JamesMcMinn

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by JamesMcMinn 8y ago
Samsung's Galaxy S range of phones have been getting slightly thicker every generation since the S6. The S6 was 6.8mm thick, the S9 is 8.5mm, with small but progressive increases along the way. The S9 still feels like it could break ea
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by JamesMcMinn 8y ago
The author wants to remove JavaScript from their desktop and does this by disabling all extensions in the hope that it will also disable Gnomes JavaScript engine. What the author does not appear to understand is that extensions are written
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by JamesMcMinn 8y ago
Haven't experience coil whine myself from my XPS 13 9333, or my XPS 15 9560. Dell seem happy to replace the entire device or mainboard if you do get one that has an issue though. I was under the impression the reason not to get a butte
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by JamesMcMinn 8y ago
Dell's XPS range, for example. Can be configured with more memory, a better display, better port selection, is user upgradable and is still very light and compact...
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
So it was literally impossible to run the device at full load for extended periods? Presumably the battery eventually hit 0 and the devices was then power limited? That's insane. I assume thermals prevented it before the battery did, h
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
This is a an interesting way of doing text search over a collection of documents, that I suppose makes sense if you only have a small number of documents to search. Generally, an inverted index [1] is used rather than a trie, and collection
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
> Those "quick surveys" that we all either skip (if possible) or just enter random bullshit into so that we can just download the damn file and get on with our work? They've already got something built into the download pa
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
> To be fair they had no idea about their potential customers and assumed most of which were hobbyists. That's kind of the point though - a quick survey at download time, or a post on a blog describing proposed pricing and the caddy
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
So, launching a product or service 101: speak to your potential customers first to gauge their response and limits. This is a good change. I'm glad they listened to feedback on pricing and removed the header. Had the commercial licence
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Title should probably ready: 8 cores for the price of 6.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
As I understand it, the version of Gnome they're shipping is vanilla Gnome with a few extensions enabled by default, all of which can be disabled using Gnome Tweak. There's no need for a separate session.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
I do love the HN community sometimes, that's two people who've told me my startup will fail because I've decided Caddy's commercial licence isn't a sensible option for me, yet neither has actually understood the det
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
The startup has extremely limited resources, it's a bootstrap, as I explained. The licence prohibits us from using the personal licence, and there is a time cost involved in building and maintaining our own version. $1200 a year is not
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Because it feels like a bad investment. In terms of cash, $1200 a year is a lot to me personally, I'm a student, I have no income, and I'm trying to bootstrap a startup. $1200 could feed me for a year. Even when I had my PhD stipe
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
No Linux version is disappointing, especially considering it's an Electron app. Other than global shortcuts, it doesn't seem to offer much over using the web version as a Chrome app with its own launcher and window.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Or perhaps I'm a student with no income trying to write a thesis at the same time as bootstrap a startup, and can't afford to spend $100/month on a reverse proxy? The new EULA states I'm not allowed to use the personal b
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Matt, I really do appreciate the work you and others have put into Caddy - it's a fantastic piece of software which has served me well for the past year and a bit. Having said that, this change has put me in a position where I have to
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Well, I guess I'm moving switching from Caddy to NGINX then. I like Caddy, it's been great, but I have no interest in paying for support, and I'm certainly not going to pay to remove a HTTP header. Yes, I could spend time set
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
I usually avoid commenting on these sort of posts because frankly I don't believe I have a lot I can add to the discussion, but this is an interesting read, and I think the final paragraph is probably correct in how it frames the curre
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
I have a USB DAC, that's exactly how it works for me...it'll happily switch between the builtin audio and USB DAC while playing, too.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
I'd rather Spotify went public than got bought by Apple, Google, Microsoft or Amazon. The competition is good for everyone.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
I've had the XPS 9560 since February. I mostly run Fedora (26), but have also run Solus and various versions of Ubuntu. I have a Windows 10 install which I use for Photoshop, Lightroom, and some mobile gaming. Specifically, the version
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Well, yes to a TV with a cheap USB-C -> HDMI 2.0 dongle.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
The XPS 9560 shares the same thermal design as the 9550, both of which are considerably better than the 9530. I'm able to game for hours on my XPS 9560 with no thermal issues.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
I've been using the XPS 9560 full-time since February, and have experienced precisely 0 of the issues you describe whilst running a number of Linux variants, including several Ubuntu variants, Fedora and Solus. > So I don't eve
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
No, YOU are still talking about immutable data structures, where as I am talking about the need to write boilerplate code in Go due to lack of Generics. The blog posts topic was not "immutable data structures", rather the need for
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
No, Generics make it possible to create a generic immutable data structure which can be used instead of re-writing the same boilerplate for every data type, which is the authors complaint.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
Worth reading the comments where someone points out a much simpler and more elegant solution, although it's still not an ideal situation. As noted in the post, generics could solve this, so I'm looking forward to Go 2 if indeed g
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
You can drive a Scooter with a _very_ limited power and top speed at 16. They're safer because they don't go any faster than someone with a road bike can cycle.
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by JamesMcMinn 9y ago
> Also, if we think of other road users, less safe cars might encourage the driver to drive more carefully and less likely to endanger others. I really hope you intended this as satire. Over a million people die each year in road traffic

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