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by _pi 17y ago
That's very interesting. Why is auto-generated XML hard to diff?
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by _pi 17y ago
OOXML is text based now. So Office 2007 should be text capable. Sharepoint is generally horrible with that I agree, but I think it uses the default MS word mechanism to do that which stores changes with the file at the end.... kind-of a bad
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by _pi 17y ago
I'd say that viewing the changes are more-so the problem because diff will be able to handle the backend of things on most files, changed words in lines are picked up easily, so are tags.
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by _pi 17y ago
As do I. I actually am building a two tiered system as my server parts come in. I pretty much have a .repo file that says to track which folders with what protocol either git or rsync, that way I won't fuss with stuff that;s annoying or stu
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by _pi 17y ago
The new MS Office format is XML with plain text. RTF is also plain text. However it wouldn't be very hard to do, if you implement a small script that takes the git history and pushes it through a viewer showing different versions of the fil
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by _pi 17y ago
I'm surprised more companies don't use version control such as git in their documents.
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by _pi 17y ago
You seem to be confusing Nazi's for actual socialists. They were corporatist fascists. Corporatism may look a lot like socialism but it isn't necessarily so. Saying socialism leads to Totalitarian fascism is a gigantic line to cross. I'd sa
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by _pi 17y ago
I disagree, look at kfind for instance. It's a great front end to find. Certainly complexity depends on the program but wrapping most *nix philosophy utilities isn't hard, but it isn't useful either you neuter their power.
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by _pi 17y ago
They need to optimize that thing. I may have been an early adopter but the rendering and the speed of rendering was pretty bad. Worse than FF.
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by _pi 17y ago
Mamma and Pappa don't care about this only nerds do. Nerds can move away from linux but I guess cannonical feels Ubuntu has gained traction with Mama and papa and that it doesn't need nerds anymore.
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by _pi 17y ago
The difference is that .msi doesn't handle dependencies, multiple versions or conflicts in a coherant centralized and useful way. The current structure of the msi installers leaves them much like their exe counterparts. If this is package m
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by _pi 17y ago
Windows still doesn't have a coherent way of managing installed applications of various versions, and various degrees of conflict, ie, a package manager and they probably never will... Just saying...
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by _pi 17y ago
Gah that thing almost drove me over to Emacs. By almost I mean, I couldn't get full vim functionality in Viper and gave up, some commands just can't be replicated. But org-mode is a very very nice tool. The current vim alternatives like vik
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by _pi 17y ago
I'd argue it's much easier to fall asleep sitting rather than walking.
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by _pi 17y ago
This works for smaller amounts of data, but hierarchies are still needed to sort very large amounts of data that have to be accessed at any time. Yes indexing/searching/filtering is an option but when you have 1GB of pure text, searching "t
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by _pi 17y ago
You misunderstood file structure as document structure I meant it as in logical organization on a drive.
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by _pi 17y ago
I think it's revenge because people are sick of their commercials.
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by _pi 17y ago
In my experience you'll wake several times in the night in bursts of energy (as a defense mechanism telling you to get food), they'll subside if you lay there for about 10 minutes and you'll cruise right back to sleep just from your body tr
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by _pi 17y ago
Oh yes. In terms of Bus Service. I live in the Greater Bridgeport/Hartford Area in CT. Buses are scarce, very scarce. There are stops but good luck finding a coherent schedule and good luck finding a way from the bus stop home. I'd take the
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by _pi 17y ago
Be careful about this, I have personally had a (as in one) horrid experience, YMMV. (I've done this 3 times, and yes it works however I fasted for a full 16-17 hours.) Back story: I irresponsibly slept for 2-3 weeks. Racking up a sleep de
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by _pi 17y ago
But is user generated content for commercial use? I mean if bots are submitting it fine, but how do you go about a human submitting something to a commercial site? It's easy if the site says it owns all submissions, but what if it doesn't?
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by _pi 17y ago
I agree, the main reason (besides the fact that LaTeX is the greatest for any type of document, and that greatness is extended by XeTeX,) is because I still believe one must have good file structure. As much as CMSes and Wikis are the rage
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by _pi 17y ago
The problem for me is that OSX isn't linux. As a power user, I do some pretty in-depth stuff that requires the proc file system. Not only that but Mac drivers behave differently than linux ones in terms of the Unix philosophy. And Mac doesn
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by _pi 17y ago
My bad I'm retarded.
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by _pi 17y ago
Not exactly, I named specific types of computers that excelled at delivering the features of the Mac. I called d Mac a jack of all trades. Although they're rated at the top in customer-service and repair every year. Depends how you rate i
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by _pi 17y ago
I don't get hardcore linux types who go for Mac. Mac ports is pretty bad for porting things over, and there's problems with version handling. There are some nightmare development stories on the Mac such that programs don't compile because i
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by _pi 17y ago
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/how-to-adding-r/ It does, look at the installed ram and the sticker on it. As for the theory that of many fits one, fact I feel that that is false. I could have bought my college's laptop which is ga
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by _pi 17y ago
If what counts is that they're well rounded why do they give you the ability to customize to be less rounded, ie, 17" Inch MBP which is supposed to be a workstation replacement? Out of what you mentioned: Tough, decent battery life, good p
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by _pi 17y ago
No my point is that Mac is a computer and is subject to the same shit that other computers are subject to, so if "this crap just works" stops working on a PC it will also stop working on a Mac. Mac's suffer hardware issues and software issu
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by _pi 17y ago
Point taken, however financial involvement is still needed. Not only that but I already have a damn computer why should I buy a different one because you decided to lock development to one platform? Also interesting tid-bit, I've found that

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