Surio

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by Surio 14y ago
Ralph, thank you very very much for going out of your way to be helpful in this entire thread. Very much appreciated. :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
>> Not running a company....etc, etc. Oh, I got it first time alright. I was just pleased at the mention and wanted to acknowledge it. :-) >> Perhaps my ideas will percolate into power over time. Hope springs eternal. ;-)
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by Surio 14y ago
>> I think when I run a company, 1. What will you pay? 2. Do you allow for remote working? 3. Email is available on my profile. :-) Thanks for posting the sentiment publicly. Much appreciated. >> enough of an insubordinate/r
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by Surio 14y ago
+1++1 Exactly... This is what I have been trying to communicate.
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by Surio 14y ago
I have used plain binaries of some projects from time to time, a) to test the waters, and b) integrate a small tool into my workflow with minimal effort and disruption to my overall task at hand. Like I said elsewhere, the fact that they ar
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by Surio 14y ago
Sorry, but don't think you answered anything at all. From my own experience and anecdata, software development workflow is not as clear cut as envisaged by github's definition of what constitutes "elegance" or "good solution", but by the co
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by Surio 14y ago
>> As long as projects need to distribute software that is not code and there will be many many. >> a Github-only solution is inadequate correct. >> All I'm asking is for you to be honest, Github. I read his reply, b
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by Surio 14y ago
Ads are a non-issue here. SO carries job ads, and so does github. " Kabam is hiring: Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco " can be seen on that blog post page. It's something else. >>> File hosting is not free and provid
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by Surio 14y ago
Agree with OP on all three points. Please look into this.
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by Surio 14y ago
somewhat curious... What was your book on?
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by Surio 14y ago
Thanks. I will check both the list and heirloom . Hadn't heard of heirloom before. So, thanks again.
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by Surio 14y ago
I have used LaTeX for 200+ page documents (various) in the past, so to your question, yes I would. Handing it over to someone else to maintain is a different thing though. Products like InDesign or PageMaker or Word understand that this is
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by Surio 14y ago
Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use! +1 for the way you framed it. :-D I might be reusing it as well.
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by Surio 14y ago
A (Outlook?)Hotmail and Yahoo! loyalist here like a few others Hi fellow Yahooistas ;-) I love the concept of creating directories to categorise mails (Thumbs up to Hotmail and Yahoo just for that). The tabbed email feature is also a very
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by Surio 14y ago
Question for the groff experts out there: XeLaTeX has finally moved LaTeX into the realm of directly embedding virtually any true type font into the final document. Literally 5-6 lines of LaTeX commands and you are done! I was amazed when
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by Surio 14y ago
Thank you for taking the pains/effort. :-)
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by Surio 14y ago
+1 on speed and memory.. Some table and figure heavy documents I've done have had internal memory overruns on latex. A lot of my forays into programming started with the Bell Labs books (with troff | pic | eqn ...) prominently on the copyri
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by Surio 14y ago
+1 for reminding me of tbl. :-) EDIT: Wanted to say, tbl nailed it for me that whatever conveniences WYSIWYG formatting might offer, it is never a good substitute for typesetting (a strong opinion to this day -- I still prefer typesetting
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by Surio 14y ago
:) Ha ha... My first CV was in (gasp!) MS-Word. ;-) Then I did a groff one for larks, and was a bit surprised at how well it was received (Wow! how "professional" it looks), and can they please have the "original doc file" for their own mod
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by Surio 14y ago
>> I was even writing good old roff a few days ago Just curious, what was it for? :) PS: I had a groff based CV (2006-ish). Now it is a LaTeX based CV.
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by Surio 14y ago
Good one. HN discussion of this blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902787
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by Surio 14y ago
Related discussion. Happened a while back here on HN: Marie Curie day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658763 P.S: Posted previously on another Lovelace thread, but thread discussion had stopped by then.
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by Surio 14y ago
Since game of thrones got mentioned a couple of times, and quick and easy download/wait times and SD files with 720p resolution, etc...etc... in some of the comments obligatory comic: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
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by Surio 14y ago
Related discussion. Happened a while back here on HN: Marie Curie day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658763
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by Surio 14y ago
From a previous thread on Ubuntu: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864783 The difference is that - for a chunk of people - this functionality isn't crap. It's actually useful. It's out of the way for people who don't care. It's there
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by Surio 14y ago
snip Even in arguments around copyright law (like this recently concluded debate... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882364 ) the general consensus seems to flow around comments such as "... was not trying to reignite the Great Inte
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by Surio 14y ago
rms is being....well, rms in that article. But if more among us adopted this nuance, it will kill most arguments before they are raised. :-) Well put.
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by Surio 14y ago
I hope that my reading of your question as a rhetorical one than a literal one is correct? Because your entire comment is one big reason I have been rooting for Canonical from day one. I have been on Linux on and off since slackware 1.0, R
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by Surio 14y ago
Sigh.... you mean well. But you'll never win this battle/war of words... Someone summed this whole thing on another earlier thread on.... (wait for it......) Ubuntu, a few days ago... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864591 http://ne
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by Surio 14y ago
>>> I'm getting something for free that is actually superior to the paid stuff, and sometimes those giving it to me need to feed a kid or two, or buy their Mrs that new outfit on the high street. Classy. You get my vote for tha

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