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by demetris 14y ago
I had not heard of Weebly before. I just looked at their website and two things turned me off: 1. No pricing information, other than “It’s Free”. Is everything in Weebly free? If it is, I assume there is not much it does, which makes me los
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“I don't understand why they all seem to ignore this line in Google's TOS.” Because not many people are good at reading and at understanding what they read. Which, here, is this: Gmail or Google Docs/Drive or Google Apps are not among Googl
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by demetris 14y ago
Symlinks are specific to individual devices; also, symlink implementations are different from operating system to operating system. So, if Google Drive or Dropbox were to support that, they would have to implement some very complex solution
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It baffles me that people who seem to pay careful attention to the appearance of their websites are so careless with their fonts: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3mi5ecf8xguccl4/20120424-025233-ni... The allure of web fonts becomes stronger and
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by demetris 14y ago
“Changing from your browser -> Firefox = most websites will still work, no additional effort on anyone.” Now. When Firefox v1.0 was released in 2004, 8 years ago, that was not so, and early adopters who were thinking about recommending
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by demetris 14y ago
It says more about the quality of the review than about the relative merits of the 3 systems. These things are simple: If Ubuntu were so much better, or just plain better, than other operating systems, more people would use it. Firefox is,
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by demetris 15y ago
“Why is he so threatening?” In my view, because he has influence based on credibility that he does not deserve any more, and because he exerts that influence in ways that do not benefit free software.
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by demetris 15y ago
Aha! Thank you.
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by demetris 15y ago
Interesting that the name of Linus Torvalds is not in the list of previous winners.
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by demetris 15y ago
If it were possible to take Bing’s search results, throw a handful of people at them and match the quality of Google’s results, Google would not be where it is today. That is the main problem I see with Duck Duck Go. The quality of its sear
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by demetris 15y ago
If by smart wrapping you mean indented wrapping, yes, it does. Set you preferred wrap mode to Indent in Settins, Preferences, Editing, and then toggle Word Wrap from the View menu. SciTE, with which Notepad++ shares the scintilla editing co
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by demetris 15y ago
For folks who want Ubuntu’s font rendering on Debian, there is a simple hack you can try: Get Ubuntu’s /etc/fonts directory, remove or rename your own /etc/fonts, and put Ubuntu’s in its place. I’ve been using this hack in Debian Sid, I hav
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by demetris 15y ago
“If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few months, you probably know all of the following:” Whenever I see articles starting in this manner, I suppose that: 1. The writer does not know how to write; or 2. The writer is so far
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by demetris 15y ago
A similar story on HN from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392851 – Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps (nestoria.co.uk)
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by demetris 15y ago
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
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by demetris 15y ago
For those who don’t know, “popcon” is short for Debian Popularity Contest, a project that collects stats about the usage of Debian packages from users who have installed the optional popcon package. http://popcon.debian.org/
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by demetris 15y ago
No. It is not an addon or toolbar; it is what happens when you select Amazon.com in the search box and then search for something. The query string includes this: tag=mozilla-20 (To be sure, I just checked this in three different instances o
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The Mozilla Story (a video by Mozilla, the makers of Firefox)(mozilla.org)
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I would be surprised if that were the case. I made a clean Firefox profile and installed and enabled everything in the selection except the Firebug addons and the HTML validator, which does not support Linux. That is, 47 extensions in total
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by demetris 15y ago
I’m using Gnome 3.2 on Debian Sid and vertical/horizontal maximization is still there. To define shorcuts: Go to Settings, Keyboard, Shortcuts, Windows, and set your shortcuts. To change the behaviour of middle-clicking or right-clicking on
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by demetris 15y ago
Not just you. :) Some rearranging/rewriting would make it easier to parse. E.g.: “In this article I will use the term ORM to refer to any library or framework for interacting with a database; that is, to refer to anything other than writing
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by demetris 15y ago
“Are these the folks you want having access to all the personal data on your Facebook account?” If I had to choose, I would say these folks do indeed sound scarier than Zuckerberg. The piece needed a better closing sentence.
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by demetris 15y ago
Previous discussion: Introducing /run (lwn.net) — http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387495
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Ubuntu One cannot be compared to Dropbox, at least not yet: It does not support OSX and it does not support other Linux operating systems either, not even its daddy Debian. I run Windows and Debian on my desktops and laptop and I recently d
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by demetris 15y ago
A screenshot, for when it’s gone: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/390716/google.com-20111006-redacted.... The anchor text (Steve Jobs) links to http://www.apple.com/
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by demetris 15y ago
The first three Twitter messages by the vulnerability reporter are: “@AmericanExpress Who can I contact regarding security vulnerabilities in your system? I'm not available through phone, physical mail or fax” “@AmericanExpress Just to clar
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by demetris 15y ago
I’ve been always uneasy with the “crazy things” Chrome does on Windows, mainly because of my general dislike for apps that disregard important vendor recommendations like where programs should be installed. I understand that the main upside
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by demetris 15y ago
Thanks for the information! I first noticed the improvement in Aurora and Nightly builds, and was wondering what they did to fix the problem. Here is some more information I just found for anyone interested: Main bug report: https://bugzi
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by demetris 15y ago
Of these five I only have the firewall enabled on my Windows 7 desktop. And that only because I can’t be bothered to look into some issues with interdependencies when you disable the Windows firewall. (Can’t recall what exactly now.) I don’
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by demetris 15y ago
Not all combinations of hardware and drivers work yet. See: http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists

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