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901.
by acabal 16y ago
I highly advocate people going to work or travel abroad for a year or two, but it's important to note that this article is specifically recommending going to work in the Australian Outback. I've been to Australia and it's a lovely place wi
902.
by acabal 16y ago
Am I just being cynical or am I the only one completely unsurprised by this?
903.
by acabal 16y ago
Am I missing something here or do I really have to type the weird curly-F every time I want to call this? Having charmap open in my taskbar is not my idea of being productive. Plus, from my cursory glance this looks pretty similar, if not
904.
by acabal 16y ago
In my perfect world, all software, from nuclear reactor software to Angry Birds, would be powered by a learning neural net that dynamically reshapes the interface as it learns my most common actions and foibles. It would interface directly
905.
by acabal 16y ago
Whenever I read about the guts of video hardware or 3-d game programming it always amazes me that this kind of stuff even exists. It's so complex!
906.
by acabal 16y ago
Cool article, but it's from 2005 and sadly many of those sites have dropped their funny headers. (At least most of the ones I tried myself.)
907.
by acabal 16y ago
I was extremely confused at first because I put in two words in the input box, and clicking 'merge' would do nothing. When I see 'merge', I expect that it will somehow merge the two words I've entered. You should change that button or at
908.
by acabal 16y ago
I was going to come in to post this. Regular expressions are the first thing I think of when it comes to this, and making a pattern to match [AT] instead of @ is just a few keystrokes away. Make up a few permutations of popular replacemen
909.
by acabal 16y ago
I'm so confused about Stuxnet--some people were saying it was among the most brilliant viruses ever, (from memory) using several 0-day exploits and doing things like recording normal activity to play back to machine operators while it did i
910.
by acabal 16y ago
Interesting, I didn't know about that. One thing that concerns me is that they only decided to do usability testing in Feb 2010, but according to the Wiki page Gnome 3 has been in development since Jul 2008. Shouldn't a huge UI overhaul rec
911.
by acabal 16y ago
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Red-Hat-the-Top-... "The vast majority (70 percent) of contributors work on the project on their spare time, while an additional 20 percent of contributors do so on both a paid and voluntary bas
912.
by acabal 16y ago
If they didn't want to invite criticism, they shouldn't have release screenshots of a product they don't want criticism of, complete with breathless captions about "beauty" and "usability." Furthermore, I have better things to do with my ti
913.
by acabal 16y ago
People like to beat up on MS a lot, but the differences between the Windows 7 GUI (or iOS GUI) and Gnome 3 really highlight the disadvantage that a bunch of spare-time developers who say to themselves, "well, I think our users will like tex
914.
by acabal 16y ago
There are scripts out there to unlock even Kindle 3 books. The method involves downloading two scripts and unlocking it through a certain version of Kindle for PC. (New versions of KfPC don't work). Search for 'unswindle'.
915.
by acabal 16y ago
Amazon has already demonstrated that it's more than willing to sell DRM-free products, as evidenced by its DRM-free MP3 downloads. I think the issue here is that publishers are the scared ones. I suspect that ebooks will follow the same pa
916.
by acabal 16y ago
It's since been fixed in Maverick for me (though who knows if it will resurface in Natty, as these kinds of bugs are wont to do). You might want to give Maverick a shot if you haven't already. I hate shutting down every time too, but since
917.
by acabal 16y ago
I'd guess that IE is too gargantuan a project with too many people involved and too much history (read: compatibility baggage) to be able to say, "welp, let's just fork it." Doubtless internal politics and MS's own corporate shortsightedne
918.
by acabal 16y ago
Big enterprise customers don't like change, and rapid release would frustrate their IT guys to no end. That's why we still have IE6 in lots of big companies, why I still see IE7 in my visitor stats even though IE8 has been out for years, a
919.
by acabal 16y ago
Even Lucid had some problems for me--the system would hang on hibernate 2 out of 3 times, among various other minor, but honestly very irritating bugs. My concern for the long-term viability of the entire Ubuntu project is what happens once
920.
by acabal 16y ago
I'm still pretty disappointed that instead of focusing on fixing and preventing bugs and regressions (every release of Ubuntu has featured serious bugs for features that worked fine on my laptop in previous releases--hibernate, sound, even
921.
by acabal 16y ago
This seems very dishonest to me, and if I was a random walk-in customer of that coffee shop, I'd feel cheated. I have absolutely no idea how many ounces are in a "medium" at any coffee shop, and I don't want to know. When I ask for a medi
922.
by acabal 16y ago
OK, I'll stop by then and bring my girl who is visiting that week. If the tech-talk makes her eyes glaze over we might head out for some drinks. Consider this an RSVP!
923.
by acabal 16y ago
I'd love to come but I have a friend visiting that week, and I don't want to leave her to fend for herself that night :(
924.
by acabal 16y ago
This is really scary for me, and I'm not even hosting any sort of illegal content. For me the internet has always been a wild-west kind of place, one of the last places where politics and government and all of the paranoia-driven American m
925.
by acabal 16y ago
From my friend, an HIV researcher: Me: So is this genuine progress or breathless "science" journalism? Him: A little of both to be honest. They basically replaced the man's entire bone stem cell population with a donor's to "cure" him. Whic
926.
by acabal 16y ago
Do you think RMS hacked his lunch by adding a little extra salt?
927.
by acabal 16y ago
Paypal suspends my account at least once a month just because I sometimes use a different IP when logging in, I'm honestly shocked they didn't do this to Wikileaks earlier.
928.
by acabal 16y ago
This looks like a great idea. I think it would be great to use as an incentive for participating in a site after signing up. For example on my site, Scribophile, I don't consider a user 'converted' until they 1) sign up and 2) post a criti
929.
by acabal 16y ago
Pretty ridiculous to get so outraged about something like this. True that it adds a layer of fuzziness, but that doesn't mean you can't do something like if(user.Gender.ToLower() == 'male'){ print('Hello sir'); } How is this on the front p
930.
by acabal 16y ago
I really wish people would include transcripts if they're going to post a 48-minute long video. There's no way I'm going to sit through something like that without at least a bullet-point text summary.

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