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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> I'm sure there are people that prefer 16:9 though. It also depends on the size of the display. For a small 11" display I'd love to see a 4:3 (or even 1:1) screen to give me a lot of physical height for reading while keep
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
I _love_ that Microsoft seems to prefer 3:2 displays over 16:9/16:9 displays! If we get really lucky we might even see 4:3 displays again some day in the future.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
The next step would be to do render the whole page including ads directly into a canvas/opengl element using some heavily obfuscated wasm binary in order to circumvent the DOM and any DOM/JS-based ad blocker.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
A loooong time ago I worked in an open office space with the following rules: - no headphones: you can talk to me - headphone covers one ear: you can talk to me if it is important - headphone covers both ears: only talk to me when the build
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> 1. What's wrong with the maximise button? It wasn't broken, it didn't need fixing Using the maximise button takes more clicks and more aiming.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. I use this all the time when working with several monitors. Just press Alt, click somewhere onto a window, move this window to a different monitor, sma
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
The day they kill the .compact page is the day I stop using reddit.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
To the people who use log-scales for visualization of discrete events (e.g. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...): How do you deal with a value of 0? Do you use the same distance between "0" and 1 as between 1 and 10? On a different note: In a lot
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
I have nothing to discuss but I wanna say that I loved Game Programming Patterns and I am really looking forward to read Crafting Interpreters!
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
Has anyone ever done an analysis which compares the "social media" in the book "Ender's Game" to our current social media? I haven't read the book in a few years but if I remember correctly there was some sort
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
If I had the choice I would take 250k$ non-sketchy money from MS over any amount of xxx sketchy money from any other company. Yes, youcould get a lotmore money insome cases but MS will be the easiest way to get it.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> Just take pride in [...] where you came from. I think one problem is that everyone has a different definition of the word 'pride'. Over here in Europe a lot of people think of pride as something you feels when you actively ac
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> actual sales is likely negligible At the moment it might be negligible but in the long run they are hurting them self. 5 years ago I and a lot of my friends ordered everything on Amazon because it was fast and we knew that we will get
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
I wish Microsoft would invest 1 or 2 of its many million $ to re-include a simple QBbasic like they did back in the DOS days. I can attribute 95% of my interest in programming to that one single program.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
One of the last updates for the Moto Z Play 1 did something horrible to my battery life and now it's no better than your average phone. If you check reddit and the Motorola support forum there are tons of people with the same problem.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> Samsung is jumping the shark. You meant to say: every phone manufacturer is jumping the shark. I am shopping for a new phone and none of the current models are interesting.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
What really annoys me about Apple and what shows up again in this review: In each keynote the highlight how "green" they are and how much they care about the environment. But if they really would care about waste reduction and the
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> Is it just me, or is less that four years not "really old"? In the JS world 4 years is very old bu in the C/C++ world 4 years are still quite fresh.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> wonder how we got there I fully blame the virtually non-existant standard build- and module system in C/C++/JS for a lot of the current problems. This is one of the reason I really want to learn Rust. Compared to make/np
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> We need vast economies of scale to continue current chip production They don't actually need current chips, but recreating something along the lines of an early Z80 would be an enormous win for a society which is rebuilding itself
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> 1366x768 There should be a special place in hell reserved for companies who still produce that garbage. This resolution was already too low 10 years but nowadays is not not usable at all.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> I bought a Bose sound bar (the wide one) and wasn't overly impressed with it Isn't this normal for Bose products? Usually you buy Bose for the looks and the prestige, not for the sound quality.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> I miss the vertical pixels This HD craze (especially for notebook displays) was one of the worst mistakes in recent computer history! If I use a computer for reading and writing then I need a lot of vertical space and pixels! I don&#x2
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> Is there an international effort to document and preserve human knowledge so if/when disaster strikes, we can get back on our feet sooner rather than later? In this case the simpler technologies need to be documented with more imp
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> create a very good looking UIs I don't want a good looking UI, I want to have a fast and _usable_ UI! This fad in the UI and JS world that absolutely everything has to be "beautiful" needs to go away.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
It would be nice if each submission on HN had a tag for 'tech-related vs not tech-related'. This way you could do some nice filtering if you are sick of the standard tech-related articles.
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> The Simon Tatham version The Android version [0] of Simon Tathams games is most likely the best puzzle compilation you can get for your phone! It is small, free, fully offline and does not contain any ads. I literally spend hundreds of
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
I'd love to see something like this become a feature on HN/reddit: above the normal replies there is one special pinned (and perhaps even moderated) thread which is strictly used to gather links to original articles / alterna
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> Calibration puts you (hopefully) in the middle of the distribution of errors That would be an interesting research topic! Perhaps the average color of the un-calibrated displays is not the same as the one of a calibrated display. For e
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by yoodenvranx 9y ago
> why should any website know all that? As a developer: Without user agent: How would I easily detect which browser breaks a certain feature on my project? If I deploy a new feature and see through logging that a browser X is not able to

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