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by d_theorist 13y ago
I'm assuming this is a joke. If so, it is funny.
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by d_theorist 13y ago
I really like this because it shows the different 'places' things happen in Git arranged spatially, and groups commands into those spaces. This really helps with building mental model of how things work. The visualization is great
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by d_theorist 13y ago
Can somebody who is not brain dead (as the author of the article seems to be) summarise what Gates actually means? I can't watch the video because I'm at work and the article itself is completely devoid of meaningful content.
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by d_theorist 13y ago
I wish that sites like this would make it obvious (or easy to find out) what geographical area they serve without my having to work my way through a checkout process to figure it out.
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by d_theorist 14y ago
Exactly. What I want to know is where the mobile Debian is. Where the mobile Arch is. Where the mobile Slackware, openSUSE, Fedora, Linux Mint etc etc etc is. There are a million desktop distributions driven purely by community efforts. Why
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Ask HN: Where are all the mobile Linux distros?
4 points by d_theorist 14y ago|5 comments
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by d_theorist 14y ago
The US federal government is a perfect example. Remote - geographically, culturally, and financially - from the people it governs, it has continually eroded the freedoms and protections of the bill of rights, and has usurped the sovereign
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by d_theorist 14y ago
The idea that you could, even in principle, make an organisation like the EU "accountable" at all is fundamentally mistaken. My critique of the EU is not that it is doing a bad job of ruling people from on high, and that we should reform it
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by d_theorist 14y ago
This comment exposes the elitist Europhile mindset beautifully. Yes, another Roman Empire to allow a small imperial caste to rule the entire continent is exactly what they are aiming for.
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by d_theorist 15y ago
Whitespace is not evil, but too much whitespace is.
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by d_theorist 15y ago
It looks like somebody has tried to apply the new Google aesthetic (whitespace! whooo!) to Facebook. I mean, how much space do you really want to waste?