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by deong 11y ago
Android Wear didn't have it at launch either. It took six months or so to release an official watch face SDK. People did immediately hack watch faces together by making an app whose UI was a custom drawn watch face animation, but that
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by deong 11y ago
It's a less restrictive version of the idea on Android Wear as well. Most apps do currently require your phone to be present, but the watch itself is generally running a bit more autonomously than the Apple Watch is. The phone can actu
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by deong 11y ago
I think this falls under the heading of "I'm old", but I already have one machine to maintain. Replacing it with N machines to maintain doesn't feel like a win to me.
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by deong 11y ago
I read that the other way around. He specifically asks people to refrain from packaging his software. I think the implicit implication is that he does want sysadmins to run his carefully constructed build scripts in order to install the
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by deong 11y ago
This is the reason why all these standalone things bundle everything into their installation process. The problem is installing 206 different pythons on my system just makes it more likely that something else is going to break.
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by deong 11y ago
Also, governments don't compete with each other in the same market. Australia and Denmark aren't trying to outdo each other in recruiting the same "customers". We do sometimes see multiple governments competing in the sa
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by deong 11y ago
Of course, but my point is that you know this going in. The assumption was that you'd buy the company not because it was so insanely profitable, but because you reaped a PR benefit. So you buy the company for the sole reason that you l
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by deong 11y ago
Without looking anything up, I'd guess "compose-,-c" and "compose-o-a", for the first two, and that turns out to be correct. I had to try a few things for the degree symbol, but I guessed it on my third try (it&#x27
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by deong 12y ago
I vastly prefer the compose key method on Linux. You almost never have to worry about how to type a character. Type compose, hit something that vaguely looks like the accent you want, and then the letter. Compose, ", e => ë Compose,
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by deong 12y ago
If you're buying the company for its "goodwill", why would you then very publicly torch that very same goodwill by laying off all the employees?
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by deong 12y ago
It's not that secret though. Sure, you only read first-hand accounts by people who have left, but it's not like Apple employees are out with their friends over beers refusing to talk about how many hours they work. Everyone in t
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by deong 12y ago
I once lost a battle over whether a particular feature would go into a piece of software because while everyone agreed it would drive sales, another group within the company would have gotten the credit for them.
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by deong 12y ago
I give ST a try for a few months a year or so ago. Maybe this is no longer true, but at the time, the first thing everyone did with ST is download and install Package Control, which is no more integrated with ST and doesn't really work
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by deong 12y ago
Yet. If it's "dead", it's only a matter of (not very much) time before it doesn't work anymore.
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by deong 12y ago
If you're qualified for this one, then the answer to your question is "almost anything else".
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by deong 12y ago
The ruling coalition has adopted an interesting strategy of outsourcing both governance and PR to Wile E. Coyote in the last few months, so the current climate is as favorable to the Pirates as possible. It'll certainly revert towards
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by deong 12y ago
It seems reasonably clear that the foreign minister had no legal authority to act on behalf of the parliament though. I live in Iceland, if I told the EU to bugger off, I don't expect they'd actually do it.
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by deong 12y ago
It's hard to fathom they thought it wouldn't become public knowledge. I don't think anyone is that stupid. Far more likely, they just didn't think it was a big deal.
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by deong 12y ago
I'd say there's certainly that general consensus. There's a huge difference between "people on hacker news think it's good" and "the general public thinks it's respectable". It's not the Nat
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by deong 12y ago
I usually do updates about once a week. If I need to install a new package, I'll usually refresh everything then as well. But occasionally it's longer than that. I just forget for a week or so, go on holiday, etc. Most of the time
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by deong 12y ago
Yeah, I also work quite a lot with large data sets, but what I want from a laptop is for it to be really great at doing everything else. I'll ssh to a machine that cost more than my car when heavy lifting is required. I had to sit on m
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by deong 12y ago
Arch is arguably worse than most about this, because their rolling repositories dump versions after a couple of updates are available. So if you wait too long to update, it can't even figure out how to get started, because it no longer
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by deong 12y ago
Only if you insist on a ridiculously literal reading. The US Government is composed of people who act on its behalf. Quite obviously, "the US Government thinks" means "those in the US government charged with making decisions
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by deong 12y ago
C++ is fine for complex software; it's bad for simple software. The problem is that it provides benefits that are irrelevant for most people, and the costs of making those benefits available is pretty high, so for the average develop
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by deong 12y ago
This is probably true, but it's shameful. The consequences of making a joke that doesn't land shouldn't be this severe. For what it's worth, nor should overreacting to one. I think Adria Richards was in every possible wa
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by deong 12y ago
At least logged into my Google account, if I type "Justine", it suggests "Sacco" as the top completion. It's not all that hyperbolic to say "ruined your life" when your first name is literally a global URI
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by deong 12y ago
I've been running Arch on my work box for the past several years, but I'm thinking I might move to something a bit less demanding of my time the next time I upgrade hardware. I've never been a fan of the way Ubuntu does their
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by deong 12y ago
Also, it's far from clear that transparency into an AI's algorithms buys you very much. A mathematically inclined college freshman has no trouble understanding how to train a deep neural network today, but it's at the cutting
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by deong 12y ago
There are still plenty of open problems in compilers. For instance, writing a program to effectively use all four of my CPU cores is pretty tedious. It would be awfully nice if my compiler could automatically parallelize operations, do effe
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by deong 12y ago
The kernel has had inotify for 10 years or so.

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