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Re:Ask HN: Gaming with one arm on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @12:23AM (#8485891)
Depends what he wants to play. Sim racing could work, as it's mostly foot control with some arm movement for the wheel. Can be done with one arm and one leg if need be.
Re:Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides on Thursday July 10, 2014 @08:13PM (#8018161)
Better cross-platform support. In my experience .NET works fine in Mono anyway, so by extension F# is likely fine on Linux/OSX, but your mileage may vary.
Re:Improved default settings for Linux machines on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:03AM (#7942486)
How much swap space should you allocate for e.g. 16GB RAM?

Every reference I've read suggests there's no need for swap space once you have more than ~2GB of RAM, but I find that extremely hard to believe.

Re:Why Being an Australian Startup Sucks on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:51AM (#7942302)
Taxes didn't get reduced, they just got reallocated to fighter jets.
Apple has overcharged both in Australia and Europe for decades, even when the currency has been strong. It's simply because they believe that people who live there will stomach a larger price. It's probably true. It's still infuriating.

It results in funny cases where a Nexus 4 can be 1/3 the price of an iPhone 5.

What a laughable excuse. It's been this way for years.
Re:Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:52PM (#6067850)
Cool trick, but why not just use 64 bit?
not in neutral
Re:PNG vs SVG for sprites on Saturday June 22, 2013 @08:47PM (#5925796)
Seems like a Ubuntu issue... uses 5% CPU on my 2630QM under Windows, which is a slower chip.
Opera Mini has a proxy server it uses to compress data before it reaches your device. This is extremely useful when using mobile data because it's both faster and cheaper. (At least, in Australia, where mobile Internet is both slow and expensive)
Re:How I ended up with Mac on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:23AM (#5329697)
...no it doesn't
Re:Flow Charts on Saturday February 23, 2013 @04:58AM (#5269176)
Hopefully this one day becomes the case with UML.
Re:Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:22AM (#5268883)
This makes perfect sense; we think of programming languages changing the way solutions are designed all the time. That's why we learn so many different ones.

Unfortunately I doubt this will be proven at any time in the near future... it is nearly impossible to isolate this characteristic from other factors.

Re:Stop Using Small Font Sizes on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:55AM (#5268832)
This trend towards ridiculously large font sizes is becoming exceedingly annoying. There's been so many articles about it, and many pseudo-techy (trendy) blogs are adopting the large size. 16pt minimum? Really? There's a reason that so few sites and text editors use that by default. It may look great on your retina display but on 99% of screens out there it just makes your site look like it's aimed towards kids.
Re:Debuggex: A visual regex debugger on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:03PM (#5268497)
This is an amazing website, cheers!
Re:Windows 8 Pro upgrade to jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1 on Friday January 18, 2013 @05:22PM (#5081416)
The heat causes the brittle solder joints to crack; applying more heat melts the solder and "reflows" it.

This is a common fix for PC video cards too.