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by babarock 14y ago
Has anyone tried to dist-upgrade? Does it work well? Around the time I was a Ubuntu user (around Hardy 8.04), dist-upgrade would usually break your box and was discouraged by Canonical themselves. If I recall correctly.
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It would then confuse the plethora of users who are already familiar with that naming standard. And those are usually mean old bearded Unix old-timers that will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and [condescending] anger. And you d
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by babarock 14y ago
This article is saying that web development (using frameworks a la Rails) might be enough to get you a job today, but as soon as the web-trend passes other skills will become needed. Recruiters are becoming more and more stupid (not in the
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At some point, if the company is not making efforts to reach out to better programmers (by actually looking up the name behind the open source project and showing a strongly present figure in tech conferences) then it's their loss, no? If a
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something about how you are the best person in the world to lead its execution Completely agree. From this point of view, people are not investing in your "idea" as much as in your person. There's real value to be had here. I believe that
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I wish it was false; I really wish I was bullshitting. http://www.travail-emploi-sante.gouv.fr/informations-pratiqu...
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by babarock 15y ago
This definitely applies to me. I'm in my first job, I've been doing this for almost 2 years now. Everything about this place screams "Mediocrity". Most of my coworkers are middle-aged programmers with average skills and no hope of ever beco
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Norman McLean: The end of the world of books.(lettersofnote.com)
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I recently turned down a freelancing contract where the client asked me to "kindly keep this confidential". Nothing legal more than this (does it have any legal validity?). The reason why I turned down the job offer is exactly because of th
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Imho you cannot approach the issue just from a pure numbers point of view. For instance, one big portion of the people browsing without Js are disabled people working with screen readers and such. True Story: I worked for a while on a websi
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http://iamnotrobot.com/post/20511534816/steve-jobs-take-on-g...
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I believe the first half of 2012 will go down in the History of blogging as the era where simply mentionning Steve Jobs would be enough for your blog to get attention. Remember this shallow article that topped HN by comparing Linus Torvalds
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This raises another issue I have been concerned with for a while. The WWW model is broken, namely the use of Javascript. I'm not talking about the language itself, it has been getting enough love lately as it is. Just the idea of a webserve
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by babarock 15y ago
Off topic: Why is he signing his mail with "Dr" Richard Stallman? His Wikipedia page only mentions a BA.
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Completely agreed, he completely lacks class. Even better, let's attack his ideas on basis that I don't like his beard, or that he looks a little chubby. He's not living in "the past", his living in his convictions. And that in itself is to
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by babarock 15y ago
Does it really matter? As much as I agree with rms on the matter, I don't want him to become the High Judge of what's good and what's evil .
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by babarock 15y ago
Oh no, not Russia! not China! my government/media/neighbor told me they're Evil. Let's keep the control to people like Lamar Smith. At least he's <insert bogus excuse with big words like "freedom" or "free speech">
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by babarock 15y ago
This goes beyond the point at hand. I'm not necessarily disagreeing (I'm not from the US), but we're discussing the compulsive need to translate culture, present in the US but in other parts of the world (like aforementioned french-speaking
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by babarock 15y ago
On that trend of off topics, I was part of a small movie buff group back in Lebanon. Nothing fancy, we just liked to meet and discuss movies we watched and liked. Clearly no title was ever translated. Movies weren't even dubbed (blasphemy!)
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How long should we, the non-US citizen rest of the world, sit back and look at the country battling internal political demons while attacking the Internet every other week with a new law proposal? I'm not very big on politics, as far as I'm
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I like the idea too. I'm not suggesting everyone should know programming, but that at least college graduates have some (semi) serious exposure to CS. After all it's safe to assume that every college grad has had a certain amount of exposur
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by babarock 15y ago
Wow! I've had this idea in my head for a little while now. Never actually took the time to do it. I'm so thrilled someone did! If only it was available on Android. Why, oh why did I not go Apple when I had the choice...
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by babarock 15y ago
I really don't like that article. I mean 766 words, just to say "The Lumia is cheaper than the iPhone, thus it targets a different market". Go straight to the point. If that amounts to a low word count, than maybe that's not worth a whole a
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I think the abundance of polls underlines a general appreciation of the HN crowd. I think most of us would agree that the quality of participants (and their participations) here on HN is a refreshing change from the rest of online communiti
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Honestly I never did program on an ATM so I may be wrong. But I'm willing to assume that unusual peripherals and drivers are analogous to the portability issues across android phones. Genuinely asking, not claiming to have the truth.
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by babarock 15y ago
I think you missed the part where I mention that Windows _runs on an ATM!_ I'm not crazy enough to suggest that Windows apps running on your Dell laptop would run on a Toshiba laptop. After all, they're both clones of the same machine ( htt
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by babarock 15y ago
Stop complaining about fragmentation and define yourself which devices you support! It's crazy to think that a common OS among such a wide variety of phones is enough to achieve perfect portability. Let's take an analogy: Your Windows PC ru
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by babarock 15y ago
I believe what the OP is saying here is "failure" occurred not on a strategic corporate level, but on a computer-science-algorithm-geek level. He hasn't disclose his full name, so we cannot fully judge, but how would you react if "Joe Smith
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I find it hard to believe that you read his original 'venting'. He's complaining about the need for root permissions to connect to a printer. It was about his daughter and the school network.
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I'm going to go on a small tangent here and ask: Solaris ... desktop ?? I've been using Linux on the desktop for quite some time now, and couldn't be happier. However I come to realize, after trying to "convert" a lot of people around me,

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