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by Adaptive 15y ago
This is a meta comment but I think others might have the same reaction: LA Times? Nice to see something other than "what digital camera you should buy this month" in a technology column from a traditional/transitioning media company. Indeed
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Do not think for a second that they were unaware of what support for SOPA meant. The lesson for them and others only gets stronger the more continued damage is done. Every registrar and SOPA supporting business watching this should see GoDa
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This isn't behavioral modification. You don't need to reward GoDaddy for this change in stance after threatening punishment. Let me state that again: You are under no obligation to pat them on the back so they don't feel sad that customers
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by Adaptive 15y ago
googlecl posting to blogger, fwiw. I'm not maintaining a blogger blog, but the command line options are pretty neat. http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Chrome on Linux is awesome. At some point in the past year I stopped having to use command line options to keep it in memory as it defaults to that. Brilliant and slick, I love it. Chrome's performance and syncing is the reason I was able t
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by Adaptive 15y ago
@latch is right on about the bank coders. I was based in Asia for 12 years hiring web development and design teams. Six of my 12 years were in HK. Finding top talent is very challenging there. I tended to hire young and train, anything else
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by Adaptive 15y ago
There's an Arch Linux dev that maintains a custom repo with Aurora builds and matching Aurora Pentadactyl packages in the AUR, for those on the distro. A quick search on "Heftig Repo" should bring up the correct results, and the BBS thread
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I find wifi on the command is still surprisingly hard if using just primitives like iproute2. I'm trying to force myself to use just that for a bit to learn the new(ish) ip / iw commands. Really, though, wpa_supplicant seems to be the most
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This is hands down the best Bash resource online or in print. Don't let the "advanced" throw you off. It's the source of pretty much everything (of significance) that I know about bash. For other applications it makes sense to use your scri
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This is actually a super useful note, thanks. I saw the headline and thought "another interesting course that starts in January, no way" since the others all start in Jan. Upvote!
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Don't think for a minute that BSA members aren't acutely aware of what it does in their name. There was a lot of time during which MS, Apple and others could have come forward with a counter position on this. BSA lobbies on behalf of memb
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by Adaptive 15y ago
(You might already be aware of this, but it's relevant to the post and others might be curious.) I'm sure that more effort than this was put into the color matching, but the Photoshop color match function allows for statistical sampling of
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by Adaptive 15y ago
From a stability perspective, I'd agree. I did want to note that Arch's AUR does put it closer to the Debian package count, but of course the AUR quality is less consistent. I have really come to like the AUR and consider it one of the stre
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by Adaptive 15y ago
If Ubuntu had solved the hardware problem in the laptop space already I'd say more power to them. As it is, they really should be cherry picking a limited number of best-of-breed laptop make/models, ensuring support for those and then bakin
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Total agreement. I've often thought the same thing about hardware. Ubuntu doesn't need to run on every laptop out there. They need to pick their fights. Not even 100, say 20. Or they make an unholy alliance with one or two manufacturers to
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Everytime I read about polyphasic sleep I think it sounds appealing, probably for the reasons that I find Dvorak keyboard layouts appealing. It promises to marginally optimize an important part of my life after extraordinary effort in manne
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by Adaptive 15y ago
1: if I were going to roll out a product like this and I had google apps admins that are, almost without exception, total product advocates for google apps, I'd get them on board asap and give them a fat packet of training materials. Google
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Not an homage at all. ICS and Metro are both examples of Swiss style maturing in mobile UI design. Apple at its best in iOS is similarly executing Swiss style.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I think you raise a good point and I wouldn't want to put others off if this isn't commensurate with their learning style. I suspect the overlap between math geeks and haskell learners is pretty big, but one should, as you are, evaluate one
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by Adaptive 15y ago
For those interested in learning Haskell, I can recommend the lesser known "Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming": http://www.amazon.com/Haskell-Logic-Maths-Programming-Comput... It's great to go over old and new math concepts an
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I was very excited when I first discovered git-annex. When I saw it was written in haskell that sealed the deal for me. The haskell code I run is all very robust and I was very happy you'd selected it for g-a. Have you posted anything else
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This is two distinct questions rolled up: Why technically Why politically The technical issues are real and deep but they can, were, and continue to be tackled. The bigger issue is that successfully addressing and deploying robust encry
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I did but it has severe image persistence. Lenovo dodged for a while on this issue but finally has stepped up and admitted a problem and is replacing displays (just started). I'm going to be getting mine repaired. It's a topic for a separat
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by Adaptive 15y ago
thinkpad x220 with the 19+ slice battery extension gets me 10 hours (real, reported 11/12). That's under arch with some power tweaking. Too bad the display is terrible.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Awesome! I'll be using this. Have you submitted it for contrib?
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Good kerning can be done with tight and loose letter grouping. I much prefer the loose tracking here as it give much greater precision to the final submission.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Brilliant and fun. All those years of hand kerning type pays off, finally.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
It is one part of their business model but there is also a pretty extensive consumer direct beta program that I'm still part of.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I have used swype to text with my non dominant hand, swaying back and forth in the subway with full accuracy. Without it I honestly feel like I don't have a keyboard installed. I keep waiting for it to exit beta and show up in the market. T
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Not done yet, but I think pacman 4.0 has signing support. I also hope the recent events will spur continued development here.

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