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by dbbo 15y ago
What was the "design" then? A sketch of a really thin tablet PC? That doesn't seem so creative or innovative to me. I think more credit is due to the engineers who brought it to life. Moreover, I haven't actually seen any sketches done by J
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by dbbo 15y ago
The _only_ reason I have stuck with Firefox so long is that Vimperator and later Pentadactyl blow all Chromium vim-like addons out of the water. I have finally got so sick of paging issues and unresponsive scripts in Firefox (sometimes to t
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by dbbo 15y ago
I wasn't being 100% direct either. The author still credited, or better yet, blamed Jobs for something he didn't actually do-- design the iPad. It seems pretty common, at least with non-techheads, that "Steve Jobs" is used interchangeably w
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by dbbo 15y ago
Not necessarily this one instance, but many people that I've talked to tend to credit Jobs with many technical achievements, if not everything Apple ever did.
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by dbbo 15y ago
What really bothered me was the uploader credited Steve Jobs with coding something.
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by dbbo 15y ago
No, it isn't. Da Vinci used a paintbrush to paint. Steve Jobs did not use C to program, because he never wrote any code or even designed anything according to at least one verifiable source[1]. It's more like saying the paintbrush is more i
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by dbbo 15y ago
DDG is a great search engine. I was stoked to see that the Midori[1] browser adopted it as the default search engine. However, if I can't seem to find something there, I try Scroogle with SSL[2] 1 - http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages
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by dbbo 15y ago
I can't believe that a gist somehow turned into a 4chan thread. I found that infinitely more horrifying than the fact that a hello-world program nearly crashed my browser through sheer size.
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by dbbo 15y ago
To make things worse, most of the time when I hear the term "psychopath" or "psycho" in colloquial speech, the speaker actually means "psychotic" or even something as general as "crazy".
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by dbbo 15y ago
I don't think the term "psychopath" is used clinically anymore, except by Hare et al. who insist that there is a difference between sociopathy and psychopathy. I have read at least 5 separate explanations of the differences between the two,
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by dbbo 15y ago
I'm converting the individual PNGs to GIMP pattern files, in case you don't want to download all of them in a single Photoshop pattern file: https://github.com/dbb/subtle-patterns-gimp
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by dbbo 15y ago
Tile one, add a radial gradient, and you've got a killer desktop background/wallpaper.
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by dbbo 15y ago
Unresponsive script froze FF 6.
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by dbbo 15y ago
When he's censured like that outside the legal system, his rights are being challenged-- e.g. "He shouldn't have said that" is an expression of disapproval that to me suggests "People shouldn't be allowed to say that". It's pathetic to me t
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by dbbo 15y ago
Could you give an example of what he could have said to express the same idea at this time _without_ offending people?
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by dbbo 15y ago
I don't really think popularity is a reason to suppress rms' constitutional rights (he is a US citizen as far as I know), no matter how crazy or alienating his opinions are.
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by dbbo 15y ago
At the risk of getting repetitive: I think rms was speaking strictly from a utilitarian perspective-- that is, Jobs' absence is overall a good thing for the FOSS movement (even though that might not actually be true, unless Cook is more com
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by dbbo 15y ago
Apparently the Debian kernel team agrees. I just noticed this while building a kernel package: test -n "$k" || perl -pli~ -e 's/\$\{shlibs:Depends\}\,?//g' debian/control
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by dbbo 15y ago
I think rms was speaking strictly from a utilitarian perspective-- that is, Jobs' absence is overall a good thing for the FOSS movement (even though that might not actually be true, unless Cook is more committed to FOSS than Jobs). I can se
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Why Steve Jobs wasn't so great(dbbo.posterous.com)
5 points by dbbo 15y ago|2 comments
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by dbbo 15y ago
I would guess that that's all a significant number of unix-like OS users do with sed, and in those circumstances, it does make more sense to use sed than a more extensive language. For simple substitutions like that, I'd just use an alias:
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by dbbo 15y ago
The copyright section of sed(1) suggests that the Debian package sed (I'm running wheezy) is Gnu sed 4.2.1[1]. Plan9 sed is also available in the 9base package. I'm running perl 5.12.4 (also from Debian testing). I don't see any
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by dbbo 15y ago
To quote "The Awful Truth about sed" section of the Grymoire, "It is not your fault you don't understand sed." I do, however, understand Perl, so that's what I use. E.g.: `echo 'fubar' | perl -lpe 's/fu/foo/'` It might be a few milliseconds
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by dbbo 15y ago
I'm getting a 500 error. Could it be the HN effect? Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jXZtssY...
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by dbbo 15y ago
This explains HN, but not general news sites like the NY Times or the Guardian.
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Why has Steve Jobs' death got more press than Ralph Steinman's?
5 points by dbbo 15y ago|4 comments
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by dbbo 15y ago
That might be true, but I don't develop web apps so I can't argue and I'll respect your opinion. Consequently, I don't understand why posting a relevant, evidential opinion is grounds for negative karma. I'm not complaining-- I genuinely do
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by dbbo 15y ago
I know memory is fairly inexpensive these days, but I think 4GiB of RAM is excessive. I did have a 2x1 dual channel kit in my laptop until one of the sticks went bad about a year ago. I never bothered to replace it, and I haven't suffered e
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by dbbo 15y ago
So, CSS3 is flash?
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by dbbo 15y ago
The game is a lot easier if you act like a total sociopath (e.g. don't buy your mom's medicine, let your pet suffer, etc.)

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