SwellJoe

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1. 2041.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   Even now, it's still pretty sluggish, all around. My machine is, I think, as big as can be expected (current gen i7, 16GB), though I am on a slow 4G network. But, as others note, it is gorgeous, and the API appears well thought-out, an
2. 2042.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   "SwellJoe was more interested in yelling at the corrupt DNC establishment elites" What have I said that is in a "yelling" tone? Please point it out to me, so I can adjust my tone. I'm speaking the truth as I see i
3. 2043.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   What does that work look like, to you?
4. 2044.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   It's not about being right. It's about whether the Democratic party, as it stands today, has the guts to aggressively take on Trump and Republicans, and I think history has shown us that they do not. So, the Democratic party, toda
5. 2045.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   McConnell has opposed pretty much every reasonable element of Trump's campaign platform to "drain the swamp". On term limits, McConnell simply said, "We have term limits; they're called elections." And, was emp
6. 2046.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   The spitballs are because what America (and the world) desperately needs right now is an opposition party. The centrist (actually, center-right, or even just right wing, compared to European politics) Democratic party has no power against r
7. 2047.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   Here's one, pretty well-cited, article on the subject: http://www.hrc.org/2016RepublicanFacts/donald-trump-opposes-... And, look at the legislative record of the people he has chosen to be part of his team. They a
8. 2048.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   Every Trump supporter seems to see exactly what they want to see of Trump's candidacy. I just had a conversation with someone who believes Trump will be great for LGBTQ equality. No awareness that the campaign has specifically, and emp
9. 2049.▲
   by SwellJoe 10y ago

   my a = fn { local $v= _[0] %~=-> What is that? It certainly isn't Perl (5 or 6).
10. 2050.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    This was not my experience with Perl, at all. Perl was the first really welcoming programming community I found on the web. Not the only one, I'm sure, but it stood out in remarkable ways. Perl Monks was super helpful to beginners an
11. 2051.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Ethically speaking, what should developed nations do to assist people living in, for example, sub-Saharan Africa, who have no resources with which to relocate, and are already suffering the consequences of climate change? I consider it a ca
12. 2052.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    There's always folks suggesting that systemd is too complicated, and that simpler solutions are better. But, I have to assume they've never dealt with the complexity that SysV initscripts leave up to the developer and packager. I
13. 2053.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    "Its iPhone is still king, but sales have been in decline." By what metric is iPhone still king? Android phones account for 80+% of the market.
14. 2054.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    How does anthropogenic climate change fit into your understanding of events and how our future on this planet is developing?
15. 2055.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Have you considered the possibility that those scary predictions were only wrong about the timeline rather than the eventual outcome? Humans are very bad at reasoning about things that happen at earth scale and over long periods of time.
16. 2056.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    I would suggest that ITT was worse than useless. It was a negative indicator of quality for job candidates. Not having ITT on your resume is better than having ITT on your resume (even if nothing replaces it on the resume).
17. 2057.▲
    Perl and the Birth of the Dynamic Web(opensource.com)

    2 points by SwellJoe 10y ago|0 comments
18. 2058.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    An XPS is a more fair comparison, sure, but even an XPS can be had for 2/3 the price of a comparable MacBook Pro. And, sure, it's an argument that's been made for years...because it's mostly been true for years that Appl
19. 2059.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Sure, it may be more fair to compare to an XPS model. But, even so...big price difference. Admittedly, if you really love macOS, buying a Mac is a reasonable choice, and the only realistic choice for non-technical folks (building a Hackinto
20. 2060.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    I got a new computer relatively recently. It's a modest looking plastic Dell Inspiron; but it has a 4k touchscreen display, an i7 CPU, a GTX960M GPU, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD. It cost ~$900, on sale. I, frankly, can't imagine payin
21. 2061.▲
    Too Smug to Jail(rollingstone.com)

    8 points by SwellJoe 10y ago|0 comments
22. 2062.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Both are valid points. And, I make fun of DJs who play the same set over and over, night after night. I don't understand why any DJ would subject themselves to that kind of tedium; but let's be honest: the majority of DJs are not
23. 2063.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    I started an audiovisual services company a few years ago, and so I've worked as a DJ off-and-on for a few years (mostly for fun, as it doesn't pay as well as software). The reality is that DJs play what people want to hear. The a
24. 2064.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Kernel upgrade. 4.7.something or other, I think.
25. 2065.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Huh...I don't think I know what you're talking about. What specific problems have you had with multiple screens? I don't currently have my system setup for multiple displays (I live in an RV and don't have room for that
26. 2066.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    I think it's gotten pretty good in the past few months. As I mentioned, I had problems when I first installed Linux and it took longer than it historically has, but it's mostly been resolved with kernel and other updates. I can&#x
27. 2067.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    Video editors on Linux are strikingly crappy in my experience. KDEnlive is the one I settled on and have been using for my tutorial videos for a couple of years, but it still has random crashes and some of its UI choices are questionable. B
28. 2068.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    I agree. Every time Elementary OS comes up, people are like, "Finally a nice looking Linux desktop!", and I'm over here thinking, "meh...regular old Gnome 3, as shipped with recent Fedora versions, looks nicer and more c
29. 2069.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    "Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work well?" Funny story: My new-ish Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 7559 i7 with 4k touchscreen display; which I got at an absurdly low sales price from the Dell outlet store) does not reliably recover
30. 2070.▲
    by SwellJoe 10y ago

    What is the standard of evidence for someone expressing their frustration with an experience that had, given that they have named no names, made no call to action, and otherwise have just told us what happened and how it made them feel? Thi