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Comment · 12 years ago
Depends what he wants to play. Sim racing could work, as it's mostly foot control with some arm movement for the wheel. Can be done with one arm and one leg if need be.
Comment · 12 years ago
Better cross-platform support. In my experience .NET works fine in Mono anyway, so by extension F# is likely fine on Linux/OSX, but your mileage may vary.
Comment · 12 years ago
How much swap space should you allocate for e.g. 16GB RAM?

Every reference I've read suggests there's no need for swap space once you have more than ~2GB of RAM, but I find that extremely hard to believe.

Comment · 12 years ago
Taxes didn't get reduced, they just got reallocated to fighter jets.
Comment · 13 years ago
Apple has overcharged both in Australia and Europe for decades, even when the currency has been strong. It's simply because they believe that people who live there will stomach a larger price. It's probably true. It's still infuriating.

It results in funny cases where a Nexus 4 can be 1/3 the price of an iPhone 5.

Comment · 13 years ago
What a laughable excuse. It's been this way for years.
Comment · 13 years ago
Cool trick, but why not just use 64 bit?
Comment · 13 years ago
not in neutral
Comment · 13 years ago
Seems like a Ubuntu issue... uses 5% CPU on my 2630QM under Windows, which is a slower chip.
Comment · 13 years ago
Opera Mini has a proxy server it uses to compress data before it reaches your device. This is extremely useful when using mobile data because it's both faster and cheaper. (At least, in Australia, where mobile Internet is both slow and expensive)
Comment · 13 years ago
...no it doesn't
Comment · 13 years ago
Hopefully this one day becomes the case with UML.
Comment · 13 years ago
This makes perfect sense; we think of programming languages changing the way solutions are designed all the time. That's why we learn so many different ones.

Unfortunately I doubt this will be proven at any time in the near future... it is nearly impossible to isolate this characteristic from other factors.

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