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by acabal 15y ago
"Works for me" isn't the right response to this kind of complaint, because though it might work for you, the fact it is that it doesn't on many other people's computers--including mine. For example when upgrading to 11.04, hibernate broke
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by acabal 15y ago
I'm going to guess that surprising users with a buggy, incomplete, and arguably poorly designed rewrite of the desktop experience they've been using for years is the fiasco he's talking about. And yes, only geeks keep up with Ubuntu news--e
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by acabal 16y ago
Not to mention the need to set up the actual page layout, markup, and related code... this is a PHP app so it's not that easy. Since I'm the only developer/everything else guy, my time has to be split between customer support, development
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by acabal 16y ago
Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn't think that data portability is a right. After all, when you willingly hand over your data to a service, say Facebook, you do so with the assumption that you've read their terms and conditio
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by acabal 16y ago
Maybe true, but as a web developer I can't in good conscience install an OS for a user that won't upgrade to FF4 for more than 6 months. That's the PPA/milestone release system's blessing and curse: easy to install software, hard to get th
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by acabal 16y ago
Agreed, and the same thing happened, I believe, in Gnome 3. They did usability testing, but only AFTER the features were essentially frozen. Instead of using users as a guide for what to develop, they used them as a confirmation that what
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by acabal 16y ago
If almost 50% of the users managed to crash the GUI with routine tasks in the span of a single hour , that's a sure sign that it isn't ready for prime-time yet, regardless of what anybody's opinions on features or functionality are. I pers
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by acabal 16y ago
Sounds kind of pointless... the kind of people who can spent at least $120 on an e-reader (and by extension the $8-$15 it costs per book that isn't even a touchable/sharable thing) are probably the kinds of people who can afford another $25
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by acabal 16y ago
What I'm saying is that "non-LTS" shouldn't be code for "bug-ridden and feature-incomplete," just because it isn't supported for as long. They deserve the same attention to stability that LTS releases get. I'm not against all change, only
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by acabal 16y ago
Actually I'd be surprised if they did a last-minute switch back to Gnome Classic for 11.04 given Shuttleworth's penchant for decision by fiat and history of using non-LTS releases as nothing more than extended betas/UI playgrounds. (See Pul
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by acabal 16y ago
Wow, am I glad I caught this link--I'm just now switching my servers from Apache to Nginx/php-fastcgi, configured more or less just like the article says... I decided to switch to Nginx for the fabled performance benefits and relatively sim
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by acabal 16y ago
My corporation is based in IL. Ideally I'm looking to simply change agents, as while mine is competent, he's expensive and not good at remoting. I work exclusively from remote locations so it's essential that my accountant be comfortable
853.
by acabal 16y ago
Is this only for personal taxes, or can my very simple corporation benefit from this? Right now I have an accountant in my home state handling my corporate taxes, but he's not very internet-savvy so things like secure file transfers and ev
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by acabal 16y ago
This is a great tool, I've been using it for a long time. Only downside is that on Ubuntu Server certain graphics libraries aren't in the PPA so you have to download a static binary instead of using apt-get. But it's a minor quibble for a
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by acabal 16y ago
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for all of your comments on the legal articles on HN. Your summaries are always clear and easy to understand for a layman like me, and I really appreciate that :)
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by acabal 16y ago
No- I worked for a high-traffic .NET based company in LA that was doing great. Myspace just had a crappy product that couldn't keep up with the Facebook steamroller. I think it's as simple as that.
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by acabal 16y ago
This is a great idea, and the books look beautiful. I'd suggest making the site title a horizontal header and lining up the books under that, instead of having two columns. But then again I'm not a designer either. Good luck!
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by acabal 16y ago
On a side note I'm really happy that they included screenshots and a description in the repo. There are so many github links that go straight to source code and have nothing in the wiki, as if I have the time to read, download, compile, an
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by acabal 16y ago
Siegler is surprised that MS is doing something greedy and underhanded? Is he even aware of MS's history from not even 10 years ago?
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by acabal 16y ago
I worked at Xerox when they did their rebranding. At a big company meeting I saw it and said, "seriously?" Not only is it bland and generic, but my eyes keep thinking that the sphere is "off" somehow. Something about how they drew the lin
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by acabal 16y ago
Yeah, but... not even text-shadow and gradients? Come on, IE :(
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by acabal 16y ago
This is great--I've already bought 2 good domains for a project that I've been trying to rename for months. Thanks!
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by acabal 16y ago
I've never been to Chile, and I don't think my company is technically a startup anymore (otherwise I'd apply), but I highly encourage anyone who's even remotely considering this to apply. The cash isn't the important part, in my mind; it's
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by acabal 16y ago
I'm interested to see how this ends up being resolved (I use Ubuntu, don't like Unity, and Gnome Shell looks to be just as bad) but have only been half-following this drama. This is a really great summary post. I'm totally unsurprised that
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by acabal 16y ago
I was on the fence as to whether Gnome 3 looked good or not, and this change drops me in to the "don't want to try it" camp. I don't like Unity either (and I have tried that one)... so now will I have a choice when running Ubuntu? I rea
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by acabal 16y ago
I already do this on my own site. Visitors on IE6 get a big warning at the bottom telling them they're using a dangerously out-of-date browser, and provides a link to Firefox first, then IE8 second. Even if I can get just one person to us
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by acabal 16y ago
Check the website of my company, http://turkeysandwichindustries.com , for a map of places I've been. The past few years I've been living an expat traveler lifestyle. Yes, other countries have visa requirements; I myself was bitten by the
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by acabal 16y ago
I don't blame people for not wanting even a layover in the States. We've easily become the most unwelcoming (even to citizens!) and foreigner-hostile country around, short of some backwater dictatorship. Last time I flew back from LHR-&#6
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by acabal 16y ago
I think SF is a bit of a strange case. I grew up and lived in the area for a long time. SF has the unfortunate confluence of very limited land, desirable living conditions that drive real estate prices sky-high, a core of super-wealthy pe
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by acabal 16y ago
This puts into words really well what's been stewing in my brain the past few years. Having spent the last few years traveling the world and seeing the many different ways people live, it's sometimes a bit of a shock to come back to the St

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