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by acon 16y ago
I think this will be the most monetarily successful social network yet. While Facebook has a huge mindshare I don't think they are very good at turning that mindshare into money in their own coffers. Apple is really good at daring to ask fo
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by acon 16y ago
I'd say all the things you mention – nice effects, clean windows and nice themes – are examples of where Ubuntu is beautiful. I agree that Ubuntu is quite beautiful, and it is getting better and better. I'd say what is lacking most in Ubunt
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by acon 16y ago
Looks really nice. Let's hope they get some hardware out the door. I have lusted after a webOS device since they first revealed it, but I still haven't seen one in real life. Looks like they haven't made their way over here to Sweden. I act
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by acon 16y ago
Sure, selling devices with outdated versions of Android is bad, but to me it is worse that they don't release updates for existing phones in a timely manner. If I buy a phone I want it to feel fun at least until the contract runs out, which
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by acon 16y ago
This video is awesome. Think Different is my favorite ad of all time. Unfortunately it feels like they have lost something in the last decade. While before it was about enabling passion and challenging the status quo, now it is more about r
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by acon 16y ago
This is really great. I just had to fill my Spotify queue with Iron Maiden and try to sing along. Singing is one of those skills I really regret not having, but I sing anyway.
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by acon 16y ago
Ignorance is not unforgivable, flaunting it as a badge of honor is.
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by acon 16y ago
This is cool, but I get the feeling it is just a workaround for the broken state of current terminals. Why are they still character based? We have had bitmap displays as long as I have had a computer, but we still emulate text terminals. Th
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by acon 16y ago
No, presumably he means we get out ideas from within, not without.
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by acon 16y ago
I like this definition. It is short and zesty and feels true. However I don't think it is a sufficient condition for something to be enterprise software. Some tools for software developers or other highly skilled employees are too expensive
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by acon 16y ago
I have also feel that the web has become bloated and overloaded. I don't see what this has to do with the iPad. What I would like to see is a revival of the web with structural markup, fluid layouts and a minimum of distractions. Is there a
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by acon 16y ago
Education is about learning to follow the rules of an society: coming to school or work in time, sitting still and quiet while being bored for several hours. You know, the important skills you need to be a good little worker bee.
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by acon 16y ago
This really makes me question my vote for the pirate party. I really like them, as a voice for freedom on the internet and beyond, and would really like them to lay of the pirate propaganda and start preaching the gospel of freedom instead.
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by acon 16y ago
What we need is the francise model they are starting to explore in India. Repeatable processes encoded in easy to follow three-ring binders; checklists and procedures that anyone can follow. This will take care of the basics and free up res
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by acon 16y ago
Yes of course I'm concerned about out of date packages. For example, my Fedora machine at work only has packages for Firefox 3.5. I tried using the tarball from firefox's home page, but for whatever reason it was really unstable. I don't th
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by acon 16y ago
Unfortunately this isn't used enough. It is not used by Firefox and Thunderbird. Instead they provide .tar.bz2 files. I was pleasantly surprised by skype and chrome, who actually provide rpms and debs. Nice! Open Office gave me a tarball wi
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by acon 16y ago
I think what Linux really needs is to embrace some way of getting software outside apt/yum. Having to go through the package managers forces you to be an administrator to install software, and the developer and user have no say in which ver
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by acon 16y ago
I think HTC is the closest thing to a credible competitor for Apple in the smart phone business. Their phones are incredibly well built, and Sense UI looks quite good and is improving. I was rooting for Palm, but it looks like they are unab
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by acon 16y ago
No. PDFs only uses the PostScript imaging model, not the PostScript programming language.
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by acon 16y ago
I agree. Personally the major issue I have with my current MacBook is the lousy screen, and it doesn't look like it has improved much with these new MacBook Pros. So sad.
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by acon 17y ago
Sorry, but themes sucks. They make it very hard to make excellent GUI applications, since you have no fixed foundation to build them on. To build a custom control you need to be able to integrate it in the surrounding context, i.e. the them
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by acon 17y ago
This sort of reminds me of the old pottery story, where they had one group making which was graded on how many pots they made and another one which was only graded on their best pot. Of course the group which was graded on quantity made bet
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by acon 17y ago
A person in power either feels entitled to his power or he does not. Are there any other options? I can't really think of any, and if there are not then persons in power are either divided into the two groups, or all persons in power belong
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Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into a game(lostgarden.com)
5 points by acon 17y ago|0 comments
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by acon 17y ago
What you describe is not what the author (and I) want. You should not use tabs until it is no longer possible, you should only use tabs to indicate the indentation level. To perform further alignment beyond the indentation, for example to a