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by dfrey 14y ago
Single monitor, laptop keyboard, no mouse, listening to that piercing conversation from that one really annoying person in the shop. Who wouldn't love that?
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by dfrey 14y ago
The incentive to game developers to port to Linux is that they expand their market by allowing people who only run Linux to play and they also make their product more attractive to people like myself who dual-boot Windows and Linux, but wou
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by dfrey 14y ago
I love it how the article complains that consoles are 6 year old hardware and all of the screenshots in the article are from Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Neither of those are remotely current games.
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by dfrey 14y ago
Shaving with a DE razor is also empirically more badass than cartridges.
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by dfrey 14y ago
The Pi also allows you to write code in a high level of your choice and can toggle GPIOs while running a web server and ssh. Yes it uses more power, but for many applications, that doesn't matter.
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by dfrey 14y ago
A board like the Pi is defined by these attributes (order irrelevant): Price Performance Exposed I/O Device Size Community Size I don't know of any board that beats the Pi on more than 3 of these attributes. The allwinner sticks you mention
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by dfrey 14y ago
What is an example of a better board that I can get shipped to my home for under $50 USD?
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by dfrey 14y ago
If you aren't already, you should definitely try running Windows inside Virtualbox. The only reason I boot into Windows these days is for games.
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by dfrey 14y ago
TLDR; BlackBerry executives hope to scam Nigerians.
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by dfrey 14y ago
Ubuntu conveniently distributes and packages desktop Linux. The software that they distribute may be written by a person employed by Red Hat, but I don't care. I just want to run a version of Linux that is easy to use, configure and upgra
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by dfrey 14y ago
pro-tip: Every VP of sales for every company will tell you that their market share will increase in the next year. Half of them will be wrong.
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by dfrey 14y ago
e-ink isn't suitable for anything that moves, so it's only going to be good for a really basic phone + contacts + text messaging device. Android seems like massive overkill and a waste of battery for those relatively simple tasks. I think
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by dfrey 14y ago
With regards to what your professor said regarding the performance of women in computer science programs: I think that generally when there is a minority group within a program, that minority does relatively well. So many people choose the
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by dfrey 14y ago
I think that there is an important difference between suits and dresses. Suits are purely formal attire whereas dresses are formal, but are also designed to present the wearer as sexy. I don't think that there is any mens attire that is a
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by dfrey 14y ago
I don't think I could handle working full time on such a small display.
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by dfrey 14y ago
RIM must be very confident that nobody will earn more than $1000 from a BlackBerry app in order to make an offer like this. Either that or they are just trying to pump up their stock price for the BlackBerry 10 launch so that the executives
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by dfrey 14y ago
Merge metadata was recorded since the 1.5 releases of Subversion in 2006. As you mentioned, it's still not as nice as the way Git or Mercurial works. One nice thing about Subversion's branching model is that it is relatively easy to merge
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by dfrey 14y ago
I definitely think that Dell is in a tough position in that they must protect themselves against customers that are dumb enough to choose an operating system that they don't want. I disagree with your suggestion to buy the Windows version i
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by dfrey 14y ago
When Dell sold Linux laptops before, the problem was always that they treated the Linux version and the Windows version as a separate SKU. So you were buying the Dell Latitude 4100 Linux version or the Dell Latitude 4100 Windows version.
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by dfrey 14y ago
Rebase gives people who have not fully embraced the DAG nature of DVCS warm fuzzies because it lets them keep their history "clean". I think rebase is typically a terrible idea because it invalidates any testing (or even basic sanity check
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by dfrey 14y ago
If this ever makes it to mass market, there will be some bloody knuckles on people who are trying to make small adjustments to the inside of their computer case while it is running. It's basically 100 butter knives spinning at 2000 rpm.
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by dfrey 14y ago
My password was leaked and cracked. It is also the same password I use on Hacker News. :((((
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by dfrey 15y ago
> A price-per-MB that falls during the course of the month as you use more and more. I sort of disagree with his pricing model. I think this is the best model for both data and voice: Charge me an account fee (say $10 per month for a p
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by dfrey 15y ago
The iPod doesn't really count because it's a portable digital media player, not a product category on it's own. The first portable digital media players hit the market in 1997, but the first iPod reached the market in 2001.