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by slacka 13y ago
It's called a feature request. If you think bitcoin mining falls under the scope an office suite, please do us all a favor and stay away from their bug tracker.
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by slacka 13y ago
I have a AMD 5970. Default gallium3D are 40-80% of the catalyst drivers in the testing I've done, similar to the numbers phoronix gets.[1] If you're willing to put up with some glitches, you can enable the SB backend and bring it
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by slacka 13y ago
You raised some great points about the selection UI. Did you file any bug reports for them? For your bad.doc, I think it's a missing font issue. Would you mind posting the file somewhere like Google Docs or Skydrive so we could take a
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by slacka 13y ago
With a potential 32% boost in integer performance, I've been exited to try out X32 for years now. I was hoping this post meant I could finally use it. After re-reading the Wikipedia article, I was left wondering can my Ubuntu 12.04.3 r
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by slacka 13y ago
When I first heard about Watson, I expected IBM put a version of it online for people to experiment with. If it's as good as they claim, it could be a useful tool and create good PR for them. I know the searches are much more resource
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by slacka 13y ago
Saying that the tests were performed in 2009 and LO team claims to have improved compatibility doesn't prove anything. In fact, if you had dug a little deeper, you would have seen that 3 out of 4 of those 2009 bugs are still open.[1][2
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by slacka 13y ago
As someone who was part of a failed LibreOffice roll-out, I have to agree in my experience compatibility is the issue holding LO back. But users don't obsess, they just require decent interoperability. If basic features like charts can
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by slacka 13y ago
This is exactly why I wish HN had some way to "unvote" for the articles. Note this is not the same as down voting like you can already do in the comments.
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by slacka 13y ago
If you're targeting a younger audience flowlab ( http://www.flowlab.io/ ) is a great starter. Compared to Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey of my youth, there are so many great tools available to get today's kids
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AMD unveils revolutionary 'Mantle' API to optimize GPU performance(techspot.com)
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by slacka 13y ago
The Khronos group has OpenGL and OpenGL ES conformance tests. Unfortunately, they are not public and you have to be a member to access them.[1] The only public OpenGl test that I know of is the piglit suite.[2] [1] http://www.ope
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by slacka 13y ago
Firefox allows you to use switch your WebGL Renderer from default ANGLE to native OpenGL drivers with the webgl.prefer-native-gl about:config parameter. You can then run the WebGl Conformance Tests[1]. I found that my integrated Intel did b
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by slacka 13y ago
Also, the l and the g are similar to Trebuchet too. For me I wish more fonts made a clear distinction between 0 (number) and O (Letter), I, l, and 1, 5's and S's, and B and 8. Instead it seems to always be about a's and g&#x2
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by slacka 13y ago
According to an X11 dev, Daniel Stone, Wayland reduces the latency and eliminates tearing issues associated with X11.[1] This is exactly the kind of upgrade to Linux that will make SteamBox a viable alternative to PS4. As far as audio goes,
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by slacka 13y ago
I got this working by creating a new user in Chrome and searching from my default local https://www.google.com.hk/ site. The following attempts all failed: logging out, a different browser, /ncr , incognito, and tor br
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by slacka 13y ago
Thorium reactors produce PU-238 as a “free” byproduct. One more reason we should be pursuing LFTR reactor research.
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by slacka 13y ago
* The ability to play the game without installing anything Obviously you haven't played any HTML5 games. They all make you wait to download game data. And if the Internet gods have been good to you, it won't be cleared from your l
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by slacka 13y ago
I was talking about HTML5 demos posted on HN. Like this one that DOES use CSS: http://www.keithclark.co.uk/labs/css3-fps-new/ Granted, it's a terrible abuse of a CSS, but it's also a perfect example of h
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by slacka 13y ago
We may be seeing the same HTML5 demos on HN, but we're living in two different universes. In my world, I always open up these demos in a browser that's incompatible. If I do manage to get them working, my reaction is always like w
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by slacka 13y ago
> 2. The notion of locality states that what happens on Jupiter better not affect how fast your code compiles this morning (or how experiments run on earth). This is an important postulate, because if this weren't true, we might as
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by slacka 13y ago
Yes, for causal gaming and general system usage, the open source drivers are usable. But, I play competitively in a clan and take gaming seriously. None of my clan members or gaming buddies would ever sacrifice 10-50% FPS and put up with th
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by slacka 13y ago
As someone who does most of his work in Linux, I would love to also be able to game in Linux. I see way too many problems for this to be solved anytime soon. Here are a few of the problems I regularly encounter when gaming in Linux. 1) X11
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by slacka 13y ago
There are currently two open source AOT compilers RoboVM and avian that can be used for cross-platform iOS/Android development. Both seem to be in pre-alpha state. Seems like a better option would be to use apportable and go the other
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by slacka 13y ago
Another good guide: http://devo.ps/blog/2013/03/06/troubleshooting-5minutes-on-a... Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5361335
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by slacka 13y ago
Have you looked at Fidus Writer? It's an open source collaborative WYSIWYG LaTeX editor. With the documents that I used to test it, I didn't notice any slowdowns. http://fiduswriter.org/
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by slacka 13y ago
If you were actually interested in the content, there are countless ways to open a PDF safely. * Open the PDF in a non-adobe reader such as Foxit and Sumatra w/ JavaScript disabled * Both FF and Chromes internal PDF viewers ignore JS *
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by slacka 13y ago
You can pick the Mi2 up on eBay. The phone is geared for the China market, so you're on your own for support and warranty. I've used a Xiaomi in China. It was a decent phone, but the build quality felt a little cheap compared to L
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by slacka 13y ago
We're not a software shop, but we did make an iOS apps to interface with our hardware. Everyone in the development and testing was asked to jailbreak their phone. We probably had over 20 testers. By the time we reached beta and were re
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by slacka 13y ago
On the one hand, I dislike the multiple layers of abstraction removing the programmer from the metal and killing performance. On the other hand, being able to hack the source code like this reminds me of my childhood Apple IIe, cracking and
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by slacka 13y ago
Living and working in China, I quickly discovered that it's a buyer-beware market. Within a few weeks I had learned to always buy my electronics from the official stores in shops like Guomao. From ICs to smartphones, the fakes run the

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