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by bokchoi 16y ago
> This is a lot of work for something that doesn't affect a lot of users, as most users do not customize their panels, and of those that do probably are not changing their resolution often. I'd say the duplicate bug count, angry comment
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by bokchoi 16y ago
Here's an annoying Gnome Panel bug that's been open for years: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/4... https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341441 Changing the resolution of the display (ie., dock/undock la
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by bokchoi 16y ago
In the year 2000.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
You sound like a lovely person.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
And the IdeaVIM plugin isn't half bad either.
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Desktop Linux: The Dream is Dead(nighthacks.com)
1 points by bokchoi 16y ago|0 comments
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And don't forget the barbaric men from the South and their backward ways.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
It was most likely building an index of your source tree or something. IntelliJ starts up fast enough for me and I rarely restart my IDE anyway. IntelliJ stays open on my MacBook Pro for weeks.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
If upstream won't, can't, doesn't want to fix an upstream bug, then no one wins. Distributions patching upstream outside of the original source is a bad a idea -- other distributions need the same fix most likely. Kindly convincing the up
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by bokchoi 16y ago
And unfortunately the crummy module system improvements slated for JDK7 (Project Jigsaw) have been pushed to JDK8.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
Of course open-source projects release their source code. He's just being silly.
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Apache Ivy is another solution for auto-downloading dependencies but plays nice with Ant.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
The next obvious solution is to make separate packages for every version of library that the software uses. The problem is that there is no real convergence on “commonly-used” versions of libraries. There is no ABI protection, nor general
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Ubuntu Server tech lead: The real problem with Java in Linux distros(fnords.wordpress.com)
85 points by bokchoi 16y ago|79 comments
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When I'm riding my bike and I need to turn left, I'll jump up and down on the sensor. I look like an idiot, but usually it works! ;)
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by bokchoi 16y ago
I like this comment from the post: "[...], so Gmail updates aren’t tied to Android version releases anymore." and "The Gmail update requires Froyo (Android version 2.2),[...]" just makes absolutely NO sense. http://googlemobile.blogspot.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
> Armed Bear Common Lisp ( www.armedbear.org/abcl.html) is a reasonably complete implementation of the Common Lisp standard, but it suffers from that the distribution can't be built unless you have another Common Lisp system installed,
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by bokchoi 16y ago
I came across JFLI a Common-Lisp foreign-language interface to Java and was surprised to find it was authored by Mr. Hickey. I wonder how his experience with JFLI shaped Clojure. http://jfli.sourceforge.net/
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by bokchoi 16y ago
On the subject of kitchen utensils... One of my favorite patents is for the OXO angled measuring cup[1]. It seems obvious now in hindsight, but was truly unique when it appeared on the market. The uniqueness comes from seeing the volume f
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James Gosling: Quite the Firestorm(nighthacks.com)
119 points by bokchoi 16y ago|53 comments
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by bokchoi 16y ago
Sure. Individual investors might care, but Wall St. is incentivized to only care about quarterly profits.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
Being evil is also subjective. For Oracle stockholders and quarterly statements, acting out of self-interest is a good thing.
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by bokchoi 16y ago
The Gates Foundation writes into their AIDS grant that researchers must share their data: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115335816005811923.html My company helps the labs and researchers share their data using a portal website geared tow
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Branchable: ikiwiki blog hosting service(kitenet.net)
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by bokchoi 16y ago
The community message board support model doesn't work for google. My current peeve is this god-awful bug thread for adding an additional account to an Android phone: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=6981e6d970e
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by bokchoi 16y ago
Haven't you read Flowers for Algernon?
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And all classes final by default.
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Racist much?
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by bokchoi 16y ago
The best Seattle roast, IMHO, is Vita from Vivace. I just grabbed a bag and it is in the french press now. Absolutely amazing: http://www.espressovivace.com/intro.html
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by bokchoi 16y ago
You missed two bits: - the goal is to not pollute the global namespace as we do today - the module/export/load are a part of an opt-in dialect of javascript when you specify "text/es-harmony" as the language.

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