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by sjmulder 13y ago
Xbox 360 used a PowerPC instruction set. It would seem unlikely that emulation could be efficient enough to have it work reliably good and fast.
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by sjmulder 13y ago
My girlfriend is a big fan of both kittens and cupcakes. This would be perfect for her, too bad it’s not in Amsterdam. Over the summer Uber had some cool stuff here. You could hire a boat with friends, and the ice cream truck of course.
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by sjmulder 13y ago
Actually, you are allowed (and certainly able to) run OS X in up to two VMs. I installed 10.8 in VMware Fusion 5 and it was a breeze.
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by sjmulder 13y ago
I’ve only been into it since ~2005 (Tiger) when Cocoa itself was quite mature, but Objective-C has gone through a great transformation over that time. There used to be so much boilerplate in declaring and defining properties and keeping tra
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by sjmulder 13y ago
I tried using Windows 8 with a TV and it’s almost there but not quite – if they fix a few things it would be perfect: - At 720p you cannot run Windows Store apps (needs to be 768 minimum) - At 1080p much of the UI is too small. You can incr
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Chinese workers exploited by U.S.-owned iPhone supplier [pdf](chinalaborwatch.org)
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A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
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Type IDs in C++, a hack(sjmulder.nl)
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by sjmulder 13y ago
My understanding is that one of the original ideas behind Android and its API levels was that anyone could implement the Android API to run Android apps. Doing exactly this to build a simulator would seem an obvious step. No virtualisation
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by sjmulder 13y ago
Like you say, for a well built app the pixel density does not matter because you design in dp. > if you try cram too much on-screen assuming 1280x800 means a 7" device your app may be difficult to use on 4" one. For the reason
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by sjmulder 13y ago
Is a UK company less likely to give your data away? I thought the UK government was also in on the spying. Really, is there any company or government that you can genuinely trust not to spy on you, or to hand over your data?
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by sjmulder 13y ago
You don’t account for the physical and mental benefits the exercise gives you. Take look at [0] for example, which suggests that life expectancy is actually higher for cyclists. 0: http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1185.html
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by sjmulder 13y ago
I’m not sure what alternatives they had. Of the top 10 languages on GitHub ( https://github.com/languages ), only C and C++ do not have garbage collection. Those are quite a different beast from Java of Objective-C. There’s a
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by sjmulder 13y ago
I agree, but here it’s backed up with evidence. Maybe the concerns are irrelevant in three years time with more advancements in hardware (though the author addresses that), the points made are valid.
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by sjmulder 13y ago
> We've known how to send cryptographically secure e-mail since the early 1990s. Can we even trust encryption? How can we know that the NSA haven’t found weaknesses in common encryption algorithms? They have some of this field’s bes
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by sjmulder 13y ago
It looks like Windows 8.1 will be solving many of the issues people have been having with Windows 8. On the other hand, it’s such a shame that they’ve made Modern UI a walled-off platform. The PC’s biggest strength has always been how democ
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by sjmulder 13y ago
> Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold. They’ve thrown out the baby with the bathwater. This sort of flexible licensing doesn’t make sense for disc-based games, but would have worked very well for downloads.
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by sjmulder 13y ago
It requires login because it’s a page showing the search and browsing history of your Google account. The page also lets you delete this data and opt out.
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by sjmulder 13y ago
I’m an Android user but these kind of articles are terrible. The tone is very us-vs-them and belittling, and it looks like the author didn’t even do proper research before writing. Take the swipe to delete gesture. This has been in iOS sinc
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by sjmulder 13y ago
I’ve been with a few different banks (ING, Rabobank, Bizner, HSBC) and they all use two step verification. Some send texts, others use a card reader or such.
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Creating A Happy Appy Song(cimgf.com)
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by sjmulder 13y ago
It’s bad enough on buses and trains already (although newer Dutch Railways trains are great), but with flying I now have to make sure beforehand that I will physically fit. It’s not a matter of comfort for me, and it’s not like one can go t
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by sjmulder 14y ago
Android 3.x (Honey Comb) was just for tablets. At that time Android tablets weren’t very common, they become more popular after Android 4.0 was released.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I see where you’re coming from but honestly the Roku remote feels pretty good to me. It’s not too thin like the Apple remote, the round back feels great in the hand, the buttons are good, and it’s a dead simple layout.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
I agree, yet usage some of these technologies seem to be indicative of bad QA. Smoke, if you will. Some time ago I purchased The Binding of Isaac which is an amazing game, but it suffered from slowdowns on my computer. I guessed that it was
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by sjmulder 14y ago
They do, you can go and up your price after buying: “Like what we're doing? Click here to increase your order amount!”
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by sjmulder 14y ago
Dutch people use US International layout keyboards almost exclusively (@ above 2). The Dutch layout (# above 2) is very very rare.
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by sjmulder 14y ago
DLC (very slow progression otherwise), rewards for sharing, and low budget production. I prefer the Steam model myself. It fully embraces digital, and there are very steep discounts regularly, but in general the prices remain healthy and on
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by sjmulder 14y ago
The system that I think you are describing is already out there. I can’t speak for other countries but here in the Netherlands, the banks have standardised on “iDEAL”. When you’re on a website and want to make a payment, the site makes a re
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by sjmulder 14y ago
Well put, I never thought about it as such. That said, it looks like Ubuntu lets you drop down into desktop mode with a keyboard + mouse which is something I really like about Windows 8 over Android and iOS.

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