ditoa

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by ditoa 13y ago
While demoscene stuff is seriously impressive most are using a shit load of DirectX to do what they do in such a small size. They are not bare metal demos.
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by ditoa 13y ago
"The development environment coders will use is based on Windows 7 and fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, allowing developers to debug PS4 code just like PC code. Tools will include C and C++ front ends that are largely comp
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by ditoa 13y ago
There is a massive difference between just bundling your additional software with your operating system and integrating (for no technical reason) your software with the operating system so that using an alternative is extremely difficult if
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by ditoa 13y ago
Unless I read it wrong the article says 10,000 servers going live this summer with the plan being to replace all 80,000 servers in total. edit: just noticed they sneak "and eBay" into the 80,000 total server count. Makes a little more sense
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by ditoa 13y ago
Is that 80,000 physical or virtual servers though? That ratio could easily be 10:1 if it is the VM count which is more what I would be expecting.
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by ditoa 13y ago
Hell even for Windows development I still use Linux with a Windows VM for Visual Studio. Windows 8 runs really smooth in VMware Workstation even on my 4 year old Core 2 Duo
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by ditoa 13y ago
For just a general surf the internet machine sure Linux has a lot of power that just isn't needed (and a lot of the time a lot of hassle to get it working right) and Windows does a good enough job. However I really dislike Windows for devel
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by ditoa 13y ago
Honestly I don't have an issue with Firefox/Chrome for the rapid version number increases. A browser is the most updated (or should be) bit of software on your computer. Honestly I don't even think of the version of Firefox or Chrome these
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by ditoa 14y ago
Unless I am doing very heavy weight development work all of my dev envs are in VMware Worktstation virtual machines. So flexible to work with and I can archive off the whole devenv with the project once complete knowing I can just load it b
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by ditoa 14y ago
I don't really see that as a plus. Qt would have been my choice but oh well.
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by ditoa 14y ago
Today is 2013-03-14 which is good enough for me :P
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by ditoa 14y ago
I wish Google would buy Digia and make it the default framework for Android 5.
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by ditoa 14y ago
This is just an advert for C++ Builder XE3. There is nothing in this article that a C++ programmer does not already know.
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by ditoa 14y ago
F# is a very interesting language and one of the best things to come from Microsoft in a long time. It could be a very very good thing for MS in the next decade if they invest in it properly (which they seem to be doing). Interesting times.
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by ditoa 14y ago
Agreed, by definition, you are right. However the whole "Linux is free therefore it can't be good" attitude that did exist circa 10 years ago is pretty much dead these days except for some hardcore MS customers who are blind to the real wor
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by ditoa 14y ago
Yes you get pretty much everything (current) with an ultimate license that is only for development (with a minor exception for Office) not production. So while you can fire up a Windows Enterprise dev box you still need a production license
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by ditoa 14y ago
For me there was not one identicle fit to cover C# however a mixture of Java, Scheme, C++(11) and Python covers pretty much everything. Some will argue having to know more languages, libraries, tools, etc. is a pain in the ass and to an ext
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by ditoa 14y ago
Yes. IBM, Red Hat, etc. Also there are tens of thousands of users running distros such as Debian on system much bigger than Windows Server can allow. While saying "first party supported" isn't like for like with Windows (if you are running
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by ditoa 14y ago
Pretty much this in my experience. C# (and .NET in general) is pretty nice to work in but it is expensive from pretty much every angle. From Visual Studio (which runs over $10k for the Ultimate license) to needing the Enterprise version of
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by ditoa 14y ago
While not as clean or powerful as Soulver, OpalCalc looks quite interesting http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
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by ditoa 14y ago
Yeah Word does have a few nice new things but I wouldn't say they are worth the price of the upgrade. The advanced embedded stuff scares me a little. I can see people adding huge videos into a word document and emailing it to 100+ people on
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by ditoa 14y ago
Excel and PowerPoint have seen some nice new features added however Word is mostly the same. The new UI is different but mostly just cosmetic over 2010. Although the ribbon has more options. The biggest changes in 2013 are SkyDrive integrat
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by ditoa 14y ago
Sublime was never very good with large files in my experience. UltraEdit has always been the best for that (if you are a Windows user, I don't know if the Mac and Linux versions perform as well).
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by ditoa 14y ago
Thank you for all your time and hard work Alan. I hope we see you back some time in the future. Enjoy your extra family time :)
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by ditoa 14y ago
I have the same issues regarding load speed on large files. I am a long time UltraEdit user and it is the fastest editor on Windows for working with large files that I have found. Unfortunately UltraEdit has a pretty awful UX compared to mo
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by ditoa 14y ago
Only the Java installer stub (online installer) has the ASK toolbar prompt, the offline installer does not.
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by ditoa 14y ago
We do. They are called Cue Marks or Cue Dots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark#Cue_dots_in_television
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by ditoa 14y ago
Reminds me a lot of the MySpace redesign video a few months back.
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by ditoa 14y ago
That is a pretty spot on summary of Windows 8. I use it on a laptop (no touch screen) and really like it but it can be a little bit disjointed to use. Saying that I never use any of the Metro (Modern UI) apps and uninstalled them all as soo
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by ditoa 14y ago
Windows 7 is more like Windows XP/Vista than Windows 8 is so it is more likely easier to just drop them back to what they probably already know. Also Windows 8 is brand new and while it works just fine upgrading to it isn't really something

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