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by wtracy 7y ago
Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Maemo all predate the iPhone.
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> Free music and entertainment with zero data spent. <conspiracytheory>That's probably why the phone manufactures were asked by Google and the carriers to remove that feature.</conspiracytheory>
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> If Google or Apple had offered first-party solutions to each of those services, would they be criticized for offering bloatware as well? The tech community seems to assume that software from Apple and Google will be well-thought-out an
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I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen a placeholder service that serves up ads in the images. The service gets revenue, and the dev gets something that's obviously not a final product.
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In the original JavaBeans spec, getters and setters served two purposes: 1. By declaring a getter without a setter, you could make a field read-only. 2. A setter could trigger other side effects. Specifically, the JavaBeans spec allowed for
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Student Fried $58,000 Worth of Computers with a USB Killer(gizmodo.com)
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Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms(wtracy.gitlab.io)
132 points by wtracy 8y ago|4 comments
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Within our lifetimes, I expect we are going to see games than run faster raytraced than rasterized. Why? Raytracing doesn't pay a penalty for overdraw. Rasterization time increases linearly with scene complexity, while raytracing tim
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by wtracy 8y ago
What's a good resource to learn more about the entity component system mentioned in the article?
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By msan, are you referring to this? https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MemorySanitizer.html (I'd never heard of the tool before.)
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Not the op, but: Genocide is an organized attempt to drive a race to extinction. An effort whose stated goal is to kill everyone of European decent residing in South Africa would qualify as genocide. Genocide is not just any large-scale kil
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The author spends a lot of time describing the problem, and not a lot on the solution. The solution proposed seems to be some variant on dataflow programming: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming>
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There's a world of difference between working correctly on x86 and appearing to work correctly on x86. Sometimes the difference has serious security implications.
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I couldn't name a major corporation that uses NetBSD on their servers or routers. (Yahoo used to use FreeBSD servers, but even they migrated to Linux.) Is there a major router vendor or something else that uses NetBSD in a big way?
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I have a pet theory that as an organization increases in size, the probability that it will develop a tool named Fusion approaches unity. PayPal and U.S. Bank have internal tools named Fusion. (I want to say that Cisco Systems does too, but
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> thousands of device drivers that were written over 10 years ago which work perfectly well on current versions of Windows Is that really true? A couple months ago I bought a USB to serial adapter that advertised Windows Vista support on
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First, a lot of the people watching these videos are high-functioning schizophrenics. Asking them to be more self-aware and diligent is like asking a paraplegic to spend more time walking. Second, how do you plan to do this? Put a banner on
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First, the reasons for this situation: Microsoft does not allow PC makers to modify Windows. This is why Microsoft is able to push software updates directly to all Windows PCs. Phone makers are allowed to change Android willy-nilly. This me
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Tread with care. There are organizations where "going around management" gets you flagged as a loose cannon. It probably won't get you fired outright, but does destroy the goodwill that you will need to make meaningful change
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LinkedIn is one starting point.
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To be fair, it sounds like he put in work up front vetting and training the VAs.
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How is UE on mid-range and low-end mobile devices? I have the impression that's in increasing important chunk of Unity's end user base.
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Frankly, I think that the burden of proof is on anyone who claims that online discussion boards are a snapshot of the FOSS community. That said, anecdotally, very few of the FOSS developers I've worked with are active Redditors or HN
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You know, my advice is colored by the use cases I have: I'm usually in one of two situations: First, situations where performance doesn't matter, and it needs to be cheap and Just Work. Intel beats everyone else here. (I'm re
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The people who read Reddit and Hacker News don't even begin to represent the Open Source community.
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The thing to understand about Nvidia is that they use the same model as Apple: Produce really nice software, and use it to drive hardware sales. On the driver side, a lot of the features and performance advantages of Nvidia cards are rumore
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Last time I checked, both AMD and Nvidia expect you to download manufacturer drivers for Windows. I'm willing to jump through similar hoops for Linux. (Incidentally, when someone complains about how hard it is to install Linux, that pe
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The original post in the thread basically said that Linux support is easy if you just make a new release every time the libraries you depend on make a breaking change. (Or a GCC update breaks binary compatibility for everything .) Even if
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AAA games rely on a single purchase fee for revenue. Once sales taper off because the game isn't hot and new anymore, there's nothing to be gained from further investment. (Ever notice how games steadily decrease in price the firs
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Ignoring that most publishers will recoil in horror if you suggest open sourcing their product, there's two problems your post fails to address: 1. The game industry is stuck on a "release and forget" model. Except for games

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