Ologn

52 ms·

421.
by Ologn 11y ago
Yes, Freenode has lots of channels for various technologies. It has some more general channels as well. There are other more specific tech networks like Gimpnet which is Gnome-heavy, OFTC which is Debian heavy, and Mozilla which is Firefox
422.
by Ologn 11y ago
Minsky's Society of Mind lectures are online, thankfully - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg . In one of the lectures, Minsky told a story about how when he was at Princeton, Oppenheimer invited him to lunch.
423.
by Ologn 11y ago
At the end of 1993, gopher was much more popular than the web, gopherspace was bigger, had search engines like veronica and so forth. You would hear about the web, and download lynx, and connect to a dull University of Kanas web page, or p
424.
by Ologn 11y ago
Over the past six months we've been writing an Android framework with two uses. One use is to spin apps off of the framework. The other use for the framework would be for the ultimate goal of publishing a spreadsheet app for Android
425.
by Ologn 11y ago
Our current focus is mass market, ad-based apps for Android, mostly based around a spreadsheet-like framework. The company is called Unwrapped Apps ( http://www.unwrappedapps.com ) and our latest Android app was launched yester
426.
by Ologn 11y ago
> working for much less pay, in much more traditional organizations When the tech bubble crashed in 2000, and I moved from a startup to a Fortune 500 company, my job became less enjoyable, but my salary did not go down. Then again, I be
427.
by Ologn 11y ago
> rubyforge.org has been offline for over a year and a half, as announced over 2 years ago. To those not drinking the RoR kool aid, this is toward my point. Two years ago rubyforge.org was a central repository of Ruby gems. Now it is a
428.
Show HN: Android app beta (Lollipop+): Device DB – texts, calls, media etc.(play.google.com)
1 points by Ologn 11y ago|0 comments
429.
by Ologn 11y ago
> Progress over stability > We have to dare occasionally break and change how things are to evolve and grow. > ...harder to swallow in practice. Especially when it’s your application that breaks from a backwards-incompatible change
430.
by Ologn 11y ago
20 years ago, if you wanted to ship software, or run a web server on the Internet, you needed some amount of capital. I worked at one of the cheaper local Internet Service Providers in 1996, and with a 3-year contract we gave you 1 gig of
431.
by Ologn 11y ago
> Junior dev > Monolithic java codebase > "we already wrote something similar" Sometimes it's not even them who wrote something. I was working on a Java codebase where decimal numbers always had the separator be a p
432.
by Ologn 11y ago
I have an Android app which contained (among other things) two works which are in the public domain in the US - one is 93 years old and one is 95 years old. A media conglomerate sent a DMCA notice to Google for my app, and Google took it do
433.
by Ologn 11y ago
I have used KVM. I have a standard Ubuntu workstation, but sometimes want to do something like have a Debian sid system building the trunk version of Gnome via jhbuild or something. If it falls apart, my base system is not affected. I hav
434.
by Ologn 11y ago
New York has Columbia University and NYU, as well as nearby schools like Stony Brook, Cornell, Princeton and Yale. New York has commercial banks and investment banks and hedge funds based in New York with massive worldwide networks, huge m
435.
by Ologn 11y ago
This has been my experience as well. I started using Linux some time around 1993-1995. Linux was inferior to FreeBSD in many ways back then (and for the following few years). Things got better and better and by 2008 it was a lot better o
436.
by Ologn 11y ago
Yes. Imagine you have a cube plotted in XYZ coordinates. The eight vertex points are (0,0,0), (0,0,10), (0,10,0), (0,10,10), (10,0,0), (10,0,10), (10,10,0) and (10,10,10). Now let us say you want to rotate that cube 30 degrees on the X ax
437.
by Ologn 11y ago
Sure, here is one of their ads on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPF2gNfStg ). The title video explains who the person is: "Keith McNally - Inventor, Online Ordering Software" If you click on the lowe
438.
by Ologn 11y ago
> The EFF has a list. Only one law firm, Farney Daniels, has sent more than three demand letters. OK...so as you say, on the EFF website they have a sample of 50 or 60 of these types of letters. Only one law firm sent more than three of
439.
by Ologn 11y ago
I am starting to see ads against this bill from patent trolls. It's on the Congressional calendar right now. It has 27 cosponsors. Hopefully it will pass! The EFF link has a box where you can e-mail your congressional representative
440.
Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015(act.eff.org)
501 points by Ologn 11y ago|96 comments
441.
by Ologn 11y ago
The report mentions Wikipedia. Wikipedia, the 7th most popular site in the world according to Alexa, reports ( http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera... ) that Ubuntu clients were 0.48% of Wi
442.
by Ologn 11y ago
One thing about the middle of the night - you're not liable to be interrupted. No jackhammers tearing up street gravel, no buzz saws, no lawn blowers, no phone calls, no interruptions, just uninterrupted time. Where you can concentra
443.
by Ologn 11y ago
You forgot to mention the SDK changing so much with each new API that the published training manual suggests using deprecated or no longer existing classes and methods. I recently updated some of my old Android code which had been geared to
444.
by Ologn 11y ago
With Emacs and JDE it is nice. Although Android Studio has been decent enough so I use Emacs less for Android development at the moment.
445.
by Ologn 11y ago
> So now I'm stuck in the middle. I quit my job in January 2015, and I feel like I am at the halfway mark of completing the CS degree. I feel like I am already in too deep to turn back. Why is it an either-or thing? If you get full
446.
by Ologn 11y ago
System76. I use a System76 laptop right now.
447.
by Ologn 11y ago
One obvious thing is OSX runs on top of a BSDish architecture. So while using Macos 9 or Windows could be painful in some respects, OSX has a shell etc. similar to Linux already. Prior to Ubuntu, this was a no-brainer, setting up things li
448.
by Ologn 11y ago
In 1924, William Faulkner quit his job as a postal worker, saying "I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp". With regards to FLOSS, peop
449.
by Ologn 11y ago
> I teach my beginning students simple openings like the London System as white This is not a good idea for a number of reasons. One is a d4 opening will lead to a more closed game, at which the beginner is at a disadvantage, since it r
450.
by Ologn 11y ago
› Today, the commuter-rail system that once made it comparatively easy to live in suburban New Jersey and work in Manhattan is falling apart, and commutes from other New York suburbs, whether by road or rail, are also becoming unworkable. I

More ›