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naitbit

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About naitbit

software engineer

email: nait@naitbit.com

photos: http://gplus.to/Nait/photos

Recent public activity

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    Comment #6753755

    I'm sure that git with it's very powerfull backend has way for improving way someone works, but I'm not convinced by this example. IMO it shows again that usability of git is far f…

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    Comment #5952050

    Thank you so much for that. If I just started doing something I compared myself to professionals, if my work started to look good compared to them I started comparing myself with b…

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    Comment #4946893

    Also Revenge of the Titans from HIB2 https://github.com/imaginationac/revenge-of-the-titans edit: it was actually part of HIB2 not of HIB3(where it was added as bonus)

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    Comment #4788373

    AFAIK Starcraft and Quake 3 are over decade old and still played. I assume that this days their player base is far smaller than in early days, but they still have tournaments. Howe…

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    Comment #4672825

    I've never seen QWERTZ keyboard in Poland and I live there. Typewriters indeed were using this layout, but not many people use them to program. "practically all computers (except c…

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    Comment #4516582

    Are web technologies on the phone really the best way to empower users? Sure Firefox and Linux are open source(and I love them for that), but what about online apps? User does not …

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    Comment #4470456

    What about me-too comments? Are they also thousand times better than writing nothing? Is it different because of scale? IMO biggest value of Me-too products are in their (even slig…

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    Comment #4454926

    I would like an invite too please :)

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    Comment #4422152

    Well lets check result of their methodology with other data. For example for Slashdot. Geeknet provides very different data http://geek.net/our-network/slashdot/ Linked article sug…

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    Comment #4366046

    Personally for longer page browsing I pivot my screen vertically, zoom and scroll to make content fit my screen. It may not be fastest way but gets job done. It works better on Goo…

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    Comment #4365997

    In the beginning I too wanted to write that I don't agree with this split. Then I come to conclusion that he met far more programmers then I so he probably knows better. Anyway I'm…

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    Comment #4329181

    I would agree that it may be better if they showed result for lowest FPS (instead of average) and on weaker system(were difference would matter far more). They probably tested on p…

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    Comment #4329145

    Yes but Carmack also said that he now prefers D3D[1] and that difference between OpenGl and D3d does not really matter: "It’s interesting how little of the technology cares what AP…

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    Comment #4329094

    Well good version of OpenGl 5.0 would be very welcome(even without complete rewrite), but history shows that ARB(Architectural Review Board) likes to shoot itself in foot[1]. Desig…

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    Comment #4265879

    By "do the encryption for you" do you mean that they should encrypt on what you send them on their side? I'm afraid that gains you nothing. Not only they control encryption method,…

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    Comment #4254726

    Well I did not buy AAA games that I wanted to play that were windows only(like Portal 2[1]), but I would bought them if they are ported to Linux, so I would argue that they will ex…

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    Comment #4192911

    It's unfortunate that I was right http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3889127 If they use white list approach for their DRM it is not surprising that they flagged wine, but keeping…

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    Comment #4166897

    Well personally I'm quite happy with my life. For my helping other live better lives* is meaningful(but if everyone had same purpose it would be uncomfortably circular). I found it…

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    Comment #4166700

    Well even though I agree that what we do is "worthless, useless, meaningless, purposeless" in universe scale it does not make me happy. I can be happy by thinking for example that …

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    Comment #4165945

    I don't think that linked table supports equation. It should be possible to add them. You don't have to look further than google docs that it is possible. I did write excel like la…

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    Comment #4131645

    50MB zipped, 148MB unzipped

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    Comment #4083370

    > Modern browsers allow a user to type (in lowercase) text to find in a select element while focused and will scroll to an exact match inside of it. Additionally they always highli…

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    Comment #4043013

    I cannot talk for everyone, but I use paypal instead of Google Wallet, because it allows me to pay without using credit card. I do think that current model of credit card payment i…

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    Comment #4042024

    I do have d5100 and I confirm that there is no DoF Preview button. You can read about it's purpose here http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/dof-button.htm If you really need this butto…

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    Comment #4041956

    I'm pretty sure that you don't have to touch shutter in manual mode. I have d5100 so I can make sure in the evening if you want confirmation.