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by w0utert 14y ago
My personal ethics regarding piracy are simple. I'll happily pay for anything available through legal channels, for a fair price, without inane restrictions, in a format that suits my purposes. Anything else, I will pirate, since I wouldn't
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Define 'better'
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I don't think this is true. The loop that sums the values always fetches the array items linearly. Whether they are sorted or not does not make any difference. Since the accumulator ('sum') can be kept in a register there should be no store
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> And why is it prohibitive for you? For starters, there are no data centers near enough where I live, so the service is not available ;-) But even if it were, there are many reason a service like this has no value for me: - I have 2 co
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So you are one of the few happy customers who is prepared to pay for an OnLive subscription to get the benefits you listed, great for you. I can make a list of downsides of cloud gaming that would be at least as long, which are prohibitive
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You forgot: 4) The supposed benefits of cloud gaming were never as big as a deal in the first place, and quickly becoming less and less interesting. Today even almost the lowest-end of notebooks you can buy will get you a better gaming expe
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In many cases I'd say you are right, but the scope of this application looks limited enough to be able to port the application part over to Android really fast, especially if the author already has experience developing for Android. Most of
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by w0utert 14y ago
> We had everything he said back then - it was just rather bulky. It's not a visionary statement - it's logic. > I wish everyone would stop harping on about Jobs - he was a marketing expert not a visionary. Yes, in hindsight it's al
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Then don't sync your iOS 6 applications to your 1st-gen iPad, it only takes one checkbox in iTunes, which isn't even enabled by default. Problem solved.
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> Quality control would seem to be a subset of build quality to me. How do you mean to separate it? I think it's pretty easy to separate the two things. Shoddy build quality means every single instance of the item is built badly, uses l
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by w0utert 14y ago
I tell people not to buy me any gifts at all, frankly I always feel a little embarrassed when someone went out of his/her way to try to find something to buy me, especially if it's something I don't have a wish or need for. Maybe it's just
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To be fair, scratches and scuffs on the outside of brand new iPhones have little to do with build quality, just shoddy quality control at Foxconn. I assume Apple will take responsibility for iPhones that are damaged out of the box. Wear and
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> Most likely my dilemma is that I seem not to be able to decide where to specialize and programming alone has become quite boring. I kinda want to do everything and can not decide which is the most fun of games, web, mobile, desktop or
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> If you've read the article, the issue is with unique POST requests coming from client-side. That kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable. Maybe I'm missing something, but reading the StackOverflow discussion in the source link, it
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> With the cash they have at hand I'm surprised they simply didn't buy out an existing maps provider. That's more or less what they did, the maps are coming from TomTom and Waze. The main issue with the iOS 6 maps application appears no
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by w0utert 14y ago
I totally agree. AnandTech is one of the very few remaining tech websites that are still really about the technology itself, instead of all the other aspects that ignite flamewars and hating everywhere else. The Verge isn't too bad either i
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by w0utert 14y ago
He speculated on the options Apple had for the iPhone 5 SoC, and speculated wrong. No big deal, it happens to every tech website or blog that tries to predict future products. Now he has some tangible evidence about the nature of the A6 cor
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Comparatively weak single-threaded performance, weak GPU performance, constrained memory interface, high power consumption when not running only the companion core. Tegra 3 isn't terrible, but just like previous Tegra chips it was so hyped
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by w0utert 14y ago
> Mounting tmp as a memory backed fs is great (to which there may be better options than tmpfs), avoids (potentially) spinning up disks covered in rust for minor tasks. I mount /tmp as a tmpfs for almost exactly this reason. I have an a
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> I'd be more interested in reading on well-rehearsed, current predictions about Java. I predict Java-the-language will stick around for at least another decade, if not for the huge enterprise codebases and the years invested in Java tr
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I'm not really sure if it's a glitch in the tool or that the resolution is (deliberately?) misreported by my browser, but on my iPad 3 it reports 1024x768. A nice extension to this would be to add some kind of database of popular mobile dev
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by w0utert 14y ago
The GIL does not make threads less evil than you apparently already find them, it just makes them a lot less useful. Threads in Python still have all the pitfalls and complications they have in other languages, it's just that they cannot us
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by w0utert 14y ago
Gentoo is indeed a very nice option in between a bog-standard distro like Ubuntu and LFS. It's easy to customize and tinker with, but still usable on a day-to-day basis. If you want something in between Gentoo and LFS, you could consider Op
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While I don't rule out that the PS3 port of Skyrim is a crap translation done as an afterthought, there are some technical constraints to the PS3 hardware that would make it very difficult to get a large open-world game such as Skyrim to wo
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Nice, but Volkswagen has had the exact same thing for months, but done a lot better: http://beetle.de/
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There's no such thing as 'O(n/2)', big-O notation is about worst-case complexity. O(n) means 'linear time in the number of elements', not 'n operations' or something. But in practice, the amortized time complexity will indeed usually be hal
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> The core problem in my mind, is not whether one should insert or update on PUT/POST, but whether one should even be considering HTTP-based APIs to be gateways to what amounts to a database. I think it's widely recognized that you shou
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by w0utert 14y ago
Can anybody explain how this works, ie: the technology behind it? The page itself doesn't disclose much more than that it uses some kind of secret algorithms to track hands and fingers, but I'd be interested in what kind of sensors and proc
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> Why was it in a dire financial situation if it had millions of subscribers? I've said it from the very first beginning (and got flamed for it), but IMO the business case for cloud gaming is simply very weak. If there is one at all. It
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by w0utert 14y ago
That was deliberate, it's called irony. I really don't think using HN to complain about people complaining on HN is a very good move. Sorry, but I can't make anything else of it.

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