armored_mammal

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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I want to find a new job that's more interesting, but every time I try it's impossible to wade through the piles uselessness obfuscating everything. Then I think about how much trouble it'd be to market myself and how much of my private lif
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Yeah, if that's really their policy I don't see how they can offer a single public domain work in the Kindle Store. Is there a way to file a complaint that their guidelines aren't being followed and request that content be removed from the
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I refuse to use Amazon for anything because of stuff like this. They will randomly ban your books, kill your services, and do what random politicians or Internet mobs tell them without any sort of due process. People love to give me flack f
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I originally wrote more but HN gave the 'unknown or expired link' error when I hit post. Gist of it: I <3 my ~4 year old netbook.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
It's a GIMP thing, unless I'm misunderstanding you: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
To be honest, I don't view Gimp as a tool for working with photos. I prefer RAW editors, and find myself surprised that you wouldn't be using Lightroom or Aperture. In fact, I don't really see Photoshop (despite its name) as a tool for work
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I doubt most GIMP developers care(d?) about Mac. Or had Macs. Open source stuff tends to live in a special universe where everyone uses Linux. (In fact, based on another post, it sounds like the windowing toolkit picked up Mac support, rath
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
In general open source creative tools have come a long way - with Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, Darktable, Ardour, Blender, etc. all being quite functional, I think there is a pretty strong argument for the 'open source creative suite' being mor
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Yeah, the multi-window thing only ever made sense for tiling window managers. And even with that it was a bit of a stretch. That said, I don't think there's a more under-estimated or misunderstood program around.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Since it's 2.8 series it should have single-window mode, no?
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I built my latest PC on a mobo with UEFI and had 0 trouble at all with Mint. FWIW.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
No Linux. :( Very few of the Kickstarter game projects I want to back support Linux. It makes me sad and they don't get my monies.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
^Yes.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I'm not really sure what point I'm making. I agree there are large structural flaws with college (well, pretty much the whole educational system). Good teachers and good researchers aren't the same thing for sure. Likewise, many amenities a
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Sounds like the path to breaking Google's "monopoly" has just been revealed... Seriously, unless it's just the faintest hint of influence I can see this blowing up in their face. Takedown notices are too ubiquitous and too often bogus.
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Can't really tell if the last line is sarcasm for sure (I think it is?). I can't stand when people are taught to listen instead of think, and that predilection of mine is why I can't see the sub-prime mortgage crisis as being at all similar
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Yeah, sometimes I think I might have had a better experience there, but then I think "I'd probably be more than 150k in debt" and the feeling passes. Plus I'm doing fine without having gone there. It's definitely a great school. I can't ima
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I agree education (and even more particularly, the method and quality of teaching) is a problem, but it's not the same problem as student debt. As far as I can tell, much of the (debt) problem is caused by bad decision making by clueless pa
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Maybe I'm crazy, but I often include small helper classes in the same file as a larger class, though I guess it's mostly because PHP can't do inner or nested classes, which are useful here and there. I have to agree, though, that in PHP the
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Offhand and very quickly and perhaps with a bit too much gloss: * Ability to quickly learn new languages * Ability to quickly understand and use appropriate design patterns where sensible (even if they are unaware of the whole idea of desig
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
As someone who is two years out of college with CS degree I very strongly related with this post. The reality of what the press says and what tech companies say about recruiting is belied 100% by my experience looking for a job. First of al
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I guess the issue is that you have to store the CC number? With Braintree you could put customer CC numbers in their vault and then manually run the transaction later, but it'd cost you a flat fee plus a penny or two per/card/month. (They d
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I think this has more to do with the fact that in most workplaces once something works it's taboo to 'waste' more time on it (or even if it's not taboo, it becomes low priority compared to more 'critical' issues), than it does with the part
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I think the wikipedia post is a great example. I love wikipedia, but it is poorly designed. In fact, there has recently been speculation that the decline in new editors is due to wikipedia being too arcane, particularly on the edit side. De
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
Regardless of how good ZFS is, if it can't be shipped native on Linux nobody will care. Much. Though it is a neat file system. And I would love to see it in the Kernel. Unfortunately it's now controlled by Oracle so you're probably lucky th
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
You can't suggest that Israel is well on it's way towards complete theocracy and deeper and deeper levels of state-protected misogyny while it's also losing any semblance of functional democracy and effective long term strategies without it
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by armored_mammal 14y ago
I also agree. Isn't it against the ethos of hacker news to post links that require being logged in?