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by aroman 12y ago
Talk about recent... that article was published yesterday .
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by aroman 12y ago
I'm sorry to be rude, but that strikes me as legitimately paranoid. Why do you care so much if Facebook knows that you visit sites other than Facebook?
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by aroman 12y ago
You're conflating a desktop environment and a graphics toolkit. KDE <-> GTK+ ~= apples <-> oranges. Futhermore, no, GTK's HiDPI support does not in fact force a scaling factor for the whole desktop. You can turn it on
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by aroman 12y ago
You say this as if nobody else out there is attempting to really radically change the desktop, which isn't true. Lots and lots of distributions and platforms are — you're provably just not familiar with them (not a swipe at you at
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by aroman 12y ago
It really, really did not. GTK+ these days is superior to Qt in some critical areas, such as HiDPI support. Lots and lots of new applications and platforms are being written in GTK, consciously choosing it over Qt.
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by aroman 12y ago
It was unethical because they didn't warn their users ahead of time that they might randomly be opted into the alternate pairing system.
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by aroman 12y ago
This strikes me as a really good strategy. Thanks for sharing. At first I thought you were going to advocate the "just pick a prefix and then append the name of the site after it", like Go123facebook and Go123gmail. Which is, of c
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by aroman 12y ago
I don't think it's fair to assume that TheMagicHorsey was basing his evaluation on the microbenchmarks themselves. The real story here is that people are working on a number of new libraries/modules/tools for doing web d
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by aroman 12y ago
It uses a database, specifically MongoDB. But as I understand it, Meteor manages this for you itself, and abstracts the orchestration of those things into the Meteor platform itself. It's just a higher level of abstraction, not a new t
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by aroman 12y ago
> Voobly[1] is the primary aoc client at the moment Is this still true, given that Microsoft has officially re-released AoE on Steam? I assume most people would have migrated there now...
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by aroman 12y ago
I just tried disabling JavaScript and visiting Facebook and Twitter... both were entirely unusable. Nothing on Facebook worked, and on Twitter, all of the links and interactions were broken.
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by aroman 12y ago
No freaking way. Literally 2 hours ago I was in professor Kosbie's office talking about a CS term project I want to do involving Twitter and NLP... were you in the room??
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by aroman 12y ago
Yes, and that's exactly OP's point — it's a narrow market.
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by aroman 12y ago
re: screenshots, definitely agree, those are coming with the relaunch of the website with the final release of Freya. As for Microsoft owning "Luna"... not that we're aware of. They've certainly never contacted us about
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by aroman 12y ago
Thanks! Was a nice surprise to see this on the HN front page. I'm on the core team — what's holding you back from using elementary OS?
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by aroman 12y ago
Fascinatingly, I tried asking Siri "Siri, will you mary me?" and her response was: "I sure have received a lot of marriage proposals recently!" For the first time, I was genuinely impressed with Siri's pseudo-intell
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by aroman 12y ago
Can someone please explain Apple's "thinness" arms race? I never heard so much as a suggestion that the previous iPad Air was too thin, while battery life is something that could be (literally) infinitely improved. Why did th
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by aroman 12y ago
...hasn't been updated in over four years. It's effectively closed-source.
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by aroman 12y ago
This seems like a misleading claim, based on their "24-hour battery life" claim, which is in fact 24 hours of cellular talk time, with Wi-Fi off . From http://www.google.com/nexus/6/ Testing was conduc
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Human flesh search engine(en.wikipedia.org)
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Inbox announces pricing and open-source scaffolding(inboxapp.com)
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Clipper Chip(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aroman 12y ago
I don't think it's ridiculous. I definitely agree that acting as TCP server is one of the major intended use cases for Node.js, but in practice, I'd bet it's such a small fraction of use that most Node hosting companie
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by aroman 12y ago
What's holding me back is: - doesn't natively interoperate with my keychain (and by extension iCloud Keychain). This is a huge win for using Safari on both my laptop and my iPhone. - scrolling is still — after years of waiting —
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/leaders no longer shows karma count for top 10 users(news.ycombinator.com)
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by aroman 12y ago
> - many of us do buy development tools and open source is just a nice to have feature I realize this seems nit-pick-y (and for that I apologize), but that's a false dichotomy. Open source != free. It's possible to pay/buy
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by aroman 12y ago
This was true at one point, but no longer. The HTML5 video player displays ads just fine these days.
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by aroman 12y ago
I have absolutely no need or desire for more than 16gb and certainly no need for a micro-SD card slot on my iPhone 5s. I barely use 8GB. I would imagine many people are the same way.
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by aroman 12y ago
This talk just keeps getting more and more relevant: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by aroman 12y ago
Yes, we switched over to Slack from IRC/Google+ at elementary (elementaryos.org) in the early summer. It's been a massive improvement. We're starting to feel the limitations of the free tier though, so we do wish it were a

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