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by Paul_S 13y ago
We use virtual servers and all of them run different releases of ubuntu and for the life of me I don't understand why they're not running debian. You never start an X session on a server and what admin would want to use Unity anyw
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I disagree. Unless you have some trivial C++ project (<100KLOC) you have to buy the plugin from whole tomato for a 1000$ for VS to be at all usable (at least last time I had to use VS - has this changed?). Power tools and a couple of oth
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by Paul_S 13y ago
No, it isn't. It's the best IDE for C# on a windows OS. Important to have those qualifiers.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
They should also sell a version with no drive. Let's be honest - you don't really need the drive. All the disks have already been dumped for you. If for some reason you still have a disk you want to dump there are other ways to do
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I was expecting some clever css and js to draw them in perspective.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
> You did the right thing, IMO. Silence is tacitly condoning the status quo. But that is what the author did - he didn't confront the CEO, nor did he name the company.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I'm slightly exasperated with this mythical cultural fit being used as the end all quality you seek in your potential employee. If someone can please spare some time to write a no-nonsense definition so that even an alien could underst
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Reading what? Newspapers? This survey is meaningless. At least use the number of books as your measure. Maybe what this shows is that the UK has the fastest readers in the world. On the other hand in my experience readership is rather poor
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by Paul_S 13y ago
"Spritzing is reading text with Spritz Inc.’s patent-pending technology." You might as well patent the alphabet, I don't mind. Albeit mostly because I don't live in the US. I don't see how your online service will b
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by Paul_S 13y ago
It depends on the technology model. If the company is using a licensed engine than there's very few coders - 10%-20% would be the number I'd pull out of thin air (probably 5% if you count all the outsourced artists working in swea
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I knew about social media buttons because I have been blocking them ever since they began but I was not aware of how widespread or rather ubiquitous they have become. What is the point of them? Doesn't facebook already have this funct
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Wish I could stay at one company for 7 years. Or at least one city. Grass is greener and all that. I keep my cv updated even when at work, when deciding on tech to use or books to read I often think about how they will fit into my skills po
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I think we too often patronise average users. I think it's quite likely that they understand the situation but simply have a different opinion about the privacy/convenience trade-offs. Smacks a bit of "you'd agree with m
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by Paul_S 13y ago
There are a lot of programs that already let you do that - look for a firewall and a network logger, there are plenty to choose from. I would be in the running for the main prize then as I use a firewall with a whitelist policy. Everything
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by Paul_S 13y ago
The reason behind the deliberately obtuse system of paying is tipping. Unless you change your culture you're not going to solve the problem.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Elegantly presented data (can't wait until this is no longer worth an HN entry because it's become commonplace), but I don't see why the graph needs to move.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I like to think that often the main difference between cheap and expensive is the amount of QA done so I don't have to do the testing for the manufacturer. Though that's probably very naive on my part.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I think you missed the point because you list physical appearance and other factors for which there exists statistical data proving it. I'm not saying statistics don't exist, I'm saying the author's generalisations go to
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Title should be "Love letter to Japan". Bit one sided. Honestly, I don't travel much as a tourist but I'm a serial immigrant and romanticising countries has gotten old pretty fast. The only generalisation about people li
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by Paul_S 13y ago
"They should be ashamed of themselves," said the man walking out of a strip club. It's what he always says when he walks out of a strip club. ;)
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I hope my brain is putting all those reclaimed neurons to good use then but it's probably just storing pins and passwords which I remember for decades after not needing them any more. Wish I could talk to the bit of the brain that dec
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by Paul_S 13y ago
You're not alone. It annoys me a bit when people reminisce about their childhood and say things like "do you remember when" because I don't remember any of mine. In fact I don't remember my teens and come to think o
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by Paul_S 13y ago
I really like kickstarter but let's balance out all this awesome news with a quick reminder that there are plenty of vanity projects and outright curiosities on kickstarter - like that rich businesswoman collecting money to buy her dau
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by Paul_S 13y ago
How can they list ouya as a success story with a straight face is beyond me.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Forgive the flippancy but it looks to me you'd see WW III as an opportunity for entrepreneurial people. Step back and have a look yourself.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
You have to specify what you mean by "done by robots". Will a qualified surgeon still need to be present for the operation to take place?
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Those are fair questions - what are you going to do if the answers turn out to be a little bit less than truthful?
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by Paul_S 13y ago
LyX is not WYSIWYG and I'm not sure how to argue this point. What you see in the editor window doesn't look like the paginated output - it's not really up to someone's opinion to decide.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Have you considered LyX? Designed for people with a problem like yours - wanting the benefit of TeX output without the effort needed to learn something new. It's also a pretty good structure oriented (rather than WYSIWYG) editor.
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by Paul_S 13y ago
Courts in the western world also make mistakes, police brutality is a fact of life and deaths do sadly occur while in custody. Bad things happen everywhere.

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