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by antod 11y ago
When I think of choosing hardware with Linux in mind, the primary overriding consideration for me is using Intel graphics rather than Nvidia or AMD. That sucks if you want fast 3D, but it is by far the best choice for a mostly 2D desktop ex
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by antod 11y ago
> That said, the Ubuntu setup had one bug that still cracks me up from time to time. I have two monitors, one of them rotated 90°. Sometimes I would get two cursors, one of them rotated 90° and shifted to the side by ~1cm. I had that o
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by antod 11y ago
> 72mb of ram probably get away with NT 4.0 easily Very easily - we used to have lots of 32MB NT4 machines. I think the system requirements were only 12 or 16MB (as usual wishful thinking really). Although I think the eventual resourc
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by antod 11y ago
It is basically incompatible with both Open Source and Free Software definitions. ie: "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition and "The f
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by antod 11y ago
Things must be improving though - I get from the title that elephants no longer have any barriers preventing them from participating.
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by antod 11y ago
That was pretty much the opposite of "that's what she said!".
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by antod 11y ago
> Wow, these jokes are as dry as day old toast. Would people have really laughed at these back then? I read 5 or 6 of them and many of them don't even make sense, let alone are funny. We are not amused.
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by antod 11y ago
That part about the line numbers in IE error messages was exactly the pain I was thinking of :)
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by antod 11y ago
Heh, nearly that far back I was wishing I could install Venkman in IE. JQuery and Firebug deserve a lot of credit for bringing some sanity to JS/web development. Sure things have moved on now, but they were ground breaking.
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by antod 11y ago
Wondering whether In Flames was named after that Kruiz song from the 80s? Entombed was my favourite Swedish band - esp the Clandestine album.
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by antod 11y ago
And in my experience, a Sepultura tshirt did wonders for not getting picked for jury service.
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by antod 11y ago
That headline is saying it's the global appeal that's weird - not the 'something'.
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by antod 11y ago
Or more likely, they needed it once. And they remember that time they got rid of something they thought they'd never need again...
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by antod 11y ago
I don't think he's sorry about it either.
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by antod 11y ago
The early French officers were professional army men, who cultivated the tradition of charging the enemy directly, a suicidal exercise at the age of machine guns. But they not only forced their men to do so, they charged the enemy themselv
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by antod 11y ago
Side note about the author: Steve Dower from MS has also been helping out core Python development. He's done great work on improving how Python gets built, maintained, packaged etc on Windows. Although I'm not a Windows user, it h
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by antod 11y ago
> I seriously can't think of a job that Python does best. For me personally it is the best choice for non-throwaway shell scripting once the scripts becomes more complex and/or long lived than a sequence of shell commands. Py
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by antod 11y ago
> I take opinionated to mean one obvious way to do things. Python and Go are opinionated. IMO Python wants to be opinionated (in your 'one obvious way' definition), and it actually was 10-15yrs ago when Perl was the compariso
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by antod 11y ago
That day was 15+ yrs ago. Back in the IE4/5 days with ActivePerl and/or ActivePython installed you could do just that (along with VBScript). It also allowed you to use them in ASP pages too. eg: https://msdn.microsoft.c
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by antod 11y ago
> Not only is Python not dying, but it's stronger than it's ever been. Yeah, I've followed Python since about 2000. For the next 5yrs there was steady growth as it displaced Perl. But it was looking quite shaky/vuln
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by antod 11y ago
If Hollywood is anything to go on, it looks like the time for sex robots is practically upon us. Blade Runner was set in 2019, and Cherry 2000 was set in 2017.
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by antod 11y ago
[some game or tv show] brought me here 99 people are Justin Beiber fans etc...
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by antod 11y ago
The 9-12yr old me had at least 5 of the books shown on that page in the early 80s :) All the coding/gaming I did on my Spectrum lying down in front of the living room TV gave me these rough 'carpet callouses' on my elbows. Th
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by antod 11y ago
There was a short lived start of a shift to NT in the 90s before Linux became established/respected enough to squash that idea. Even SGI itself tried not to get left behind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual
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by antod 11y ago
I don't write Python in C /s You meant Ruby, Python and Lua have their reference implementations written in C. They all also have other implementations written in other languages.
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by antod 11y ago
The only times I've ever had a bash script run faster than Perl or Python is when it has handed most of the work off to another utility (eg written in C). The actual bash processing bits seem much slower than Perl or Python.
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by antod 11y ago
I remember hearing about how bad communication played a role in the warning not being heeded. But reading the memo now for the first time, I don't agree with that at all. Don't forget this warning was to a VP of Engineering and wa
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by antod 11y ago
I remember a Burt Reynolds interview (with Ruby Wax I think) when he said something like "I've been poor and miserable, and I've been rich and miserable - I'll take being rich and miserable any time" . Nothing exac
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by antod 11y ago
> "Money can't buy happiness [but it can buy] a WaveRunner. Have you ever seen a sad person on a WaveRunner?" That's not buying happiness - that's just sucking the happiness out of everyone else in the vicinity
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by antod 11y ago
> But I do think coding and thinking through problems on paper is a valuable skill. One neat thing it allows you to do is to go to a different place than the one you type things at to go think deeply about problems, because it's a

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