dethstar

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by dethstar 12y ago
I'm not saying it's right or wrong to do or not what you want. I'm saying that questioning such thing is okay. There's no physics or natural law that dictates it has to be this way. This is the life we have built. Nothin
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by dethstar 12y ago
>That's not how life always works, though. Why? What makes life that? Nature? A social construct? I'm willing to bet is the second thing, and I don't believe questioning such things is bad.
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by dethstar 12y ago
I use open box and I have custom key bindings. Anything that I want. About alfred: I have this script from crunchbang that uses dmenu and then displays and allows you to search for a binary to run. Also just alt+f3 in most DEs will open a d
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by dethstar 12y ago
Same. I added myself in the "get early access" and then thought, wait is this even for my OS?
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by dethstar 12y ago
Take your stand to other disabilities. Should we in fact thell them "is it illegal to build a sidewalk to benefit much of humanity, without also expending additional effort to benefit the part of humanity that requires of wheelchairs&q
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by dethstar 12y ago
People get offended, you might think that's right, wrong or whatever but it happens. And you certainly wouldn't make that joke outside of your close circle of friends. Mob justice mentality certainly sucks though, imagine someone
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by dethstar 12y ago
There was a tox-core rewrite in Rust[1], but it's been abandoned. According to the author until Tox gets proper doc. https://github.com/mahkoh/Xot
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by dethstar 12y ago
In my country (Mexico) there was a law for them to sell you unlocked phones/unlock them on request. The biggest company had you fill a stupid request and you couldn't fill it if you had your phone for less than X months, something
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by dethstar 12y ago
" There's a good story behind it, but here's a big hint: the dollar sign isn't a dollar sign. It's a peso sign." So, no.
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by dethstar 12y ago
I upvoted you. I'm not disagreeing with the OP in regards to the bullies. But you find them everywhere, saying they're the turn off for certain ideas while being on the opposite spectrum of the discussion, which also has bullies,
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by dethstar 12y ago
Thing is, when you feel bullied, why is that? Is it because people are trying to tackle issues that benefit you? Trying to get you to not be certain way simply for the sake/respect of others that are not like you? Is it because theyre
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by dethstar 12y ago
The whole I am Charlie thing is full of hypocrites. i.e anyone who talks free speech to promote their agenda.
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by dethstar 12y ago
I think both UI/UX and engines are both valid to work on. Since the work on this one example is done on UI, I'd feel better if I knew how the UI looks like (without having to install it).
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by dethstar 12y ago
https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/
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by dethstar 12y ago
Maybe in their head they thought of it like "oh you all are great I can't believe I just had to paid X for this/you, it was totally a steal!"
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by dethstar 12y ago
>>In short, many have nailed this on the head. It’s dead to us. Facebook is something we all got in middle school because it was cool but now is seen as an awkward family dinner party we can't really leave. >What? The author i
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by dethstar 12y ago
the link for the demo is at the github page: https://cachet.herokuapp.com/
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by dethstar 12y ago
From the site: "There's a good comparison to be made with java, as they had similar design goals: good performance (within an order of magnitude of C) cross platform / virtual machine based (WriteOnceRunAnywhere, ex
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by dethstar 12y ago
I use pipelight, and it just uses what seems to be silverlight through wine. Haven't had any problems.
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by dethstar 12y ago
There's a lot of horrible things happening "under his watch" e.g http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/obama-drone-program... When the parties change and there's some more files reveale
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by dethstar 12y ago
>You can buy USA produce, which is produced under better conditions. Just because it's produced in USA doesn't mean it has better conditions. As an example: Think of an illegal immigrant, they'll get paid lower than minimu
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by dethstar 12y ago
Well, false reports can not be considered false unless withdrew by the accuser. Otherwise is just a shot in the dark. It is completely valid to discredit a point with no source. And there's sources that say it is 2% false accusations
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by dethstar 12y ago
>I would just like to point out, that the crimes aren't necessarily under-reported (i.e. 706 reported) They were saying it is a generally under-reported crime. Saying that there was 706 reported cases doesn't change anything.
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by dethstar 12y ago
If it was about costs, why wouldn't they simply off shore it? I made another post on a similar thread here a few days ago. I live in Mexico and there's plenty of companies here that do work for US companies, it's great for bo
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by dethstar 12y ago
What's with taxes for offshoring for America? I'm guessing it isn't that bad since a lot of IT/desk-help and what not have been offshored for a while now. Whenever I read posts of "they want to pay us less" on
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by dethstar 12y ago
>If people are asking/begging for the tool to be open sourced, then they do indeed value it. Otherwise, why would they care if it just withered and died? If we are talking about a start up, what about current clients? Maybe your bus
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by dethstar 12y ago
>the triangle animation changes from pointing left when the action would be 'back', to down when the action is 'down', as in hiding the keyboard. I have a 4.4 device and a 4.0.something device and this happens in both
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by dethstar 12y ago
I read The Healthy Programmer and it had a bunch of exercises you could do while sitting. You could also, if body-abled just start working out, jogging or something else.
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Michel Foucault, on the Role of Prisons (1975)(nytimes.com)
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by dethstar 12y ago
I use Netflix on Linux (firefox) with pipelight.

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