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> Microsoft's engineers added support for DirectX 12 to UE4

Don't you love it when everyone is competing on a level ground?

CmonDevon Duped ‘Dads’ Aren’t the Only Ones Hurt by Paternity Fraud

> Woah, this happens???

Why are you surprised? Middle-to-low income men are not represented by any powerful lobby or movement (because that would be branded misogynistic and/or racist).

Want more surprises? Compare what US companies are allowed to put into food to their EU counterparts.

CmonDevon Apps like Tinder are a symptom of gender imbalance in the dating market

As long as sexually liberated people don't plan to marry less-sexually liberated people after age 30-35 - it's all good.

CmonDevon Apps like Tinder are a symptom of gender imbalance in the dating market

Sleeping on the first few dates makes a perfect spouse material.

CmonDevon Apps like Tinder are a symptom of gender imbalance in the dating market

Nobody jokes about an old surgeon man with cats/dogs drinking wine/beer alone in the evening.

CmonDevon Apps like Tinder are a symptom of gender imbalance in the dating market

I have yet to see such an article without men-bashing.

CmonDevon China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan

A bunch of numbers stored on different servers will change. No ramifications for non-wealthy people.

CmonDevon What Happens to OO When Processors Are Free?

Yeah, makes sense. Strategically, I would plan for more and more cores like the author suggests, though.

CmonDevon What Happens to OO When Processors Are Free?

I would rather give each type of computation a chance to use all cores: parallelism rather than concurrency. But there is a lot of legacy code out there.

CmonDevon What Happens to OO When Processors Are Free?

Depends on application type and device. I wouldn't hold my breath, e.g. in games - one of the most performance-critical apps - the best idea so far is to spin one thread for physics, one thread per AI, one thread per game logic etc. Here is a good blog post describing how sad the things is: http://bitsquid.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/multithreaded-gamepla...

CmonDevon Pseudo-Meritocracies

I am glad it's about class inequality for a change. On topic: how naive do you need to be to think that any of current civilizations are meritocratic? Especially given the recent positive discrimination trends.

CmonDevon Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting

C# has it.

CmonDevon Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User

I wonder what would opinions be like if she was a guy...

CmonDevon A Salute to Solo Programmers

> Today, such singular achievements appear to be no longer possible.

More people than ever are making their own things today.

CmonDevon Google Now’s Staff Exodus Reveals Hurdles for New CEO Pichai

He is a manager by trade. What is his vision? Why would he inspire developers?

CmonDevon Chromebooks Gaining on iPads in School Sector

No Linux distributive is mentioned in that article. I have no doubt that a combination of RAM, SSD and CPU can achieve great things with right software.

CmonDevon Ordered Graph Data Language

Visualisation is usually more interesting.

CmonDevon Show HN: Who Cares? – Professions in the NHS

I was hoping it would let me find a local GP who cares :(.

CmonDevon Chromebooks Gaining on iPads in School Sector

From oversize iPods to glorified browser notebooks.

CmonDevon Farewell to Flash

> ...being completely obsolete...

By technologies/languages that are older than Flash?

CmonDevon C# 6.0: An Introduction

Array slicing is likely to come in the next few versions. Templates and generics are simply different things.

CmonDevon Ask HN: Any way to find why users uninstall my app?

What justifies the purchase?

CmonDevon Ask HN: Any way to find why users uninstall my app?

It's not free. Also an app with in-app purchases is not free. I think in a crowded category at least one app is going to be genuinely free without ads or freemium.

PS: I believe apps should be paid for.

CmonDevon Upstarts raid giants for talent in Silicon Valley

> Two of the chefs who prepared meals for Googlers, Alvin San and Rafael Monfort, have been hired away by Uber and Airbnb in the last 18 months.

Ha-ha, can't even keep the catering staff! Time to wake up and pay the market wage.

> In addition, a nimble recruiter from a much-talked-out start-up can still move faster than even the most competitive companies like Google.

And reply to every email, instead of leaving candidates waiting for weeks.

CmonDevon The Myth of Chastity Belts

That doesn't make any sense: "French men often circumvent these laws by sending samples of DNA to foreign laboratories". Did you mean foreign labs lobbying in France?

CmonDevon Eve Version 0

Yeah, but this time he borrowed money from people who cannot be duped.

CmonDevon Eve Version 0

I wonder if he will finish this one...

CmonDevon (Pure) Functional Programming Claims IRL

Purely functional, or simply not having side-effects and using immutability? No need to go full-Haskell to benefit.