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by chimeracoder 15y ago
> I've heard horror stories about laptop power management on Linux, it could definitely do with some work. It's not that bad, but it's highly driver-dependent. That's nothing new, though - driver issues are at the root of most complaint
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
I came across that a while ago as well and had no idea it was him (this was long before Dive Into Python, if I remember correctly). I always found this post of his to be very moving too: http://web.archive.org/web/20100624000256/http://div
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
Actually, the way it works in the US ends up being a lose-lose situation for consumers. Phone prices tend to be lower, but at a cost of an increased contract price. Over the course of a two-year contract, people will pay more than the cost
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
I like that analogy - I think I'm going to hold onto it!
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
The Arch Wiki (and Beginner's Guide) make it really easy to set up your system, especially when combined with the list of commonly used/installed applications. It takes a bit more time to set up, since you're building your system from the g
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
Arch. I was already running Arch on my netbook, and it worked beautifully, so when I got a new computer the first thing I did was install Arch on it. Haven't looked back.
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
> Unity is not Ubuntu. Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and roll your own systems based on the boxes (Openbox, Fluxbox) abound. Agreed - it wouldn't have been a reason by itself, but it was an annoyance. More broadly, Ubuntu seems to be moving towards
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
First: This is really a review of Unity, not Ubuntu. The main ways that Ubuntu/Linux differ from OS X have nothing to do with the UI, but rather the underlying system. That said, I'm glad to see that somebody likes Unity. Ubuntu's switch to
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
This video is what first convinced me to buy The Land of Lisp. What a great decision - the book is very well-done.
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
I completely agree with this, and I'm glad that somebody's writing a series on how to be productive on the command line. I find Neal Stephenson's 'In The Beginning Was the Command Line' to be a nice overview of why GUIs became the dominant
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
Personally, I use R. Importing and exporting CSV files in R is trivially easy (it's what it's made for, after all). Doing transformations on an entire column or row at a time is also very simple. Import a csv, then take the logarithm of one
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
I'm pretty sure more than .2% of Chrome users use Windows.
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
Possibly, yes. But since there are so many other potentially fishy aspects of the story, let's spend our time focusing on those instead of this one.
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
I've had the same problem. find and dd two *nix commands which betray the Principle of Least Surprise. I still use them, but I always find myself having to think twice before I do. (Though you should probably always think twice before using
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
People would just shift to other drugs. This concept is nothing new; an analogous drug that provides tolerance for heroin already exists. But heroin addicts who are forced to take methadone (as opposed to those who take it to assuage withdr
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
People say that, but it is grammatically incorrect.
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
Very interesting. I'll be curious to see how Ruby comes to be used in the near future and how it develops as a language.
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
Excellent question! I work on the data team here, and we work on a variety of projects. Some of our features rely on data from our applications, and so we help develop those features by building our data models. On the other hand, some othe
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by chimeracoder 15y ago
"The packaging was fine. It wasn’t Apple quality, but few companies put the effort into packaging that Apple does." All I needed to read. Really, reviewing a laptop on the box? Talk about judging a book by its cover. As long as it gets ther