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Re:World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @06:39AM (#14125251)
No, Saro Dursun is a fraudster. I don't remember all the details but she Imigrated to Sweden in the 60/70s with another persons papers stating she was 65+ when she was in fact 40-something. 65 is the retirement age in Sweden...
Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:04AM (#7755843)
I don't think that bothers him. He has discussed his views and tastes regarding pornography (with explicit examples) before on his site. He also has a travellog from Las Vegas that includes a visit to a prostitute. He's quite a character and his site includes posts about everything from math and tech to the stuff I mentioned above.
Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @07:51AM (#7627072)
One reason is ambiguity, this is an extreme example but shows a bit of the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D...
Re:.NET JIT and SIMD are getting married on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @07:10PM (#7556614)
MonoGame mirrors XNA down to the namespace names so that's a very suitable replacement. You also have Unity of course.
Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:32PM (#7524487)
WebClient is mentioned on here http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/. It's not just the compiler.
Re:Ask HN: Any good investments for those saving a substantial portion... on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:52AM (#7501070)
He asked for (relatively) low risk alternatives though.
Re:Microsoft's $2.5bn question: what if it doesn't release Office for ... on Friday March 14, 2014 @06:07PM (#7402312)
You get the full Office 2013 suite with most x86 tablets nowadays (which you won't when you buy a Surface oddly enough). For me that definitely played a part in my decision to get an Asus T100.
Re:Show HN: What's my browser? on Sunday March 09, 2014 @05:40PM (#7370082)
For me it correctly reports it as IE11. I am also using it in modern mode and have the exact same user agent string.
Re:Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:06AM (#7290154)
They have already proven that WP can run on low spec hardware though with the Lumia 520. It's also a 1GHz, 512MB RAM device.
Re:Why and how I write Java on Monday February 17, 2014 @08:33PM (#7255759)
As a sidenote regarding iOS, you could checkout http://www.robovm.org/. It's already used for running libgdx (a Java game framework for a number of platforms) games on iOS for example.
Re:Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9 on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:49AM (#6481687)
You can still do that though.
Re:Windows 8.1’s user-hostile backup story on Sunday September 15, 2013 @07:11AM (#6388726)
To be honest I am not seeing a lot of "excellent features" there. Except for the UI changes the rest seem to be mostly small miscellaneous stuff and some of them for the better.
Re:Windows 8 more widely used than OS X, IE still on the rise on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @09:18PM (#6324964)
I am doing it daily, I think it's a great OS.
Re:Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:42PM (#6225931)
University education in China is not free, they have tuition costs as well.
Re:The limits of Google’s openness on Thursday August 15, 2013 @05:34PM (#6220744)
Silverlight for Linux has existed through the Mono platform since 2007 under the name Moonlight: http://mono-project.com/Moonlight . With Microsoft's blessing I might add.
Re:What makes Lua tick? on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:14PM (#6193171)
The PIL, http://www.lua.org/pil/, is as canonical as it gets, written by the creator of Lua.

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