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by vlasta2 13y ago
I guess it is more accurate to talk about latency, because throughput can always be improved by accessing multiple cells in parallel.
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by vlasta2 13y ago
I have a problem with the word reusable. A reusable software should be a component in a larger solution. Not a complete solution itself. If I accept that Stack Overflow or Discourse are reusable, because you can run them on different urls w
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by vlasta2 13y ago
I may not understand quantum computing properly, but would not this approach require N entangled qubits? If no, can someone explain how it would function on less than N qubits, for example 1? If it does require N qubits...I can imagine a cl
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by vlasta2 13y ago
I have been making native Windows applications for years and I am still making them. Around year 2000, Microsoft was a reliable partner. They made the OS, provided the tools and others were free to make any applications they liked. There wa
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by vlasta2 13y ago
Stopping a presidential plane because there may be someone as dangerous as Snowden onboard? That is completely ridiculous and out of proportion. Not only did no European country officially offer Snowden asylum, we have even made fools of
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by vlasta2 13y ago
This was true 10 years ago. These days, every additional setting the application has is a liability. There is a growing group of people, who are scared to have conversation with their browser and make any informed decisions. They ignore suc
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by vlasta2 13y ago
You should throw in a kinect sensor (or any alternative) and have a very comfortable remote control.
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by vlasta2 13y ago
If Google really wants to "not do evil", they should actively work on removing themselves from this position of power they have. They should also work on making it impossible for any entity to obtain this kind of power. That is certainly a
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Seth Godin on typography(sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by vlasta2 13y ago|0 comments
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by vlasta2 13y ago
I agree that someone should fork bitcoin and fix the mining problem. But screw transaction rates, the mining difficulty shall be determined by the nodes (people) participating in the network. Periodically, every node votes and a (weighted)
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by vlasta2 13y ago
Today, the buyer does not experience the fee. Sellers accept it, because the middle man gives them no other choice. With bitcoins, the middle man has no leverage anymore as the buyer and the seller can interact directly. That was my point
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by vlasta2 13y ago
One of the advantages of bitcoin is that you do not need a middle man to do a transaction. Some people may choose one for whatever reason, but would they be OK with paying the transaction fees? Would you use a credit card if you had to pa
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by vlasta2 13y ago
I am sorry I cannot agree with you. You cannot collect profits from a transaction between 2 Bitcoin users like PayPal does right now with "real" money. If the world adopted Bitcoin, it would be the end of PayPal's business model. If PayPal
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by vlasta2 13y ago
Oh, dear. If I were the president of PayPal and wanted to make quick buck, I would buy some bitcoins, released news like this, and sold my bitcoins the next day with a nice profit. And then, I could just deny the news, sending bitcoin value
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by vlasta2 13y ago
But JPG was like 10x better than the other image formats available at that time for photographs. WebP hardly delivers 1.2x improvement... This is virtually unnoticeable.
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by vlasta2 13y ago
I agree, that pushing WebP now is too soon as almost no image editors support it. I have added latest WebP codec (that also supports animations) into my RealWorld Paint ( http://www.rw-designer.com/image-editor ) few weeks ago and I doubt
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Google's WEBP reached 0.3.0 - Mozilla still unconvinced(rw-designer.com)
2 points by vlasta2 13y ago|0 comments
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by vlasta2 14y ago
Downloading TV shows is actually not illegal in many countries. Usually, only uploading is illegal. Morally, is is questionable. You can program your video-recorder (if you still have device like that) and let it record the TV show when it
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by vlasta2 14y ago
You cannot really compare Windows Store with Steam. There is no Steam-only OS with a name that evokes that it is a successor to Windows 7. How many non-programmers actually recognize the difference between full Windows 8 and Windows RT? The
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by vlasta2 14y ago
I find it quite funny. The author started by demonstrating that sliders are inappropriate when representing 1-of-N choices. I agree. Then he proposed a visual change that makes things better. This change makes the GUI element look like and
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by vlasta2 14y ago
With sound waves, your speed is added to the speed of sound and you hear a different note. With light, the speed remains at c, but perceived energy of the photons is still affected (energy must be preserved after all). And energy ~ waveleng
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by vlasta2 14y ago
Well, it certainly is impressive, but if I understood the video correctly, it actually requires different graphic primitives than SVG offers, so it would require a new format.
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I still can't develop for tablets(rw-designer.com)
1 points by vlasta2 14y ago|0 comments
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by vlasta2 14y ago
that was not the list of applications, but a guide on how to write one with and example at the end
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by vlasta2 14y ago
you can drag the splitter between the navbar and searchbar to adjust the sizes as you see fit... VS2012 is still a problem though
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by vlasta2 14y ago
> Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling. This is not true. Windows has had very good support for custom resolutions since Vista. Windows 7 actually looks great when set to higher resolution. Wi
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by vlasta2 14y ago
I believe the example ("abc" + 123) given in the article is not 100% correct. Let's take C++ as a statically typed language and define a custom class MegaType. Then, in the whole program, we may use only variables of this single type. Any p
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by vlasta2 14y ago
I find it ridiculous too and I am over 30. Maybe this is just some kind of joke or social experiment. Demanding things that are on the list from a partner or a friend really sounds absurd. But everyone is free to make their own lists and pu
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by vlasta2 14y ago
Disagree, it actually may make sense. The office is overwhelmed with patents and does not have the resources or people that are experts in that particular field. The author of the patent is supposed to be the world's best expert in their fi
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by vlasta2 14y ago
Agree, but I think the GPL examples about communication mechanisms are pretty weird and sometimes absurd. Consider this scenario: Someone takes a GIMP plug-in licensed under GPL and converts it to a Photoshop plug-in (which is a DLL and sha

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