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by pikzen 10y ago
>They literally took a game built on the back of their biggest competitor What. DotA is older than League of Legends, Icefrog was even screwed over by Pendragon (Riot Games cofounder) and Pendragon replaced the DotA-Allstars website with
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by pikzen 10y ago
Getting lucky is a one in a million occurrence. And those who do get lucky had to have at least some base funds to make their startup. So getting lucky isn't available for everyone. Also getting lucky is on another level than Mayer who
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by pikzen 10y ago
Greater frequency. And let's not forget that driving tests are not standardised in the US amongst states. So depending on where you live, your test could either have been something that really checks if you know how your car works, how
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by pikzen 10y ago
>Essentially all AV vendors. Not sure that's an especially good thing to be proud of :> Joking aside, I'm not sure I see your point with that clock. Windows with transparent elements? We've been able to do that for quit
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by pikzen 10y ago
You don't "wisely ship an MVP" when lives are at stake.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Mostly because instead of using the DOM and a general purpose renderer (Blink), Sublime's text editor component is actually an OpenGL canvas made specifically for that.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Oh I'm not contesting the fact that it's serviceable. Our job is to deliver software. I'm just slightly concerned by the absolute disregard for performance and power usage that is implied by using Electron.
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by pikzen 10y ago
>Excel alone uses 86.1MB of private memory, and 142MB on a Blank Workbook. That is excel. With all its features. 100MB is Electron's base footprint. Running absolutely nothing. Write something as complex as excel with the same fea
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by pikzen 10y ago
* I meant 100MB memory footprint. Office doesn't have a 7GB footprint. * Office being a behemoth doesn't give a right to other apps to be whales. * 100MB is just the runtime. Then you've got your application running on top o
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by pikzen 10y ago
>It will likely change your outlook on the future of desktop software. :) Slow, with a 100MB node runtime eating up an entire CPU, piling hacks on hacks on React on top of the DOM, being dependant on Google's will to develop V8, wri
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by pikzen 10y ago
Let's be honest: people who found startups fall in three categories: * Those who have funds to fall back on in case the startup fails * Those who got VC funding * Those who are actually risking things because they invested everything i
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by pikzen 10y ago
The Pentium 4 architecture was a godsend for the overclocking scene. IIRC The P4 record is at 8.2GHz, with a Celeron 352 being in third place worldwide with 8.5GHz
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by pikzen 11y ago
Because literally any child can start developing, and then grows up and pulls every library under the sun because the language they use is a piece of crap, without a single thought about the consequences? Thankfully node.js is bringing this
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by pikzen 11y ago
>But what about existing entitlement sending, which keeps growing? Universal Basic Income removes existing welfare, and everyone gets the same amount. >the poorest are not starving to death; in fact, they're more likely to be obe
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by pikzen 11y ago
https://github.com/atom/atom-keymap/issues/37 is still open. Yet another broken release for half of the world.
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by pikzen 11y ago
To reuse the words of another HN reader on the same topic: I don't care. I don't care that it costs you money to host your website, and I don't care if you stop publishing. Other sources just as good will pop up sooner or lat
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by pikzen 11y ago
> was able to handle traffic on Black Friday way better than with previous systems. >how it improved things. > how performance was improved and how much faster they can work. Do a full rewrite of some ten years old software in any
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by pikzen 11y ago
I can understand not wanting to work with Twisted.
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by pikzen 11y ago
>Nice nearly a as high shit/fuck ratio as the author of the quoted article. I'm to lazy to quote all ur stuff so u'll hopefully get the context via empty lines. You apparently don't seem to enjoy my fucking style, So
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by pikzen 11y ago
>Have you ever used React? It's a strange criticism of react to go straight for flux, which is an optional design pattern which has sense fallen out of favor for redux based architectures That is absolutely not a criticism of React.
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by pikzen 11y ago
Popularity does not make quality. PHP is used because it's available everywhere and attempts to keep running no matter what you throw at it, causing some fun headaches. Node is used because people are either fed up with PHP, or web dev
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by pikzen 11y ago
>look, this happens if you side with the wrong guys, that is, not us So if you side with the wrong guy, you force the world's biggest army to get in, wave it's dick around then force it withdraw and manage to establish a commun
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by pikzen 11y ago
Aside from "American kiddos that cannot accept their great US ever loosing ever.", is there anyone that considers the Vietnam War as a victory for the US ? It was hands down the biggest military failure of this century for the US.
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by pikzen 11y ago
Boo hoo hoo Now, I hate the "but other others have it worse" logic, but let's go ahead. I have a family member who was a mason. Started at 16. He is now 45, is unable to do anything properly because his back is completely bus
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by pikzen 11y ago
Oh come on. Working with your brain is a breeze. Yes, you get mentally exhausted. Eat some damn sugar, problem solved. You know what you don't get, that manual workers do ? Crippling disabilities, having no energy left once you get hom
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by pikzen 11y ago
Stable and field tested, with a majority of the marketshare, as opposed to using the flavour of the day because that's what's hip? Where do I sign up ? I mean, I do C# day to day, so boring is perfect :) Also, much to my dismay, I
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by pikzen 11y ago
>Can't upvote hard enough. Applications on the web are amazing, and developers must embrace JavaScript heavily. So how's it going in JS land, are you guys still reimplementing Windows 3.1's message passing loop and hailing
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by pikzen 11y ago
Let's list Youtube's features that could be done with no Javascript * Displaying the video * Controlling the video (although with the browser's default controls) * Being logged in * Listing videos * Voting * Commenting * Sugg
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by pikzen 11y ago
Apply analogy to any construction work. I can build a house with terrible foundations. It may work right now, but sooner or later you're going to need to change it before it collapses. And the price of doing so is much, much greater th
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by pikzen 11y ago
>"Wow, you can spell 'internet' without sticking an A in there? Here is a job!" We went on to "Wow, you can write javascript without having any formal CS education or any regards concerning optimization? Here is

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