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by w0utert 14y ago
I'm still trying to figure out whether the new watermark on the new banknotes is some kind of sick joke, a big 'f*ck you' to euro-sceptics, or simply a screw-up and testament to the lack of historical knowledge of the people who designed th
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by w0utert 14y ago
Modern 3D engines contain almost no assembly anymore these days, and for the rare bits that are still hand-coded assembly, platform-independent alternative codepaths always exist. We've been long past the point where raw CPU performance eve
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> You seem to think that 'allows customisation' and 'defaults that work well' are mutually exclusive for some reason. Well often they are, especially in a complex piece of software like a phone OS. Customizability requires trade-
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Yes, you can, for now. There are no guarantees this will happen with future versions of iOS. [..] >> If you jailbreak you are forever a fugitive. You can never again just update, you have to wait and make sure it doesn
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by w0utert 14y ago
Chill out and take a deep breath, because you're missing the point entirely. I was talking about the arguments the article gives that supposedly show 'Android is better in almost every aspect', not about the merits of customization itself.
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by w0utert 14y ago
I agree with what the article says about sharing data between applications, this really is one of the biggest pain points of iOS right now. Fortunately, it looks like Apple will finally address this in the future, iOS 6 already has infrastr
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by w0utert 14y ago
Having used Twisted for a few projects and now using Pyramid for another, I'd say there are two big problems with Twisted that kill the experience for new developers: 1) The documentation is terrible. Even though there's a lot of it, and ev
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by w0utert 14y ago
It's nice, but it there are some drawing errors on Safari (6.0.2), the Christmas tree flickers and ends up behind the buildings. I remember a few years back when animated Christmas cards using Flash became popular. It's nice to see that we'
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by w0utert 14y ago
GT5 is definitely not a better example, because it suffers huge framerate drops in some situations, which completely defeats the immersion effect. Try a race in cockpit view and multiple cars in front of you, when one goes off track creat
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Raleigh, NC installed a two-lane roundabout a couple years ago[1]. Interesting, 2-lane roundabouts are very common here (Netherlands), but I don't find them much more difficult than single-lane roundabouts. That Magic Roundabou
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> New GMaps totally annihilates Apple Maps in every which way . * Rendering is faster on Apple Maps * Apple Maps caches a much larger area offline, while Google Maps is basically useless without a network connection * Apple Maps
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by w0utert 14y ago
MongoHub ( http://mongohub.todayclose.com/ ) works for me. It's not very polished, but it gets the job done, and it makes it relatively easy to edit stuff that's already in the database.
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Or did I misunderstand the MongonDB and it actually is so bloated by design? Depending on the type of query and the way you designed your database schema MongoDB queries can be either more concise or (in your words) more bloate
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by w0utert 14y ago
I like how the building says 'Huelands Spoor', I guess you're located pretty close to the train station ('Hollands Spoor' for those not familiar with the train stations near The Hague in the Netherlands) ;-)
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Always fun to know about non-determinism at the hardware level. Strictly speaking, the non-determinism isn't actually in the hardware, because the OS schedules thread context switches ;-) Assuming the CPU is running a completel
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by w0utert 14y ago
I tried 4 times, but on my machine (Firefox on Linux) I get the exact same result every time, up to the last pixel. In theory you would expect a physics engine to always behave exactly the same every time (as long as there are no random for
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> [..] which in my personal opinion is just weird and probably unnecessary most of the time . If an alternative language that compiles down to JavaScript is much cleaner and safer, and isn't compromised by the myriad of idiosyncra
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by w0utert 14y ago
+1, I thought my browser was somehow incompetent for a second ;-) The sliders are extremely nice by the way!
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by w0utert 14y ago
I don't see it either :-/ I've zoomed it in until the bars almost filled the screen and I still didn't see any gradient, despite reading in the text it should have been so obvious. Kind of defeats the point about 24 bit sucking...
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> This is not an attack. Merely an observation. You value the quality of HN. Be the quality. Don't be the problem. I agree with most of what you wrote, except this part. Maybe I'm being naive but I believe discussion about stuff
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> If you have any cognant and articulate arguments why this guys opinion (which I happen to currently share) is a stupid opinion to have, by all means, I'm interested... Nowhere did I say his opinion was stupid, I'm not one to ju
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by w0utert 14y ago
What does that even mean? Is HN supposed to be a medium for the preservation of some kind of philosophical balance of power between operating systems and hardware vendors? Shame on me for thinking it was a medium to report on technology and
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Maybe you should also stop stereotyping whoever hurts your Mac fan feelings. Just cut the emotional crap, it appears to impair your ability to see the point I'm trying to make. I've been using Linux and OS X alongside each othe
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> The issue is that many Apple fanboys ... This is where I stopped reading... It seems to be all the rage to write up anecdotal frustrations full of hyperbole about Apple these days, that's fine, but why do they have to be on Hac
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> I also don't seem to understand why we must reinvent the wheel and duplicate features when HTTP clearly mentions how to specify an output format, and how to handle partial responses (Range, Content-Range, 206 Partial Response, e
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by w0utert 14y ago
Agreed. I like JSON and I think it's the better choice for serialization and data exchange in many cases where XML is used today, but pretending it's the magic alternative to anything you could also do with XML is crazy, and it only shows a
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article. The article is hosted on macobserver.com, which explains why it has 'Mac' in the title. Also, looking at the article itself it is c
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by w0utert 14y ago
You're right, unless you would somehow ensure that of the 3 kids every mother has, 2.5 are female ;-) Anyway, looking at the worlds' population right now, I don't think we have to be afraid mankind will go extinct anytime soon because not e
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> It's way off. If not wanting kids was the norm, we'd die out pretty quickly (feel free to disagree if you have stats, author!). If 60% of women don't want kids, but the remaining 40% all have at least three each, population wou
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> Look at email as a standard - a few people have tried to extend that and it hasn't worked. Bad example. E-mail is basically just formatted text with binary attachments to be interpreted by the e-mail client. Still, almost every

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