Today is the day when I stopped using old good Opera browser that was based on Presto engine. It is sad day for me because I believe that it was one of the best browsers and it is really sad that it switched to use Chromium engine.
Why should I stop using it? Well most web sites are not showing properly because HTML 5 is updating and improving every day. There are a lot of updates around SSL and old Opera obviously does not support them. So
What I really like about old Opera
It was quite fast, due to fact that it is rarely used it was secure, because nobody cares about hacking browser that has 2% market. It
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I personally don’t like Google Chrome browser and I don’t use it at all. And here is list of reasons why I do not like it.
First and most important reason, that it was created by evil (at my option) company. Google for so long time blamed other software companies for many different sins and now they are repeating exactly the same things. For example: Google fined a record $5 billion by the EU
You can find their comments when Microsoft was fined with about 10 times less fine. There were talking about fairness, good business practices and in general put themselves as “good corporation” and put Microsoft as “evil corporation”. And now they are about 10 times worse
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I decided to rewrite post about i9-9900K to put all old and new discoveries in one post, so it will be easier to find and read.
i9-9900K is 8 core CPU with enabled hyper threading giving us 16 logical CPU’s. It was 95W TDP, base frequency 3.6 GHZ and Max Boost 5.0 GHZ. It cost about $529 USD.
If you compare specs with previous top 8700K you will see that there are 2 more cores (give plus 4 logical CPU’s), additional 0.1 GHZ base frequency and 0.3GHZ additional Max Boost frequency. It also has 0.5 MB L2 cache and 4 MB extra L3 cache. But guess what? Tech process and TDP didn’t change. Moreover, there were no big changes in
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I have iPhone and many people asking me why iPhone doesn’t have ability to insert SD card to extend storage. And I decided to explain it here. But before I would like to put disclaimer: I’m not Apple fun. I use only iPhones from their products. For Steve Jobs is good manager and not an icon and so on.
From technical side it is totally not a problem. Apple can do it without any problem and it is not expensive. But why they didn’t do it then? Well I have to admit what Apple does differently is to look at product not as list of features but as whole experience. And from that experience external SD card doesn’t look
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Many developers for Windows used to fact that all resources that you allocated in your application will be released when your process is closed. And in fact, many developers read Windows API function description by diagonal ignoring most of it. Please read it carefully and I will explain why.
Few years ago, developers started to hit the same problem: application failed to start with some stupid unrelated error and in fact all application failed to start again with some strange error. Restart always fixes this problem, so we blamed Microsoft and move on. In some cases, you even cannot restart your PC due to the same strange errors. But we time it start to happen more and more often. And
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As you know from my previous post that Microsoft updated Skype and they did it quite badly. They added few critical features to new version but still looks quite bad. I still staying on latest version I could find (7.41.0.101) until it will stop working completely.
And recently I realized that my version slowly begins to behave incorrectly. One of the biggest issues right now that in conversation instead of:
Some person: Text1
me: My reply 1
Some person: Text2
me: My reply 2
Some person: Text3
me: My reply 3
I can see it like this:
Some person: Text1
Some person: Text2
Some person: Text3
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If you are developer, you should never use anything related to current directory. If you do, then with almost 100% probability you will regret that you did. Let me explain why you should never use it.
Current directory is state of your process. And it is not read only. Some code in your process can change it. And imagine you tested your code and made sure that it is safe to use current directory in that particular place. But tomorrow you or someone in your team will refactor this code and move it in different part that it is not safe. For example, move that code to function that executes in different thread or threads. Good luck debugging that.
But
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It amazes me again and again when you didn’t change anything, but things started to work differently.
That what happened to me recently. Few days ago, I realized that in many places’ popup menu popped up to the left from mouse pointer like on the picture:
This was picture from Outlook, but other Office applications works the same.
At first it looked strange and unusual. I didn’t pay much attention but with time it became a bit annoying. My muscle memory tells me that something is wrong, but brain continues and clicks on menu in unusual place.
Then I started to see it on my work PC. And finally, I decided to
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