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by abenga 13y ago
For moving and copying files from one directory to another, it's arguable that Gnome's select files, right-click and select "Move To", or "Copy To" from the context menu and select the destination from the resu
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by abenga 13y ago
Is it not obviously implied that the "everyone" here is "everyone interested in using Gnome"?
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by abenga 13y ago
Indochino
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by abenga 13y ago
There was an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review way back that seems to agree with this: http://hbr.org/2003/12/the-one-number-you-need-to-grow/
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by abenga 13y ago
My qualms are not about whether such a society working starting now , since they would be building upon a foundation (infrastructure, ideas to founders due to education from public institutions, a generally prosperous society, etc.) alread
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by abenga 13y ago
Why do you assume that the person whose money the government "steals" would have made any of that money in the absence of government? How would they buy and sell goods or services without legal tender mandated by a government, enf
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by abenga 13y ago
It's worse than that. Gnome-shell (probably the most visible part of Gnome) is still at 3.4 in Jessie. It just hit Sid last week or something. That said, I've used Gnome 3 since it was still in development and grew to love it. Aft
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by abenga 13y ago
Actually it's the Kenyan military that has managed to dislodge Al Shabaab from significant swarths of Southern Somalia (up to their Mogadishu, and including the largest port, Kismayu). Ethiopia generally used to roll in, depose the war
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by abenga 13y ago
I think genetics has a lot to do with the success of Kenyan long-distance athletes. There are forty-two ethnic communities in Kenya, yet pretty much every long-distance runner you have ever heard of is from the Kalenjin community. If it wer
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by abenga 13y ago
What's "evil" about following the exact same business model that you've been following all along? It's not like they sneaked this up on us. It is public knowledge what they do for revenue. They provide you with simp
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by abenga 13y ago
Google+ is the 2nd largest social network, with more active users than Twitter. Probably not smashing maybe, but that's success of some sort.
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by abenga 13y ago
Yes, it is. Until they use this data for something nefarious, it's cool with me. There are ways of opting out, if you don't like it.
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by abenga 13y ago
It's right there in the settings: (in Chrome) Settings > Appearance > "Use system title bar and borders". edit: clarified I meant Chrome.
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by abenga 13y ago
Contrary to (popular?) opinion most of Africa is not a warzone. With extremely few exceptions (Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo), most of Sub-Saharan Africa is in the middle of an extended period of peace. It's inconceivable th
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by abenga 14y ago
There was also an interesting Top Gear segment where Mika Hakkinen gave James May a racing lesson[1]. In it they talked about why Finns seem to do so much better than people from other countries in motor racing. A bit of it was to do with t
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by abenga 14y ago
It is (was): https://www.coursera.org/course/db
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by abenga 14y ago
Just to ensure that complaints are not the only opinions developers like you hear, let me tell you that I use Gnome Shell everyday, and I love it. I migrated a lot of the people in our office (a small Actuarial firm w. ~12 people) to it and
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by abenga 14y ago
I was recently looking at the alternatives available, and thought that Drizzle [ http://www.drizzle.org/ ] looks really great.
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by abenga 14y ago
I usually do an "apt-get install gnome" on top of the default Ubuntu desktop. I used to run GNOME shell builds even before it was generally available and got to love it. I'm sure that given time I'd grow to not mind Unity, but for me GNOME
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by abenga 14y ago
This is really sad if it's true. I'm probably in the minority, but I think GNOME 3 (even without extensions) is the best Linux desktop at the moment. It does seem strange when you look at it at first, but once you use it for a week or so an
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by abenga 14y ago
I'm all for any easier file organization system as long as it's portable between systems, allows a large number of files to be locatable and usable immediately after being plugged into a system (i.e. without a lengthy indexing process), and
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by abenga 14y ago
You receive a text notification of the transaction when it goes through, which has the recipient's full names. In case the names are different from what you expected, you can call a customer care number and have the transaction reversed (as
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by abenga 14y ago
No value is stored in the SIM, the transaction record and balance is stored in Safaricom's servers. Agents have a registration number prominently displayed, and all transactions are immediately confirmed by SMS to both parties. I think agen
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by abenga 14y ago
I've never heard of a technical exploit compromising the M-Pesa infrastructure. Social engineering cons are on the rise, though (like sending a dummy text telling you that someone sent you money, then calling and requesting that you send it
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by abenga 14y ago
You register with Safaricom (The Telco) with your Identification Card Number/Passport Number. You get a 4-digit PIN to use as a password. After this your phone number is your 'account number', in a manner of speaking. An M-Pesa application
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by abenga 14y ago
(Kenyan here) I think that the fact that Kenya did not have such a large banking industry helped M-Pesa succeed. By the time the local banks realised that it threatened to eat into their business, it had become too big and popular to beat.