elmindreda

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by elmindreda 15y ago
It's good to see that Apple is getting more open about being an enemy of software freedom.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Judging by the replies, it seems to be a combination of preferring webmail and having poor ISPs. Personally, I have run my own email server for several years now and have found this to require almost no maintenance. On the server side I us
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by elmindreda 15y ago
That's true of every issue that has succeeded without the backing of a powerful lobby. The same thing can happen here.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
One as a web server and one as a toy.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
My favourite space combat scene is the one on the way to Home in Protector .
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by elmindreda 15y ago
I don't see Cygwin as a file manager but as another (better) interface to Windows. A Linux VM wouldn't let me natively run and debug Windows software, which is the entire point of me being in Windows in the first place.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Being able to use a real shell with all the tools I'm used to when developing on Windows. Cygwin in combination with MinGW and the Windows native version of GVim lets me have almost exactly the same environment as I do on Linux and Mac OS X
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by elmindreda 15y ago
I agree with rms on a lot of things, but this was truly tasteless and disrespectful.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
This has its downsides as well: http://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Uhm, no, millionaires are people who have at least one million dollars in some form. The article is about people making at least one million dollars per year; a much smaller group of people.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
So how to we verify 76E21CBB?
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by elmindreda 15y ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Microsoft on making Windows unambiguously worse than KDE 2.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
That's great! That means we will get frequent releases, each with some bug fixes, instead of being stuck with an old, bug-ridden version, forever waiting for the perfect release. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Objective-C wasn't created at NeXT.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Read a lot. Do neat stuff. Show it to people. Repeat.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Step 3. Get a good night's sleep. Those are it, I think.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
...because what he really means is "use good taste," but the Tao that can be blogged about is not the true Tao.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Every morning starts with coffee and Liferea.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
"This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
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by elmindreda 15y ago
LAMP, mostly.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
SF.net lost because the site is incredibly slow, it's usability is somewhere between "whatever" and "bend over", they keep moving things around for no apparent benefit and for quite a while the site assumed visitors weren't potential contri
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Laptop with Ubuntu, for the freedom and flexibility it offers. With MinGW, Wine and VirtualBox, I can work fairly unhindered on both the Linux and Windows versions of any given project.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Ad revenue, mostly.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
I think what I meant was that being nervous about falling down most likely means you'll be walking a lot slower than the person with the safety net. If you only have what you need to survive, you're far less likely to take any chances with
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by elmindreda 15y ago
The solution will never be to only show happy shiny aspies; rather it's to let people see how incredibly diverse the group of people carrying that (or any other) label is.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
For one thing, it makes a lot of difference whether or not you have a safety net when you're on a tightrope.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Poor people are human beings, so I assume it's the same things that drive other people.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Second Life is not a game, just like the Web isn't a game. They are platforms/media where, in some places, people have made games.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
They don't; they "reverse" along the mirror's surface normal.
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by elmindreda 15y ago
Hear, hear!

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