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by danford 12y ago
I really like FreeBSD, but the one chance I had to run it in a moderate scale production environment as a server I was unable to because it used 30% more power than Linux. I started following the optimization guide in the handbook but after
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by danford 12y ago
>It doesn't require as much maintenance as Linux. What maintenance does Linux require? The only thing I can think you might be implying is that there are bugs caused by updating that cause system issues frequently and this is simply
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by danford 12y ago
Thing is, the parents comment makes no sense because it's implying that your wifi drivers would stop working if you connected to different wifi. OS X has plenty of problems, see: http://www.imore.com/os-x-mavericks-prob
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by danford 12y ago
>something that works, every day. >the experience of running OS X on Apple hardware is simply unmatched. Eh. Seems a lot of people on HN believe this, but it's not always the case. Just a quick visit to discussion.apple.com will
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by danford 12y ago
>Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer. Come on now, it's not 2005. Ubuntu runs smoothly on just about everything I've installed it on and I usually
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by danford 12y ago
It's hard to comment without actually knowing the guys idea, and seeing as you're a new account it's hard to say whether you really know what you're talking about either. I've had the displeasure of working with som
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by danford 12y ago
But it is the ability to read and (for the most part) understand that novel, which is important. There are definitely more books (and things in general) being written in the age of literacy than there was before.
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by danford 12y ago
I disagree. I believe everyone could learn to code if we taught it from around the age of six or seven. We can read and do basic math can't we?
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by danford 12y ago
Unfortunately too many people just give you a blank stare when you mention that 100 years from now we'll be printing up everything we can't augment. We'll also have brain-machine-interfaces that allow one to 'memorize&#x
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by danford 12y ago
Radio serves the purpose of being one of the only freely available wireless com networks. For this reason I think radio will be around for a while (will almost definitely out live cable television).
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by danford 12y ago
This is true in some cases, but I gotta say I'm glad myspace seems to have nuked everything I left on there from middle school except a profile pic. It would be horrid if that stuff was left up for the world to see and I'd forgott
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by danford 12y ago
obligatory https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...
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by danford 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOSV2 Probably him. Or some guy with a lot of time on his hands pretending to be him.
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by danford 12y ago
Using Linux isn't that hard. I worked for a call center that trained people on command line DOS in 3 days. Not to mention there are a lot of companies dishing out business phones running OS's that are completely different from win
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by danford 12y ago
That article is from 6 years ago though. In browser years that's 18.5 years ago.
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by danford 12y ago
>Firefox is faster on Windows than on Linux. Not on any of my computers. I have windows 8 installed on a separate partition on my laptop and have literally only used it to upgrade the system and I installed firefox to browse the web whil
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by danford 12y ago
>they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself I think a lot of people make the assumption that just because you're running windows you're not going to run into any road blocks that require hiring d
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by danford 12y ago
Well, it's a decade to migrate 15,000 computers. The french did over double that in the same time and plan on migrating 72,000[1]. Don't forget Munich saved 10,000,000 Euros doing this[2], and --let's be honest -- doing the
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by danford 12y ago
It looks like they had to develop it for windows too.
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by danford 12y ago
You make it sound as if the migration wasn't a success while the original article claims it to be more than successful. In my experience, switching over PC's to something like Ubuntu is no issue in most cases. So they had to set a
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by danford 12y ago
Cool idea. I started work on something similar, but after some planning I felt like I was basically writing an IRC chat from the ground up and things like tinychat can (kind of) already do this. In the end it seemed like a lot of work for a
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by danford 12y ago
Isn't this why people stopped talking on the phone?
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by danford 12y ago
It seems to me it may just be that maintaining an open source project might be a little harder than maintaining something that is closed source simply because the maintainers can maintain it at their leisure, rather than having to deal with
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by danford 12y ago
Any particular reason you chose sublime over Vim?
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by danford 12y ago
While not related to Rust, I think you and a lot of commenters in this thread might find this helpful: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/97207/what-do... And this is from two years ago, so I would exp
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by danford 12y ago
>D requires garbage collection for safety. Source? D has more users[1] and is more Robust than Rust and beats Rust on many benchmarks[2] [1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index..
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by danford 12y ago
If you think D is bad you must think C++ is atrocious.
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Ask HN: Anyone else getting SSL errors this morning on HN?
5 points by danford 12y ago|4 comments
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by danford 12y ago
Have you tried Ubuntu 14.04? My sister just installed it on her MBP and she hasn't had any issues except with the track pad, which she was abe to fix (not sure how). Don't install arch unless you're ready to tweak some config
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by danford 12y ago
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/ http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/ In my experience Dells usually work well and if you're willing to spend the money they have some pretty

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