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Did your previous notebook had an SSD drive?

> I was an Ubuntu user and tester (signed the c-o-c years ago) for years

> tester

That was likely the problem. People invest a lot of time in their OS, of course sooner or later they get burned out and fed up with all that, and then they move to OS X/Windows disappointed in Linux in general. You don't have to be a tester for Ubuntu (or other Linux distro), you can just use it with very little maintenance. Of course, you can select some more complex path with desktop Linux, but you absolutely don't have to do that.

> I'm going to echo what I've seen in another post - you appear to be a Telegram cheerleader with a brand new account, are you associated with them at all?

Discussions on HN about Telegram were mentioned on several Russian sites (e.g. [1]). No wonder that some persons decided to pitch in.

[1] http://www.siliconrus.com/2013/12/telegram-vs-hacker-news/ Approximate translation: "How experts on Hacker News laughed at Telegram."

> And why turn down Moxie's offer to join forces and incorporate an existing 10 million userbase? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6915741 ... None of that makes sense, and the only reasonable explanation I can think of is that maybe they're trying something sneaky.

Their app is already more popular than TextSecure[1][2] and available for more platforms. Why in the world they should all of a sudden change protocol (and probably lose some features, lose control over changes in the protocol, etc.) and join to a less popular network?

[1] http://www.appannie.com/apps/google-play/app/org.telegram.me...

[2] http://www.appannie.com/apps/google-play/app/org.thoughtcrim...

Read the comments under TFA. Nothing was broken. The author was quick to write the article without understanding protocol first.

Lucas Arts consistently delivered (Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango) and died too.

Yeah, Sunder maps are just insane -- both in beautiful architecture and mind-boggling complexity (map 11 for example has more than 5000 monsters and takes more than 50 minutes to complete for a speed runner). Some on Doom forums claimed that Okuplok (runner in your first link) is a cheater, because they just didn't believe that it was possible to make such demos almost without preparations.

And of course there are plenty of other beautiful recent maps. Thanks to Cacoward [1] (annual award for best Doom mods and maps), it's relatively easy to track them.

[1] http://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/

Here you go: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/ It's an ultimate source about chess programming. Also, Stockfish code is short (several KLOC) and well commented.

In TCEC all engines run on the same 2x 8-core Xeon. It's WCCC that allows engines to use arbitrary hardware -- e.g. on WCCC 2013 Jonny run on 2400-core cluster, but lost anyway to Junior that used 24-core Xeon.

According to CCRL [1], Komodo 6 and Stockfish 4 are 20-25 Elo weaker than Houdini 3 (in the last few years Rybka wasn't able to compete with Houdini, in TCEC it wasn't even able to qualify into Stage 4). However TCEC uses development versions of Komodo and Stockfish that are much stronger than their latest stable releases.

[1] http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

By the way, there is a very interesting tournament going on currently -- TCEC, unofficial computer chess championship [1]. The main intrigue of the tournament is the fight between Stockfish and Komodo. Houdini, dominating engine in the last few years, already lost any chances to go into the superfinal -- two very strong challengers, Komodo and Stockfish, in the last few months were able to eat huge advantage of Houdini. The author of Komodo, Don Dailey, is terminally ill, according to his wife he has just a few days to live, so it's possible that he will not know if his engine will win or not. It's really heartbreaking, he was very active in the chat of TCEC just a few days ago, commenting games, discussing computer chess and so on. Stockfish is an open-source engine that uses distributed testing framework, so anybody can participate in its development donating CPU time [2]. Both engines are very strong and have relatively equal strength.

[1] http://tcec.chessdom.com/ [2] http://tests.stockfishchess.org/

And Firefox actively _removes_ these features. For example, sharp variables were removed in Firefox 12, E4X was removed in Firefox 20.

Because of Unity, for example. With exception of some annoyances (like poor work with workspaces, not enough customizability, poor notifications), it's not so far to my personal definition of perfect DE, and miles ahead of other Linux DEs.

> The results are in line with what most people would assume; Chrome and Firefox users are more active users.

It's not true. top.mail.ru (large Russian counter, ~250M views per day) publishes both number of visitors and number of views. Visits/visitor ratio are about the same for different browser families. Also, stats from top.mail.ru are very similar to the stats from StatCounter on Russian Federation [2], while Net Applications hide their per country totals behind pay wall, and their China-weighted totals are completely outlandish.

[1] http://top.mail.ru/browsers?id=250&period=0&date=&aggregatio...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-201210-201310

The story was discussed on Russian forums and people found even more blatant BS there -- "wi-fi module" was in fact just a speaker used to indicate horizontal position of the iron, spying module in the demonstrated Chinese phone were just capacitors.

It works great for me, better than Chrome PDF Viewer. Chrome's viewer lacks even the most basic features like table of contents, and it's integrated pretty poorly -- it doesn't show the title of pdf (so PDFs are impossible to search by title in history), and it doesn't remember last reading position.

> When inspecting an element in FF devtools, :before and :after CSS properties will not be shown.

It was fixed recently. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/new-features-in-the-firefo...

I've compiled new version from git, but still literally nothing except ads work. I've tried various games from Kongregate, Armor Games and Newgrounds, including very old ones, various sites with Flash video, various sites with Flash charts -- nothing. And there are still very serious slowdowns even if Shumway is not on screen.

I tried to use it ~1 month ago, it wasn't a great experience. I tried playing video and several games on Kongregate, and almost nothing worked, except Flash ads (only few games showed anything similar to loading screen -- most of them just didn't start at all). But the most problematic thing was its slowness. Even small almost static ads brought entire Firefox to its knees. I am looking forward for this project, but I really hope the developers will solve the performance problems before shipping it in stable Firefox.

Total production costs of the famous Atari's E.T. (1982) were $125M according to Wikipedia. It's more than $300M in 2013 dollars.

Very cool project, but sadly it's not able to plot graphs.

I tried Linux x64/FF23 and FF Nightly on a clean profile, and both leaked insane amounts of memory on this page, hundreds of KiBs per second. Interesting that according to about:memory, memory used by tab with choir.io stayed stable, but "heap-unclassified" grew uncontrollable. Bug in Firefox?

Seriously, it's just ridiculous. There is no legitimate reason whatsoever to make hard browser whitelist like that in 2013 -- without button like "use anyway" or something. It hard-blocks even the new Opera, while the new Opera uses the same exactly engine as Chrome. And you can't just simply spoof user agent in old-school way, no, it uses client-side detection, so you should make GreaseMonkey script just to run the app. On the other hand it doesn't warn Chrome users with HW-acceleration disabled, and just breaks. It's IE6 story all over again.

Partially it's just a stupid race, see e.g. page in Russian Wikipedia [1], completely dedicated to discussions of the "Wikipedias race", celebrating wins over other wikis, coordinating bot article creation, blaming competitors for "unfair" low-quality bot article uploads, etc. On the other hand, batch uploads are not completely useless -- batch-uploaded article stubs have consistent style, depth and quality (something that's hard to get with crowd-sourced articles), and with script-created articles it's possible to get exhaustive consistent coverage of boring topics like rivers, insects or villages.

[1] http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B6%... (title -- "Race")

There are pauses, even worse than in Chrome. Use MemChaser add-on to see GC activity in FF. In Firefox Nightly on the particle demo I have non-incremental 0.6-0.7s pauses every ~10s (not to mention stutter from incremental GC in between the big pauses). In Chrome on the same sample I just don't have any pauses longer than 0.1-0.2s (every ~2s).