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by slacka 13y ago
Agreed MS 97-2003 .doc is NOT a moving target. Back in 2008 when we were considering moving from MSO 2003 to OO or SoftMaker Office, SoftMaker had near perfect MSO import filters. 5 years later, and only 3 of the 14 .doc import bugs that I
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by slacka 13y ago
I would be happy if LibreOffice didn't add a single feature for the next year and did the following: * Improved MS Office Interoperability * Fixed bugs * Reduced memory usage/improved performance In fact, those are the primary rea
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by slacka 13y ago
I too have been waiting impatiently for Google to fix the audio latency. Great to see behind the scenes of how the Android engineers are tackling this issue. Surprised this is primarily a Linux scheduling issue and of course priority invers
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by slacka 13y ago
We're talking about the the web being a "competitive application platform", and you just made my point. "Web apps and mobile apps serve different market segments" because JS/CSS/DOM tech is not competitive
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by slacka 13y ago
The teams at Mozilla and Google have done an amazing job of improving JavaScript performance. But, I also have to agree with PBS, that Mozilla has a knee-jerk reaction to many of Google’s promising technologies like WebP and PNaCl. Like ma
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by slacka 13y ago
If you think Web apps work everywhere, you've obviously never written one. The feature gap and performance gap between browsers is still massive. My company has shifted its focus from web apps to mobile apps. Because of the failings of
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by slacka 13y ago
"asm.js might not be useful or necessary for this" So for situations like this, would Duetto's approach of mapping C++ objects/functions to native JavaScript objects/functions be better? If so, is this a feature tha
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by slacka 13y ago
"This is an utterly ridiculous idea and I'm amazed it works at all..." Yes, reminds me of the people that like to run NES emulators, inside of Dreamcast emulators, inside of their virtual PC running on a Mac. Yes it's im
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by slacka 13y ago
I have excellent vision, and I can't see the pixels on the 720p Nexus 4, nevermind the S4. I'm so sick of people in this thread claiming the S4 pentile 1080p S4 is better than a 720p display. When you double the resolution, yo
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by slacka 13y ago
Yes, it's true LabVIEW has its own issues. It's a memory hog and the UI is cluttered and doesn't scale well for large projects. I don't think LV will be THE model for future programing, but I do think that its synchronou
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by slacka 13y ago
People here need to lay off the 3D printing kool aid. The examples of useful things that the Joneses are going to print at home is a joke. I've been working with 3D printers for over a decade now. They are good for 1 thing only. PROTOT
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by slacka 13y ago
> "For the programmer, that means we must grapple with problems such as concurrency, locking, asynchronicity,.." From my perspective, this is the problem of this decade in HW and SW engineering. Around 2007, Intel hit the wall
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by slacka 13y ago
Yes, Enough with the PPI race. On a 4" or 5" display give me 720p and more battery life over 1080p. If the manufacturer does not opt for the top of the line GPU, games suffer too, since by doubling the resolution, you need to quad
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by slacka 13y ago
My parents AT&T DSL tops out at 384kbps upstream. This is not an option for them or 1/2 of American with similar "broadband" options.
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by slacka 13y ago
See my post above for links/references, but it was originally released under the GPLv3.
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by slacka 13y ago
It was first released under the GPLv3 http://torrentfreak.com/gazelle-rejuvenates-the-bittorrent-t... You can view a mirror of the original release here: https://code.google.com/p/gazellewhatcd/
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by slacka 13y ago
Listen, I'm don't expect miracles from Mozilla on their first attempt, but the Mozilla PR and fanboyz put their reality distortion field in overdrive in this thread. The Mozilla Marketplace is a joke compared to iOS or Android app
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by slacka 13y ago
On my 47" I've used many 10' UIs, XBMC, PS3, x-box, Apple TV, etc. Boxee and X-bar(PS3) are my favorite. Don't know if XBMC or Boxee designers should take the credit, but if Samsung is getting the talent responsible, 30M
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by slacka 13y ago
The wikipedia article has some confusion about whether Erlang uses the actor model for concurrency. If you have some spare time, it would be nice to clean it up.
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by slacka 13y ago
If you're on a limited memory machine, like my 2GB netbook, Firefox is the best choice. Chrome is a pig in both the real world and these tests with 768 vs 1521 MB used. Congratulations to the memshrink team for fixing all the memory le
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by slacka 13y ago
After upgrading to an iPhone from a Treo 700w (and Win Mo 2003 phone before that), it's hard for me to admit to myself or believe that MS has made such a 360 in mobile UX.
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by slacka 13y ago
There is nothing wrong with the previews I read, but I did accidentally paste the wrong link. Here it is: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/geeksphone-keon/4505-645... Hard as it is for me to admit, MS did an am
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by slacka 13y ago
All the previews I've read say that Firefox OS needs high-end hardware to deliver a responsive UI. "Its unresponsive screen makes typing a laborious process requiring painstaking precision. Every action from swiping to tapping ons
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by slacka 13y ago
Everyone's niche in the industry taints their perspective; we’re clearly on opposite ends of this spectrum. Over the past 10 years, I have seen a shift from Unix/Linux x86 servers, to beowulf clusters, to GPU based clusters, and m
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by slacka 13y ago
Interesting. Here's my prediction from my niche in the industry, where single core CPU scaling ground to a halt and we still lack the necessary tools to parallelize our jobs. I see us at the beginning of this paradigm shift to multi-co
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by slacka 13y ago
>code looks better than a lot of commercial kernel code Sounds like we need another of Fabien Sanglard's source code reviews:) Normally I'd stay away from this sort of thing, but if it's a good as people say, I might have
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by slacka 13y ago
>I think the whole multiple core thing is over blown in association with functional programming. I think it would be pretty misguided for someone to adopt a functional programming with multiple cores in mind. The multiple core thing, it
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by slacka 13y ago
If it's a DDoS attack, reminds me of this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/932/
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by slacka 13y ago
Agreed, I worked in PRC for several years and HK for a few months. I am well aware that HK has some degree of autonomy from China. I chose to write Chinese government for emphasis on the irony. Had I confused Taiwan and China, I could see t
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by slacka 13y ago
Best official government PR ever. I literally LOL'd when I got to the "fuck you" at the end. How did I, a patriotic American, enter this bizarro world where I find my self rooting for the Chinese government?

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