Dobbs

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by Dobbs 17y ago
I just installed Xubuntu on a new laptop. I was blown away at how beautiful it looks in comparison with Ubuntu. I'm very glad to see Ubuntu get over it's fetish for its old ugly color scheme.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I have to say this tool made me consider getting a mac for a second. Still wont but it has done more good for the argument than any other I've sen before.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
Thanks I was hoping someone would say this. There is a general lack of knowledge about how android handles processes. I've seen it all over the place and commonly from android users who try and get "auto-kill" apps to save power.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I have two invites left to google voice. Let me know if you want one. Offer extends to anyone else who also wants one.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
What if instead of a practical class as the intro we had a theoretical class. Things like Boolean logic, what a Turing machine is, the logic behind a stack, queue and so on. Teach the ideas behind computers without focusing on the practical
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by Dobbs 17y ago
My old laptop died so I've been planning/saving to get a new one recently. This could serve a lot of the use of a replacement laptop, but it is still heavily limited. So no I'm not going to buy an encumbered device when it costs half of wha
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by Dobbs 17y ago
No you do it on the browser level. Crome for example when you mistype a domain gives you a 404 page combined with a google search.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I'm not sure how you process a video "102%", seems like that might be a bug. Other than that seems like it could be pretty useful.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
Those that are curious "gq" does the same thing on vim. Use ":set tw=<number of columns>" to tell vim the maximum number of columns (80 by default)
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by Dobbs 17y ago
Which is well over the $100 that I spend to add another 1.5TB to my already running file server.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
It has nothing to do with snobbery it has to do with getting people interested. My little sister will be more likely to keep programming if she can build a website in as little time as possible. Once she has done that she will slowly expand
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by Dobbs 17y ago
As someone who actually uses Quickbasic I strongly disagree. (We use quickbasic to deal with custom counters and data manipulation by project. Data processing for political surveys.) Quickbasic made sense back in the day where you had limit
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by Dobbs 17y ago
This is standard fare for jobs in the video game industry. The only company that I've heard of that doesn't do this sorta of crap is valve where it is limited to about two months before release (The valve information is 2nd hand). I know wh
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by Dobbs 17y ago
You mention specifically that it this is true for compilers. What about smaller applications. From my browsing of the FreeBSD tree most programs that have a syntax use yacc/lex to parse the input. Awk for example, among others. As you are m
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by Dobbs 17y ago
With firefox you can set "search keywords" so I have Google set as "g". Now when I type g <search term> into my address box it will search Google. I have others for amazon, Wikipedia and the rest. Not quite the same thing as crome's
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I never seemed to understand cream. The idea is to take vim and basically castrate it by getting rid of the standard keybindings and ways of doing things to make it 'easier' for non-vim users. It even appears they got rid of modal-editing.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I use `firefox --no-remote -P` lets you have multiple firefox profiles running at the same time.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
The issue with net neutrality is not to do with market share but to do with the fact that many of the telecommunication companies have exclusive monopolies in their areas often with government mandates. In addition they were given large sum
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by Dobbs 17y ago
To append to what your are saying this is because ports is set up for unix people to work it. To search you use ls, cd, and find. To install you "cd <dir> && make install". If you are installing freebsd you should already be
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by Dobbs 17y ago
You missed his statement about it being embedded into other programs. You see when you embedded a gpl scripting language into a larger program the entire program becomes gpl. This makes it a very bad embeddable program.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
anathem. There are some decent scifi in the last decade or so but not on the level of foundation and friends. Also there has been some amazing scifi in other mediums, like television and movies.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
> Check Cashing Is not true, most banks will but some (Wells Fargo) charge you to cash a check they issue. At least they have when I've attempted to cash my pay check there instead of my normal bank.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
Yes I think it is 2/3rds of the senate.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
There are some great BSD/MIT licensed filesystems. The BSD's UFS is as good if not better than NTFS/EXT3/HFS+. It isn't cross platform due to a combination of being complicated, each systems being slightly different and lack of market share
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by Dobbs 17y ago
firefox, arch-linux with vimperator. Both flash and javascript are enabled.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I'm not sure what is going on but the font renders fine and then freaks and becomes unreadable.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
Depends on how you define "personal belief" because Deists believe in a "Intelligent Design" (The non-conspiracy version), but have a very lose definition of what god is or isn't.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
I find it frustrating that there are 3 major credit card companies but every store has a different procedure for accepting credit cards. I can never remember if it is 3 screens I need to tap yes on, or 5.
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by Dobbs 17y ago
My understanding is they were breaking regulation by not. The company I work for does customer opinion surveys. We occasionally do some for a large national bank. When we send data, of any form to the bank we are required to encrypt the ema
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by Dobbs 17y ago
Sadly we don't all have these options. The project I'm working on right now, a prototype DSL for writing counters to check data, can't be written in a fancy language like ML, Haskell or hell even Python. They don't want any "weird languages

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