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True | KumbajaMyLord | null | But, the side-loading restriction only applies to Metro Apps, which are primarily touch-screen/tablet apps. Not normal apps. | null | 0 | 1316516768 | False | 0 | c2l7iwl | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7iwl | t1_c2l7g0z | null | 1427623263 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | People should sit down, talk to each other and solve this problem once and for all. | null | 0 | 1316516937 | False | 0 | c2l7j6j | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7j6j | t1_c2l7cgu | null | 1427623268 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | *sigh* Ok, I'll try to explain it very slowly again, just for you:
Yes, you can access WinRT with standard C++ but it is so unbelievable pull-your-hair-out ugly, that it doesn't matter in the real world.
So, no. You will use Microsoft's proprietary extension to the language to write any meaningful amount of code without getting insane.
Therefore, the claim "optional syntactic sugar" is false and misleading. | null | 0 | 1316517163 | False | 0 | c2l7jk0 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7jk0 | t1_c2l7eue | null | 1427623272 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Whoops, two "my whatever is better than your whatever in two days"... Proggit is in decline, I reckon... | null | 0 | 1316517205 | False | 0 | c2l7jmh | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7jmh | t3_kkp4z | null | 1427623273 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BW_Yodo | null | Agreed. Article is quite addling. | null | 0 | 1316517455 | False | 0 | c2l7k1l | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7k1l | t1_c2l5bwq | null | 1427623278 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bart2019 | null | I read it as : most of the programs will be written in C#, but not on top of .NET.
Currently, to most programmers, C# and .NET are largely synonymous, so that is quite the divorce. | null | 0 | 1316517481 | False | 0 | c2l7k3g | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7k3g | t1_c2l5bwq | null | 1427623278 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Don't worry my friend. You are just dealing with people who fail to use any logic over this issue (if WinRT is programmed real C++ or not). If you check out my comments, I've been horribly downvoted as well, because people fail to understand that **using standard C++ to deal with WinRT/COM is so horrible that makes using C++/CX a necessity, effectively destroying C++ as a language**. What we have here is another J++.
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True | [deleted] | null | Yeah y'know what, probably not thinking there. Likely it wouldn't | null | 0 | 1316517562 | False | 0 | c2l7k92 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7k92 | t1_c2l7i3f | null | 1427623281 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | barbequeninja | null | The source one is 50/50 depending on luck with libc calls. | null | 0 | 1316517825 | False | 0 | c2l7kqy | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7kqy | t1_c2l7k92 | null | 1427623287 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | To stay within 40 hours and keep most people happy:
Maintain an ordered (prioritized) list of work items and every time a new task is requested of you, pull out the list and have the person help you know where it should be placed in your list. Calculate how long each task takes so you can maintain approx due dates for each item. You work from the top of the list down. If you have lots of random requests, then you keep one big task in the list called "random requests" or "custom report requests" and ask your manager where that big bucket of tasks falls within your list--and if any person or team's request ranks higher than others. Then, set the proper expectations with everyone and keep them aware of where their tasks fall or if a big rush on another task delays their requests.
Nonetheless, even in the "stream of work requests" kind of environment, you personally and your team as a whole should be able to compute the value you are contributing to your company. Are your tasks helping get or keep customers? Probably. So, what are those customers worth and what part of their revenue stream are you to be credited for? | null | 0 | 1316517863 | False | 0 | c2l7ktm | t3_jml9p | null | t1_c2l7ktm | t1_c2l7im1 | null | 1427623288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | A_for_Anonymous | null | I think the standard PC keyboard lacks a lot of special keys. I'm using my custom X keyboard profile, which has six character layouts:
- Normal
- Shift
- AltGr
- AltGr+Shift
- Level3 (I'm using a "ç" key I have for this; I generate ç with Level3+c)
- Level3+Shift
allowing me to generate a lot of characters including common symbols (e.g. ←↓◄▼¼☺♣◊), greek letters (e.g. λ), block characters (e.g. ░▒▓█▀▄) and single and double line box drawing characters (e.g. │║═╕├╬┘╱╳┊). In addition to that, I have the X multi-key set to Level3+Backspace, so for more exotic characters I can type stuff like Multi-key (1) which yields ①). Then I have the usual special keys:
- Control (left and right)
- Super (left and right) (my keyboard came with two keys with a weird symbol on them; I'm using them for Super)
- Alt (left only)
and I'm considering turning the right Super key into a Hyper key, though support for it in X applications seems to be limited. I'm also cloning Control on Caps Lock (and killing Caps Lock, also known as the tard mode for data entry key, or the cruise control for cool posts key) in my next revision, and making Level3 produce F13-F24 on F1-F12 for use in terminals which support F13 and beyond but not a Level3 key. | null | 0 | 1316517866 | False | 0 | c2l7ktu | t3_kkwd9 | null | t1_c2l7ktu | t3_kkwd9 | null | 1427623288 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Source?
I haven't seen Apple stating they will do this. | null | 0 | 1316517894 | False | 0 | c2l7kvv | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7kvv | t1_c2l5pdn | null | 1427623289 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Breepee | null | Care to explain what that means? Unless I missed the news on a new native C# compiler, I don't see how this is possible. | null | 0 | 1316517976 | False | 0 | c2l7l11 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7l11 | t1_c2l7k3g | null | 1427623291 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sc4Freak | null | Um. That's just plain COM. Obviously you've never seen COM before, so I'll save you the embarassment: that's how COM looks and has always looked. It looks that way because it's a low-level library and you're interfacing directly with the OS. That's *why* the WRL and C++/CX exist; so developers don't have to deal with it themselves. And if you don't like either of those, then write your own abstractions over COM as C++ developers have been doing for a decade!
Besides, you can't even seem to stick to your own arguments. First you were complaining that MS didn't use standard C++. When I showed that WinRT just used standard COM, you complained that you couldn't use COM without C++/CX. And now that I've proven that you *can* use COM without C++/CX, you've once again changed your tune trying to argue that COM is too difficult to use.
Well I have news for you: not a single one of your arguments or complaints has held any water, and *every time* you've changed your complaint, you've just been wrong again. I'm tired of the blatant ignorance that's preventing you from realizing that, so I suggest you acquire a modicum of intelligence and do your research before spouting any more FUD. | null | 0 | 1316517988 | False | 0 | c2l7l24 | t3_kk7c6 | null | t1_c2l7l24 | t1_c2l7i2k | null | 1427623291 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Android is not Linux. | null | 0 | 1316517996 | False | 0 | c2l7l2x | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7l2x | t1_c2l7ivb | null | 1427623291 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thantik | null | I probably would have read this if the thing weren't 2 inches wide in order to make it 10 pages long.
Seriously, what the fuck is http://i.imgur.com/xrJNo.png
And 1/3rd of *that* is even taken up by a navigation bar! | null | 0 | 1316518104 | True | 0 | c2l7la1 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7la1 | t3_kldfr | null | 1427623295 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | If hitting the (now former) start menu on a laptop running Win8 throws you into Metro, then they are not primarily touch-screen/tablet apps. | null | 0 | 1316518114 | False | 0 | c2l7lb0 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7lb0 | t1_c2l7iwl | null | 1427623295 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prlme | null | **THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX, I'M TELLING YOU THIS TIME IT WILL BE. I SWEAR!!** | null | 0 | 1316518249 | False | 0 | c2l7ljt | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7ljt | t1_c2l7ivb | null | 1427623298 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316518475 | False | 0 | c2l7lyo | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l7lyo | t3_kks00 | null | 1427623304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | Reddit would be left with a mere fraction of its current traffic if we kept to that principle... | null | 0 | 1316518504 | False | 0 | c2l7m0j | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7m0j | t1_c2l6g9v | null | 1427623304 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrBringo | null | It's not a switch.
Microsoft means "AND" NOT "OR" for everything from chipset to software, though they are encouraging to adopt new stuff. Backward compatibility is why Microsoft has been dominating I don't think they are going to throw it away, but what I am worried about is ARM; how apps could be ported to work on them. | null | 0 | 1316518569 | False | 0 | c2l7m4t | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7m4t | t3_kl1qp | null | 1427623313 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_muchacho | null | A complex events processor is an engine that allows you to work on near real time or semi real-time (i.e within a sliding time window, or only on the N last detected events) data streams. They allow to filter and process data streams according to rules you define. You may perform several different parallel processings on the same data stream or mix data streams in order to find correlations between them. You can back the system to a database. Typical usages are monitoring (checking for instance that a production line is used optimally), online fraud detection (check that no two users connect at the same time with the same key/card or from different countries within a short time period), real time statistics, etc.
A CEP like Esper (the main open source CEP) can typically treat in the order of tens or hundreds of thousands of events per second. | null | 0 | 1316518575 | True | 0 | c2l7m57 | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l7m57 | t1_c2l5nad | null | 1427623313 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah I'm betting it'd be a pita though, even the build utils could be a problem. Now that I'm actually thinking about the idea of compiling/running an app that hasn't been touched since 1998.. I'm kinda glad that I can't to be honest. | null | 0 | 1316518602 | False | 0 | c2l7m6x | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7m6x | t1_c2l7kqy | null | 1427623308 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > Um. That's just plain COM. Obviously you've never seen COM before
Thank God I didn't have to deal with COM professionally. I chose to use sane software.
> so I'll save you the embarassment: that's how COM looks and has always looked, because it's such a low-level library.
The embarrassment is on your own side, because you think something that is low-level must be as complicated as COM.
> That's why the WRL
I still haven't seen WRL officially.
> and C++/CX exist; so developers don't have to deal with it themselves.
No. C++/CX exists as an attempt to lock in developers in Microsoft tools. There is nothing technically that justifies COM.
> Besides, you can't even seem to stick to your own arguments. First you were complaining that MS didn't use standard C++.
Sure, because all the examples I saw that were labelled "C++" used C++/CX.
> When I showed that WinRT just used standard COM, you complained that you couldn't use COM without C++/CX. And now that I've proven that you can use COM without C++/CX, you've once again changed your tune trying to argue that COM is too difficult to use.
That's what I meant from the beginning: COM is too difficult to use, too impractical to use from standard C++ that makes using C++/CX a necessity.
> Well I have news for you: not a single one of your arguments or complaints has held any water, and every time you've changed your complaint, you've just been wrong again. I'm tired of the blatant ignorance that's preventing you from realizing that, so I suggest you acquire a modicum of intelligence and do your research before spouting any more FUD.
I am not spreading any FUD. You, on the other hand, are totally illogical. You can't see how Microsoft tries, once more, to destroy a standard by embracing it and modifying it just a little so as that it is actually something different. It's J++ all over again.
Microsoft has actually done that quite a lot in the past: instead of giving us a quality C++ API, it gave us MFC, which is one of the worst APIs ever. At the same time, VB users used the exact same model MFC used but none of its horrible mess. **It was a clear attempt to stop developers from using C++ as their main development language and move them to Microsoft's proprietary tools**.
Then, when C++ matured, Qt appeared and Java was made viable, Microsoft, once more, instead of embracing C++ and offering a native API that made sense, went ahead and did .NET. More vendor lock-in, more proprietary tools.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Microsoft changed the entry point of a C++ app from 'main' to 'WinMain', because they wouldn't want anyone to port their app easily to other platforms, would they?
I also forgot to say that Microsoft took Java, changed it a little with proprietary extensions, still calling it Java. Sun sued, and Microsoft renamed it J++.
Now, with WinRT, we have the exact same story. Microsoft is desperate to lock developers into their platform. So, instead of producing a sane standard C++ API, they go ahead and use COM, which is a horrible mess, that it is 'accidentally' a whole lot easier to use using their proprietary extensions.
Now, if you can't see the above, I truly feel sorry for you. If you insist it is not like that, then you are clearly a moron.
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True | grahampaige | null | I came across some code that used the variables shit and fuck | null | 0 | 1316518807 | False | 0 | c2l7mlk | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7mlk | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623312 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | argv_minus_one | null | Have you ever actually tried to do *serious work* on such a device, or are you talking out of your ass like every other idiot I've seen saying crap like that? | null | 0 | 1316519150 | False | 0 | c2l7naa | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7naa | t1_c2l646o | null | 1427623321 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rhesusattack | null | Are you sure about this? It's kind of hard to tell from the article whether they were referring to Windows 8 as a whole, or just the Metro-style applications.
Edit: Never mind, later on they do refer specifically to the Metro-style apps. | null | 0 | 1316519190 | False | 0 | c2l7nct | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7nct | t1_c2l6uh7 | null | 1427623322 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | supports 800x600 res. | null | 0 | 1316519212 | False | 0 | c2l7ne6 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7ne6 | t1_c2l7la1 | null | 1427623322 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sc4Freak | null | I don't think you quite realize how patently absurd that argument is.
This is how COM has *always* looked. If you're complaining about the difficulty of using COM, then C++/CX is *irrelevant* to the discussion because **it doesn't have any effect on how you use COM in standard C++**.
So if C++/CX didn't exist, then all it means is that you'd be **forced** to use the "pull-your-hair-out-ugly" COM interface. C++/CX gives developers the *choice* of an easier solution if they want to use it.
By your logic, you may as well complain that "C is too ugly/hard so people will be forced to write everything in Java and be locked into that platform". It's the same absurd logic. | null | 0 | 1316519262 | False | 0 | c2l7ni2 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7ni2 | t1_c2l7jk0 | null | 1427623324 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | I thought .NET was a framework on top of C#, not a compiler, powering it underneath? | null | 0 | 1316519343 | False | 0 | c2l7no0 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7no0 | t1_c2l7l11 | null | 1427623327 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | llogiq | null | The author mixes up lexicography (= compiling of dictionaries) with the lexicographical order (= mathematical ordering; compare lists from beginning to end until the elements compared are inequal). Other than that, it's a good primer into unicode collation for perl.
Note that other languages may or may not have the same problem, depending on their unicode support out of the box. However, the flipside is that unicode collation carries a performance penalty. Plus, you can solve a lot of problems without it - so if this is a good or bad thing depends on your problem at hand. | null | 0 | 1316519384 | False | 0 | c2l7nqs | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2l7nqs | t3_k0jua | null | 1427623328 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Source?
The internet hivemind, of course! It is *never wrong about anything!* | null | 0 | 1316519418 | False | 0 | c2l7ntj | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7ntj | t1_c2l7kvv | null | 1427623328 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | orangeyness | null | Just like the Apple app store for iphones/ipods. | null | 0 | 1316519425 | False | 0 | c2l7nu3 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7nu3 | t1_c2l7kvv | null | 1427623328 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Philluminati | null | *squinting slightly like Fry*
Unreal Tournament?
*The significance of my choice, even though I am a year out, is that UT was written in VB6* | null | 0 | 1316519596 | False | 0 | c2l7o6l | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7o6l | t1_c2l770q | null | 1427623332 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | >fn: string -> int | syntaxerror
Pardon me, but this sounds distinctly like [`int parseInt(String s) throws NumberFormatException`](http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#parseInt%28java.lang.String%29), where the compiler requires you to split error conditions out as a hierarchy of exception-types which will divert execution to exception handlers, rather than carrying regular and error types in the same system. | null | 0 | 1316519652 | False | 0 | c2l7oap | t3_kjw0j | null | t1_c2l7oap | t1_c2l1euo | null | 1427623334 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KumbajaMyLord | null | Metro is a touch-first environment. The pull up virtual keyboard that is integrated into Metro should be a dead giveaway.
Microsoft is just anticipating the touch hardware will take off big by the time that Windows 8 is ready for release.
>Building new touch hardware for Windows 8
Keeping the user experience at the top of the requirements, Windows 8 will kick off a new generation of computing devices, and it is only natural that touchscreen technologies will evolve with it. Our goal on the Windows team is to work in lock step with external hardware partners in the development of new hardware that will more fully support Windows 8 requirements, and ultimately provide the smooth, responsive, and natural touch experience that Windows users expect. Our continuing work with our touch hardware partners, suppliers, IHV’s (independent hardware vendors), and PC manufacturers will help us together deliver an immersive and intuitive touch experience in Windows 8.
[source](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/13/experiencing-windows-8-touch-on-windows-7-hardware.aspx)
They are doing the smart thing: They are responding to market trends (e.g. Easy to use, smooth, "just works" computing) but still offer the full desktop experience for the power users that want/need it. | null | 0 | 1316519669 | True | 0 | c2l7oc1 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7oc1 | t1_c2l7lb0 | null | 1427623334 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Although, didn't Macs have more stable ABI than Linux?
Definitely, but there are the problems of platform changes: Classic to OS X, PPC to x86 (and even m68k to PPC before that). In all cases, backwards compatibility was offered, but for a shorter time than what Microsoft generally offers. | null | 0 | 1316519670 | False | 0 | c2l7oc6 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7oc6 | t1_c2l7i5g | null | 1427623334 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | And increasing strictness of C compilers. | null | 0 | 1316519710 | False | 0 | c2l7oex | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7oex | t1_c2l7kqy | null | 1427623336 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thantik | null | So does a dynamic width. For example, if you run your browser unmaximized, take the left/right hand side, and start pulling the window in. Notice how reddit reflows everything in the main portion? Yeah...that.
That supports 800x600, but also allows text to widen to fill the rest of the page as well... | null | 0 | 1316519710 | False | 0 | c2l7oez | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7oez | t1_c2l7ne6 | null | 1427623336 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | It depends on the number of triangles, the size of the output image, and whether it's a single image or a sequence of frames.
If you use a KDTree with SAH for split position, even if it takes 8 secs to build a KDTree for a 5.5 million triangle mesh (down to 38 levels), the fact you can intersect the mesh so quickly is worth it, especially for a big image (2k or 4k) with 8x supersampling.
If you've then got a 200 frame sequence with the mesh just moving or rotating with a simple transform (as opposed to vertex animation, requiring a KDTree rebuild for each frame), it's obviously a huge win, as for the next 199 frame, the KDTree's ready to go.
Building a BVH tree or KD tree can also be parallelised fairly easily (although not completely - each left or right child node can be done in a new thread from the second level down). | null | 0 | 1316519760 | False | 0 | c2l7oj2 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7oj2 | t1_c2l78xf | null | 1427623337 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hackersword | null | and yet .... add-ons don't break each any every update .... Chrome was designed and PLANNED from the beginning to have continual update process, and the API and method for writing add-ons was set for that specifically in mind. Not tacked on as a "catch up" LATE in the game.
Hmm, so which has the better dev team?
Again, maybe you need to start looking at the people and the management involved in firefox, not the "process".
Ya, really "ironic" that you'd bring that up.
edit: and btw ... the whole argument began with the bone headed move to remove the version number from "About" (which EVERY application does). That evolved into the discussion of the ego involved in the design process ... but that is neither here nor there.
>since Chrome uses almost the exact same development model that Mozilla now does.
Notice that "About Google Chrome" gives version number. Ironic.
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True | dodehoekspiegel | null | Odd. This is the type of ignorance I would expect from the typical Microsoft developer. .NET good, everything else bad! Not that they know about anything else. | null | 0 | 1316519981 | False | 0 | c2l7p07 | t3_klhzl | null | t1_c2l7p07 | t3_klhzl | null | 1427623343 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Hypx | null | The reason why raytracing is becoming more popular lately in offline rendering has really nothing to do with performance. Instead, it is complexity of the rendering pipeline and human man hours needed to achieve the desired results. If the code is slow, you can always buy more hardware to compensate since hardware is cheap. Good programmers tend to be expensive, prone to quit or get sidetracked, and don't "scale" very well.
Raytracing is really simple, even at photorealistic levels of rendering. Rasterization will get extremely hairy by the time you approach modern 3D rendering quality. It's pretty straightforward to see why rasterizing is not getting the job done, even if it is faster. | null | 0 | 1316520018 | True | 0 | c2l7p3f | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7p3f | t3_kldfr | null | 1427623344 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Corporate use and distribution is an interesting aspect - though I'd assume most corporate apps that want to benefit from distribution will also use only little local storage.
In the end, it depends on what Metro actually is - or ends up to be:
- a UI?
- an app distribution mechanism?
- a Windows Sandbox?
If you see Metro as the latter, this makes sense. You want, through the Metro UI, convey to the user they are safe from certain threats.
Now that's a swiss cheese of security, as the UI can be emulated, but OTOH it's the only type of message to the use that works in general. | null | 0 | 1316520022 | False | 0 | c2l7p3n | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7p3n | t1_c2l7htg | null | 1427623344 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | Yes, that's what they say, and that's how it's designed.
But if hitting the former start menu gives you Metro then Microsoft is clearly expecting millions upon millions of office workers, for whom their current work computer is primarily an Outlook, Word, and LOB application work station, to use Metro. And they will not be interacting with Metro using touch. | null | 0 | 1316520061 | True | 0 | c2l7p6o | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7p6o | t1_c2l7oc1 | null | 1427623345 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | Exactly - normally, rasterisation uses depth-based info to draw the objects on top of each other back to front (culling hidden objects).
Raytracing acceleration structures are optimised for ray intersection tests from any direction, as camera rays, shadow occlusion rays and reflections and refractions will all be sending rays in all directions. | null | 0 | 1316520257 | False | 0 | c2l7pma | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7pma | t1_c2l7fq5 | null | 1427623351 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316520330 | False | 0 | c2l7pqt | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7pqt | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623353 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | well zoom the text you fucktard, ctrl+plus. 500pixels static is a decent row length. | null | 0 | 1316520365 | False | 0 | c2l7ptl | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7ptl | t1_c2l7oez | null | 1427623354 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Most definitely
x | null | 0 | 1316520457 | False | 0 | c2l7q0f | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7q0f | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623357 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GFandango | null | Interesting but you probably wont need it unless you have something very popular. | null | 0 | 1316520739 | False | 0 | c2l7qof | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l7qof | t3_kks00 | null | 1427623366 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rjberry | null | OK, not deprecated every couple of years, you're right. Though I seriously don't see why people are fighting this uphill battle learning new APIs that don't particularly hugely improve over the old ones only to make software for one buggy OS ...
... whereas if you build a web app it will run for ever, you have control over distribution, you can ensure users always use updated versions of your software, you can program in whatever language you want (VB? yuck!), and it will run on any modern OS.
If you need more speed and utilities you can at least use the JVM. Unless you're making graphically intensive programs (video games), I can see no reason to program on Microsoft's platform. | null | 0 | 1316520752 | False | 0 | c2l7qpk | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7qpk | t1_c2l770q | null | 1427623366 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | So you can buy a tablet that's good for more than Angry Birds? | null | 0 | 1316520768 | False | 0 | c2l7qr7 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7qr7 | t1_c2l76qf | null | 1427623370 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | Exactly - getting shadow maps to work correctly for different scenes, lights, camera angles in PRMan's a pain-in-the-ass - they often need to be tweaked for each shot, whereas raytraced shadows are perfect every time (assuming a decent number of samples per light).
Raytracing can also do everything in one single pass, whereas rasterising requires different passes and then compositing them.
Solid Angle's Arnold raytracer is starting to be used instead of PRMan by a lot of the big VFX houses because it's simplifying the rendering pipeline so much (and it's a bloody good raytracer to boot). | null | 0 | 1316520808 | False | 0 | c2l7quj | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7quj | t1_c2l7p3f | null | 1427623368 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaze0 | null | Some idiot has been using $ and _ as variable names in our Android software lately. | null | 0 | 1316520976 | False | 0 | c2l7r8b | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7r8b | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623373 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlackwaterPark_1980 | null | Deriding someone for making sweeping generalisations while making sweeping generalisations about them? Nice! | null | 0 | 1316521080 | False | 0 | c2l7rgj | t3_klhzl | null | t1_c2l7rgj | t1_c2l7p07 | null | 1427623383 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cr3ative | null | Sorry. | null | 0 | 1316521115 | False | 0 | c2l7rj7 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7rj7 | t1_c2l7mlk | null | 1427623386 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah I don't see how they could *not* be synonymous | null | 0 | 1316521246 | False | 0 | c2l7rsi | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7rsi | t1_c2l7l11 | null | 1427623383 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | A PC you made from parts yourself. | null | 0 | 1316521319 | False | 0 | c2l7ryb | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7ryb | t1_c2l75f5 | null | 1427623393 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UnoriginalGuy | null | One(), Two(), Three(), Four(), etc | null | 0 | 1316521358 | False | 0 | c2l7s1g | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7s1g | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623385 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mynameisflorian | null | I think someone hacked my computer because the internet is down. | null | 0 | 1316521494 | False | 0 | c2l7sd6 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7sd6 | t1_c2l5v2t | null | 1427623390 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frymaster | null | as it's a dev preview, not a beta, and MS are pushing their new platform, I'm working on the assumption that the metro interface is more obvious than it will ultimately be on desktops. | null | 0 | 1316521555 | False | 0 | c2l7sie | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7sie | t1_c2l7fbi | null | 1427623393 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doomslice | null | The point I was making is that you don't know until you measure it (and even then people won't agree with your methodology and come up with reasons why your conclusions are wrong). | null | 0 | 1316521619 | False | 0 | c2l7snq | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7snq | t1_c2l2pfv | null | 1427623395 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BobTurbo | null | Just a bunch of different words, same old crap... replace IBlah with IBlahSuperMetro. | null | 0 | 1316521621 | False | 0 | c2l7sny | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7sny | t1_c2l7d18 | null | 1427623394 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Oobert | null | Thank you, someone who understands... The sky is not falling, for most of us. :)
Also this validates my move from developing fat clients to developing web sites. Weeee! | null | 0 | 1316521922 | False | 0 | c2l7te9 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7te9 | t1_c2l6ute | null | 1427623401 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Porges | null | Ok sometimes in lambdas: `source.Select(x => x.Name)`, although normally `source.Select(customer => customer.Name)` is more readable, but very verbose. I usually just use a short version in that case (e.g. `c`).
Sometimes tempted to use `source.Select(_ => _.Name)` as that expresses my intent most clearly. What I'd really like would be something like `source.Select(.Name)`. :) | null | 0 | 1316521950 | False | 0 | c2l7tgt | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7tgt | t1_c2l7q0f | null | 1427623402 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | soAsian | null | nigga plz. | null | 0 | 1316522009 | False | 0 | c2l7tme | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7tme | t1_c2l79io | null | 1427623403 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Methinks he doesn't get it.
His analysis goes into far, far deeper detail than your two lines of rebuttal. No, he gets it a whole lot better, really. | null | 0 | 1316522016 | False | 0 | c2l7tmx | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7tmx | t1_c2l776y | null | 1427623403 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [No](http://www.enterakt.com/technology/market-share-2010-apple-ios-froyo-android-rim-blackberry-graph/), [definitely](http://www.businessinsider.com/comscore-july-2011-mobile-subscriber-market-share-report-2011-8) [so](http://androidandme.com/2011/03/devices/android%E2%80%99s-market-share-depicted-with-a-whole-lot-of-colors/) | null | 0 | 1316522049 | False | 0 | c2l7tq7 | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7tq7 | t1_c2l72ag | null | 1427623404 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sounds like you're a little upset over something so I'll just leave you to your childish boxed arguments. | null | 0 | 1316522123 | False | 0 | c2l7tx8 | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7tx8 | t1_c2l6l1p | null | 1427623407 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Oobert | null | All this sky is falling is in regards to Metro... If you are not using IE10 in metro mode everything still works as it does today (for the most part).
Metro is designed for tablets type devices, NOT THE DESKTOP! Notices that most of the restrictions for Metro apps are very similar to those on other devices (Android, iOS)... | null | 0 | 1316522123 | False | 0 | c2l7tx9 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7tx9 | t3_kl1qp | null | 1427623407 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taejo | null | TIL you can have 8-bit immediates in 32-bit instructions on x86 | null | 0 | 1316522128 | False | 0 | c2l7txi | t3_kkih6 | null | t1_c2l7txi | t1_c2l2hja | null | 1427623407 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | But the cases where your assumptions hold true are exceedingly rare. | null | 0 | 1316522138 | False | 0 | c2l7tym | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7tym | t1_c2l7oj2 | null | 1427623407 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fanatic_j | null | My first class in college was an accelerated class and as a CS major I was asked to assist those taking the class as an elective. A guy was using ii and jj, etc. as variable names. One of the mandates of the assignment was to use descriptive variable names, so I mentioned this to him. When I later reviewed his changes he had changed ii to billyjoel and jj to bananapudding. | null | 0 | 1316522173 | False | 0 | c2l7u1w | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7u1w | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623410 | 129 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | Most of WinRT itself is built with C++, but most of the apps that will USE WinRT will be C#. | null | 0 | 1316522196 | False | 0 | c2l7u41 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7u41 | t1_c2l5tzv | null | 1427623410 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > It's pretty straightforward to see why rasterizing is not getting the job done, even if it is faster.
Well, that is patently false, as rasterization *is* getting the job done. | null | 0 | 1316522208 | False | 0 | c2l7u58 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7u58 | t1_c2l7p3f | null | 1427623410 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frymaster | null | >what I am worried about is ARM; how apps could be ported to work on them.
I imagine if they're .net / javascript based apps using this new runtime, no work will be needed. If they're C++, you'll need to tick the box to compile for that platform.
For old-style .net software, I don't think it's known yet. For pre-existing C++ apps, obviously they won't work without recompiling | null | 0 | 1316522212 | False | 0 | c2l7u5l | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7u5l | t1_c2l7m4t | null | 1427623410 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsedlak | null | The .NET Framework does sit atop the CLI/CLR. If memory serves me well, the stack is something along the lines of the following:
Win32/OS > CLI (CTS + CLR) > Frameworks (WinForms, WPF, WCF, etc) > App Code
As far as I can tell, WinRT will remove/replace those low & middle tier frameworks to some degree with things learned from the .NET era. Instead of invoking Win32 methods in metro apps, we'll be invoking WinRT methods.
Please correct me if I am wrong! Admittedly I haven't done much reading of the new stuff.
Edit: Added "low &" because WinRT very much seems to be a replacement (more like a sibling) for Win32 but provides bindings at some point to .NET languages. | null | 0 | 1316522247 | True | 0 | c2l7u8s | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7u8s | t1_c2l7no0 | null | 1427623411 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | He did address that.
> For more complex effects, raytracer starts to win. Adding shadows, reflections. An univeristy student can have a lot of fun with a few lines of code, feeling happy. And from here on, if we never consider resource usage, raytracing always wins. You can solve the entire rendering equation (or so) with a path tracer in a hundred lines of code.
> But when we make programs, in practice and not on paper, no matter what we have to deal with resources, they enter the equation. Then it becomes a matter of performance and how much do we care about it. | null | 0 | 1316522297 | False | 0 | c2l7udm | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7udm | t1_c2l7gha | null | 1427623413 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benihana | null | We have puns in our codebase where I work.
We used to use a method to construct URLs called url_for(). We needed to update that method's functionality, so we named the new one url_five(). We use lightboxes to display popups. When there are a collection of lightboxes to choose from, we call them lightboxen. There are other'ns but I can't think of them off the top of my head. | null | 0 | 1316522334 | False | 0 | c2l7ugv | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7ugv | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623415 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | Because we have the [whole of Internets research papers right here](HTTP://Google.com). | null | 0 | 1316522358 | False | 0 | c2l7uj7 | t3_kks9l | null | t1_c2l7uj7 | t1_c2l2kg9 | null | 1427623415 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BeowulfShaeffer | null | True enough, and four of those arguments are structures with twelve fields. still, I've seen a lot of pain caused by people that don't even conceptually understand VirtualAlloc.
Speaking of which, I wonder what changes the Garbage Collector will see? | null | 0 | 1316522389 | False | 0 | c2l7umd | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7umd | t1_c2l6jyz | null | 1427623416 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daigoba66 | null | .NET is an ecosystem containing (but not limited to) the common language runtime (CLR), compilers (C# compiles to MSIL which runs on the CLR), and frameworks/libraries such as mscorlib. | null | 0 | 1316522416 | False | 0 | c2l7up4 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7up4 | t1_c2l7no0 | null | 1427623417 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kabuto | null | Can you name a few examples of programs that could be written ins that style? I can't imagine that a typical GUI program that has user input, file IO and makes lots of API calls to do different things could be written like this without making many compromises.
I find FP very interesting, but I fail to see its practical application in pure forms. | null | 0 | 1316522418 | False | 0 | c2l7upa | t3_kjkxj | null | t1_c2l7upa | t1_c2kv6c3 | null | 1427623417 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | What assumptions? | null | 0 | 1316522436 | False | 0 | c2l7uqv | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7uqv | t1_c2l7tym | null | 1427623419 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tripzilch | null | pine, mutt, lynx, vi, irssi -- pretty much any terminal based interactive application :)
but I get your point, I'm assuming this is a database oriented business logic app you're talking about. | null | 0 | 1316522527 | False | 0 | c2l7uzd | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7uzd | t1_c2l770q | null | 1427623421 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thibaultj | null | One day, I found a php file named ".php". Yes, a file with no name, just the extension. Found it only by change, because it was considered a hidden file by the linux filesystem. | null | 0 | 1316522645 | False | 0 | c2l7vae | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7vae | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623426 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | AKA installing Linux? | null | 0 | 1316522663 | False | 0 | c2l7vc6 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vc6 | t1_c2l75f5 | null | 1427623426 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thegreatunclean | null | Looks like I won't be using Metro apps at all then.
And nothing of value was lost. | null | 0 | 1316522676 | False | 0 | c2l7vdi | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vdi | t3_kl7h0 | null | 1427623427 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316522691 | False | 0 | c2l7vf2 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7vf2 | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623427 | 121 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Well, I, for one, am pissed that my grandma won't be able to upload her shiny new FaceTwitter app on Windows Store! | null | 0 | 1316522698 | False | 0 | c2l7vfs | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vfs | t3_kl7h0 | null | 1427623427 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Matt3k | null | They're not switching away from .NET, they've just taken a more realistic approach and realized they still need to support native code for performance.
This no more a switch "away from .NET" than the current native win32 interfaces are? Did you expect them to write the entire kernel in .NET?
All of what you write as a developer will still be in .NET, if that's your skill set. If you're more of a low level guy or need to really squeeze performance, then that door is still open too. | null | 0 | 1316522708 | False | 0 | c2l7vgt | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7vgt | t1_c2l7d18 | null | 1427623428 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | For instance,
> If you've then got a 200 frame sequence with the mesh just moving or rotating with a simple transform
| null | 0 | 1316522830 | False | 0 | c2l7vsd | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7vsd | t1_c2l7uqv | null | 1427623432 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | >...Apple is going to have to make several mistakes before Microsoft can compete on the tablet.
You mean like have all of their factories blow up and all their Ipad engineers die on a circus ride. I don't know if anyone ever really competes with Apple enough to give them a run for their money, especially in the IPhone and IPad markets. | null | 0 | 1316522858 | False | 0 | c2l7vuv | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7vuv | t1_c2l6ej7 | null | 1427623433 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cr3ative | null | If you make any page element "persist" with my scrolling, I will stab you in the face. It is immensely annoying when using a small browser window. | null | 0 | 1316522859 | False | 0 | c2l7vv4 | t3_kliaa | null | t1_c2l7vv4 | t3_kliaa | null | 1427623433 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rebo | null | It doesn't matter, its anti-Apple so it gets upvoted. | null | 0 | 1316522901 | False | 0 | c2l7vz9 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vz9 | t1_c2l7kvv | null | 1427623434 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | It's not two OSes, it's just runtime for one type of apps (that takes the screen and user input over until closed).
Kinda like if you would, today, make a full-screen app and installed a keyboard driver that eats Win, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ctrl+Esc etc. | null | 0 | 1316522906 | False | 0 | c2l7vzp | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vzp | t1_c2l76c2 | null | 1427623436 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dakboy | null | One of my friends in college used obscenities for every variable & function name in one of our classes.
Aced the class. The professor barely spoke English. | null | 0 | 1316523036 | False | 0 | c2l7wdc | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7wdc | t1_c2l7mlk | null | 1427623441 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | and parseString is statically checked. The point of contention here is typecasts, not conversion functions. | null | 0 | 1316523089 | False | 0 | c2l7wj8 | t3_kjw0j | null | t1_c2l7wj8 | t1_c2l7oap | null | 1427623442 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | onionhammer | null | .NET framework calls the WinRT COM API for metro apps, the C# being encouraged is not native, it still runs through framework 4.5.
It is going to be somewhat of a shift to call the WinRT libraries instead of the .NET Framework ones though.. something of a learning experience. | null | 0 | 1316523091 | True | 0 | c2l7wjk | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7wjk | t1_c2l7l11 | null | 1427623442 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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