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by Teckla 14y ago
"Even if that were true (which I dispute, even in recent weeks GRUB broke after an upgrade on my Linux machine, resulting in an unbootable machine)." I'm glad it's not just me. Last year, I installed Ubuntu Linux via WUBI. After an update,
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by Teckla 14y ago
There are some important fundamental differences between X apps and Web apps. The "display side" of Web apps can do a lot of useful processing which cannot be done on the "display side" of X apps. JavaScript is not my favorite technology, a
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by Teckla 14y ago
"Want to change the volume easily and still have access to f1-f12? Lenovo's got dedicated buttons for it." In preferences, you can set it so Fn+F1 through Fn+F12 trigger the usual features, so that you can still have easy access to vanilla
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by Teckla 14y ago
Just a few nitpicks: "After residing in unix-land for almost a year I decided to come back to Mac OSX..." OS X is a UNIX. A real, actual UNIX. "...in unix-land no such jokes were pulled." I am going to guess you were using Linux, which is
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by Teckla 14y ago
As a long-time C programmer (20+ years), this quiz -- despite its flaws -- are a good example of how difficult it really is to write 100% portable C code. I often hear developers talking about how C is a simple language, but it may or may n
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Why Products Suck (And How To Make Them Suck Less)(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Teckla 14y ago|0 comments
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The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by Teckla 14y ago|0 comments
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by Teckla 15y ago
When it comes to assignment and comparison in constructs such as while loops, I think this variation adds readability: while (len = getline(line, MAXLINE), len > 0) ... I've never seen anyone else use it, though.
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by Teckla 15y ago
"Initially, I tried to work with Windows 7. It really is not bad at all, but my brain seems to be hardwired to use a Unix command line (and Vim) at this point, so after a while, I had enough and sought refuge in Linux-land." Have you tried
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by Teckla 15y ago
"For your netbook, download Wubi ( http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer ). It's a Windows installer for Ubuntu. It's incredibly easy to use." It's also unreliable. I used wubi to install Linux on my Windows 7 machine, and
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by Teckla 15y ago
"Having separate processes for each tab will increase resource usage." My PC is a single core 1.66 GHz Atom running Windows 7 Professional in 1 GB of RAM. I can assure you multi-process Chrome outperforms Firefox on this machine, both in pe
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by Teckla 15y ago
Dropping Linux support does seem like a good business decision. All that extra work to support an additional 0.5% to 1% of the market does not seem worth it.
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Myths About Introverts(jerrybrito.org)
429 points by Teckla 15y ago|189 comments
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by Teckla 15y ago
"Disclaimer though is that I was one of the Java guys and I had completely bought into the notion of 'write once, run anywhere'. Making that true turned out to be impossible for a number of reasons, not the least of which that the underlyin
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by Teckla 15y ago
IE9 has made some nice improvements, but I also ask myself why it still lags behind in so many ways. For example, if I were writing this comment in IE9, I would not be able to see what spelling errors I made. It's 2011, and IE still does no
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by Teckla 15y ago
"Exactly. Nothing will protect you from stupidity." I'm getting so tired of this blame-the-user-for-everything attitude on Slashdot, HN, and elsewhere. Some of the blame belongs to Apple/Safari. You see, Safari's default settings allow for
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by Teckla 15y ago
What happens if you lose your Bitcoin wallet? Are your Bitcoins gone forever, with no recourse? Do those Bitcoins effectively leave the limited Bitcoin money supply forever?
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by Teckla 15y ago
From my point of view, the main arguments for strong typing are that everyone makes mistakes, and that your tests might not be as complete as you would like (due to time pressure, or whatever else).
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by Teckla 16y ago
"They're talking about how Google funnels 88% of its non-US revenue (which totals $12.5B) through its Dublin subsidiary to reduce their tax burden." Please stop using the phrase "tax burden". It's loaded language and not-so-subtly encourage
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by Teckla 16y ago
Windows DPI scaling used to not work very well. Maybe it has improved. For example, I remember Windows XP applications with text running off the edges of windows and buttons. Perhaps Windows DPI scaling is a reasonable option now.
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by Teckla 16y ago
There are a lot of people out there, myself included, that don't have great vision, that desperately want bigger pixels, not smaller pixels. The small pixel people are winning. :(
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by Teckla 16y ago
Watching new users try to figure out how to exit these editors: priceless. (This is tongue-in-cheek! I use Vim!)
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by Teckla 16y ago
C is outdated, even by systems programming language standards. Sorry, but it's true. There's still room in the standard for one's complement, it denies all knowledge of multi-threaded programming, it has a bunch of impossible-to-use-safely
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by Teckla 16y ago
"Oh well, at least he didn't complain about lisp having too many parenthesis." Humans are visual creatures. It really is easy to get lost in Lisp's parentheses. Languages whose blocks are easier to identify at a glance really are easier
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by Teckla 16y ago
It has been extremely well documented that closures are planned for Java 8. If you absolutely, positively can't wait, anonymous inner classes are your best work-around at the moment. However, it turns out you can, in fact, get by without cl
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by Teckla 16y ago
"Java as a language is horrible language because the only problem it solves well is how to inflate a consulting bill, or how to waste developers time figuring out what exceptions a method throws. Only exception a method needs to throw is Ja
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by Teckla 16y ago
The fastest way to pay off debt is to pay off the highest interest rate debt first, then the next highest interest rate debt, then the next highest interest rate debt, etc. The debt snowball approach isn't the fastest approach, but the theo
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by Teckla 16y ago
Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. You've oversimplifying the complex subject of nutrition. It is now known that it's not as simple as "calories in - calories burned = weight gain or loss". The body burns more calories processing some kind
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by Teckla 16y ago
The poor don't eat too much compared to the middle class and the wealthy. The poor eat the wrong kinds of foods, because the wrong kinds of food are inexpensive.
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by Teckla 16y ago
"Spending more time on UI = spending less on quality." I disagree. The inability to reverse incorrect votes reduces the quality of the site by assigning incorrect scores to comments. In fact, many comments are apologies for accidental down-

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