aaronchall

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by aaronchall 12y ago
TLDR: Microsoft fanboy mayor of Munich's unfounded public criticism is creating staffing problems. Difficulty in finding Linux-capable staff is cited as legitimate reason for not switching to Linux. Excerpt of particular interest, to m
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Mayor of city that threw out Microsoft told to end attacks on Linux(techrepublic.com)
5 points by aaronchall 12y ago|1 comments
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by aaronchall 12y ago
In case you were wondering: "As in ordinary ternary numbers, the digits of a balanced ternary numeral are coefficients of powers of 3, but instead of coming from the set {0, 1, 2}, the digits are –1, 0 and 1." e.g. 1 x 3^3 - 1 x 3
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by aaronchall 12y ago
Code that you don't write consumes zero clock cycles. Learn your language well, so that you can use data structures and builtin functions as they are intended, and you can expect them to be pre-optimized for you. Learn in principle wha
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by aaronchall 12y ago
I've always been of the opinion that if you want to control how a piece of land is used, you should buy it. If you want a bunch of indigents living on land that is very in high demand, raise the money, buy the land, and build a homeles
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by aaronchall 12y ago
I'm not a fan of Microsoft or Adobe, so this is a bit disheartening. Why is it so hard to convert or port LibreOffice and GIMP for Android?
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Microsoft, Adobe beat open source developers to Android(networkworld.com)
2 points by aaronchall 12y ago|1 comments
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by aaronchall 12y ago
The more jobs technology makes obsolete, the better, amiright?
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by aaronchall 13y ago
I like the entrepreneurship story, as well as the overall message.
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by aaronchall 13y ago
You're very right. The turn signal doubles as the ejector-seat button. This needs fixing.
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by aaronchall 13y ago
I'm the asker. You must be one of those cursor focus savants. Do you actually get any work done? If so, are you a super genius whose brain always has extra clock cycles to check that the cursor is blinking next to where you're int
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by aaronchall 13y ago
Consider how most users interact with a page. I personally click to highlight text, use my mouse wheel to set the page just so, and I type. A lot. And I'm a fast typer. And I hit backspace. A lot. Why should I lose all my work because
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by aaronchall 13y ago
There always have been and always will be class divisions. Every society has a version of the phrase "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations." But now the slaves are free. We all get world class free public educations (ask