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carmen
15y ago
what do you mean "gave up" on n900? enlightenment, in particular its touch WM Illume runs fine on it
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carmen
15y ago
2nd order derivative reflexive-properism is gratuitous
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carmen
16y ago
a "first and only rsync client on ios" claim on your page doesn't hold water as rsync has been in repos since the earliest days of apt/dpkg being ported to ios. 2008? the amount of ways apple scuttled basic file features in ios is really so
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carmen
16y ago
Vaio X is a good device any reason non-atom is on the list? Xmonad, Chromium and emacs are snappy
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carmen
16y ago
hanlin quotes their battery life in page-turns, makes more sense than days. something like 5000, and battery is Nokia BL-5C, replacable anywhere for a few shekels weight too, i still cant get over how heavy an iPad feels, after using a 200
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carmen
16y ago
iPad is unreadable outdoors in daytime. glass surface acting as a mirror and display not being transflective. also it is way overpowered to display text. so it's battery is depleted after 12 hours instead of a few months. i'd love a transf
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carmen
16y ago
xbmc works well. playing a movie and still having 90% battery left is impressive. you really should be testing on a tablet of some sort when writing webapps. as hover doesn't exist, certain drag operations may not behave the same, etc
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carmen
16y ago
an unwillingness to work on closed-source webapps adds a further wedge to the situation. you have it pretty good - desperate "work on our proprietary centrally-hosted webapp" pleas for talented developers are oozing into every crack of the
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carmen
16y ago
quite happy with a Vaio X. however Windows really had to go - yes you can get a GNUserspace going with rxvt/ssh/git/bash from minGW/MSYS, but eventually youre throw into needing Cygwin for something, and then you need a decent/stocked packa
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carmen
16y ago
Illume, Chromium, and the editor of your choice
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carmen
16y ago
Ceph or AFS may be worth a look-see
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carmen
16y ago
try st
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carmen
16y ago
jQuery popularized use of CSS selectors in clients, and probably had a role in browser vendors adding querySelectorAll. implicit iteration (obviating for-loops) across a node-set, type-agnostic starting points (constructor accepts a snippet
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carmen
16y ago
X is the great leveler of UI. any toolkit can be used. likewise, any app can control/talk-to any other app in any language with DBUS. this is the diversity that only Nokia and OpenMoko managed to ship.
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carmen
16y ago
linux support doesnt exist? i plugged in Arch USB key and and wiped Win7 first thing - GMA500 is the only problem, but that effects so many devices these days that its inevitable a working driver comes out some time
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16y ago
more OS going into end-users hands than ever before, what is he smoking? Android, iPhoneOS, Maemo/Meego, Ubuntu, WebOS itd be nice to have a single source for important developments in each of the above. i might even cal the site OSNews. ar
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carmen
16y ago
so you could twitpic the cooltshirt and never bother with this site..anything that ascends above mundane is already being mentioned in existing channels i found it fascinating the screenshots on gigaom were being used essentially like faceb
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carmen
16y ago
my x200 takes 20 minutes to POST and the BIOS downgrades fail via both GRUB and windows7. similar experiences litter the lenovo forum. if apple had an issue like this it woulda been frontpaged on every tech site and fixed within a day.. its
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carmen
17y ago
kudos to the first programmer to come up with a local console so i we can emacs -nw, vim, and a shell with google-chrome in ~/.xinitrc
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17y ago
accidently V3 was at bottom of my backpack (a thin tube of nylon w/ no padding) and i stacked up a bunch of groceries on it, droped it off my shoulders onto green line floor etc, also its fallen off 4 foot tables onto hardwood, no probs Ope