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   by barbs 13y ago

   Bit annoying that they took the name of a startup I used to work at: http://www.tapestry.net/
2. 962.▲
   by barbs 13y ago

   It's a shame gog.com have stated that they don't plan on supporting Linux anytime soon. The main reason being that they won't be able to provide reasonable support for multiple distros and distro versions. Why they can't
3. 963.▲
   by barbs 13y ago

   I believe that a lot of the mac and linux ports were made so that they could be in the Humble Indie Bundle, but these ports are also available elsewhere (the steam page for Fez now lists Mac and Linux). Yet another awesome thing about the H
4. 964.▲
   by barbs 13y ago

   I totally agree. If HiB and Steam can do it, so can GoG.
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   by barbs 13y ago

   I don't see where all the hate comes from myself. Mind explaining your position?
6. 966.▲
   by barbs 13y ago

   Rumour has it that Monaco is one of the games that is yet to be revealed in this bundle. http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/monaco-whats-his-will-... Monaco's an excellent team-based heist game.
7. 967.▲
   by barbs 13y ago

   I recently built myself a gaming rig, and am running Linux Mint on it. This works well enough for me. Sure, most games out there are Windows only, but the quality ones that I want to play (dota 2, Amnesia, Quake Live) work great on Linux.
8. 968.▲
   by barbs 13y ago

   I found that I got pthread protection problems, but other than that SC2 worked great. No idea how well LoL works under wine, but DotA 2 has a native linux client. Just saying! :P
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   by barbs 13y ago

   Not sure. I have read his Hacker HowTo before, but looking now, I can't find that definition: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is I have a feeling it was someone on HN actually...
10. 970.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    I remember reading a definition for a hacker that was something along the lines of "someone who modifies something to do something that it was not originally intended to do". It was better worded than that, and might not be entire
11. 971.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    Does this mean that, in theory, if someone wanted to modify some GPL'd code to merge it into a proprietary project, and they didn't want to GPL the entire project, they could modify the compiler to compile the code with the modifi
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    by barbs 13y ago

    > Seem to be forgetting fire. Campfires were surely used by our ancestors, for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is plausible that we evolved to adapt to them. He does lightly touch on the subject of fire: > The blue wavelengths
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    by barbs 13y ago

    Interesting! Out of curiosity, if this were the Gnu C Compiler, would this be illegal, since the GPL requires the source to be distributed with the binary, and the source and binary don't match?
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    by barbs 13y ago

    > I think keyboards are like shopping carts. Get one with a sticky wheel, and you'll find it terribly annoying and distracting. Get one that rolls smooth enough and you don't think much about it. The difference in return betwee
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    by barbs 13y ago

    I don't know much about emacs, but that would be a good way to train yourself to use vim :)
16. 976.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    Turn on showdead and check his comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
17. 977.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    He himself has admitted he's schizophrenic. You'll also notice that he continues to post on Hacker News, despite being hellbanned, and seemingly knowing that he's hellbanned. if you read said comments, it's difficult to
18. 978.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    At the risk of sounding pedantic, should the title for this HN submission have (1964) at the end of it?
19. 979.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    I like your Triforce key :)
20. 980.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    $50 says the open-source fork will be called "openginx" :)
21. 981.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    Awesome idea. What's a good non-github way of rendering image diffs?
22. 982.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    It's better than it was, but for viewing HN on my Android phone I use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
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    by barbs 13y ago

    I played Nethack on a MacBook Pro (with no number-pad) to get used to the vim movement keys.
24. 984.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    If I understand this correctly, the backscatter is always there. It's residual radiation from the Big Bang. It's also why analogue tv sets show static when not tuned to a station. TV and Radio stations output a signal that's
25. 985.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    That also works well under wine, in my experience anyway.
26. 986.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    I'm sure if it becomes well and truly missed, someone will make an add-on to interpret them properly.
27. 987.▲
    by barbs 13y ago

    What are the benefits of using PuTTY over plain ssh in a *NIX environment?
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    by barbs 13y ago

    I'd recommend Linux Mint with Cinnamon for the same reasons.
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    by barbs 13y ago

    I've used and loved Xubuntu for a while now, but I've recently installed Linux Mint w/ Cinnamon on a new computer, and I think it's a little bit more polished. Both are much better than plain Ubuntu. Linux Mint + Cinnamo
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    by barbs 13y ago

    I'd probably be content as well, but I think about some of my all-time favourite songs, and how a lot of them were discovered by chance or through some obscure means. And I wonder just how many more "all-time favourites" are