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1. 931.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   I agree. My query returns PHP, but PHP developers earn significantly less than their C or Java equivalents, for instance.
2. 932.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   > You should learn PHP I need to relocate.
3. 933.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   > "Why isn't my regex doing what I intend it to?" I've found that question to be by far the most frustrating and time-consuming issue with developers I've talked to While I would totally use this tool, this statement indicates to me th
4. 934.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   Hey, I buy my furniture at Ikea, are you calling me cheap? Seriously though, Ikea doesn't thrive because of their marketing, at least not where I live. You barely see Ikea advertisements. Ikea is known for having a wide range of cheap and m
5. 935.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   I've been using Sumatra for a long time, but it's been supplanted by Firefox in most cases recently. Sumatra is great and lightweight though, and it uses a robust and open source rendering and parsing engine.
6. 936.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   I agree that the Acrobat plugin was a pain (and I always made sure to disable it in Firefox), but I absolutely love the Firefox in-browser PDF viewer. It doesn't lock up the PC while loading, and it has a convenient download button that doe
7. 937.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   One line at a time. Is that significantly slower for stdin? I would assume that this wouldn't make a difference, since we're talking about simple memory operations, and 20k method invocations shouldn't be that hard on a modern system.
8. 938.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   I have noticed a similar thing recently. A programming challenge with a 10s max time restriction, and just reading the input and storing it in an array takes over 7 seconds. I allocate the array ahead of time, as soon as I know the size. Th
9. 939.▲
   by sspiff 14y ago

   I love the idea behind being able to collect the snippets and quotes you come across, but not having an alternative for a Facebook sign in pretty much makes this useless for me.
10. 940.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    > The default website, icon, and theme are ugly to say the least I find the default icon better looking than the one the author is using, so I guess this is just a matter of taste. Same goes with the color scheme.
11. 941.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    When I read your comment, I couldn't help but think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn3Xp2jkTZQ&t=116
12. 942.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I tried both on my Windows 7 laptop from work, which runs on a first-gen i5 and HD2000 graphics. The HTML5 version runs smoothly, the Flash one is barely playable and has lots of visible tearing from the lack of VSync.
13. 943.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    Sorry for the delayed reply, the laptop I got is a Sony Vaio S15. And I did turn off EFI and enabled legacy BIOS in the menu, since I found EFI implementations to be severely bugged in a lot of cases, and I'd rather just avoid them until th
14. 944.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I have been running HD3000/HD4000 for years and never had a crash or lock up. You're not talking about AMD's Radeon HD 3k/4k are you? Because I believe both dmm and I are talking about Intel's HD range.
15. 945.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    Thanks for such an in-depth reply! Very helpful :)
16. 946.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I'm looking for a tablet device where the graphics drivers are open source, or there are decent reverse engineered open source drivers. So far the list is very short: buy Intel HD graphics hardware. The problem you raise is exactly why I'm
17. 947.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    So does this mean they won't be supporting GamePlay[1] anymore, or are they going to back two cross platform gaming frameworks? [1] https://github.com/blackberry/GamePlay
18. 948.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I bought my laptop in September, popped out the HD and swapped in an SSD, and installed Linux Mint. No hassle, everything except my secondary videocard worked out of the box. Following a few straightforward and well-documented steps, the se
19. 949.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    You seem to think people should constantly jump ship and change languages/ecosystems. I used to do this, and the result is that you don't get results. I still look at new developments, and toy with new technology and programming languages,
20. 950.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I usually use a CC search engine filter (even Google has this!) to make sure I pick legal artwork from the start, just in case I forget.
21. 951.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I've only had one ThinkPad break, and I had it for less than a year at the time. Three weeks before the laptop turned 1 year old, I called Lenovo, and was redirected to an Irish support guy who had limited knowledge of my native language. A
22. 952.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I can't give you any experience on that front, since I mostly use Linux.
23. 953.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I've bought many laptops, and regretted it every time I didn't buy a ThinkPad. That's not to say the others are bad. It's just that ThinkPads are in a class of their own.
24. 954.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    Or that battery life. Who wants a Chromebook that lasts 4 hours on a charge according to the manufacturer! My two year old HP dm1z has comparable performance, twice the memory, the same resolution in an 11" display, 9 hours of real world ba
25. 955.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I have had or maintained at some point: * An almost 2 year old dm1z netbook * A 13" Pavilion laptop from late 2010 * An EliteBook 8540p * Two older Pavilion notebook, late 2006 and late 2007 And I am very happy with the quality of their mac
26. 956.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I'm not saying you need to leave Windows 7, I don't care what you use. Use what you're happy with. I was just trying to help out the guy who had trouble with Unity.
27. 957.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I run Linux Mint, which is really great with Cinnamon and QuickTile.py. None of that "use your PC like a tablet" stuff. I run Steam on it as well, but it's lacking in the number of games that run on Linux. We're definitely moving in the rig
28. 958.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I don't think this is urging users to switch to Linux, but at least the huge penguin is the most obvious thing on the page: it's the biggest, it's visually distinctive, and it's smack in the middle of the page. So they are definitely trying
29. 959.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    I reinstalled Steam yesterday, and the about page is what you get when you click the "Install Steam" button on the homepage. So everybody visits it at least once.
30. 960.▲
    by sspiff 14y ago

    That's not a fair comparison: everyone who buys an XBox or a PlayStation, intends to play games. Only a fraction of Android and iOS users want to play games on their devices.