wifi with any google services the bssid will end up in their database. Also if the google car has been
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by pawadu 10y ago
The software is still beta and is limited to just a few devices. The only thing that has changed is that it is now in the stable channel. So basically, nothing has changed, this is not a real roll out
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by pawadu 10y ago
This is crazy! How can a "2% lower than average pension benefits at former workplace" result in a guy and his family being kicked out of the EU with 4 weeks notice?
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by pawadu 10y ago
From stackoverflow: > I hope you're not creating a website for a UK based organisation - if you are, disabling pinch-to-zoom (effectively an accessibility feature) would put you in breach of several laws for actively discriminating
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by pawadu 10y ago
Summary: // G is an interface under which all possible types apply type G interface{} Actually, this is not a summary. It is the full source code of this project.
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by pawadu 10y ago
> The budget Pi Zero is completely robot-made. Then it most be a really really slow robot. Because even if you find it in stock somewhere they still limit purchases to 1 per costumer.
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by pawadu 10y ago
Can the UI adapt to a phone? After all, it is a UWP.
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by pawadu 10y ago
Ubuntu is starting to look really good under windows 10... Who would have thought this can happen 5 years ago?
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by pawadu 10y ago
And still, the "automated detection of copyright violations" used by youtube works like crap and is used by criminals to strong arm real content creators to give them a cut of they profits.
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by pawadu 10y ago
Wow, this article could have be written by 12 year old after seeing too many episodes of Mad Men... And this guy worked for Google and Uber?
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by pawadu 10y ago
I guess this shows that market doesn't believe in Larry Ellison and his plans to take over the cloud :)
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by pawadu 10y ago
> Mobile to-do list Wunderlist, bought by Microsoft for a reported $100m-$200m, is down with no immediate prospect of recovery. Maybe they _just_ realized they already have OneNote and don't really need this...
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by pawadu 10y ago
Not much seems to have happened in LibreSSL since the initial rage-sprint. For now, watch this spot: https://marc.info?l=libressl&r=1&b=201609&w=2
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by pawadu 10y ago
wow, that _was_ a handy tool!

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