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by danford 12y ago
In this day and age communities like this need safeguards to protect the participants from being manipulated. This is no longer a conspiracy theory, this is real. If you don't believe the US government has a hand in manipulating public
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by danford 12y ago
I don't quite understand what google is trying to do with chrome OS. IMHO I think we are coming to a point where OS's are going to be convergent, which means that one OS will adapt to the form factor you run it on. Canonical is al
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by danford 12y ago
I don't understand how it can be described as '2D'. If it were 2D you would be able to stack an infinite amount without the stack getting higher.
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by danford 12y ago
Angularjs first release was about 6 years ago so it's hardly legacy. It's almost as if the OP was trying to plug React.. Anyway, in my experience angular is half the code, half the time, and half the cost. http://www.go
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by danford 12y ago
>we can re-render the view before the server even acknowledges the operation's success This can be done in angular too, but I don't understand why you would want to give someone the assumption that an operation was successful b
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by danford 12y ago
Keep in mind a few of the commands only relate to arch linux, but I think if you're comfortable using the terminal you should be able to figure things out.
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by danford 12y ago
I can't speak for them, but I think a lot of people upgrading from XP to 7 are going to have to upgrade hardware for it to even be worth it unless you were already on a fairly high end XP box. I think 7 can be optimized to run on lower
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by danford 12y ago
I think I was still pooping my britches when you were using that, so I haven't had much experience with it, but KDE is probably more similar to it than GNOME. I would recommend you use what ever you feel most comfortable with. Of cour
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by danford 12y ago
This is a great resource: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Reduce_title_bar_... But the tweak tool lets you change the font size which was
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by danford 12y ago
Eh.. I think it's only more usable if you're coming from and are used to a traditional desktop like Windows. If you were introducing someone to a computer for the first time, GNOME 3 is by far the most simple and easiest to use de
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by danford 12y ago
GNOME is extremely customizable too if you know JavaScript and CSS, plus you get the advantage of a much lighter interface. It does lack some of the features of KDE though, but I don't spend much time outside of a terminal, text editor
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by danford 12y ago
I had a problem upgrading to the beta a few weeks ago. I had some conflicting/broken packages and the installation couldn't finish. It seems the WM crashed and I was unable to access a terminal until I remembered I could switch to
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by danford 12y ago
>Alt+Tab is completely broken This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. >ruining the very purpose of virtual desktops I use virtual desktops to separate windows in ove
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by danford 12y ago
GNOME seems to be a little snappier than Unity to me, But I have not yet installed the latest Unity.
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by danford 12y ago
Is HN open source?
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by danford 12y ago
Is there a resource on how much karma you need to do what on HN and what the username colors mean? I assume green is new, blue is a couple months old and grey is even older?
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by danford 12y ago
I wasn't using zfs at the time and I didn't do much comparison with CPU and IO, I used a wattage meter. I followed the FreeBSD guide ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ac
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by danford 12y ago
I love FreeBSD and was planning on switching some servers from Linux but found that it consumed about 25% more power than my Linux boxes (even after extensive power management tweaks) and in the end didn't have much advantage. It'
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by danford 12y ago
Often when I read articles like this I take them with a grain of salt. A lot of hate for MEAN technologies seems to stem from people who don't know how to properly use them. You're not supposed to use MongoDB like *SQL and if you
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by danford 13y ago
Oh I see.. I just skimmed the Wikipedia article. That is very interesting. Would come in handy in an environment where your superiors are looking over your shoulder. I guess it can't be that bad of an experience since it's Linux
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by danford 13y ago
It's called GNOME 2 and it feels exactly like you're using Linux, which is a great feeling. Kudos to the devs. Edit: apparently I was mistaken. GNOME 2 is the default desktop, but there is an XP skin. See comments below.
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by danford 13y ago
>Linux support is considerably more expensive than Windows support In my experience running a small business, Linux support was much cheaper than windows support. The Linux professionals seem to charge more but can almost always fix a
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by danford 13y ago
I switched from XP to Ubuntu about 6 years ago. At the time I was running an old dell laptop that had been shipped with XP. Perhaps their concept is similar, but my resume time in Ubuntu was a lot faster than that of XP. Perhaps they had th
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by danford 13y ago
Sounds neat. Any word on what OS it's running?
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by danford 13y ago
Eh.. supporting an anti Jew law is way different than supporting Hitler too, I mean, just because someone doesn't like Jews and they want an extermination law doesn't mean they want Hitler to do it. I can't believe people can
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by danford 13y ago
If you're virtualizing then you're probably using it for one specific purpose and not general use, so imo it might as well be dead if it's not being used for general tasks.
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by danford 13y ago
>WebM is clearly a far inferior experience compared to gif on firefox No it's not. I'm using nightly on linux so my experience may have differed somewhat, but 90% of gifs load just as fast or slower for me. Ever since I started
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by danford 13y ago
> http://www.scroogled.com/privacy The first headline on that page is about google being accused of "wiretapping in gmail scans". Didn't both companies knowingly participate in mass spying along side the go
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by danford 13y ago
What's going to happen when things like this become common and they're attached to storage devices? Like when we have BMIs and neuro prosthetics, how will copyright law be enforced? will there be a special "data control agenc
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by danford 13y ago
>down votes It's because of what you said about ASP.NET. I have not been coming to HN that long, but from what I have seen, just about any comment that criticizes Apple, popular windows software, or praises open source alternatives

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