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by cowmix 14y ago
I just wish they would spend a release just on the import / export filter for Microsoft Word. It is still pretty horrible overall.
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by cowmix 14y ago
Please, please save those IRC logs.
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by cowmix 14y ago
If you teach Python to kids, they get a gift from Guido. https://plus.google.com/photos/108306457281321389001/albums/...
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by cowmix 14y ago
I'm so glad I spent four hours reloading the Google Play store page for the privilege of buying a Nexus 4. Man, I feel like a jack ass.
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by cowmix 14y ago
I'm freakin' out that /. is exactly half the age of the CD.
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by cowmix 14y ago
Number 10566 speakin' here. /. to me is like a bad marriage. I can't stand it in general, constantly I complain about it, but for some reason I can't leave it.
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by cowmix 14y ago
Ubuntu is pretty good about keeping it's packages up to date and specifically Numpy and Scipy.
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by cowmix 14y ago
Nope. :(
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by cowmix 14y ago
Gow is great because the install time is much, much shorter than Cygwin. Cygwin is a beast. However, I don't see that Gow has been updated since the last time it was featured on HN.
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by cowmix 14y ago
Holy crap. apt-cyg.. where have you been for the past 13 years!
461.
by cowmix 14y ago
I love Open/LibreOffice but you are 100% correct.
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by cowmix 14y ago
Jython was frozen in the 2.2.X state for the longest time but then Frank and his team jumped to 2.5.X a few years ago and its has been a modern Python ever since.
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by cowmix 15y ago
Whatever. Look, nothing he talked about created the financial situation we are in now. In fact, the lack of regulations on wall street is what did us in. He credits technological progress in the 1930s for getting us out of the Great Depres
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by cowmix 15y ago
No. ARG!
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by cowmix 15y ago
SoundFlower is a little buggy on Lion still.
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by cowmix 15y ago
Or SoundFlower for OSX: http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/
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by cowmix 15y ago
They 'bought' this client.
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by cowmix 15y ago
Please note: if you use SourceTree as a Subversion client and you store your local repo in git format, empty directories will not be tracked or versioned.
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by cowmix 15y ago
"Now, however, the outcry about FCPX from "professionals" is really about those "professionals" not wanting to learn anything new, because they really aren't editors, they're just cutting things together by rote. Anyone whose an actual edit
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Senator Franken breaks his silence on PIPA.(blog.alfranken.com)
9 points by cowmix 15y ago|6 comments
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A Facebook page to organize engaging Sen Al Franken about PIPA / SOPA.(facebook.com)
1 points by cowmix 15y ago|0 comments
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by cowmix 15y ago
The $299 price tag for a Verizon Galaxy Nexus is looking like an even worse deal now.
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by cowmix 15y ago
The TouchPad and Nook will be running ICS very soon.
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by cowmix 15y ago
I can not find an archive of it.. arg!
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by cowmix 15y ago
foannfeai: The "free money", awesome tax breaks and the basic free ride WS gets did not just happen, its the result of 30+ years of systematic lobbying and the actual embedding of WS types in government. The OWS protests are finally bringin
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by cowmix 15y ago
OMG.. There's something really exciting in this release that I've been waiting for: "The kernel code for software RAID now offers bad block management for RAID levels 1, 4, 5 and 6. This detects and avoids known bad areas on the RAID disks
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by cowmix 15y ago
If PIXAR can't resort a photo, no one can. In fact, I sure they re-rendered it.
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by cowmix 15y ago
NoSQL? Nope. I just need PostgreSQL and SSDs.. done!
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by cowmix 15y ago
Again, another article that has a lot of talk about CM systems (CFEngine, puppet, chef, etc) and no love for bcfg2.. which happens to be Python based.
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Netscape went public 16 years ago today -- here's a copy of the prospectus.(plus.google.com)
1 points by cowmix 15y ago|0 comments

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