abroncs | 10 years ago | on: Steam Hardware pre-order
Custom built high end PCs have problems getting 60fps at ultra with maxxed AA in some games. Literally nobody is expecting such performance from these machines.
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abroncs | 10 years ago | on: Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred from A.I. Competition
Of course it's not racism. You can absolutely discuss the negative aspects of a culture. This bending over backwards to be PC is truly absurd
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Wireless Das Keyboard Modification
There are quite a few tenkeylenss or 60% boards that exist for this very reason.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop for Dog Sniff Unconstitutional [pdf]
It has been proven in multiple studies that police dogs can be manipulated by their handlers, either by triggering them consciously or just by the fact that the dog picks up on the cop's body language.
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/2010-2011/02/2...
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Unix swiss army knife for headless browser JavaScript
This is headless.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown
> no-one in the real world gives two hoots about #1
That's not true at all. I have plenty of non-technical people who chose to upgrade their laptops as time goes on, even if they don't do it manually themselves. Same goes for desktops.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: New JavaScript techniques for rapid page loads
Looks the same on an iPad.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Optical illusions that show how color can trick the eye
It's definitely the light. It's a black/blue dress but the sun makes it have a hint of gold.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Why the British Are Better at Satire
Daily Show/Colbert are so incredibly dumbed down and mainstream though. And South Park has the annoying tendency to reiterate its point throughout the episode.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: The Life of a PHP Developer
That may be true for the Bay Area, but it's different literally everywhere else. In Europe for instance Ruby is still quite rare compared to PHP and .NET.
Also, Google trends is hardly a metric. Compare indeed trends or StackOverflow tags, and you'll see PHP is much more relevant.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: How much do indie PC devs make, anyways?
Echoing what the sibling comment said, I have almost 300 games on Steam (at least half of those are indies) while 4-5 on mobile. And my mobile games are Threes, Monument Valley etc. basically the super popular ones.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
It really isn't, not for professional (web) designer work at least. It might be ok for removing a couple of red eyes, but honestly the interface is so clunky it's just a PITA to use.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: MRI Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby
Although I agree with what you are saying, this is hardly new. (And still disappointing IMO).
Developers in the RoR community have a tendency to say that "Rails is very good for one set of problems (Basecamp), and using it for anything else is problematic". This has been the answer for every attempt that tried to introduce some worthwhile idea to the Ruby community, be it OO design, TDD or something more "enterprisey" like hexagonal architecture. It's not the Rails Way™, move on.
I've heard developers whom I respect (ie. Avdi Grimm, Sandi Metz) shrug this inherent limitation of Rails off, and I find it really weird. It's akin to Stockholm syndrome really.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Planet Ruby
Site looks horrible on an iPad.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: “Mastering Emacs” ebook announced
Check out Spacemacs. It tries to be just this: Emacs with a lot of plugins out of the box, sane keyboard shortcuts and Evil integration if you want it.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Summary of Golang Generics Discussion
Not trying to troll, but it's seriously depressing how much time is wasted on this language.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Stack Exchange for Emacs
Good. You seem to favor form over functionality, nothing wrong with that. Emacs is the complete opposite of that.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Kim Dotcom: “I'm broke” (german article)
That's not true at all. I can find dozens of full length movies and hundreds of full length albums on YT, all uploaded illegally.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: Gngr – A new browser championing privacy
> Javascript is superflous for 99.9% of websites.
For web sites, yes. For web applications though (of which there are more every day), it's definitely not.
abroncs | 11 years ago | on: SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31
That's a very reasonable approach actually.
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