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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
> The update only froze once for me (had to hard reset). No side effects from that. This was the smoothest windows update process I've ever had. Having to hard reset during an update due to a freeze doesn't exactly sound like
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Ouch. That's pretty awful.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Including the per-device unique id for advertisers?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
> Windows 10 is an absolutely amazing OS > the best Windows I've ever used > the best desktop OS I've ever used I'm not doubting your enthusiasm, but could you elaborate on which features you believe make it superior
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
If you had no concerns running a pirated copy of the old version what's stopping you from getting a pirated copy of the newer version?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Be sure to read the licensing fine print about data collection for advertising etc. https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-persona... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966236
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
SBT uses incremental compilation. That might account for the difference observed by parent (on incremental builds only)?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
I've never seen $1 used in production code.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
There are many readers of HN who aren't in the US and plenty of older cars around. In some countries carburetors were going into new cars after 2000.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
At first glance I read that as "...but Eclipse is not a great product" Android Studio is based on IntelliJ which is a far more polished IDE.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what else would be on that list?
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Let's hope this works out better than the North Korean nuclear deal.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Lenovo sells many laptops which cost much less than Thinkpads. Thinkpads tend to be the more expensive models. A quick search for "macbook" and "thinkpad" prices between $900 and $1300 for macbook and between $400 and $9
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Some trivia: In the rest of the English speaking world (including the UK where the series of books originates from) the series is known as Where's Wally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Wally%3F
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The Russian Air Force is falling out of the sky(theweek.com)
4 points by thescrewdriver 11y ago|0 comments
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
The only negative was a small memory overhead.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
The background color of ads section in search results seems to get closer and closer to the regular page background each year, or maybe it's just my eyes.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
yes
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
I'm also curious to see how things evolve with the countermeasures: http://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-launches-s... (a terrible idea imho).
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
You're piecing together two unrelated sentences from the article to tell a different story... "No collision took place" - refers to the two cars in this case. "In all cases, the self-driving prototype was not at fault, a
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Both vehicles would be doing a ton of data collection, so it's hard to imagine a situation where false claims wouldn't easily be debunked with data/footage from the vehicles themselves.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
If the time to restart your process or host affects the overall operation and performance of your service you're doing it wrong.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
October 2014 + 1 year = October 2015
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A former Googler has declared war on ad blockers with a new startup(businessinsider.com)
4 points by thescrewdriver 11y ago|4 comments
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Scala support for Lambda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724933 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/writing-aws-lambda-func...
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
I also code Scala for a living and the Scala experience in IntelliJ is pretty far ahead of anything else. It feels very close to being just as polished as using Java in IntelliJ.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
There's a subtle distinction here... It's pretty common for a widely used Java library to be compiled and/or coded against an older JDK version e.g. JDK 5 or 6. This is seldom an issue as most well written libraries written u
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
See also Sun's project barcelona from a decade+ ago: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/mvm-141094...
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
The number of bugs, mostly referring to the older MRI versions though.
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by thescrewdriver 11y ago
Do you have a link? I'm genuinely interested.

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