Surio

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by Surio 14y ago
This might sound unscientific but let me say it anyway. It also helps if you have "green thumbs"! I have tried every trick in the book till I've gone blue in the face, but couldn't bring up even a fritillary (pun intended!) in my garden! Wh
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by Surio 14y ago
:) +1 for REACTOS. I am one of those that is looking forward to that one becoming mainstream... They have a GSOC running this year too. I hope they get enough traction to get it in some shape. Here's to that project's success.
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by Surio 14y ago
Thank you for explaining this point. It made my mind too :)
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by Surio 14y ago
A better worded reply than my off-the-cuff one. I think I better log-off and get some sleep!
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by Surio 14y ago
I have refrained from making my mind up on that particular development so far (Why webkit?, why not gecko?, this is baaad!, no this is goooood!, blah blah.....etc...). I am simply going to wait and watch that particular development as it un
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by Surio 14y ago
I know! I was about to mention Opera too. They are just jinxed that way! Do it all right, but just not getting the mindshare that they (in a way, rightly) deserve (despite being closed-source)! And the browser itself is just fantastic in te
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by Surio 14y ago
Sigh! For those interested in the nuts and bolts of the issue with UEFI/dual-boot, etc.... http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/05/dual-boot-windows-8-and...
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by Surio 14y ago
>> I actually feel very good about my C code [....] I just feel very bad about the Internet. :) I laughed first, then realised there is more than a ring of truth to that line :/ If you do release (pseudonymously or otherwise), then
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by Surio 14y ago
That bit of trivia about the font creator (as opposed to the font) I definitely didn't need to know. Blecchhh! I ought to have, (but didn't heed) your warning, and you are so right! Now I am really torn! At what point does one disassociate
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by Surio 14y ago
Not sure you read my reply? (note the italics part below) >> MS-Word as a product is intended for the "write it, and then print it" market ( whether the actual printing happens or not is another thing altogether ), and for that dem
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by Surio 14y ago
I use Gill Sans on Presentations! Interesting bit of trivia/factoid about Gill Sans!
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by Surio 14y ago
:-) Tell me about it! I've found a few good ones on them (see my reply to Century clones elsewhere on this post) and a looooot of bad ones as you mentioned. And sadly, poster/logo is not my area, but body text is. > but it's real hard
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by Surio 14y ago
If you are looking for "free" alternatives for other plaforms, here are some close relatives and provide the same 'features' that one expects from Century. Plus, they are free. :-) You're welcome. ;-) These sets below, are complete (R, S
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by Surio 14y ago
Oh dear, this is turning into one of those "You say Tomahto, I say tomato" kind of discussion.... even though I did not intend it to be. Personally, I think there is no point splitting hairs over whether they goofed up or whether it was in
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by Surio 14y ago
A Serif title with Sans body-text for the web the inverse is true for print . i.e., Sans for header and Serif for body for print documents. Now, re-read this: Microsoft did partly address that by making Cambria and Calibri its default h
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by Surio 14y ago
>> Cambria and Calibri its default header and body fonts. >> A Serif title with Sans body-text for the web makes content easier to read, and the inverse is true for print. You are very correct. So, in a way, Microsoft got it
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by Surio 14y ago
Thanks. This is what I wanted to say as well. I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic as you rightly said. Hell, I even saw it on some road sign/car parking bays where some kind of large Sans (Highway Sans??) is legally obligatory! Now Time
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by Surio 14y ago
?? Could you elaborate a little more? Thanks. EDIT: OK, I now noticed you were replying to a sub-comment and not the main thread (missed that earlier). Still, a link or two be helpful in directing the rest of us to the 'source'.
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by Surio 14y ago
>> Who was releasing closed versions of mongrel again? He is not saying there were closed versions being released. He simply wanted to point that people were using mongrel very blithely, but not crediting the hard-work, effort and i
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by Surio 14y ago
Relevant points on Haskell, from another discussion, and sort of echoes my own thoughts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314701 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314507
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by Surio 14y ago
@DigitalJack's comment [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325542 ] reminded me of another talk on monads viewed by me recently, by none other than dear ol' Dougie! http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/12/13/yuiconf-2012-talk-dou...
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by Surio 14y ago
Okay. > I figure the license doesn't matter too much Read Zed's essay ;-) If nothing else, it reinforces "street cred" :-) >> the real utility is the policies you write to control your servers +1 for that point.... especial
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by Surio 14y ago
>> GPL somehow forces venture capitalists to believe his software is as important as he believes it to be No, I don't think that is what he says in the essay. Re-Read from the "I Don’t Want To Be Ignored Again" section of the essay
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by Surio 14y ago
Au contraire , it is precisely because of this -> Perl is not a "hot technology" these days <- that we need to emphasise the Perl aspect of this tool, to bring back some coolness ;-) You go, Steve!
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by Surio 14y ago
Superfluous question, perhaps. What licence are you releasing it on? I read Zed Shaw's essays (rants?) on GPL a while ago. Given that your tool occupies the Server space (as did his) I recommend a read^H^H^H^H butchers (keeping with the spi
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by Surio 14y ago
Ahhh. It's clearer when you put it like that. However, not everyone pulls an ace out of a card every time, time after time. ;-) Net result, arbitrary excuses/comparison tactics like what OP points out, is actually more common than one would
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by Surio 14y ago
Just. Feeling. Surreal. But, the irony of the Politics makes strange bedfellows does not seem lost on them.
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by Surio 14y ago
Thanks for the reply. >> Still, jumping ship might be easier wry smile . Nothing wrong with what you've said. But come to think of it, you've endorsed rachel's POV regarding the building up of resentment with this answer. If jumpin
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by Surio 14y ago
>> The boss was negotiating, so negotiation skills are what's needed All right. Now I'm genuinely curious. What would you have said under those similar circumstances? :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
Learnstreet have hit HN front page a few times already in the last few months!? I did login using one of the options, they provided to check out the content some time ago, but I definitely would have preferred a more neutral auth system lik

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