aphexairlines

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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   > It gets sluggish if I don't. > ... Netbeans IDE, Safari (and a bunch of tabs), Firefox (ditto on the tabs), an FTP client, a Subversion client, iChat, Mail, a notes app, alarm clock, Dropbox, Evernote, terminal, one other text edi
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   That's ok, you can just add some more RAM when you nee... oh.
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   > What kind of "technical" is this? It's not technical. It's an industry gossip blog article about a lifestyle consumer electronics company's latest product.
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   Yeah, that's sort of my point :-)
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   So once you spend a bunch of money on this, a couple of years pass, and a large chunk of software starts requiring twice the resources compared to today, how do you upgrade the machine? Miniaturization is great, but couldn't manufacturers l
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   JDownloader bundles the SWT libraries, but I don't know how much of its UI is written in SWT.
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   Azureus (Vuze) is one of the most popular bittorrent clients.
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   > They were wasting time and energy in spats with Gnome. Gnome is much more than just metacity or gnome-shell. Even with Unity, Ubuntu will still depend on upstream gnome software for its desktop.
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   by aphexairlines 16y ago

   Eclipse is cross-platform, comes with a disgusting component system (OSGi), pillages all your RAM, and yet is still arguably the most popular IDE these days.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Does Apple have a reason for the NDA other than letting their developers know who's the boss?
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Likewise, if Linus cared about Linux being open, he would have supported switching the kernel to AGPLv3.... Likewise, if the FSF cared about glibc being open, they would have switched the library to AGPLv3....
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    How is this an argument? You personally don't use a product, ergo it's dying?
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Just go back to what you learned developing PC software instead of web software. It might run on a core2 dell, or a slow eeepc, or an i7 lenovo. You might sell it direct, or at best buy, or at Amazon. The diverse PC industry has done just
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    It seems to me that distro packagers help lower the barrier to entry for would-be open-source developers. Even if your autoconf-based, or pkgconfig-based, or cpan-based, or gems-based project only builds half the time (the "works for me" r
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Why did you go with MIT instead of AGPL3? Sure, YC companies wouldn't be using it, but maybe you wouldn't have lost your motivation to keep it going.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Why is Perl knowledge a requirement? I've been writing Perl in my new job since June and almost the entire team of 10 (myself included) knew no Perl before joining. Check that your candidates know how to develop software, make sure they ar
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Half (or more?) of Apache's contributors are IBM employees. For example: http://harmony.apache.org/contributors.html
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    UEFI demo on a thinkpad t400: http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=560
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    I don't see the point of posting digs at someone who just handed you millions and millions of dollars. Nobody forced TC to sell.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    I don't think it's on the front page because 10.10 is innovative. It's on the front page because it's Ubuntu, which is popular among HN linux users.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    I suppose next time someone has a mongrel2 bug they should write a scathing rant on how much they hate the guy instead of filing a bug at http://mongrel2.org/reportlist
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    His overall package isn't $110k. It's that plus GSUs, which apparently vest at about 1/4 of the units per year, so an extra $25.7k/yr for a $135.7k package not counting bonuses.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    looks like the comment was about Palo Alto, Mtn View, etc since she wrote "maybe 2BR if you want to live south or east."
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    "older Debian"... but Python 2.5 has been packaged in Debian stable since at least Etch.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    what about dumping a local python install in $HOME/local/opt/mongrel-python if m2sh didn't find a version it likes? (yes, it's overkill)
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    That's an odd way of advocating hype over facts. And it's a bit of a stretch to pronounce Microsoft's decline if they're not #1 in a couple of trendy areas (cloud computing, smartphones).
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    What decline? Microsoft reported $62.48 billion in revenue and $18.76 billion in net income for their FY 2010.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    It's not even a mall -- it's a single retailer.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Why would you be concerned? Multiple retailers competing for customers is usually a good thing.
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    by aphexairlines 16y ago

    Yahoo brought in $1.6 billion of revenue this second quarter, making $213 million in profit. It's not IBM or Exxon, but still a lot of money.