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by chao- 13y ago
>One of the things I find quite difficult to mentally adapt to when switching is the behaviour of the Enter key, since in Windows it is open, and in OS X it is rename (which I find much more useful, since you can command-down arrow to o
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by chao- 13y ago
>I rarely need to use home/end, since control-A and control-E work in all text fields. Interesting. If I can remember that and keep it in mind, I'll be far less jumpy and clunky next time I'm typing on a Mac. Thanks! On
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by chao- 13y ago
Yeah, he doesn't really present any logic for that, either. As if he's starting from the discrete arrow keys and making an assumption that this is an optimal placement. I remember struggling with up/down on arrow keys as a ch
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by chao- 13y ago
Using this to bring up something related, which I have always wondered: How do you orient your hands when performing ⌘+Z/X/C when using a Mac keyboard? Which finger presses the ⌘? Having used Windows as a child and Linux for many
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by chao- 13y ago
>Not that this is a stellar patent, but from most of the comments on this thread, it is amply clear most here don't know how patents work. Which comments are you referring to, what do they not understand about patents, and what ma
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by chao- 13y ago
The other caveat is that, although a number of bigger companies have gotten on board the anti-troll train lately (particular props to Newegg and Rackspace), the most popular of services from the largest of companies already have substantial
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by chao- 13y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by chao- 13y ago
There are two issues with what you suggest (looking up patents ahead of time): 1. Many times the Cease & Desists, or "Invitations to License" are about completely tangential topics or technologies to the core of your business.
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by chao- 13y ago
I completely agree, so please take this as an explanation and elucidation rather than a criticism: The concept of merely "demanding change" is unlikely to result in change, unless the term "demanding" includes actions th
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by chao- 13y ago
I agree with you, both in your dismay and wonder, but also pose a question: At what decreasing level of complexity is something still "living", but no longer subject to the ethical concerns from this not-exactly-direct control? In
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by chao- 13y ago
It "gives" quite frequently, and between the size of the system, and some policies therein, it can absorb a significant amount of "give". There are actually hundreds of protests each day. State media control is of cour
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by chao- 13y ago
It is precisely as you say: Simple as that. You knew of some sites, and you had links from those sites to others. Beyond that, you could take some big names and guess if they had a site. As for your "working internals of a car engine&q
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by chao- 13y ago
There will always be people who want something because of what other people will think of them for it. Among my cohort growing up this has often manifested as becoming one of the big three: Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer (very much in that orde
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by chao- 13y ago
Seconding the "still alive" sentiment. A great friend of mine growing up was able to dodge the more abusive aspects of the parenting style. His parents would occasionally back off. Why? Because he was born after his two older cousins, one o
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by chao- 13y ago
Operations are one type of unknown cost, but the problem extends to all parts of medical treatment. I know of at least one company (SnapHealth [1]) trying to solve this problem, from one small angle: tests and doc visits, as opposed to op
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by chao- 13y ago
I don't even play games much these days, but I am about to buy a copy of this because the comedy alone was worth eight dollars (and because it runs on Linux!). Maybe it's just funnier to me because I know a few guys who work at an indie gam
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by chao- 14y ago
Many of the author's complaints read similar to this one: Now, people compare Backbone to Cappuccino, or Ember to Rails. Cappuccino, Backbone, and Rails all serve completely different purposes, and saying you don’t need one because you hav
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by chao- 14y ago
I don't know enough to say why that would or wouldn't work in some absolute sense. But if we're comparing instead of talking absolutes, my first question to narrow it down is: "Doesn't superglue have some gnarly stuff in it? Stuff that you
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by chao- 14y ago
A year ago we looked into how feasible it would be to expand operations of our company beyond the US. Because we have a Korean-born Korean as a core team member, it was placed very high on the list of countries to explore. That spot lasted
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by chao- 14y ago
It feels similar to unlocking software because despite the different legal structure (ownership vs. license), the source of the difference similar, as you point out: You have been given a purposefully broken (i.e. effort was expended to red
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by chao- 14y ago
The single biggest question on my mind is how this ended up functioning worse than the community-made solutions such as NAM (Network Addon Mod) for Sim City 4. If all they did was monkey-copy that behavior, available for many years now, I
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by chao- 14y ago
>It was also infamously buggy (something the modding community spent a lot of effort fixing) but it still was better than what we have now. Indeed. For the amount of time I spent playing Sim City 4 with the Network Addon Mod (the one
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by chao- 14y ago
My most recent attempt to use PulseAudio (as it came via Ubuntu) had the quirk of not activating the headphone jack when something was inserted. It dutifully turned off my speakers, but no sound was available elsewhere. I previously had sto
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by chao- 14y ago
If it's fresh packages you want, surely you know there's more than just stable. Have you given Sid a try? I've been running it for years on my non-server machines, and I haven't had any more or less problems with it than other bleeding edge
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by chao- 14y ago
As a power user, I don't really feel I have particular unfilled needs in any Linux environment. Most of what I need, development-wise, I already have. All that requires is a shell and the ability to configure my apt sources. That said, I do
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by chao- 14y ago
Care to elaborate? Your comment reads as a sentence-long "NO, YOU!" right now. What about Canonical is a problem, and who are they causing the problem for? As a "Linux idiot" myself, I hear your disapproval of the parent post, but am curiou
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by chao- 14y ago
I'm much the opposite: I keep giving Ubuntu a shot, only to find myself disappointed by GNOME, Unity, and the other usual suspects of the DE world. With no need for Unity & Friends, I just use stock Debian or Crunchbang. I'm rooting for
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by chao- 14y ago
>That "left brain/right brain" business is the stupidest, most egregious display of a lack of understanding of basic neuroscience. This is the first thing that I wanted to say, and I'm glad to see it already represented in this thread
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by chao- 14y ago
It is not a great bug report. In fact, as qznc states, it's not a bug report at all. However, in my weeklong attempts to deal with the issue, I came across a few formal bug reports submitted to various projects. If I recall correctly, and s
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by chao- 14y ago
I have to take issue with your comment on keyboard use, because that single wart is dealbreaker keeping me from using Ubuntu. I give Ubuntu another shot every X.10 release just to see if they've finally made the desktop environment satisfac

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