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by adbge 16y ago
E text editor is supposed to be a TextMate clone for Windows. Never used it myself, though.
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by adbge 16y ago
If teachers are relying on any of these techniques to make their tests difficult, they're missing the point of teaching altogether. You should be testing kids on their grasp of the subject matter and, if they demonstrate knowledge of that
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by adbge 16y ago
++ isn't defined in Clojure, and in Haskell ++ is used to concatenate lists. Using (inc) isn't considered an abomination, though.
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by adbge 16y ago
"Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its p
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by adbge 16y ago
ARM is really ubiquitous in any device that isn't big iron or a personal computer, so you can bet the FTC would be all over any attempt at purchasing ARM Holdings, no matter who is buying. I think the only reason we haven't seen serious ant
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by adbge 16y ago
It's been my experience that latency is a bigger issue with VoIP on a satellite connection than bandwidth limitations.
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by adbge 16y ago
Alternatively, you could use Prime95. Run it in stress test mode and it should heat your room just fine. http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/#newusers
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by adbge 16y ago
How does this business model even make sense? I just can't wrap my head around why you would produce a product, cripple it, and then sell it. Edit: My point is that Intel is intentionally reducing the value of their product. How can they af
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by adbge 16y ago
> If Google clone it, they will eventually get users. Why would anyone leave Facebook to join Google's ghost town? Further, Facebook is impossible to successfully clone because part of Facebook's inherent value is that it already has
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Systemd Pushed Back to Fedora 15(lists.fedoraproject.org)
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by adbge 16y ago
I've used Patriot, OCZ, and Intel's SSDs. I would recommend Intel over the others. In my experience, the Intel drives are faster, higher quality, and have much better support. You might want to wait until the 25nm SLC SSD's hit market, whic
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by adbge 16y ago
> The license will need to a better job of protecting work donated to the commons than GPL2 seems to have done. I’m not willing to have any more of my work purloined by the likes of Revolution Analytics, so I’ll be looking for better p
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by adbge 16y ago
> Still a "brute force" solution. That's Moore's law for you. I sometimes wonder how much more elegant our solutions to computing problems would become if transistors per integrated circuit stopped increasing exponentially.
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by adbge 16y ago
In a sense, you're both correct. It really depends on the user and the UI annoyance. A lot of UI quirks become second nature to power users and they don't even notice them, but things like lagging on a keypress, etc, is probably going to be
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by adbge 16y ago
> On the iPhone everything is near instant Tell that to my 3G with iOS4. It'd be more appropriate to say "nothing is near instant."
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by adbge 16y ago
As an end user, it's very helpful for me when a bug has been tracked even if it's not addressed. When I run into some kind of weird behavior, I can just check the bug tracker. If someone else has already reported the bug, it saves me a sign
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by adbge 16y ago
It sounds to me like maybe you should go one further than just creating a superb academic RSS reader, and instead try to create an online community for academics -- a la reddit for PhDs. Instead of simply indexing links to other sites, I th
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by adbge 16y ago
As a Rubyist, I hack on a Linux desktop and a MacBook Pro. On my desktop, I'm running Gentoo unstable, Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on the MacBook Pro. It's been my experience, however, that Ubuntu tends to dominate the community of Rubyists using L
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by adbge 16y ago
Chromium is slim? Compared to what exactly? The only browser I've ever used with similar memory usage to Chromium would have to be Opera. Even on a relatively optimized build of Chromium 7.0.510.0, it's pretty typical for me to see memory
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by adbge 16y ago
I remember really becoming excited about memristors after reading this post a while back on HN: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/5/how-will-memristors...
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by adbge 16y ago
Droid ships with a "Droid Sans Mono Slashed" with a slashed zero -- at least on Gentoo.
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by adbge 16y ago
I think this has more to do with GNU/Unix design philosophy rather than being an explicit part of FLOSS ideology. Also, you need to remember that GNU/Linux projects do have a certain amount of control over upstream, seeing as the source is
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by adbge 16y ago
> writing this on a box with 12G ram, pretty much maxed out Serious question: what are you using 12G of RAM on? My workstation is pretty modest (core 2 duo, 4G RAM) and I'm rarely able to utilize more than 1G.
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by adbge 16y ago
That should be "to sum up".
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by adbge 16y ago
At first blush, it sounds like this kind of hardware would be extremely useful in data compression, specifically entropy encoding. LZMA, for example, applies a probability prediction to each bit. Any type of data compression could probably
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by adbge 16y ago
I can't understand why we aren't seeing companies producing ARM-based notebooks. The high end Tegra chips would be great for ultra portables and tossing them into even 15" notebooks would probably be feasible. The chips are capable of 1080p
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by adbge 16y ago
iOS4 makes the 3G nigh unusable because the phone is constantly forced to flush memory to swap causing the UI to hang while the OS waits to write to disk. So, no, do not upgrade a 3G to iOS4 for improved anything. (Well, the icons are a lit
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by adbge 16y ago
US education in regards to foreign language varies widely. I was not presented with the opportunity to take a foreign language until 9th grade (~14 years old), while the district I currently live in offers Spanish education to children age
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by adbge 16y ago
Arch Linux allows for ports-style package management with their Arch Build Service. It's more similar to the BSDs, in my experience, than Gentoo.
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by adbge 16y ago
FreeBSD supports ZFS v14, which lacks some of the features of ZFS on OpenSolaris, namely data deduplication. However, it is my understanding that porting later versions of ZFS to FreeBSD would require non trivial changes to the FreeBSD kern

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