vogonj

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by vogonj 14y ago
Windows 8 HTML5 apps are designed completely differently from on-the-Web HTML5 apps and Native Client apps. the carryover is significant but you don't get a Windows 8 port for free.
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by vogonj 14y ago
> The Xbox 360 also does constant updates that need a reboot. however, unlike the PS3, 360 updates tend to take 30 seconds to a minute, except for big things like the NXE and the whatever-the-newest-Dashboard-thing-is-called; PS3 update
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by vogonj 14y ago
"This is easy to say as someone who has never managed a product, but I feel silent self-update is table stakes for consumer-facing products at this point." yes, but no. saying that silent self-update is table stakes is missing the point: t
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by vogonj 15y ago
not to ruin it for you, but IE 6 usage is so high in China because China has a bunch of pirated XP SP0/SP1 installs; IE 7/8 is XPSP2+ only, and IE 9 is Vista+ only. this same piracy is why the Business Software Alliance was originally a SOP
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by vogonj 15y ago
the added value of a Windows 8 tablet over a Windows Phone device is that a heavily-encouraged subset of applications will run across those devices and a traditional desktop. Windows Phone will only run desktop Silverlight applications out
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by vogonj 15y ago
this is either hilarious (if he's just kidding around for PR's sake, and in reality he read the thing and took it to heart) or tragic (if he's really as dismissive as he suggests.)
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by vogonj 15y ago
Roboto may be clumsy, but it's far from a patchwork of existing pieces. (if you look, really look , at those comparison charts, you'll notice that even the "frankensteined" source fonts have significant differences from the Roboto glyphs
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by vogonj 15y ago
inclusive of that, the best term is probably "machine state" or similar.
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by vogonj 15y ago
to some extent, though, this devalues lytro pictures as "photograph-as-artistic-statement" in favor of the much more contemporary "photograph-as-infallible-chronicler-of-the-coffee-you-got-this-morning." (that said, I really want one of the
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by vogonj 15y ago
as someone who's tried to use Mono.Cecil, it kind of sucks if you're not already developing on the Mono toolchain (among other things, there's no interoperability between System.Reflection types and Mono.Cecil types, and even if you're on M
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by vogonj 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 use PBKDF2 (plus a SHA-family hash function.) use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2.
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by vogonj 15y ago
if you consider SMTP+IMAP/POP3 to be APIs, then this is a simple corollary to Zawinski's Law. the reduction is left as an exercise to the reader.
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by vogonj 15y ago
how do you know that this isn't due to the (small, even if we're being charitable) size of the community rather than a G+ design choice? if it's the former rather than the latter, your days of liking G+ are numbered.
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by vogonj 15y ago
this link is some tech blogger's recapitulation of a Forbes tech blogger's expose of a Daily Mail article announcing Chitika's press release. how is it any more trustworthy? at least Chitika's page has a graph on it (though they're tight-li
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by vogonj 15y ago
http://insights.chitika.com/2011/failure-to-launch-google-gr... is the source article. the 1200% number came from "Reportedly, Google+ saw a surge in traffic of over 1200% due to the additional publicity, but the increased user base was o
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by vogonj 15y ago
it's not as clear-cut as that -- it's mostly a combination of a traditional "you should work on these things and get better at having X, Y, and Z desirable qualities" conversations with your boss and Microsoft's love of creating systems wit
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by vogonj 15y ago
it's not "nostalgia" in the sense of old/classic things, or at least that's what I get from his thesis. it's nostalgia in the sense of doing things because, gosh darn it, that's the way we've always done them. his argument is that the Appl
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by vogonj 15y ago
no, obviously they went to the trouble for the licensing fees. but they did, as a side effect to the licensing fees, agree to make their invention freely-practicable -- as opposed to the default, where it would be protected by trade secret
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by vogonj 15y ago
a) nice "taxation is theft" dig in there. b) the entire purpose of the patent system is that ideas can be entered into a register and time-limited monopolies granted by the government in exchange for their public release at the end of the m
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by vogonj 15y ago
among other things, Intellectual Ventures filed an amici curiae brief in Microsoft v. I4I , another piece of patent litigation. on behalf of the respondents. http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=49803802... Intellectual
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by vogonj 15y ago
or, if you look at it from their perspective, they came up with the idea, went to the trouble of formally describing it and filing paperwork so that it could be released to the public, and then another company either independently invented
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by vogonj 15y ago
(AND DISABLE AUTORUN!) on the topic of disabling autorun, there was a patch earlier this year to disable autorun on non-shiny media by default in XP and Vista (it's already turned off in 7.) http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/0
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by vogonj 15y ago
yup. "Microsoft thanks the following companies for working with us and for providing details of limited, targeted attacks against customers of Internet Explorer 6 : Google Inc. and MANDIANT; Adobe; McAfee; French government CSIRT (CERTA)
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by vogonj 15y ago
the service is ideas. if patents are, indeed, on non-obvious concepts, they can provide the spark for new inventions, and -- if you sign a licensing agreement with the patent troll -- you are paying them for the right to build, market, and
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by vogonj 15y ago
IV is funded by Google, among others. "Intellectual Ventures was founded in 2000 by Nathan Myhrvold and Edward Jung of Microsoft as a private partnership. It lists Peter Detkin of Intel, and Gregory Gorder of Perkins Coie, a Seattle-based l
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by vogonj 15y ago
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/evaluate/eval... spoilers: Microsoft has a significant enterprise support organization, which the military is probably already dealing with, and Windows scales farther down than you'd think.
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by vogonj 15y ago
one particular aspect of VirtualBox has pissed me off in recent days. the system-level debugger is complete trash; it totally fails to do even simple things like inserting working breakpoints. at one point I had to resort to dropping int
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by vogonj 15y ago
the engine doesn't exist. this is just a renderer for Source maps. edit: and here's the source for the renderer: https://github.com/toji/webgl-source
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by vogonj 15y ago
now writing a high-throughput server is simply a matter of writing a high-throughput worker to generate fibonacci numbers and connecting it reliably through interprocess communication to your node.js shim. thank god node.js was there to sav
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by vogonj 15y ago
yeah, Microsoft's main competitive shortcoming against Apple in desktop strategy is twofold: - Apple can let OS X be its loss leader, whereas Microsoft doesn't have a thing to let Windows be a loss leader for (the Windows Store, maybe, post

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