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by pippy 12y ago
I'm feeling foolish for not reading it and purchasing four Seagate Barracuda 7200.14s. I had no failures so far but with a 50% failure rate it's bound to happen soon
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by pippy 12y ago
I'd take it one step further and argue that it doesn't matter what they code in, it's the outputs that matter. Facebook is a billion dollar company, and their code base is PHP. There are still enterprise level companies that
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by pippy 12y ago
Because civil rights groups don't like him, it doesn't invalidate his work.
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by pippy 12y ago
My guess is they've simply using the backlights of LCD panels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiejNAUwcQ8#t=34 They can scatter light and are deceptively thin. Coupling with (maybe) some fibre cables and you've p
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by pippy 12y ago
One way would be to fire an entangled photon down both ends of fibre optic cable in the middle. On the sending end you could observe/ ignore it, and on reviving end you'd observe it. We'd have to develop cables capable of pre
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by pippy 12y ago
Also major issues off the top of my head: Azure VM instances that run in a VPN have major network issues that are caused by the MS infrastructure. Depending on the latency you won't get the 'feel' for many websites, important
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by pippy 12y ago
It's ridiculous to label Google a monopoly. People have to go out of their way to type in Googles URL, and anyone can type in something different. Yandex and baidu are valid non-US competitors. Quality is the reason why people go back
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by pippy 12y ago
Each time I've attempted to use Linux as my main OS it's always X11 that scares me off. Booting into console to edit xorg.conf gets tiring after a while, spending hundreds of dollars for graphics card that has more stable drivers,
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by pippy 12y ago
I'd like to see them roll out Windows 8.1 and get fewer complaints.
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by pippy 12y ago
He'll be getting paid by MS to position himself in supporting windows. Even in medium organisations you'll be shocked by the freebies and goodies you'll get by supporting their infrastructure.
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by pippy 12y ago
The painful thing about this is it's trivial to fix this.
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by pippy 12y ago
Many PHP data types (such as mysqli etc) have been made into objects, and I agree 100% that it's silly to do this with strings. Ease of string manipulation is a PHP strong point. You'll be giving PHP devs a loaded gun by allowing
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by pippy 12y ago
I'll have to agree with him, the color is a little harsh on the eyes. Have a wee play around here to find a nice color pallet: http://www.colourlovers.com/ It is a little over loaded with info, I do like the simplicity
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by pippy 12y ago
Plus with chrome already supporting it, WebP has ~50% market share in most countries. Now we'll have two similar but competing technologies and web developers will simply resort to the older formats.
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by pippy 12y ago
One thing bureaucracies are susceptible to is vendors requiring mandatory software updates on custom software. This costs much more than most people think, and with the city of City of Munich would dwarf any productivity overhead. Sure it&#
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by pippy 13y ago
Don't Catch A Falling Knife. It might stabilise now, but my hunch is it will stabilise around the $200 mark.
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by pippy 13y ago
WebM is a fantastic step forward. I prefer gfycat links over imgur gifs when browsing reddit (gfycat is a service that converts gifs to WebM). It does have minor teething problems (controls, loading animations, etc) but its advantages outwe
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by pippy 13y ago
The most enticing feature of C# is the .NET Framework, and if Microsoft fully open sourced the .NET Framework it could start a cross compatible version of the framework. This would be a dream come true for a software developers who like C#&
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by pippy 13y ago
Why would anyone want to use another JavaScript UI library when there are already libraries that are out there that are more mature and don't have a companies bias?
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by pippy 13y ago
The price is an issue here. I understand it's supposed to be open for hardware hackers, but lets face it: who wants to hack a laptop? most hardware hackers are happy using a raspberry pi and a Ubuntu laptop. Why would you want to risk
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by pippy 13y ago
Sorry, I should have written 'new markets', not emerging markets. While Windows 8 is successful, its surface range haven't grabbed significant marketshare from Apple/Android. Windows 8 in comparison to 7/XP has been
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by pippy 13y ago
Stock markets aren't rigged, they're fundamentally flawed. HFT is only a small modern flaw that's emerged. In theory a company can float itself in order to raise capital and improve performance. The business will invest the c
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by pippy 13y ago
Microsoft is hell-bent on market domination, it's just they're failing to capture emerging markets. Their attempt at creating tablets, smartphones, music players, etc have all flopped. Yet each attempt all have the traits of class
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by pippy 13y ago
.table *:nth-last-child(4) Seems to work, although for me I had to push enter a few times.
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by pippy 13y ago
Netbeans is by far the most powerful PHP IDE out there. The intellisense like search, jumping to definitions, code re-factoring, file search, integrated debugging, and code analysis makes everything else look like a joke. It's not the
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by pippy 13y ago
I'm really hoping to see Linux become the go-to Operating System for gamers. The idealogical basis has little to do with it: it's mostly personal laziness, less hassle getting a pirated Windows install with spyware, hassles of ins
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by pippy 13y ago
Being from New Zealand, it hits us kiwis hard. No Netflix. No Hulu. Even when Cartoon Network uploads to YouTube their videos are often unavailable in my country. So the next best thing is piracy. You can piss around with DNS settings or wa
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by pippy 13y ago
Also from the article: Google buys Spanish Ono for $9.5bn to start Google Fiber throughout Europe Vodafone won't be rolling out ultra fast fiber networks. They'll be putting everything through a cost-benefit exercise to m
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by pippy 13y ago
HipHop compiles the script natively, while KittenDB seems to converts to C++ and then compiles it. KittenDB seems to have fewer dependencies, meaning it's likely to be less feature rich. This could be down to the fact that HipHop is ac
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by pippy 13y ago
Instead of developers throwing their toys out the cot, try to imagine a conversion along the lines of: MPAA executive: we need to lobby W3C more to get DRM! Netflix: why? MPAA executive: because they'll steal our content! Netflix: no n

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