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by tx 18y ago
Also note that nearly all reviews for Microsoft are written by some kind of "managers"... The place seems to be composed almost entirely of them.
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Ballmer's a marketer. He believes the crap and promotes the liars.(glassdoor.com)
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by tx 18y ago
Perfect. It should decline even more, because lets face it: big percentage of CS grads aren't really "into it". The article points at year 2000 as the peak of CS enrollments, same year when I met an ex-taxi driver and the history teacher bo
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by tx 18y ago
After staring for 10 seconds at "Loading" thingie I gave up and hit "Back". I live in 2008 with dual core machine equipped with 3GB of RAM and hooked to the Internet via 8MBit fiber connection. I don't need to wait even a second for anythin
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by tx 18y ago
Maybe because web-sites are actually software, and are capable of delivering magnitudes more value than any magazine/newspaper is capable of?
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by tx 18y ago
Returning value types by value (structures) is a compiler bug? C++ and D both try to be binary-compatible with C, they MUST return a structure by copying it. An excellent article, but this little example was weird. I haven't done any seriou
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by tx 18y ago
I'm getting sick of this SV crap... Hello?! Since when recording a moving picture on tape is breaking news? And what does "tight community" and "internet" have to do with it?
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by tx 18y ago
PDFs are very nice on Gnome too. The default reader is super-fast and PDFs really feel like nicely formatted text files. PDF simply rocks. Why, oh why, don't they convert everything into PDFs or (better) HTML?! Scribd is solving a real prob
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by tx 18y ago
A lot of misquotes there or things taken out of context, I wanted to pick one or two but then just gave up.
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by tx 18y ago
Hmmm, let me get this straight. The author wants a service that allows developers to quickly and programatically convert proprietary format documents (MS Office, etc) to standard easily viewable formats (pdf, flash) for FREE to 'die' becau
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by tx 18y ago
I suspect you're underestimating efficiency of both types of engines. Diesels, for instance, are always above 30% and air-compressed should be a lot higher: they don't have an enormous energy loss in a form of heat compared to diesels.
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by tx 18y ago
Like your analogy! :) The bigger picture is that we're approaching an energy crisis. That's why gas is getting more expensive, and that is why there is even an interest in these cars to begin with: the message isn't to "separate front end a
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by tx 18y ago
Ok, we won't be burning gasoline in a vehicle, we'll be burning it to compress air when refueling. For similar reasons I don't get the fuss about electric "zero-emission" cars. Zero? Like electricity just magically comes out of nowhere...
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by tx 18y ago
Find each other on Twitter? Oh Jesus... Have you looked for each other on Grand Theft Auto?
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by tx 18y ago
I am so tired of hearing that email is broken. Mine isn't. It works great. It's faster, more powerful and universal than anything web-based, like Facebook messages. It works on nearly any kind of phone even. Yes, it's overused: my inbox gro
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by tx 18y ago
Definitely true for natural languages. English is very pragmatic and "dry" to my ear, perfect for engineering. But I feel like all mainstream programming languages aren't truly "languages", they're mostly dialects of X, where "X" is a fusio
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by tx 18y ago
There is a weird font issue with Opera on Linux with your site: all fonts are not anti-aliased...
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by tx 18y ago
We aren't building tractors, we're "painting" software and do whatever makes us feel more creative. In fact some really great hackers I knew were very passionate about their code and coding process in general. Once we had a dedicated Yell
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by tx 18y ago
Safari beats FF on a Mac (speed, UI, multi-touch, nicer rendering) while Opera simply destroys it on Linux. But on Windows FF is really sweet: it doesn't feel so terribly slow as it does on Linux and its less-than-perfect look matches Windo
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by tx 18y ago
We had the exact same issue with these morons. Email them and explain what's up. They will add you to their "white list". Funny thing is how their SMTP server accepts messages without errors and then just silently drops them. It's Microsoft
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by tx 18y ago
SMS is more capable, by far more reliable and complex system than Twitter. (guess how do I know?) Most Americans are unaware of it because it has never been popular here due to pricing differences but it's changing. SMS are multi-casted mor
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by tx 18y ago
Axod, you're absolutely right, I am amazed that your voice is drawning in this river of absurd. Twitter IS a freaking reimplementation of SMS, a not-too-hard problem that has been solved many many many times before (on a much weaker hardw
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by tx 18y ago
Such an utter lack of understanding of SMS messaging I've rarely seen. Twitter is a joke compared to what it takes to do SMS properly. Not only SMS needs to be persistent, but they also need to be stored and accurately retreived for up to 5
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by tx 18y ago
Agreed. Amazon rocks. But I'd recommend that guy to change his habits though: classical music is better for you than junk common sense literature. I haven't read all of those books, but some. Maybe others are better, but I doubt it. When P
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by tx 18y ago
You don't hate ASP.NET, you seem to hate WebForms and for very good reasons. You don't have to use WebForms though, there are other toolkits available. In fact, I built a neat desktop application using ASP.NET stack once - you can embed it
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by tx 18y ago
The visual plotting component I was working on would suddenly stop producing output: just a black screen but everything else was normal - no leaks, race conditions, crashes, etc - just no video. The bug was so rare that only customers ever
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by tx 18y ago
I don't want to comment on the story because I really don't care for ads, but I keep wondering why do people think that the result of Microsoft+Yahoo merger would be stronger than two separate companies? What stops Microsoft from successful
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by tx 18y ago
Man, this ain't real life, it's only Internet and my name isn't "tx" :) Besides, I lived with my pops in my 20s myself and speaking from experience. (I hated it).
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by tx 18y ago
Hah, at least 10 HN'yers are sucking on mama's milk in their twenties while dreaming of becoming .com-millionaires. Hey, how about starting to pay your own rent as a first step towards world domination? :)
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by tx 18y ago
Listen to yourself. You could be speaking Chinese right now with a similar effect. If my dog could understand (and speak) your language, he could have explained why licking his own balls isn't disgusting. He's cool with it.

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