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by csense 14y ago
Two words: Linux Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) with Cinnamon. Basically Linux Mint is the distro for people who used to like Ubuntu, but don't want unfamiliar postmodern GUI metaphors in Unity or Gnome 3 shoved down their throats.
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by csense 14y ago
It isn't obvious to me that women being underrepresented in technology fields is a problem, any more than women being overrepresented in early childhood education. Let me be clear: I don't have a problem with women in programming, computer
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by csense 14y ago
I've always thought that Copy / Cut was a poor metaphor. The metaphors are so awful that I almost never used GUI filesystem manipulation until the mid-2000's, doing everything through the command line. I still usually use the command line
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by csense 14y ago
> Why would you want to use plain old "grep" instead of "ack"? 1. Because all the cool kids are doing it. 2. Because I hate Perl.
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by csense 14y ago
Ant makes my life easier. It is true that more steps have to be done "manually," but the build is 10x more deterministic than Maven. For example, think about this: With Maven I spend two months developing $APP on my machine. Maven does it
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by csense 14y ago
Maven is evil. It needs to die. Every time I've used it, it downloads hundreds of megabytes of who-knows-what from who-knows-where on the Internet. It's not like apt-get, which uses a central server where there's some level of QA to make
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by csense 14y ago
Ultimately, a private company should be able to ask anybody to leave their property for any reason. The checks and balances against abuse of this power are basically that, if Yelp's a jerk, they get bad PR, as is happening in this case.
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by csense 14y ago
In my "Can't. Afford. It," comment [1] I wasn't referring to the trickle-down effects, job stimulus, or long-term return on investment. Those are certainly worthy issues to discuss, but in comment [1] I was limiting myself to saying that,
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by csense 14y ago
Most EULA's contain a clause that says "This EULA may be changed by us at any time without notice to you. Your continued use of the product after any such change constitutes acceptance of such terms." Seems like, if you don't have a script
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by csense 14y ago
What does Google hopes to accomplish with making fiber available? They want to enable entirely new applications. For example, online video was an application enabled by the widespread availability of broadband Internet. Before broadband,
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by csense 14y ago
"There is absolutely no reason that any local government in the US worth its weight in salt couldn't start a fiber to the home initiative where they take a tax hike for a few years to pay off laying fiber to everyone in the district." We. C
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by csense 14y ago
It might be better to implement with a small (fits inline with text) '?' icon next to each paragraph; clicking on it will show (or hide) a text field where you can type your question. Bonus points if you use cookies or server-side state to
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by csense 14y ago
I think that ship's already sailed. There's a confusion in the mind of the general public between "someone who knows programming" and "someone who specializes in breaking into computer systems." In case you haven't watched any TV or movies
2654.
by csense 14y ago
I think Raspberry Pi isn't a good recommendation because he wants Windows. (The Pi uses an Arm CPU, whereas Windows requires x86.)
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by csense 14y ago
> game development systems that are point-and-click available in [Windows] Can you name names? > need Windows Using Wine [1] [2] may save you license fees. [1] http://www.winehq.org [2] sudo apt-get install wine
2656.
by csense 14y ago
+1. I see so many startup websites on HN that look interesting, but having to register is a huge burden. You need to show people what they're going to get before requiring registration. Also, Facebook is evil.
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by csense 14y ago
Many people who claim they have a sense of empathy, could probably lose it or deal with the occasional conscience pang, if a seven-to-nine figure sum was involved.
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by csense 14y ago
It's probably going to cost a gazillion dollars for Mojang to defend against, since patent lawyers are expensive. The troll can probably determine how small Mojang really is and just try to use legal procedures to make things as expensive a
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by csense 14y ago
PR only matters to them if their relationship with their customers is consensual. This is not the case with a patent troll.
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by csense 14y ago
I don't remember the details, but I read somewhere that a US court has ruled that only patent attorneys can understand patents. If you're not a patent attorney, and you read a patent, and determine that you don't violate it, and later the c
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by csense 14y ago
Where in the USA can you hunt rhinos?
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by csense 14y ago
I don't see how being in favor of the Constitutionally protected right to bear arms automatically makes someone "paranoid." I hope you're wrong about gun control being a necessary part of the answer to this issue, because as far as I can te
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by csense 14y ago
The problem is that too many guns exist already in the USA. If guns had just been invented and only a few of them existed, or if we were a moon colony that had never imported guns, or if we were some country where, due to social/cultural/p
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by csense 14y ago
Actually, people often underestimate the power of a "slippery slope" argument. To me, it looks more like reductio ad absurdum. If we accept curtailing the 4th, 5th, or 8th amendment as an absurd outcome, and a parallel argument to token's