tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Google Employees Confess The Worst Things About Working At Google
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
Gates is one of those rare people who is at a time a good developer, good manager and a cunning businessman. I started to appreciate him after watching
Triumph of the Nerds documentary series. I literally loled for 5 minutes after watching Gates in an event parodying IBM which was organised by Jobs
http://youtu.be/riyAe4BKAng?t=20m1s.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features
I think it is a bad decision from Facebook to go after Social Fixer. From the Chrome extensions page they have ~200K installs. This is peanuts compared to Facebook's user base(compared to Google where number of Adblock installs are ~40 million combining Firefox and Chrome, it hurts Google more they can't say much about it because of fearing of criticism from their core supporters). But future will be bright for them because people are accessing Facebook more from mobile devices where default mobile browsers are very restrictive and the trend will not change for foreseeable future.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop
Yes you can. As others have pointed out, it the DE that uses most system resources. For common development task you don't need 3D gimmick. You can install lightweight DE like LXDE or XFCE. I use Xubuntu in my home pc and installed it as a Virtualbox guest in my office pc allocating 1.5GB of RAM. Things have been buttery smooth. For a comparison of system resources used by different DEs see the article
http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201109/page08.html. The article is a bit old but still relevant.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell board
I would also recommend you to watch Triumph of the Nerds.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Taking PHP Seriously [pdf]
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
People here will argue that he is the worst CEO ever, that's debatable of-course. But I want to say some good things about him. To me he is a guy in a suit who understood software development. He shouted (in)famous "developers, developers, developers"[1], he knew that LOC is not a good measurement of software development[2], he poured loads of money in MSR ignoring the pressure of shareholders. For these reasons only he is a fine guy in my book. So I thank him for his works in Microsoft.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWylb_5IOw0&feature=player_de... (go to 38:59 time mark)
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
Well Chrome had this feature for a long time. Personally I don't find it much useful. But to me the killer feature of firebug is that when you open an XHR entry in new tab it opens the tab with all POST variables. Super handy when debugging REST api.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Cookieless cookies
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel
But it is Microsoft who made it trendy among web designers and even influenced Apple. Ironically this trend started by a company which was remarked as "tasteless" by Steve Jobs.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Unfair comparisons
Also as per your information I just checked performance of Symfony2 and laravel against rails and django in multiple query section. Though those two PHP frameworks were at the bottom in single query tab, in multiple queries tab the situation just reversed
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7... . Interesting indeed.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Unfair comparisons
AFAIK hhvm doesn't have namespace support yet. So Symfony2, laravel, ZF2 can not be run in it. But basic PHP performance would skyrocket I assume.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Android AOSP maintainer quits
Especially when Qualcomm is the only decent player in town.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists
You missed a small intermediate state between terrorists and hackers, "Chinese hackers".
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]
Also the violated patents are owned by Samsung. So this is the result of going "thermonuclear" against android. Irony hurts.
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]
tmister
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12 years ago
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on: YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim
I could not install it in my work machine as the OS is windows. As a replacement I use neocomplete.vim[1]. It is very fast, responsive, has fuzzy auto-complete. But it requires vim version greater than 7.3.885 and vim compiled with lua bindings. Still it is small annoyance compared to YCM installation procedure.
[1]https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim
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13 years ago
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on: Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing
How much space will it take for OS+Office+other default applications? If the situation is same as Surface RT then 64 GB Surface Pro is definitely not a good choice.
tmister
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13 years ago
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on: Mozilla: The problem is mobile, not money
Yes, that may be the case. I am not taking side of Microsoft. I agree that if Microsoft have won antitrust lawsuit we would not be in current highly competitive situation. I am pointing the fact that people should have complained same way as they have complained for Microsoft's case.
