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by Newky 15y ago
In Ireland, our situation is very much reflected in this, only that students must study some level of maths up to the Leaving certificate (A-Level). The problem is that there is no real initiative to do higher level maths unless your course
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by Newky 15y ago
I would have thought that facebook single area of expertise (at this time anyway) makes it a company thats longevity is not guaranteed. When you consider the fact that we are seeing the monopoly that was (and still is to a large extent) Mic
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by Newky 15y ago
Ok, sorry my original comment was incorrect, I meant "by me being offline" by the physical device being unplugged or say electricity lost. And yes the wall plug idea is nice and really I would love this to be a reality, but there will have
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by Newky 15y ago
Please don't get me wrong, I really like the idea, I just think that my non tech savvy friends will immediately dismiss the idea of "normality" we have come to assume with the facebook pages always being on. The hard truth is many of the pe
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by Newky 15y ago
While I accept the point, how do you explain how X amount of users are going to keep all their servers running if they want an online presence? Facebook going down, while not an impossibility is less likely than a power outage in a person's
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by Newky 15y ago
While that paradigm works in RL, how exactly would this translate to this freedom box idea, a 404 page? I just don't see how it will work, ok perhaps a sort of system where @ mentions or the equivalent are parallel to being in peoples thoug
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by Newky 15y ago
One fundamental problem, I just don't understand in these distributed social network systems is what happens when youur "social box" goes down, electricity cut, or in the case where someone doesn't want their PC running a power bill all day
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by Newky 15y ago
As a firm Linux user, who has got no windows influence in my household, entire family gone Linux in some shape or form, I can't see as a power user how he is prepared to make this switch. I know that Linux so often makes you put up with com
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50,000 BitTorrent users sued for alleged illegal downloads(money.cnn.com)
4 points by Newky 15y ago|0 comments
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by Newky 15y ago
I fully appreciate this, and the 3 applications u have listed are the same as the one's I currently have open. I stay with Linux as my laptop is fully supported (i.e all devices work seamlessly across almost every distribution I've tried) a
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by Newky 15y ago
I'm not trying to start an argument, but in regards to coding, I take your point completely if your talking about iOS development or something specific to Mac Programming, but if not, what exactly were the obstacles for development in Linux
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by Newky 15y ago
Is there any resources such as an IRC channel, or chat room to train and use lojban. Its most definetely a exciting concept, and one which I would consider pursuing.
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by Newky 15y ago
I agree that in scenes such as Times Square or Piccadilly Circus where there is a lot of advertisement real estate, this would be a more prominent solution, but for the vast majority of places (take for example a highway or some sort of cou
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by Newky 15y ago
This may seem naive, but is this the most effective advertising? The only use case for street view I have seen so far is Navigation at a deeper level than Maps and the "ooh theres my house" wow factor. I fail to see how advertising on billb
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by Newky 15y ago
No, please just ask and I will remove this comment, I am not here to try and cause agitation, I was just pointing out the changing landscape and how a release such as Lion, no longer has the impact that such a release would have had perhaps
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by Newky 15y ago
Sorry that you didn't find that relevant.
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by Newky 15y ago
I don't mean to be off topic, but I really feel, although this is an improvement on the price of Windows upgrade, I think that there is nothing in this release that would drive me off any Linux, particularly a rolling release distribution.
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Early Days of Linux(linuxuser.co.uk)
9 points by Newky 15y ago|0 comments
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by Newky 15y ago
Although my situation wasn't as serious, although I was the sole developer, I ran the companies "tech department"(consisting of me) for the last about 2-3 months on 3-4 hours of maintenance a week. I had a decision to make and was asked by
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Collaborative Book Writing using Git(newky.posterous.com)
2 points by Newky 15y ago|0 comments
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by Newky 15y ago
I just get a constant gathering data. Anyone experiencing similar?
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by Newky 15y ago
My only usage for a bookmark bar is for javascript bookmarks such as readability and HackemUp
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by Newky 15y ago
This is very nice, Google Goggles for android supports something similar. When I saw this on my brothers android device it does make for quite a wow factor!
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by Newky 15y ago
For this reason, I rather conservatively remain with my LTS, no system crashes since the .1 release and I'm extremely happy with it, although I do miss the excitement of these new releases and its clear that there is a lot to look forward t
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by Newky 16y ago
Its amazing how much a change has come about the advertisement of an operating system, what has changed, the ubiquitous nature of the operating system or the fact that advertising has changed tone? I love the fact that a clock was such a fe
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by Newky 16y ago
My lecturer in my basic introduction to C class once said to me that he had been a professional C programmer for the past 10 years, and still considered himself a C novice. I think how "knowing C" is defined is key in this question, yes I c
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by Newky 16y ago
Maybe I'm reading this all wrong from their user's perspective, but has to be depressing to get a job based on such falseness. I'm someone who works off the confidence from previous experience and having to stoop to this would affect my per
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by Newky 16y ago
Albeit an old video, a fun talk about the merits of git, I was never really bothered with git before this. Haven't looked back.
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by Newky 16y ago
After given the "travelling salesman" optimization assignment, on the handup, I handed up my KD-tree implementation and at the end of the write up I suggested the lecturer check out a similar article on bees to this (may have been the same
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by Newky 16y ago
At this point, I'm not convinced google would even be slightly concerned by this. We seem to read the great power of likes and social searching but unless the search paradigm will shift or unless the actual content which we seek is somethin

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