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by bnolsen 12y ago
i still use windowmaker on my desktop development system. its very efficient and doesnt get in the way.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
Unix had high goals but ended up compromising. It's been a good system, good enough to fend off other system competitors. Trying to argue details using precedence and pointing to the exceptions and compromises to prop up arguments do
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by bnolsen 12y ago
If anything the whole systemd mess has put more attention on the init system and dependencies. There's plenty of drama and its a modern vi/emacs kde/gnome fight that people are passionate about. I think what burns a lot of u
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by bnolsen 12y ago
I would really like it if they did lgpl with a static link exception. dynamic can be a pain to deal with cross platform.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
vim is already too slow (i typically code edit with elvis which is good but not for huge text data files). evil's lagginness is utterly maddenning. and emacs isn't typically installed everywhere. i'm a multi terminal user
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by bnolsen 12y ago
The bigger problem are the TSA agents operating the scanners. They are constantly getting exposed to these machines during their workshift. I think that's the biggest upcoming "disaster" surrounding these lame ineffective sc
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by bnolsen 12y ago
And your point is? A lot of lame people graduated from Harvard. A bunch of them. And they have no clue how economics work. 96% of political contributions from ivy league staff and faculty went to obama, not romney. Looks like GW was a y
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by bnolsen 12y ago
What really matters: Are the most capable getting into elite colleges?
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by bnolsen 12y ago
ahh white gas bottles! msr makes those as well.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
The M&M shape is the most efficient for minimizing empty space in shipping containers. They missed that one.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
that should be Tor not Thor. Fun, eh?
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by bnolsen 12y ago
you can schedule aircraft so they cover and area when there's a cloud free (or diminshed) window. Satellites get what they get. For cities like portland that's typically not good enough.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
sattelites dont commercially provide 6 inch. its all aerial. 1m accuracy is very poor for things like property boundary checks, etc. Fine for getting to your destination, however.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
Nintendo seems like it's firmly attached to a narrow business plan and wants to ride that into the ground. At the very least they could be toying with the phone market by releasing mini-games or something under a "nintendo mobile
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by bnolsen 12y ago
idiots. the business making the money pays the taxes. what kind of clowns and political hacks run the irs? oh yeah we dont know since they conveniently destroy any evidence when it is requested, and get away with it!
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by bnolsen 12y ago
denver isnt a downtown oriented city, its very spread out. also the trains are empty whenever i see them running. just another expensive sinkhole from what i can tell.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
gnumeric is excellent. ive seen far to many people trying to use a spreadsheet like a general document processor. just use a spreadsheet for what it's good at doing: operating on columns (or rows) of numbers!
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by bnolsen 12y ago
reliance on debuggers is a wierd strange concept. Debuggers are utterly incapable in multithreaded environments. Just write damn unit tests and simulations!
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by bnolsen 12y ago
i have one too. The problem I have with it is that its just too much screen real estate, horz and vertical together. I would have preferred one of those ultra wide monitors instead.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
the world needs more systems engineers with the ability to identify problems and suggest real solutions. the computer is just one tool for doing this. i run into so many situations where people want to identify their task, put their heads
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by bnolsen 12y ago
you must live in some wierd fantasy world, but sorry the dems are totally owned by special interests. some of the old guard republicans are also similar. follow the money, the dems reek of special interest.
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by bnolsen 12y ago
If you used our coding style (haskell-ish) you would have no problems with tabs. Keep stuff logically towards the left to make quick scanning easier.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
thats insane. huge numbers of conservatives (everyone i know) want the irs gone and a flat tax. sorry to burst your bubble.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
The reason: web pages suck, and they increasingly suck worse and worse with more and more javascript and crap getting thrown in. I wish the simplification required to make a web app that is usable on mobile would find its way back into th
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by bnolsen 13y ago
wordperfect
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by bnolsen 13y ago
it may be collective burnout as well. Can you shuffle their responsibilities? Try to get them out of the office sometimes instead of keeping them there?
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by bnolsen 13y ago
I always find gnumeric to be plenty powerful for doing any spreadsheet stuffs I need to do. No I don't get fancy, just mess with columns and formulae and statistical analysis.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
the US system is ruthlessly hostile towards small business. politicians seem to talk about "small business" but do nothing, only use it as a political tool only.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Quick! someone get the wierdos at /. to post this article! As noted in the past, sciebtists can barely predict hurricane tracks. Global climate stuff? Yeah right.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
this is pointless. star trek describes no real society and ther are conyinuity holes everywhere from multiple series, writers and directors. a nice dream but in no way deployable.

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