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by andor 14y ago
Am I the only one who finds those "trending keywords" creepy? Email isn't public like Twitter, after all.
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by andor 14y ago
The idea behind "being open" and "using XMPP" is to make network effects irrelevant: XMPP federation allows you to talk to anybody also using XMPP, regardless of their service provider -- imagine messaging Facebook Messenger users seamlessl
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by andor 14y ago
There are some technical reasons, such as that the encryption is broken, the protocol isn't open and they have everybody's address books. Also, you can only use it from your phone. But (apart from the address book issue maybe) most people d
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by andor 14y ago
In his 29c3 talk [0], Sean Bonner from Safecast [1] mentioned that air monitoring is something they'd like to do as well. I'm very much interested in monitoring air pollutants. I live in a place in Germany where BASF built "the worlds large
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by andor 14y ago
Some core concepts of upstart and systemd are incompatible. Even if they patched upstart instead of starting from scratch it would now be a completely different system. In his initial blog post about systemd, Lennart Poettering writes: "We
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by andor 14y ago
isn't the nature of Open Source to be constantly forking, iterating, and contributing new code when you think the existing stuff isn't good enough? You can always start from scratch if existing projects don't cut it. When talking about a
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by andor 14y ago
Yeah, well, good luck convincing, say, chinese farmers not to give tons of antibiotics to their livestock This is also a problem in North America. Try buying a simple disinfectant (e.g. for small cuts) that doesn't contain antibiotics.
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by andor 14y ago
This is the bug that made me lose all confidence in Canonical and switch distributions. In 10.04, they cared about integrating a Twitter client into the panel, but failed to notice that the system load never went below 1.
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by andor 14y ago
Yes, that's lens flare. * It only shows when the meteor is close to the center of the lens. * You can see reflections of two lens elements, one is smaller and brighter than the other. The smaller one is the element closer to the imaging sen
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by andor 14y ago
And worse? It's not fixable by anyone outside the core team of developers as they've moved away from the standard XUL UI system to a pure Java wrapper. I was going to get in there and whip up some add-ons because I really wanted to use the
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by andor 14y ago
Only a Ph.D./M.D. is, because it counts as part of your actual name.
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by andor 14y ago
You should take a look at info-beamer. It supports displaying video via FFMPEG, you could show browser content via VNC, and the best thing is that you can hot-swap the animation code while it is running. It's a bit like Processing, but much
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by andor 14y ago
Exactly, there is no market for real privacy and openness, and it certainly is not in Google's or Apple's interests. That's why I count on free software to close the gap. Free as in: free of corporate interests, no need to make money, no
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by andor 14y ago
I think it's sad that the core apps include Facebook and Twitter, but not a real instant messaging client (as in "I can install my own server if necessary", "end to end encryption", etc.) Instead of more client implementations for the same
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by andor 14y ago
You're stating it as if it were a shortcoming of PulseAudio. PA is inadequate for most audio work, because the latency is too high -- which is a feature . Latency vs. CPU usage is always a compromise. To achieve low latency, you need very
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by andor 14y ago
The native part is in the first subsection: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#N...
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by andor 14y ago
If you buy IntelliJ, you can just install the Ruby plugin. The Python plugin makes IntelliJ equivalent to PyCharm, so I guess the same goes for Ruby.
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by andor 14y ago
Switching to iCloud for Push Mail will not be a solution for users in Germany. Due to a patent lawsuit by Motorola (owned by Google), Apple and others can't offer push [0]. The patent in question is European patent 0847654 [1], for a "multi
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by andor 14y ago
They implemented keyboard shortcuts to switch between pages like your profile, the "Stream" and "Explore". That's a nice touch, but please don't use ALT+<0-9> for anything in your web application . These are universal combination
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by andor 14y ago
I'm not sure if I understand your answer. To quote from the article again: During our tests, we saw that SQL databases weren’t a good fit due to the fact that our data where unstructured and we needed a lot of complex “joins” (and many ind
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by andor 14y ago
It's CTRL+L on my keyboard. In addition to Nautilus and all the file dialogs it also works in browsers and even in Windows's "Explorer" file manager. I use Gnome 3.4, though. Did the Gnome developers remove this shortcut from 3.6?
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by andor 14y ago
Yes, he does avoid those conversions. There are two excellent posts in his blog about his custom power supply: http://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/cat/1824
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by andor 14y ago
In case anybody at FireEye reads this: is Windows XP the only OS vulnerable to this attack?
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by andor 14y ago
There are third-party implementations of the MP3 Downloader. I've used Pymazon, which worked well under Linux. There's also clamz. - http://code.google.com/p/clamz/ - http://code.google.com/p/pymazon/
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by andor 14y ago
A formal model of how the software is supposed to behave. Models can be proven to have certain properties (e.g. deadlock-free, cruise control always turns off when brake is hit), while with software you're usually limited to testing. A pr
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by andor 14y ago
You could generate a random number, let's call it a "cookie", and hand that to the device after a successful handshake.
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by andor 15y ago
If anything you'll see the difference magnified in a complex application, but it's unlikely to turn around. I wouldn't say so. The bottleneck in a hello world benchmark might be a component of the framework, but in complex applications it
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by andor 15y ago
See Google Talk and Skype, both of which can do voice-only calls and video calls over 3G. It's not all perfect, though... The problem with Skype on a mobile is that keeping a connection to their P2P network requires much more power than the
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by andor 15y ago
This is pretty awful, but it seems like one of these problems that could and should be solved by the free market. If prices rise due to increased demand, the free market usually solves it by increasing supply. In this case, Goldman doesn'
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by andor 15y ago
Their own 404 page: http://your404islame.com/non-existing-page

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