andos

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by andos 15y ago
Wow, the mise-en-scène is almost identical: blurry introduction, hospital-like environment, lots of lens flares, multiple mechanical arms assembling Kara from parts, welding sparks, and Kara being awake during assembly. If Kara refers to
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by andos 15y ago
All is Full of Love is probably the most amazing music video I have ever seen. The lens flares in the end of Kara leave no doubt that this is a huge nod to Björk.
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by andos 15y ago
You are 100% right about not wasting one's time with jerks. But I disagree that Linus regularly expresses himself like one. Really: open lkml.org and search for his posts. Most of the time, he's an ordinary project maintainer. Sometimes,
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by andos 15y ago
This might be true in NAm. In other parts of the earth, it might be different. There are different cultural barriers and different things which are considered "normal" for meeting new people. Other parts of the earth? Ask your local gay f
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by andos 15y ago
Wow. For such a curvaceous exterior, what an ugly dashboard. The interior is probably still being designed so I honestly hope that, besides providing some physical buttons, the final dashboard looks nothing like that.
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by andos 15y ago
Alas, this is almost off-topic but I'll mention it anyway. This is part of the "Reporting Bugs" section of the GNU /bin/false command: REPORTING BUGS Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org I love commands with pesky names.
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by andos 15y ago
They provide a link to a Java 6 Transition wiki in the end of the e-mail.
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by andos 15y ago
Differently? How? Honest question: What's wrong with apologizing and expecting the users to understand there's nothing else they can do?
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by andos 15y ago
I think using a photocopier has more to do with keeping oneself away from the computer to avoid distractions. Moreover, if one's role is exclusively as a UX designer (instead of designer and coder) they might be inclined to be a little more
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by andos 15y ago
I used to find lots of yoda conditions in Java. People use it to test a string variable against a constant value and save some null checks.
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by andos 15y ago
Then¹: I actually think secure boot makes a lot of sense. I think we should sign our modules. I think we should use the technology to do cryptographic signatures to add security; and at the same time inside the open source community this i
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by andos 15y ago
By all means, if you are the creator of a website, be as standards-compliant as possible. As a visitor , is it important if the browser is in quirks mode or not? Do you validate every website you visit?
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by andos 15y ago
If the content is great and accessible, and the visitor leaves the website satisfied, who cares?
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by andos 15y ago
I recommend reading the whole interview, not just the patent part. They cover a lot of topics and it's very good stuff.
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by andos 15y ago
"it's just a joke!" Nope. It's joke after joke after joke, and also inappropriate behavior in the workplace, in conferences, in pubs. Day after day. What is just one post in HN for us happens constantly to a lot of women in our industry.
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by andos 15y ago
MikeeUSA is not (as far as we know) an abuser of women. I understand that people usually think of abuse as sexual abuse, especially if it is toward women. But verbal or moral abuse is abuse just the same. To express an opinion is what we'
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by andos 15y ago
The downplaying of the repeated incidents might be encouragement enough, I think.
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by andos 15y ago
By the same reasoning, we could argue that thieves and murderers are almost as old as civilization and we should just get used to it. Sorry, but no. They will always exist, sure, but the only thing we should get used to is hunting them fier
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by andos 15y ago
I'm sorry for ranting in a mildly off-topic fashion, but the visualizations linked in the /. article are just horrible. A jumble of widgets with hardly a caption, and no analysis. They even have those USPTO-style gauges. Data so important d
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by andos 15y ago
There is a diagram in page 163, describing 22 lenses, that should feel at home in any Edward Tufte book. If I understood it properly, every optical diagram is computer generated from lens parameters. This dissertation is indeed very beautif
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by andos 15y ago
Yeah... Besides, people will have a lot of trouble justifying stuff like "custom tab navigation" as a solution to an interaction problem beyond "it looks cool".
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by andos 15y ago
That's what I meant...
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by andos 15y ago
Yes, how?
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by andos 15y ago
Maybe they're afraid the translation team will be overly grateful?
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by andos 15y ago
That's why Linus, not Stallman, is the first name that comes to my mind when I think about FOSS. He's headstrong, sometimes a bit mean, positively pragmatic but also handsome, and -- oddly -- very likable. He's a bit like Steve Jobs, in a t
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by andos 15y ago
I did just that -- moved to Brazil to start a company -- but for different reasons. Believe me, stupid copyright laws are the smallest obstacle for any new business. The absurd bureaucracy, the lack of credit and the escalating taxes, howev
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by andos 15y ago
It's only fair that we, developers, start suffering a little from the poor state of system software usability after inflicting so much pain on our users.
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by andos 15y ago
Pardon me if this question is stupid; I am not a native speaker and perhaps I am oblivious to certain nuances of English. That said, didn't the author mean this piece to be titled “Google launches the ultimate job killer?” Singular job ?
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by andos 15y ago
There are a lot of challenging, rewarding, generously remunerated jobs outside of the United States.
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by andos 15y ago
Just look at the pictures (and lament the perfunctory captions). The writing in this piece is dismal.

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