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by celerity 13y ago
People don't run desktop environments to squeeze performance (although it's a plus!), but to gain productivity in a convenient and easy way.
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by celerity 13y ago
If you don't control it, treat it as virtually public. I do that with Skype, Gmail, Google Docs, iCloud stuff, Evernote, Dropbox etc. Don't trust it if you can't encrypt it with a private key.
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by celerity 13y ago
I wonder how useful these are. It seems like a lot of the functionality of Light Table is accessed through mouse interactions. With that said, I could still use some emacs bindings :)
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by celerity 13y ago
Why do people use these horrible services? Is having an online social presence so important? I understand if you do it for business, but if bad news like this keeps coming out of a company, I simply stop using their products.
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by celerity 14y ago
I am a math Ph.D. student, and one of my professors went straight to Princeton after 3 years of college without his degree. He impressed a Princeton professor enough to have him offer a position there, which he could apparently do. My profe
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by celerity 14y ago
The only reason this story is remarkable is because Steve Jobs was a jerk all of the time, so exceptions and exhibitions of humanity seem special. Really, I'd see him as a cool guy if he were always like this. Not that him being an ass in a
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by celerity 14y ago
Please, please stop voting pseudo-science up so much. Look at the comments in the post. The second one pretty much explains why this "paper" has no credibility what-so-ever.
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by celerity 14y ago
This is great news, actually. It's a free "get out of jail" card. Now you know you shouldn't trust Apple with your email. Using other people's software or services which you don't control should be based on trust, in my opinion. What I mean
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by celerity 14y ago
I moved my music from iTunes to Linux and back many times. It's really just a matter of finding the files (trivial) and copy-pasting (trivial). I also don't understand the author's preferences. Macs weren't good enough for programming, so (
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by celerity 14y ago
Am I the only one that loves Unity? I took some care when getting hardware to have it work with my Ubuntu computer, and I don't have any major problems with it. Now, 12.04 used to be buggy at first, but now I can even play intense 3D games
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by celerity 14y ago
Arch Wiki is the best! I use it to set up stuff on my Ubuntu computer, sometimes. The thing is, Ubuntu already does most of the stuff from the Arch Wiki automatically.
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by celerity 14y ago
Eh, it is so easy to forget to set something up on Arch and scratch your head all the time to figure out what it was. Things that start working on Ubuntu fail rarely.
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by celerity 14y ago
This screen and 4:3 would make this an almost perfect Ubuntu Linux laptop for me. Too bad it probably won't be installable for a long time!
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by celerity 14y ago
Two issues: One, in a matter of dispute, he is claiming his own logs as proof -- which is nonsense. Two, even if the logs are legitimate, the error could have been somewhere between the computer and the user (e.g., the user might have been
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by celerity 14y ago
Thank you! I always mix them up.
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by celerity 14y ago
You know what else is an obstacle to relativistic spaceflight? Being able to do relativistic space flight. Fun fact: people realized this a long time ago, and proposed different "shields" in front of the ship (it turns out that the most eff
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by celerity 14y ago
Exactly, it's a faulty analogy. A person with a camera is an immediate threat to react to. People are well aware of cameras in supermarkets, yet they still go inside.
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by celerity 14y ago
Another, indirect, effect that I hope to see from this is cheaper MacBook Airs in the future. Competition! (I need a bit more than the terminal/SSH/text-editor to do my development.)
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by celerity 14y ago
Oof, here's a list of things I can buy with $2200: A $600 1080p tablet, a $1200 slightly-heavier-but-beefier laptop that runs Linux, a small telescope with the rest. Give me a break.
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by celerity 14y ago
God help you if you want to use it in two different applications. Plus, "you can use a third-party service" is not exactly an elegant solution.
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by celerity 14y ago
How does clumsily being able to replicate a very basic task that laptops have been doing for many years extremely well for $100 imply that tablets are going to kill computers? This might well be the case (I hope so!), but being able to atta
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by celerity 14y ago
I 100% agree with this. I was able to easily sync my settings between Linux, Windows and OS X for ST2, and easily find options because they are all in ONE file (Ctrl+F -what I need-), esp. considering they are very well documented. Still no
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by celerity 14y ago
This is just a good reminder to treat all cloud services out of your control as semi-public.
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by celerity 14y ago
I broke my $650 laptop by accidentally pulling the power cord. It happens.
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by celerity 14y ago
Selling an OS-free website is actually doing the Linux community a disservice. The reason is that it takes time and fidgeting in order to make everything work on Linux (and you can, in fact, screw up your computer if you don't set up fans c
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by celerity 14y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the comments about what Dell is doing with this Laptop. Here are some observations that I've made: * The image is custom, but it is maintained by Canonical, and one can download Ubuntu independently
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by celerity 14y ago
For me, for "serious" programming, I use a full-fledged IDE which has stuff like code linking, quick project search (with ST2 I have to switch to the terminal), built-in documentation, refactoring support... So paying $60 for a text editor,
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by celerity 14y ago
Not going to work IMHO. HBO is partly so successful because of its exclusivity. It is THE premiere channel to get, and will give that away only when the fall of traditional TV is apparent.
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by celerity 14y ago
I think they should instead focus on making Metro appealing to develop on, rather than making it the only free option. At least they still allow other compilers and any programming language. I wish Ubuntu would step up their development res
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by celerity 14y ago
Wouldn't a better and easier solution be to simply practice restraint and limit yourself to several websites like Google Maps, Wikipedia, Email (once a day), Calendar (in the morning)? Then you can include other sites one-by-one to see whic

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