AncientPC

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by AncientPC 14y ago
No one has found a good solution to this problem. As an open community grows it will inevitably experience Eternal September and content quality will decrease. It happened with Usenet, Slashdot, Reddit, and Hacker News is following their fo
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by AncientPC 14y ago
> Nearly 9 out of 10 downloads of the new version of OpenOffice have been for Windows machines, rather than Linux, according to recently released statistics from Apache. I'm fairly certain that Linux users install the majority of their
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I'd say a lot more goes into a company's revenue than two single product landing pages. Don't use Apple's earnings as justification for all it's actions. McDonald's sells the most burgers in the world, that definitely means it's the best in
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by AncientPC 14y ago
When Go came out in 2009, Android was only 2 years old. Go was easily not mature enough. Another consideration is Android was fighting for market share from Apple. Forcing Go on developers would just create another barrier to switching. Go'
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Managers pay quite a bit to get "unknown artists" airtime on radio stations. Smaller bands advertising via internet route still have YouTube, Soundcloud, etc. I've bought a few albums as a result. Also, with the proliferation of smartphones
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by AncientPC 14y ago
If you're using Gnome 3 fallback you can add / remove applets like Gnome 2. The only difference is you have to alt + right-click on a panel / applet instead of just a regular right-click.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I hated that concept too when I first switched to Xmonad, but after a few months I've come to appreciate that behavior. It allows me to keep one screen static while working on another. This allows me to dedicate a workspace to communication
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Could you point out some of the useful features removed in GNOME 3 not available in fallback mode? I switched from GNOME 2 -> GNOME 3 -> GNOME 3 fallback + Xmonad. I tried to find a suitable alternative to GNOME 3 (Cinnamon, Unity,
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I've lived in Waikiki for the past 2 years. I'm a 15 minute walk away from the beach. Do you know how often I visit? Once a week. Moving here will not magically make you more outgoing or productive. While I love it here, I lived in Austin a
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by AncientPC 14y ago
HD means high definition. The TV people have adopted that term for HDTV, so be it. I threw a number out there, but should have known better since someone was to nitpick it. The correct term is PPI (screens) over DPI (printers). Also, PPI is
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I agree. Why use the term Retina? That term means nothing to many consumers. Why not use the company agnostic term HD? You can be even more technical and say displays with 100+ DPI.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I don't see much value for most of these Unicode domain names except for novelty. However, CJK domains are a potential goldmine if you factor in: 1. Most internet ready devices in Asia have Unicode input (language-wise). For example, they c
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I don't use SQL very often, but I've found Jeff Atwood's explanation using Venn diagrams sticks in my memory pretty well: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-visual-explanatio...
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Having a car provides function, but the difference between a mediocre car and a great car is $10k+. Spending the extra $10k for a better car leads to less happiness than using that same money for a 2-week vacation in Europe / Asia.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I don't know, we were a really small shop? It was the first app launch, and we prominently showed an iPhone and a Nexus side by side with our app. Whoever reviewed our app didn't like that, so we took the Nexus image down. We probably could
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I'm not sure. I haven't closely followed sex.com except when the domain gets sold and resold for millions of dollars, but outside of domain name novelty other porn sites have already dominated the market. This seems as a pretty low cost met
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Clamshell packaging was made for retail shelves. To prevent shrinkage and increase product visibility, it was designed to be transparent while simultaneously difficult to open. The explosion of Amazon and other online retailers made the adv
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I don't understand why people think this is new. I created a website that announced the launch of a small mobile app for both iOS and Android platforms. I was told by Apple that my app would not be approved as long as I had links to competi
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by AncientPC 14y ago
While we're on the topic of poor programmer assumptions, here's a problem a developer ran into with his family tree software when it turned out there was a cycle in a user's tree (father had children with his daughters): http://stackoverfl
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Hooray X220 owners! I ditched 11.04 for Arch, running Gnome 3 in fallback mode with Xmonad. Gnome 3 fallback is essentially Gnome 2.x all over again, so I'm pretty happy with the results. Otherwise I haven't run into any problems so far...
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by AncientPC 14y ago
For example, trying to solve this problem (CodeJam 2008 minimum scalar product): You are given two vectors v1=(x1,x2,...,xn) and v2=(y1,y2,...,yn). The scalar product of these vectors is a single number, calculated as x1y1+x2y2+...+xnyn. Ha
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Changelog: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.2 Differences between v1.1.19 and v1.2: Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Current HBO subscribers = 28M Revenue per subscriber = $5 Households that can support HBO Go = 5M Revenue per subscriber = $15 Assume 100% of eligible households subscribe. (28M * -5 * x%) + (3M * 15 * 100%) = y x = 32.1
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by AncientPC 14y ago
One of the nice things about using map() is multiprocessing.Pool.map() can be a drop-in replacement. OTOH, map() does otherwise have a little overhead compared to list comprehension.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I've posted my full test scripts and results here: http://williamting.com/2012/04/19/performance-decrease-using... I've been using this handle since '93 out of inertia. My tests were done on an idle i7-620M, sequentially. If your invocati
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by AncientPC 14y ago
> Jekyll is an awesome framework, But, we think it's not right for blogs for a number of reasons. Also, we think that the git push → deploy dance, is a bit too much when you want to make minor edits. You realize this "dance" is solved b
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Professionalism. The blog lacks all pretense of any. - The blog's tagline talks about "bullshit and ... how much I suck". - It leads off with a close crop of cleavage. This negatively attracts males' attention while being untactful to other
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by AncientPC 14y ago
People hate change. Relevant Oatmeal comic: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I wrote a few small scripts to test this out. Each contained a simple print statement, then looped it 5000 times and timed it. There is ~2.1% overhead when using env. This doesn't matter in most cases, but in a Google-sized company with sta
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I don't mean to start yet another tabs vs spaces debate, but I've always felt spaces dictate how others see the code while tabs allowed others to see code however they like (2/4/8 spaces). One exception is some projects are strict about lin

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