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by rufugee 14y ago
So I've covered all of these topics at some point in my career. What I'd love to see is someone like Coursera come out with a "what you should know as a computer scientist/software developer" curriculum...not only for myself, but for those
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by rufugee 14y ago
I'm sorry..I strongly disagree. You have me on the video support...OS X does a much better job there. You even have a point on audio drivers...they can be a pain at times. But design? Gnome 3 and Unity to me are FAR superior to OS X in term
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by rufugee 14y ago
I'd consider switching to Chrome if it weren't for the nightmarish way it expects you to manage tabs. I typically have 30 or so tabs open at any given time, and in Chrome that means a horizontal row of very tiny tabs with only icons (no tex
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by rufugee 14y ago
I really have a hard time taking him seriously. As someone who's been a heavy user of both databases in the past, IMO the only thing MySQL has done better than PostgreSQL is in the marketing department. PostgreSQL has no concerted marketing
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by rufugee 14y ago
Ordered two from Element14 around four weeks ago. Received them two weeks ago...so not bad.
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by rufugee 14y ago
>I've been in the industry over 20 years. I've seen plenty. It is easy to assume that the java and a JIT should be able to take advantage of all the extra information to make fast code. But in practice, when you add in all the framewor
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by rufugee 14y ago
I have. Little too magic for me.
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by rufugee 14y ago
5) It scalability is a joke. I've worked as a Java contractor at a number of places and what a PERL/PHP/Python solution can get done in 5 boxes, it takes Java 30-40 boxes. This is NOT an exagerration. I think it's a side effect of some dev
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by rufugee 14y ago
Oh, and the whole tendency of the java community to over-engineer everything ...while it seems to be much less frequent these days, it's still there. Not so much on the Play side, but it can definitely still be found. That's one of the thi
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by rufugee 14y ago
That said, it hurts my brain to understand why in 2012 we're still forced to create our own empty getters and setters, and why there are no anonymous blocks. I know that closures/anonymous blocks are supposed to be delivered in java 8, but
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by rufugee 14y ago
I've recently come back to java after around 5-ish years doing mostly ruby. Know what? It's been a breath of fresh air. Code performs as you'd expect, and when you need to track down behavior, it's usually very straightforward (completely t
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by rufugee 14y ago
So this is part of Pyjamas, which has been around for quite awhile. However, seems 2012 has been interesting. From the Wikipedia entry: On May 2 2012 the leadership roles of the project came into question [8]. Prior to May 2 2012 Leighton
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by rufugee 14y ago
As a long time PostgrSQL fan and user, it's nice to see it get well-deserved attention. It's kept our company of 3000 employees going strong for nearly a decade and has NEVER failed us or lost any of our data. (Knock on wood ;-) )
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by rufugee 14y ago
Oddly, signing up wouldn't work for me in chrome...only Firefox worked. When I submitted the form in chrome, is just reloaded the page.
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by rufugee 14y ago
I strongly prefer Android to iOS, and I have both android (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.0 and Asus Transformer) and Apple (iPad 1 and 2) tablets. One app I use quite a bit on the iPad is DirecTV. It makes TV watching a better experience by providi
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by rufugee 14y ago
Mind sharing what OCR software you used? I'm working on project which has just this need. Thanks!
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by rufugee 14y ago
I share this sentiment...for me, retirement is not the freedom from work, but the freedom to work on what I chose. Life would be boring without productivity. Additionally, as I age, I've felt a gradually stronger internal pull towards mean
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by rufugee 14y ago
Most of us are likely involved with java in some way. Kotlin has received quite a bit of buzz lately as a saner-than-scala next-gen jvm language. I count myself as one of those anxiously awaiting it's 1.0 release.
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by rufugee 14y ago
You're correct. I saw this earlier, but apparently it's not included in Haxe core: http://haxe.org/com/libs/physaxe
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by rufugee 14y ago
But it has a physics engine, a canvas, etc. I'm not a game developer (yet ;-) ), so I'm curious...what defines a game engine in your mind? What is haxe lacking? Thanks.
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by rufugee 14y ago
Haxe sounds too good to be true. Why would anyone use any of the other game engines out there which are targeted towards the mobile world if they could use Haxe? I see many half-donejavascript frameworks and fully-baked lua frameworks...wha
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by rufugee 14y ago
I really wish they would have provided Google TV features with the Chromebox...that would make it compelling from where I sit.
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by rufugee 14y ago
Doesn't work at all for me on Linux with Chrome. This is what happens when I start a drill: http://i.imgur.com/O5C9n.png
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by rufugee 14y ago
So....this has been posted about a few times in the past ( http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tir ). Where's the news here?
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by rufugee 14y ago
Yep...in case anyone comes back to this thread, I purchase an AMD Sapphire Radeon FLEX HD 6770 1GB DDR5 PCIe 2.1, and Unity works perfectly across all three now using the proprietary drivers, and setting the "Multi-display desktop" option f
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by rufugee 15y ago
Correct...doesn't seem to work for me. This is in chromium, which, unless something has changed, appears to have problems: http://askubuntu.com/questions/91789/why-is-nacl-disabled-fo... Downloading the official chrome build works. Thanks
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by rufugee 15y ago
On Ubuntu 12.04, I get this, and then it seems to hang. Anyone have this working on Linux? Welcome to Secure Shell version 0.7.9. The list of Frequently Asked Questions is available here: http://goo.gl/m6Nj8 Connecting to wellsj@gre
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by rufugee 15y ago
I have. Gnome 3 refuses to load with three monitors on Xinerama...but I have heard it works ok with two...just as Unity does. It's when you go to three that things get rough.
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by rufugee 15y ago
Thanks....I may try an AMD. I don't need 3D support either, but I do need compositing support (does no 3D mean no compositing? Not sure...). Not having compositing on the linux desktop these days means you're a second class season. Both Uni
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by rufugee 15y ago
What ard0r said about TwinView. I'm anxiously awaiting TripletView from Nvidia... ard0r, if you were to recommend an ATI card which had three display ports, what would it be? And, as a guy who has used nvidia with Linux for the past, oh, 14

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