Aethaeryn

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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
The tech companies in question (e.g. social media) are not worthless, but they're almost certainly overvalued. Eventually, the market is going to realize this and then they'll be undervalued for a while as a reaction. It's probably going
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by Aethaeryn 14y ago
Github can make it seem even more redundant if you have an organization with the same name as your repository. For instance, django is essentially django/django/django when you think about the structure[1]. [1] https://github.com/django/dj
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
This is almost a useful resource, but there are many bashisms on the list! Its utility is kind of limited for those of us who use a different shell when they don't have some sort of standardized "this only works in bash" warning.
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
It's not easy to find, but I've managed to work out what seems to be the shortest route. Step 1: Start at http://geocoder.ca/ Step 2: Click "Free Data" -> http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1 Step 3: Click "You haven't made it until you g
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
I agree. This is a use case of browsers that almost everyone misses when they design websites. Very few sites aim for 960 as their minimum[1]. I tried side-by-side viewing on a 1920x1080 monitor and it really didn't work out in most places.
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
> I supposed he could attach an external monitor. I'm not sure it's powerful enough to handle one 1080p external screen. It's certainly not powerful enough to handle two. (My desktop can't handle three with its current graphics card and
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
> it's too hard to say whether the free software movement would have evolved without RMS. Hypothetical speculation of how history would have turned out if certain details were changed a little bit are hard to argue because they're hypot
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
>And unix was originally written on a machine with less than 144 kilobytes of RAM using a teletypewriter... > What amazing contributions to the world's software have these enormous screens allowed you to make? A tool is a tool, and
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
Personally, rms doesn't bother me and he's free to do as he pleases, but what annoys me is the people in rms related threads online who act as if the development of FOSS[0] is entirely dependent upon him. There were a lot of parallel deve
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
> Media coverage doesn't mean anything. Look at the media coverage Google Wave got. I still think media coverage counts for something here. Without media attention, most people might not hear about this device. Of course, if the product
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
> Head mounted displays have been available for years. Yes, similar hardware already exists. What about the software and services? Google has an OS, voice recognition, navigation, etc., already coded. Most importantly, it has the bran
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by Aethaeryn 15y ago
> Windows has such a large base of "desktop" applications Unfortunately, Windows 8 tablets and the hypothetical Windows 8 phone that turns into a full desktop when you hook it into a monitor will both run on the ARM architecture. These