geminitojanus

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by geminitojanus 12y ago
Window-based task management is "Windows", App-based task management is "Metro". We spent the last 25 years of computer history teaching both the users and the computers how to multitask, only for the most recent user de
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> Could you elaborate on the evidence for people willing to pay for good content? I also don't understand why Game of Thrones supports your argument. http://bit.ly/1mLgOc3 > I know almost no one who pays for TV
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
This fact is why newspapers are dead, and online content continues to blossom. In the information age, there's absolutely no excuse for the content they produce to cost $1500/year per subscription. In fact, that's where we hi
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
Infinite scrolling like this works pretty well if you want to do scrolling for, say, search results. It's all around horrible for something like Twitter, IMO. The problem with Twitter is that it's conversational, and it's sho
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
The first time I see an email from this service, they will meet my permanent blacklist. This is absolutely, brutally intolerable. It's hard enough maintaining spam-free email without this nonsense.
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
Why do we have to imagine this? This is reality for software engineers on LinkedIn.
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
Whole program optimization is really the killer feature for static linking today. It's possible with dynamic linking, but a static compiler can really go to town shedding weight since lots of libraries have common code structures (see
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> you most certainly do not "cut down on file load time." Surely you must be joking eekee. I know SSDs have made us all forget, but Disks (you know, those spinning piles of rust that most of us still have in computers to perman
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> Sigh, another string library. And this is the reason why I prefer C++ over C. You don't end up writing another string library for the 300th time. You say that, and yet every C++ project I've ever touched in my life has had it
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
Good luck finding a congressman to buy who will accept bitcoin as payment.
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> Is it actually proven that the costs are passed on (i.e. that the price would be lower in absence of credit cards)? Because, again, in theory that only works if the demand has enough inelasticity. Go buy something at your local No Name
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> I predict Amazon will take BTC within the next 2-3 years. I'm willing to bet a hundred doge this doesn't happen.
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> I find it humorous that Tiger Direct and Newegg are promoting Bitcoin mining with GPUS. Why wouldn't they? They both sell GPUs and have a large backlog of them. Somebody who isn't knowledgeable enough about the topic and want
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> Credit card companies do not charge 4%. I worked in credit cards about a decade ago, so unless the marketplace is less competitive now than before, I assume this still holds true. Furthermore, the fees that do exist are not necessarily
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
> How about the fact that the banking system charges huge fees for the use of their networks and technology? Yeah that sucks. But the only thing that's going to change this is regulation, not non-existent competition. > Do you mi
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
It's a strange world where we're saying 1080p is "low res".
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
I give it 8 seconds before it's all penises and people saying various things are dicks.
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by geminitojanus 13y ago
Well it's $200,000 today, $386,000 tomorrow, $120 the day after that...