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by w0utert 13y ago
Can't disagree the Wii has been pretty successful for Nintendo, and their handheld business has always been immensely profitable. I'm not very optimistic about the future of the Wii U though, IMO they are really to far behind with their har
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by w0utert 13y ago
I never implied that working on interesting projects means you can't work in teams, and 'getting pushed into a niche' is quite different from getting yourself into a position where you can work on projects you actually like and make progres
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people: 1. aren't managers. 2. aren't able to convince the "idiots". I guess you must have worked for complete
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by w0utert 13y ago
That's weird because I searched it on YouTube but it wasn't there before. Bit too early I guess... ;-) Not overly impressed by any of the new features though, looks like they just pushed their recommendation engine more to the front and bru
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by w0utert 13y ago
I'd love to see how the new interactive features actually work out, but for me the video isn't playing on iPad :-/
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by w0utert 13y ago
In most of Europe, kissing each other on the cheek in informal settings is also perfectly normal, but usually not between men. Where I'm from (Netherlands) three kisses on opposing cheeks is more or less the standard greeting if at least on
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by w0utert 13y ago
Are you implying the primary difference between cell cultures and animals is that the latter 'look cute on pictures'?
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> None of the points you make in favour of the Chromebook are exclusive to it, what's exclusive to it though is you can't get access to the vast flexibility of a local system and have to go through NX. Adding to that working with
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by w0utert 13y ago
Not that strange, actually. Reserving zero allows using it as an 'undefined' enumeration value that plays well with basic Boolean tests, e.g. 'if not animal: ...' and such. Now all I want in Python is a real switch statement...
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by w0utert 13y ago
I agree. I'm sincerely impressed by the Soundslice application, it's really awesome how the videos move along with the tab to show how every chord is played, and the UI is fast, responsive and easy to use. That said, I'm also inclined to sa
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by w0utert 13y ago
What more is there to say about it? It's fundamentally almost exactly the same as H264, minus a few features that would make it too vulnerable to patent litigation, plus a few minor additions that are meant to patch up the efficiency lost b
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Slamming the service because you don't like the postings of people you chose to subscribe to is just a little bit ridiculous. It appears you are viewing Facebook as some kind of alternative to Google+, or as a news feed where y
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Now, for my purposes, other alternatives just don't work. I don't know an easy way to have a Windows or OSX system to throw up a private virtual cloud over LXC on your notebook so you can work from a networkless Koh Rong beach. R
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by w0utert 14y ago
SFO has scanners, at least for international flights. No idea whether they are operated by the TSA though. The airport itself is pretty nice by the way, if you forget about going through security. I haven't travelled to any other US airport
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by w0utert 14y ago
I can imagine there are many, in day-to-day use I find Thunderbird to be one of the worst e-mail clients I've ever used. Slow, unstable, makes simple things hard (try to configure an LDAP address book) and many basic features simply don't w
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by w0utert 14y ago
And, in addition to that, I find it very hard to believe that anyone who used both can sincerely say Hg's CLI interface is 'just as bad' as git's. I've used both and switched to git eventually, because from a technical point of view it's si
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by w0utert 14y ago
I don't disagree with that last sentence, but even acknowledging that, getting a whole lot more editing done in a whole lot less time, using significantly less keystrokes, makes for a much more enjoyable (and almost by extension: more produ
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by w0utert 14y ago
Yes, if you're using vim through a terminal, or have to use vi on systems like Solaris, it's most definitely useful to know bare-bones vi. If you're on such a system, it's often the only thing you have besides 'ed'. Been there, done that (I
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by w0utert 14y ago
You should never listen to anyone advising to use only bare-bones console vim without the mouse or cursor keys, it's simply masochistic and doesn't contribute to your efficiency learning vim at all. Only if you expect to ever be using unix
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> And doing HATEOAS seems like making a c++ program const-correct. I would argue that cons-correctness is probably one of the most important considerations of any public C++ API, so not really the best analogy ;-). Try to refacto
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> As long as the equipment is approved by your local traffic authority and you did proper maintenance, you can prove it wasn't your fault. Which is exactly why I'm still 100% convinced this whole pipe dream will disappear the mom
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by w0utert 14y ago
It almost looks like as soon as expensive R&D is done and someone made a copy or knock-off of some piece of technology, it had suddenly appeared out of thin air, and the original inventors/investors who made it possible are patent troll
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> And don't start with "but h264 has so much better quality!" No normal person could tell the difference between a proper vp8 encoded FullHD youtube video and a h264 one, it's not like there are glaring differences! The glaring d
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> From the user's side, the way it deals with spam and search are two huge functional advantages which would be difficult to impossible in a native app. You can configure Sparrow (or whatever native e-mail client) to simply conne
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> I do my banking in a browser. I do my email in a browser. I manage photos in a browser. I manage relationships in a browser. I do my taxes in a browser. I order goods in a browser. I ship goods in a browser. I reserve items at t
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by w0utert 14y ago
So we went from websites, to blogs, to 140-character messages, to pictures on instagram to express thoughts. Progress... :-/
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> No one ever insinuated that Google is completely open with Android. You must not visit the same tech websites I do then...
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Firstly the interface isn't a layer of abstraction - it's a contract, a boundary. An abstraction is an arbitrary concept which may or may not apply to an interface. That's just semantics, let's concentrate on why I would always
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> It's not about how many ISomething's exist - it's about defining a contract between Something and the rest of the system. Why would I need to introduce a separate interface class to define this contract, instead of making it ex
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by w0utert 14y ago
The problem I have with lists of 'principles' like this, is that they usually carry the presumption that there are no exceptions to any one of them. IMO this is not a good way to introduce novice programmers to sound software architecture,

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