Recent content by BackToTheFuture

You are right, on the general outlook, the world's future is bleak. I was focusing on my field of CS only, and quality of students is indeed regressing at the undergraduate level. I'm not mentioning the graduate level, and the number of talented PhDs, mostly foreigners, are tiny compared to the...

I did say, it is my experience as an instructor in a major US university, about current CS students in my department, it needs not apply elsewhere. However, this is a flagship university, so the sample size is pretty high to lead to my impression. About 10% of them are genuinely good, the rest...

That's exactly the issue of the current students: severe lack of problem solving skills. They don't understand the problem, as well as the solution. All they did is hack this hack that, by visiting Stackoverflow/stackexchange. And they are not punished for that, or us instructors would be sued...

Having been working in the CS Dept of a major university, I can tell you that I don't have high hope for the current crop of students either. And they are who will maintain our digital infrastructure in the coming years ...

a5cent: very insightful write-ups, which is rare to see on the net these days. edit: a little information for those who do not know: Win32 API is ~25yo, designed for original Windows NT. It's obsolete technology, nothing exciting about it. Similarly, WinForms (.Net) is almost 20yo. But a...

FYI, I bought a new battery from this eBay seller. The battery is genuine Nokia, and charges to 100%. OEM battery must have adhesive stickers, and have the 'red' tab to peel off the decal to uncover these stickers.

LOL, people got so worked up over this. Composable shell, in a nutshell, is another major stepping stone in unifying Windows code base, but not the end all be all revolutionary magic. From now on, it takes less resources to develop Windows for all platforms - each platform still has a separate...

Hi folks, Since version 11.10 and beyond, Skype preview does not recognize the microphone array on my 920 (All 3 mics work, I tested with Lumia Test Application. I can make regular phone call, voice recorder works etc. Hardware test app can also record from microphone, no clue why Skype...

a5cent, I agree with your opinion. But I look at it from another view point, that it was the plan to converge the platforms, THE unique feature, from long ago and it only realizes recently, and WP7/8 were not the desired outcomes. Microsoft has never abandoned mobile, they wanted it to become...

Well said, @a5cent. But re. I wouldn't say they ignored that approach. Rather, they have always tried to leverage their desktop computing platform on mobile devices since long ago, when Windows Mobile and other WinCE-based versions started. But the hardware at the time was far from capable to...

Can anyone kindly provide the source to buy OEM battery?

I'm using Skype 11.10.145.0 on Lumia 920, with W10M 14393.576. For some reason, Skype app does not transmit audio from my phone anymore (it used to work, at least in previous versions, and I can hear the other person's voice). The Mic works fine, I can make phone call, or record my voice...

This holds true for x86_64 (so called AMD64) and ARM64, where the "64 bit" extension allows 64 bit memory addressing. Most of current software still works with 32-bit intergers and floats, so there's no real advantage in terms of computation. However, CPUs designed for very large word, like...

It was just my hypothesis, though. We will have to wait, but it's fun to guess how they would approach this emulation problem.

Translation at install time means recompiling binary x86 code to binary ARM code once, so when it runs on the ARM machine, it's purely ARM binary, nothing else needed at runtime. If the application isn't so CPU-specific, it should not be a problem, when they were able to translate on-the-fly...