VonGuard

45 ms·

451.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Agreed, but I really feel like this time, the public vaguely understands and has more of a stake in it than before. Now, keep in mind, this is just as important to the day-to-day user as it was in the cypherpunk days, but now, everyone has
452.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Totally correct. However, it may fly just fine with Ubuntu's "just install a damn Linux and get the app online" crowd. Ubuntu makes Linux easy to install and maintain, and that could be enough for some users. They only need o
453.
by VonGuard 11y ago
They uprooted everyone and moved to Vegas, leaving behind friends and family, and ensuring everyone who moved only knew Zappos people when they landed there. Maybe it's not a boat in the ocean level of isolation, but it is isolation. O
454.
by VonGuard 11y ago
It's so funny that this is the way it's become, as Atlassian grew up being the cheaper, simpler alternative to extremely expensive, super opaque, ultra closed source systems like Clear Case. I remember a time when Atlassian actual
455.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Howard is a brilliant programmer. In Yar's Revenge, that fuzzy barrier on the left side of the screen is the graphics code from the program literally reading the game's own code as graphical data, thus creating the crazy static pa
456.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Combat is, frankly, one of the greatest videogames ever made. Easily in the top ten. If you don't understand why, you've missed out on a great deal of history. The Atari 2600 was designed, almost exclusively, to play Combat. It ha
457.
by VonGuard 11y ago
A friend of mine in a communal living situation once got sick and stayed in his room for days. We did not see him at all, and his door was closed. The den mother of the place, a SUPER paranoid woman, kept telling us to leave him be, let him
458.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Also, I would be REALLY pissed if I lived in a town where I had to struggle to make rent on a place I don't own every month, and the city is giving away free permanent houses to folks who don't have jobs or pay rent... I mean, I w
459.
by VonGuard 11y ago
While this guy maybe went about saying it wrong, he has a point. There really is no other place on Earth that puts up with the level of homelessness we see here in the Bay Area. New York, Boston, Chicago, none have anywhere near this many h
460.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Sad to say, but humans have been bred over millennia to be clannish, violent, and prone to witch hunts. Quite literally, all of European history is about taking the peasants off to murder other people, and bringing back only the strongest o
461.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Good fucking riddance.
462.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Master Card has been doing this for a while, and I think they do it better: https://developer.mastercard.com/portal/dashboard.action They've had hackathons, and they have a few sample ideas. My favorite is checkin
463.
by VonGuard 11y ago
All iOS issues with Google software, I suspect, have more to do with Apple being dicks to Google than with Google fucking up. Remember, Apple is really trying hard to rid iOS of all Google programs. Remember Apple Maps?
464.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Very true statements. However, those were growing pains. I feel like Apple's problem now is that it has completely given up on its overarching philosophy: to make software simple. Instead, they're just offering us their own versio
465.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I think a lot of people have also been burned by utterly crap cheap tablets. There are thousands of sub $100 tablets, and I don't think any of them are worth while. Some are downright off-putting in their uselessness and lack of speed.
466.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Tell that to your VCs.
467.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Very true, but Apple has been the darling for a long time, and Wall Street has be desperate to find any flaw in their plans. Apple is a big part of a lot of people's 401k and other investments, so paranoia prevails. Alphabet is only ju
468.
by VonGuard 11y ago
In a culture where entrepreneurs who've "failed fast" many times over are considered to be thoroughbreds, is it any wonder investors can be taken for a ride by over-confident assholes? Frankly, the security industry has a lot
469.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I love IRCCloud and am a subscriber. Glad to see someone is actually trying to improve IRC!
470.
by VonGuard 11y ago
He consults on Riemann? I was under the impression he wanted nothing to do with helping people use it, and is just a general consultant. Like, he's not trying to support Riemann, he built it because he needed it. Maybe he's change
471.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I still have my 2000. I bought it in 1999, second-hand on Craigslist. It's still a brilliant device. I really wish I had something in EXACTLY the same form factor that had a modern screen. There is one aspect of the Newton that I feel
472.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I think you're heading in the wrong direction. First, I think they are buying these for protection, so they can experiment with blockchain tech and no get sued. Second, I think they want this for inter-bank commerce, not for end users.
473.
by VonGuard 11y ago
They are basically malware. They take over your browser and search bar, obviously diverting all search queries to them first, so they can have a nice little index to sell.
474.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I did check this and it was not the problem, unfortunately. I've just nuked the partition from orbit and started over with Mint.
475.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Even doing this is incredibly slow and laggy with Unity. Once you're in the shell, it's better, but switching is just super slow and painful.
476.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I use this now, but I also try to use it on some seriously old Dell laptops at my non-profit. Sadly, that means I must first install Ubuntu, vanilla. This means I then must login to Unity and install Gnome-Flashback. Normally, this takes ab
477.
by VonGuard 11y ago
MATE or Cinnamon? Want to know before I install. I get weird ass errors like nobody when I install Linux. Currently, my Ubutntu 10/14 machine randomly decides to ignore keyboard inputs and replace them with random other letters. Happen
478.
by VonGuard 11y ago
All the Ubuntu's have terminal GUI problems. They just keep tinkering and changing things. Gnome did this to itself, too, and thus, we're left with all these weird GUIs that aspire to be Windows 8, or Mac OS, when Gnome 2 was fuck
479.
by VonGuard 11y ago
Imagine my surprise when my final project in discrete math class in college was building one of these.
480.
by VonGuard 11y ago
I must mean 8.6. I think I am confusing it with 8.5.1.... It has been 16 years..... 8.5.1 and 8.6 were the greatest, though... Anyway, the great thing about hosting on Classic Mac OS is that there was nothing to exploit. With no remote admi

More ›