RDeckard

> Delphi and Visual Basic 6 were definitely not the pinnacle of UI development.

> All layout was pixel based.

I'd say that was a very reasonable trade-off at the time, when most screens were somewhere between 640x480 and 1024x768 resolutions at 72 DPI. This simplified UI design sufficiently enough that VB/Delphi provided an optimal solution that, yes in hindsight, would most accurately be described as a "local maxima" for the environment and the time.

> Making windows resizable required much complex ad-hoc code

I remember there were ActiveX controls one could drop onto their form that would attempt to derive the layout based on initial positioning of controls, i.e. that a lower row of buttons should be anchored to the bottom of the window, while textboxes are took up a larger area would automagically resize with the window.

There is a film starring Gerrard Butler. "Geostorm", 2017.

A lot of products these days are intentionally poorly designed with no longevity. "Planned obsolescence" is the term. Part of moving everything to as-a-service model :)

That's just consumer culture, of which Amazon is an acute representative.

It provides a counterbalance. Anyone who's ever played competitive sports, wishes for a competent sparring partner.

Good job, Russia. Many of us are rooting for you.

Any keyboard shortcuts? Can't seem to find any docs on it

Good foresight.

What do you do?

Optimizations are still on in checked builds.

>how does annexing Crimea help Russia? Was that one navy port worth it?

>A calculated risk, perhaps. But they seem to be bad at math.

Not everything in life is measured in money, or done because of money.

What about CNN, BBC and Western propaganda channels? Are you The Ministry of Truth?

Inevitably, some day, you will empathize.

What wallet was that? :) Genuinely curious.

Thank You. Brightened up my evening.

WhatsApp for one: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...

This isn't about you as the Slack Windows app developer.

What's "a t-crosser and an i-dotter"?

This is text-book Kolmogorov complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

That used to be called Condo Internet and that is in very select buildings. Even out in Redmond, minutes away from MSFT campus, once can only get either Comcast or crappy 3mbit DSL from Frontier.

Stop giving them ideas!! ;)

What about Ukrainians?

Probably because it works, they have been using it in the past, and there is no reason to move off of it.

Love the 1996-era website design. Loads instantly, no ads, no non-sense.

"Error 403 - Forbidden" - anyone else getting that?

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20150327121925/http://www.duckwa...

Do they really - do you have a source on that? (no pun intended)

I am curious: is YouTube going to re-encode all existing content with VP9? If so, I am wondering if they do anything special to preserve as much quality as possible. Are there any techniques to do that? (For example, certain JPEG transforms such as rotation can be applied with zero quality loss.)

I was wondering the same thing. The features page claims "copy on write fork implementation" but that is not universally true. A cursory look at the code suggests that every allocation is a Win32 file mapping object (aka NT section) underneath, which the fork worker (mm_fork) remaps into the forked process. This means the memory is shared between two processes, and not in a CoW fashion. A write to the memory region from the forked process will be visible in the parent. These are not correct semantics for fork.

I am hoping I misread the code and someone can prove me wrong here, because it looks like a cool project with a lot of potential.

You are thick.

Realizing an adblock mechanism, for one. (Similar to InterMute in late 90s, and admucher.com now.)