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by acabal 14y ago
This is a good idea in theory but potentially bad in execution. What I'd like (and I suspect many other developers would too) is a nice laptop that I can install Linux on, and have it Just Work. What it looks like Dell is providing is a n
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by acabal 14y ago
I came here to say I wouldn't touch any Oracle product with a 10-foot pole, but you put it so much better.
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by acabal 14y ago
How are people not impressed by this? The app is making almost twice the median national income, and people are saying it's not enough? Come on.
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by acabal 14y ago
Don't buy in to the fear mentality that's strangling American discourse. People were dealing with emergencies just fine without cell phones... just 15 years ago .
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by acabal 14y ago
I haven't had a phone for something like 3 or 4 years. (I did briefly have a Nokia brick that I used maybe once or twice to make calls, but mostly as an alarm clock without a sim card.) I spend a lot of time working at my laptop all day, a
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by acabal 14y ago
I was raised trilingual: born in America to a Colombian dad and Lithuanian mom, so I speak English, Spanish, and Lithuanian. My Lithuanian has gotten a bit rusty since my younger days (mostly out of lack of practice--it's not a language yo
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by acabal 14y ago
Funny thing is that this is how "classic" IE (<=6?) used to calculate things. I personally always found it to be the more sensible way. Not sure why the standards body decided to do the opposite, and then only implement border-box as
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by acabal 14y ago
You can hide it, but "Drafts," "Sent Mail," and "Trash" are under the "[Gmail]" folder. (Even though there's a duplicate and empty "Trash" folder above the root.) I check those frequently so it has to stay. I'm pretty sure Thunderbird ha
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by acabal 14y ago
I'm pretty happy with this actually, but still a bit worried. Happy, because for once a company didn't see a perfectly good--but decade-old--piece of software and think, "Gee, this has been around for a decade and it hasn't changed, let's
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by acabal 14y ago
How is Carreon going to be punished? It's great that Inman won, but he won not in small part because he's a famous personality that helped gather internet rage--and then the EFF--to his side. But what if he was a nobody? EFF would have ve
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by acabal 14y ago
No, I don't read Gruber, and actually I strongly dislike Apple. But it's a comment that seems obvious to me. When was the last time any non-geek person said, "I can't wait to buy that new Samsung Galaxy tablet?" (Replace that brand with a
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by acabal 14y ago
I'm still pretty shocked at how everyone and their grandma is trying to elbow their way into the tablet market. They don't understand that there is no tablet market. There's only an iPad market. The iPad wins because Apple is able to pu
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by acabal 14y ago
What a nightmare. How do small fries defend themselves? What happens if some loony decides to drag a very small business into a frivolous lawsuit? Sinking $100k into trying (and not even necessarily succeeding!) to defend against ridicul
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by acabal 14y ago
Well suspend/hibernate/resume are kernel functions so it is a Linux problem.
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by acabal 14y ago
Linux still has lots of problems with suspend/hibernate/resume on laptops (Oneiric broke hiberanate on my laptop for example), so booting is still kind of important for that reason. Resume from hibernate is another area where I'd like to se
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by acabal 14y ago
I actually prefer when apps respect the UI guidelines of the OS they're running on. I understand the desire for one unified interface, but there's also much to be said for intra-OS UI consistency. FF has done really well in the past with
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by acabal 14y ago
That's what I'd like to know. How did they get so many people interested in yet another project management app (I swear I hear about a new one every month)? That's the most crucial piece of info they could possibly share, anything else
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by acabal 15y ago
I've been saying it for a while: the publishing industry right now is where the music industry was ~3 years ago. The cycle is going to be exactly the same. At one point big music figured out that removing DRM let them sell more songs, and
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by acabal 15y ago
Congratulations, great design and execution. I'd be really interested to see how you phrased the emails you sent out to the bloggers to get them to write about you, and what your success rate was.
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by acabal 15y ago
I like that they stuck with Compiz. Linux is fragmented in no small part due to developers wanting to create shiny new software instead of supporting more boring older software. When that happens we get 100 window managers all with their
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by acabal 15y ago
If I'm remembering right, Shuttleworth decided to go his own way because at the time Gnome Shell looked radically different than it does now, and he didn't forsee it--or the political environment around it--improving enough to bother buil
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by acabal 15y ago
The complexity and presentation of encryption tools are the biggest things preventing them from being used by everyday people. I have a CS degree from a university you've heard of, have been using Linux for much of my computing career, and
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by acabal 15y ago
You can create a subset of that font to serve if only using a few icons. I've done that with Scribophile thought I can't recall right now what utility I used to do that.
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by acabal 15y ago
Firefox still has a great chance. They've sped up their dev cycle to try to keep pace with Chrome. As soon as they finally end the ridiculous memory usage problems that persist to this day and enable silent auto-updates (auto-updates are
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by acabal 15y ago
I want what Windows does: Stable core, independent apps. The entire concept of "LTS" is a red herring. It's a byproduct of the distro mindset. To put it another way: There is no Windows LTS. You buy one version of Windows and it works f
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by acabal 15y ago
Firefox is a special case. Ubuntu specifically updates that one package more frequently. Perhaps it was a bad example as that's one of the very few packages that is singled out for frequent updates by Canonical. PPAs still aren't the best
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by acabal 15y ago
We're talking about different problems. Windows does not have the problem I'm describing. If I want to update Firefox on Windows XP, I can do that without Windows forcing me to update to Windows 7 as part of the deal. That's the problem.
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by acabal 15y ago
I've been saying this same thing for years. Package managers are a nice concept in theory, but Linux on the desktop will never, ever succeed until upgrading (for example) Firefox doesn't result in an install of Unity. The entire concept o
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by acabal 15y ago
I get nervous every time I cross the border back in to America, and I'm an American citizen.
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by acabal 15y ago
Is this for real? Why on Earth would ISPs put so much money and effort into doing something like this, when there's zero benefit for them? (Besides, perhaps, not getting sued by the RIAA... but then again I doubt companies like AT&T w

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