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What the f... is happening to steam?
I can't do anything with my steam. I can't open it. When I open, it wants to update. But can't. I have no idea why, but it keeps giving me the error,
"Steam.exe (main exception): ERROR: copying SteamNew.exe to Steam...
Started by ziNiZ on
, 15 posts
by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at steampowered):
I'd try uninstalling....
It sounds like something's become corrupt in your Steam folder .
Try uninstalling and reinstalling Steam.
Let me ask, are you using the beta version or not? My friend had issues too and reverted to the official version .
Your grammar is fine.
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Why is EA Story Progression becoming worse and worse?
A few patches ago the SP wasn't looking too bad, I mean sims got into relationships and the female ones actually got pregnant. Right now the SP is almost non-existent, I'm playing SV and it's like...
Started by RayPeterCarl on
, 22 posts
by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at modthesims):
In my game, it was even worse...still children?! (I am updated to the latest patch, BTW, and I can testify that it's gotten worse.
I feel you, Ray.
Is like believing peace on earth is about to break out .
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Please read this article: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ( or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_Better for short cut )
I read it ages ago, and now when looking back, it seems that it had an influence on the way i approach software development...
Started by Vardhan Varma on
, 3 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
"Worse is Better", however, is an attempt to point out.
Are characteristic of the worse-is-better school, while the last two points are characteristic are essentially at the level of "art form" today).
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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Every years? lol
seriously dudes you need some imagination
Started by Strangedream the 2nd on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at gaiaonline):
Who am I kidding its not good emo its only going to get worse 3nodding Sahagin All the good ones.
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Need to add a 2nd css stylesheet to a page.
do i add a 2nd link line and load it by url, or add a @import to the original?
what is worse for page load times? what is worse for server load?
what is better for client side caching? what is better/more accepted...
Started by Uberfuzzy on
, 3 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Also, IE has problems....
The biggest problems occur if you mix link and @import, since it will interrupt the ability to download the style sheets in parallel .
Read all about it here from High Performance Web Sites .
You should definitely go with a second link.
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When can a design pattern make your software worse?
I have seen a program where they used the facade pattern between the GUI and logic. They considered that no objects may be transported over this, so only primitive types were used which made it difficult...
Started by magol on
, 18 posts
by 18 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The strategy pattern basically makes a piece it, or, sometimes worse, when you use a pattern....
I think the strategy pattern can make software worse if it's not needed.
Obviously, when you misuse a pattern it only makes your design worse.
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Is there a widely-used algorithm that has time complexity worse than that of another known algorithm but it is a better choice in all practical situations ( worse complexity but better otherwise )?
An acceptable answer might be in a form:
There are algorithms...
Started by J.F. Sebastian on
, 20 posts
by 18 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Basically there is always a "perfect" solution, but many times its better to use a "worse" tool languages, although....
"Worse is Better" can be seen in languages too, for example the ideas behind Perl, Python, Ruby or not).
To parallelize.
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When you read a closed TCP socket you get a regular error, i.e. it either returns 0 indicating EOF or -1 and an error code in errno which can be printed with perror .
However, when you write a closed TCP socket the OS sends SIGPIPE to your app which will...
Started by Robert S. Barnes on
, 5 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If you're reading from a socket, then you....
This is sort of like a telephone call - if you're speaking, you wouldn't expect the other party to simply hang up the call .
Usually if you're writing to a socket, you would expect the other end to be listening .
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How does Hibernate compare to NHibernate?
I've heard the claim that "Hibernate is much worse than NHibernate, even to the point of not using it (and using JDBC over it)". Can anyone support or refute this?
Update - I am not trying to decide between them...
Started by ripper234 on
, 6 posts
by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Be dubious of claims that "A is worse than B" that aren't backed up by numbers and/or evidence..
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When dealing with double data types is multiplying by the inverse better or worse?
Which way is faster ? Which way uses less memory? Which way is preferred?
How does MSIL handle this?
SquareInches = MMSquared / 645.16 SquareInches = MMSquared * 0.0015...
Started by George Stocker on
, 12 posts
by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
So unless this is actually a performance concern, I probably wouldn't worry about it... .
In general, divisions are usually slightly more costly than multiplication on most processors .
The answer will depend on the architecture of the executing environment .
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