RDeckard

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by RDeckard 1y ago
> Delphi and Visual Basic 6 were definitely not the pinnacle of UI development. > All layout was pixel based. I'd say that was a very reasonable trade-off at the time, when most screens were somewhere between 640x480 and 1024x768
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by RDeckard 6y ago
There is a film starring Gerrard Butler. "Geostorm", 2017.
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by RDeckard 7y ago
A lot of products these days are intentionally poorly designed with no longevity. "Planned obsolescence" is the term. Part of moving everything to as-a-service model :)
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by RDeckard 7y ago
That's just consumer culture, of which Amazon is an acute representative.
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by RDeckard 7y ago
It provides a counterbalance. Anyone who's ever played competitive sports, wishes for a competent sparring partner.
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by RDeckard 7y ago
Good job, Russia. Many of us are rooting for you.
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by RDeckard 8y ago
Any keyboard shortcuts? Can't seem to find any docs on it
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by RDeckard 9y ago
Good foresight.
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by RDeckard 9y ago
What do you do?
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by RDeckard 10y ago
Optimizations are still on in checked builds.
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by RDeckard 10y ago
>how does annexing Crimea help Russia? Was that one navy port worth it? >A calculated risk, perhaps. But they seem to be bad at math. Not everything in life is measured in money, or done because of money.
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by RDeckard 10y ago
What about CNN, BBC and Western propaganda channels? Are you The Ministry of Truth?
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by RDeckard 10y ago
Inevitably, some day, you will empathize.
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by RDeckard 10y ago
What wallet was that? :) Genuinely curious.
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by RDeckard 10y ago
Thank You. Brightened up my evening.
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by RDeckard 10y ago
WhatsApp for one: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...
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by RDeckard 11y ago
This isn't about you as the Slack Windows app developer.
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by RDeckard 11y ago
What's "a t-crosser and an i-dotter"?
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by RDeckard 11y ago
This is text-book Kolmogorov complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
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by RDeckard 11y ago
That used to be called Condo Internet and that is in very select buildings. Even out in Redmond, minutes away from MSFT campus, once can only get either Comcast or crappy 3mbit DSL from Frontier.
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by RDeckard 11y ago
Stop giving them ideas!! ;)
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by RDeckard 11y ago
What about Ukrainians?
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by RDeckard 11y ago
Probably because it works, they have been using it in the past, and there is no reason to move off of it.
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by RDeckard 11y ago
Love the 1996-era website design. Loads instantly, no ads, no non-sense.
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by RDeckard 11y ago
"Error 403 - Forbidden" - anyone else getting that? Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20150327121925/http://www.duckwa...
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by RDeckard 11y ago
Do they really - do you have a source on that? (no pun intended)
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by RDeckard 11y ago
I am curious: is YouTube going to re-encode all existing content with VP9? If so, I am wondering if they do anything special to preserve as much quality as possible. Are there any techniques to do that? (For example, certain JPEG transforms
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by RDeckard 12y ago
I was wondering the same thing. The features page claims "copy on write fork implementation" but that is not universally true. A cursory look at the code suggests that every allocation is a Win32 file mapping object (aka NT sectio
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by RDeckard 12y ago
You are thick.
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by RDeckard 12y ago
Realizing an adblock mechanism, for one. (Similar to InterMute in late 90s, and admucher.com now.)

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