Ologn

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by Ologn 7y ago
The same for me. Zoom works well for me on Ubuntu Linux. IIRC, Google Hangouts works as well. Skype for Business I have had problems with. I have primarily used Linux for 25 years. In recent years the only other program I had trouble wi
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Pinterest stock soars after IPO(marketwatch.com)
5 points by Ologn 7y ago|0 comments
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by Ologn 8y ago
I was used to pine and pico so I migrated to alpine and nano. Alpine works fine for me, alpine is very much like pine. I have spamassassin tagging mail as spam, and I have an alpine filter that moves those tagged messages to a possible sp
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by Ologn 8y ago
If the applications are running on Windows I tend to use RDP, if they are running on Unix I tend to use VNC. Running Firefox over a WAN is slow-going with X11 and ssh, VNC is much faster. The first one I tried was tightvnc, and it did the
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by Ologn 8y ago
DoubleClick was founded in New York.
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by Ologn 8y ago
> doctors, lawyers Doctors only book so many patients a day. Lawyers are also working for a limited number of clients. An app I did myself (on top of a FOSS base), released independently, was downloaded millions of times within a year.
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by Ologn 8y ago
I should note Android runs with a Linux kernel. It has been estimated that games like Pokemon Go have made over $1 billion on revenue from Android devices - larger than its revenue from iOS. Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans, Dragon Ball Z
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by Ologn 8y ago
> I always wondered what I would do if for some reason the market for software developers would go down. I worry I would not able to find an interesting job, let alone a lucrative one. You are right to worry ( https://stackove
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by Ologn 8y ago
Also, Caltrain stops going south from San Francisco five minutes after midnight. BART stops going north 25 minutes after midnight. At 25 after midnight all rail service out of San Francisco stops - which is 90 minutes before last call. In
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by Ologn 8y ago
In a desire to eat healthier, I decided instead of eating candy as a snack, I would eat dried mangoes. It naturally contains fiber, Vitamin C and natural sugars. When I go to the supermarket and look at the labels, I see most of the brands
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by Ologn 8y ago
It's different because when the market cap of Bitcoins was less than one million, an 80% drop or pop did not mean much. One somewhat wealthy person could pump the price up at will. When it hits a market cap of $334 billion, it becomes
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by Ologn 8y ago
When May worked at Intel, the IC's would encounter unexplained state changes from time to time. He looked into it - and eventually realized the problem was the ceramic/clay semiconductor packaging was slightly radioactive, causing
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by Ologn 8y ago
March 15 is when US S-corp and partnership taxes are due. April 15 is when US individual income taxes are due. When to pay (for some people, both days) depends on how a person has their finances set up.
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by Ologn 8y ago
The problem with this hypothesis is that step 9 kept having a higher and higher Bitcoin market cap, until it hit a ~$300 billion in January (and cryptocoins in general hit $800 billion market cap). It is like subprime mortgages or dot-bomb
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by Ologn 8y ago
Well let's say you know Kotlin well and program for the Android platform a lot. You can search Github for projects using the Kotlin language which contain the word Android, with the most stars like this: https://github.com&
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by Ologn 8y ago
Go to Github and look at projects where there have been a few recent merged pull requests. Look at listed issues, the TODO file and so forth. Fix an issue and send a pull request. After a few such patches, this will start getting you code
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by Ologn 8y ago
Ubuntu did away with the default behavior to make it "more Mac-like". Although in my experience, the majority of people who want a more Mac-like experience go out and buy a Mac. I set it back to default behavior on Ubuntu. https
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by Ologn 8y ago
Wasn't Sendgrid rejected by Y-Combinator? I guess it can be hard to tell at the early stage.
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by Ologn 8y ago
I personally think is the most important economic trend in the world. As said, it works for books and movies to. A word I don't see in the article or tweetstorm is commodity, which is the foundational unit of our economy. A commodity
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by Ologn 8y ago
> what would otherwise be IPOs or other public financing rounds The NYSE and Nasdaq do a lot of hype about how much money they raise for companies in IPOs and secondary offerings. But if you look at the numbers since World War II (and e
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by Ologn 8y ago
Yes. I have been in the industry for a while, and went back to school at night to get my CS Bachelors, and am sometimes surprised at what these young students who want to program and work in the industry do, and what they do not do. Classe
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Programming an Android app – 2 years, 5 months in(vartmp.com)
2 points by Ologn 8y ago|0 comments
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by Ologn 8y ago
> I instantly get elevated to a respect-worthy status for free...Coming upon the Correct Signal by accident I have worked at companies with open positions, and I have had to sort through a lot of resumes. I also get an informal Bayesian
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by Ologn 8y ago
The usual idea I hear is that React Native might be a good idea for a small company with an uncomplicated app, especially if they use the React stack on the web. However when one grows and starts competing head to head in the App Store or G
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by Ologn 8y ago
Yes. There is a contest that exists called "Ludum Dare" where a theme is announced, and within 2-3 days people have to design a video game fitting that theme. One person who took up the challenge was Minecraft creator Markus &quo
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by Ologn 8y ago
This was pre-Twitch, but I used to work at a company where the tech team after hours would play Age of Empires for fun. We kind of got into it, we would read strategy guides, blog comments over whether it was best to be Assyrians or Babylo
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by Ologn 8y ago
I do this too. Actually I have a web page about various caveats when doing it ( http://vartmp.com/tech/multibooting.html ). And of course, you can always use KVM's to take a look at distros as well.
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by Ologn 8y ago
> hey take carry a LOT of patches that are not upstreamed (for whatever reason) I have spent some time looking at bug tracking for Ubuntu with regards to PDF files. IMHO, FLOSS support of PDF's on Linux has never been that good, alt
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by Ologn 8y ago
I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop in early 2017. After upgrading from 17.10 to 18.04, the ACPI became all messed up. Manually running "pm-suspend" (suspend to RAM) puts the machine into an unusable state. Of course the problem is
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by Ologn 8y ago
For that long time period you might want to watch "A Glorious Accident". Wim Kazyer sits down with Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks and Stephen Toulmin (and Rupert Sheldrake) to do one-on-one intervi

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