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by adl 9y ago
I have a Thinkpad T460p with 32GB of ram and a 1TB SSD running Ubuntu 17.10. I get about 7 hours with the extended battery. everything works except the fingerprint reader. The current versions: the T470, T470p or the T25, are great Linux la
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by adl 9y ago
Because a single key press during boot can render your installation foobar.
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by adl 9y ago
You mean a Surface Pro?
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by adl 9y ago
Being ubiquitous is a kind of power (just like Javascript).
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by adl 9y ago
There are places where Uber is the best choice. I can support a morally corrupt company (Uber) or I can risk my life every time I get inside an Eco Taxi (Green and white taxis in Mexico).
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by adl 9y ago
Oh, man. I'm going, that's all there is to it. I'm fucking going.
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by adl 9y ago
Software developers (.NET and Java) can get between 1,000 - 3,000 dollars a month in Monterrey, Guadalajara or Mexico City. 2,500 yearly salary sounds extremely low. Even interns get paid more that that here.
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by adl 9y ago
Yes, several thinkpads do that. I have a T440s with an extra battery and swapping the battery without turning it off is great. Linux will even tell you the charge for each battery (Ubuntu Gnome 17.04)
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by adl 9y ago
In the JVM ecosystem you can use Jetty and have a simple embedded App Server. No need to install or configure Tomcat/JBoss, etc. Spring Boot and Dropwizard makes this dead simple, a single .jar file with everything you need to run your
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by adl 10y ago
Depends on how you define commercial development. You can certainly do commercial applications using Intellij IDEA CE, if you don't need Java EE, Spring, GWT, Grails, etc deep integration in the IDE.
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by adl 10y ago
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is free(cero cost) and Open Source. I believe it includes Kotlin Support. https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/#chooseYourEdition
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by adl 10y ago
> Mexico is an emerging first world nation with universal health care, one of the best run systems in the world. You are joking right? Have you ever set foot in an IMSS Hospital? Describing it as a third world health care service is bein
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by adl 10y ago
So removing MagSafe is a feature? Laptops have diferent power profiles when they are plugged in than on battery. Again, this: "You don't need to plug in your laptop all the time" works for the regular MacBook, but we are talk
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by adl 11y ago
Erick S. Raymond: http://esr.ibiblio.org/ Author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
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by adl 11y ago
For someone who lives outside the USA, what's the standard meaning of 'reverse racism'? I think I understand, as in: if the standard meaning of racism is a majority (Caucasian in this case) oppressing a minority (black, Mexi
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by adl 11y ago
28K minified is bloat?
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by adl 12y ago
Twitter is way worse, it is a public forum, with thousands of followers and she used her account as an official representative of her company. (in a PR kind of capacity even.) The dongle comment was a conversation between two people, it was
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by adl 12y ago
> Personally I can't see how the joke is threatening, but I can't dismiss her feelings over this just because I find it tough — or even impossible — to imagine. The same Adria who herself made penis jokes on twitter a few days
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by adl 12y ago
Have you had a Baron-Cohen EQ test?
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by adl 12y ago
> You sound like a pathetic whiny snot who has embraced a life of learned helplessness. I'm trying to change my circumstances the 'hacker way': learning, experimenting and trying my best, even if it is a hard problem for m
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by adl 12y ago
Eating healthy is incredibly difficult in western society, and if you are suffering from Type 2 diabetes caused by lifestyle , chances are you already suffering from some kind of food addiction. "Just eat less" is not a very helpf
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by adl 12y ago
GPG is an integral part of the Open and Free internet. Imagine all the workflows that depend on verified encryption signatures like Debian, Ubuntu, etc and that's just software distribution, not counting privacy issues like journalists
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by adl 12y ago
I'm familiar with the philosophical differences between Free Software and Open Source. But in this context you seem to imply that there are practical differences i.e: Not all Open Source licences are considered Free Software in the pra
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by adl 12y ago
> Some Macs still have Ethernet, but WiFi is pretty ubiquitous. WiFi is fine for when you are on the move, but for serious use, I wouldn't trade an ethernet connection. I'm in a office right now with over 500 people, all with l
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by adl 12y ago
I have owned dozens of Macs (personal and work), from the clamshell iBook, TiBook, White iBooks, to the latest MacBooks and a few iMacs too. I'm very familiar with the platform ;-) Most of the time they are above the average PC/La
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by adl 12y ago
I understand your point, i really do. And I can understand why people would choose Macbooks, I understand the appeal, I just want to point out that they are not the only laptops in the market with those characteristics. Maybe most consumers
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by adl 12y ago
The coming lineup has restored the trackpoint buttons. I have a t440s and the clickpad is horrible! I'm selling it as soon as the T450s is available.
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by adl 12y ago
Serious question, what makes Apple laptops beat the rest of the industry? No docking station, can't change batteries, no touch screens, no spill resistant keyboards, no matte screen option,etc. You also need those dongles for ethernet
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by adl 12y ago
> Believe it or not, Jobs had empathy for what the user truly needed, which gave him a killer sense of taste. I feel that's lacking here. The word empathy to describe Steve Jobs is not the word I would use at all. Maybe "in tun
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by adl 12y ago
Can we see a photo of your setup? sounds pretty good.

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