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by Adaptive 15y ago
It took me a while to get font rendering working the way I wanted in Arch, but it is possible (that's by way of encouragement... don't let this be a showstopper for you; I understand why it's important). Infinality is great but even it re
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Agreed. This is a great example of why I prefer Arch. Arch has BSD like startup and it's very simple to configure. I realize Ubuntu is moving to upstart, maybe that will simplify things, but the current sysV run level model results in tedio
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by Adaptive 15y ago
It's the "go" (as in the game) of Linux distros. Easy to understand, long to master. For instance, I recently switched off of using netcfg to wpa_supplicant instead. netcfg is an awesome way to manage network configs, but I am to the point
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I'm not sure if Linode is using archserver but I don't believe they are. I don't see the advantage over vanilla arch isos.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I think some of the other comments have addressed this, but I'll comment on the rollback issue. If you just want to rollback you can download the current package if it's not in your cache. If you want and rollback to previous version, there
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by Adaptive 15y ago
that colorscheme looks familiar... I making my dotfiles public today and I've got a solarized themed xmonad/xmobar config up at https://github.com/altercation/es-etc . The only difference with yours will probably be the tabbed decoration
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I had precisely the same concerns. I first set up a basic webserver on Linode since they had images for Arch. I was skeptical particularly because I've screwed stuff up on Arch systems during an "aggressive" update. It's been rock solid a
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I switched from Ubuntu to Arch on my servers and linux desktops a while back. Here's are the key benefits from my perspective: - shallow mental model: I know where everything is, I know all the moving pieces - pacman: outstanding packag
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I'd be more in Flipboard's corner on this if they had an Android app.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
For those interested Letter Gothic is available from several online type shops but be aware that since the original was released it has been reissued as both fixed and proportional variants. Additionally, it looks good out of the box on OSX
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Unity is risk taking and I applaud it. Some very cool features when I played with the recent beta. Easy to pick up but has some power features as well. Now if I could just get my brand new touchscreen to fully support it's cool gestures.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Letter Gothic circa 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_Gothic Nothing beats it.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Exactly. Additionally, this fluff piece article makes no mention of successful local Chinese brand names, particularly the unusual cases of the numeric domains (both the numerology related domains and the more relevant homophone number doma
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by Adaptive 15y ago
It's foolish to claim that bing has only claimed a small market share due to homophonic issues. Don't think for a second that the Bing brand wasn't overthought on every level. I can guarantee that they considered the Chinese localization be
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Now that's an interesting teaser. Looking forward to reading more as plugins develop.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
"vote" is a little weird... Everything about this is pretty intuitive except for that. It's only mentioned once on the summary/info page and in the welcome board after signup there should be a card that explains what voting is supposed to b
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by Adaptive 15y ago
That's an interesting idea. I'd be surprised if this was true on the simple grounds that this kind of cross fertilization and business unit coordination is very agile and the times doesn't strike me as agile as a parent company. BUT... if i
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by Adaptive 15y ago
The real success here is not the fluid design (which is awesome). It's getting it through inside a traditional media company. I'd love to read a frank overview of that process as well as the design itself.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Posterous used to be: Tumblr that worked, with better third-party service integration. Not sure what it is now. That's a problem. I've stopped recommending it to people because I can't summarize it like this anymore.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I'm with you, and they know this too. That's why they produced such a happy-sounding threat letter video.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I actually find this structured approach to be quite interesting, despite the cynical, money-minting glee with which it will no doubt be executed. How far the industry has come since the days of faxing in my passport to register a .com. All
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Agreed. The string operations alone are, while not sed level awesome, pretty amazing. Also, indirection, in bash, is pretty useful. ${prefix_*} is nice to have around.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I run xmonad and was under the impression bluetile had been merged back into xmonad proper... no?
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by Adaptive 15y ago
That all sounds right but still, what kind of compelling is an android tablet without gmail? I can't imagine they expect people to put up with imap. I can understand the drive-traffic-to-our-content-ecosystem, but there's some stuff a table
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This was absolutely the first thing I thought of the moment I read the headline. I very much want to believe that someone at Amazon had a brainstorm after that book.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
You made the most important comment in this thread. I really would like to see TC clear this up. Do they really mean fork or, as I suspect and as you state, is this just Android without the google apps baked in? Market is a bigger question.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Agree. This is very disappointing. Google Apps appeals to two distinct groups: IT teams and savvy, generally leading-edge users that want to maintain services under their own domain. I've had a google apps account since the beginning and it
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I'm in agreement with these points. I'd extend your point by saying that centralized design "control" has a major risk. Apple devs definitely follow the design principles espoused by apple, but the problem is the design is starting to go ba
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by Adaptive 15y ago
This is a "spirit of the law" with no "law". PG's solution, while elegant and functional for individuals, will fail for corporations. We have a spirit-of-the-law in America with regards to being a citizen: you pay taxes and receive benefits
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Metro UI is certainly one of the most interesting and progressive UI developments to come out of MS. I like a lot of the thinking in it. The fact that this explorer UI can exist in the same company is a tell. It demonstrates that MS's silo

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