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by w0utert 13y ago
Let's not pretend real life is that much different. You can imagine scoring a date with a very popular girl just by some funny joke at the coffee machine all you want, but inviting her to a show or taking her out for dinner will be muc
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>> Yet despite all of your issues, Ubuntu is by now by far the smoothest desktop experience I've had, and I suspect that's the experience most users have In all the time I used Ubuntu with the exact same conviction, it wen
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>> Unless you work at Apple in silicon design, you don't know that, and to be fair neither do I. But history has shown that every A# release gets greeted with incredible fanfare about the completely-custom CPU work at Apple, to
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by w0utert 13y ago
So the SkyDrive setup screen declares that it will 'back up files to the cloud' while it doesn't, and there is no reliable default back-up solution that ships with Windows 8.1. I'd say it isn't so much the article t
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Don't forget to add some bevel or shadow, it would be a waste do let your dangerous Illustrator skills go to waste... :-/
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No money, maybe. Free cross-product advertising, definitely. I'm not sure whether the fact that (allegedly) no money changed hands makes this whole thing any better. I've never been a fan of Android or Google because I'm alle
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If you have touching faces rendered using different shaders, different lighting/material properties and/or different textures, internal edges rendered using subpixel antialiasing will look bad, which is why FSAA using multisamplin
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Yes, generic anti-aliasing for 3D graphics isn't as straightforward as modern desktop GPU's make it appear to be. The multi-sampling approach that desktop hardware uses is basically brute-forcing it, and doesn't work on mobil
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Note: using % instead of * below because I can't for the life of me figure out how to type an asterisk without it being used as an italics markup directive. >> Given the numerous advantages of int% a; rather than int %a; Care to
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Bingo, that's the exact reason to pair the asterisk with the variable name. Especially in C-family languages where you can actually end up with code that compiles and even works, until it breaks. Think pointer arithmetic on something y
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>> I'm not an Objective-C native, but every time I write Objective-C it feels like I'm writing a short story. That's the whole point of it ;-). Remember you usually only have to write the code once, but you or someone
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I would assume the steep end of the typical Kickstarter curve occurs because projects start to approach their funding goals, drawing in a lot of new backers because they believe the project will actually get off the ground. If the Ubuntu Ed
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by w0utert 13y ago
Yeah, wake me up when Tesla builds an EV that's within a affordable price range for someone like myself, making about twice the median income and still nowhere near being able to buy myself a $70K car (which would be over 70K Euro wher
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by w0utert 13y ago
You could argue MS Paint was about as intuitive as the geoPaint application in GEOS on the C64 [1], which has an almost identical feature set and user interface as MS Paint. I don't really understand why anyone in their right mind woul
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>> [..] but I think you're being sexist. Things have really been getting out of hand here, lately it seems almost anything that even has the faintest trace of 'usually being associated with female gender' is interpret
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> So you want _yet another_ password between the user and his magical experience or whatever ? I find this a pretty weak objection. Do you really want to trade all your stored passwords for the convenience of not having to enter 1
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by w0utert 13y ago
@c0un7d0wn below (somehow I can't reply directly?) I didn't know that, makes sense. That said, Mesa appears to provide EGL on top of GLX, which probably isn't as efficient as a driver that directly provides an EGL interface,
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by w0utert 13y ago
I don't get it, why does Wayland require Nouveau? The closed-source NVidia drivers are feature-compatible with their closed-source Windows drivers, so why would Wayland (or MIR, for that matter) be limited by them? What more do Wayland
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>> Whats the world coming too when even Russia is emasculated before the United States. Its expected, though I would prefer otherwise, that the EU countries bend over, but damn its getting silly now. I don't think Russia is ver
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by w0utert 13y ago
There's nothing in your list that makes Python less suitable for web development than [insert favorite language]. Many of the issues you describe (I agree with most but not all) are either irrelevant for web application development (e.
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>> Off-topic, but I'm curious about why you use VMWare instead of VirtualBox. Faster, integrates much better into OS X, seamless mode, 3D acceleration, better linux guest tools, easier updates, lots of reasons actually. Virtual
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Exactly, the OP is completely glossing over the fact that it is not possible to 'share your game with a friend in another city', because that implies that he a) has to sign in using your XBL account, and b) you can not be pl
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>> I'd be immensely wary of Sony declaring themselves open to indie devs. When I was a teenager I did homebrew development on the Sony PSP. Sony did every damned thing in their power to stop it. To run homebrew, you had to eithe
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by w0utert 13y ago
The thing that surprised me most is that on my colleague's system (the second Arch x64 one), the estimator went up to 16 cores before dropping back to 14, while my own system (Mint 14) and the other Arch system both went to 8, then back to
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by w0utert 13y ago
On 3 different Lenovo T420's (dual-core i5 with hyperthreading): * Linux Mint 14 (x64): 6 cores * Arch Linux (x64) machine #1: 6 cores * Arch Linux (x64) machine #2: 14 cores And on a HP desktop, also dual core i5: * Windows
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The challenge is to design your code in a way that either makes it impossible to end up with race conditions or non-deterministic behavior, or if at least limit the number of possible points-of-failure. This requires a good understanding in
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I think you are overstating the problems writing multithreaded code a little here. Yes, it's a lot harder than single-threaded code, yes you need to know what you are doing, yes you need to carefully design your code to enable efficient and
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Maybe I have a different idea about what's important for highly scalable architectures, because in my mind ignoring algorithmic complexity theory and adhering to mantra's like 'stop using linked lists' is one of the best ways to end up with
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>> Because when the economy picks up the Fed will decrease the size of the monetary base by selling treasury bills. That's how it has always worked in the past: by extremely careful control of the money supply, through selling or
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>> This is also why in the real world the fed can triple the size of the money supply without causing inflation. Of course the austrians predict, over and over again, that runaway inflation is going to happen Any Time Now. But it d

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