etherael

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by etherael 17y ago
I used to have a pretty normal desktop setup, the one thing that was the constant catalyst which finally pushed me over the edge to "fix stuff" was my uncomfy series of chairs (read: all of them, any chair under 500$ I've ever tried, for ex
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by etherael 17y ago
Your last three words are the telling point; "at the moment". The edgewater / kenilworth thing, I'm Australian and thus entirely geographically ignorant about US locations, but thanks for the tip. I still don't believe that the metaphor sta
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by etherael 17y ago
I'm saying the metaphor doesn't really work, when you're discussing the vulnerability of an operating system on the internet, you're talking about a security system exposing an attack surface to a potential intruder with exactly equal oppor
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by etherael 17y ago
I'd argue that a fortress in Edgewater has less to worry about than a thatched hut in Kenilworth, especially if the socioeconomic situations of the areas in question is about to be reversed. Keep in mind, if Mac OS X ever does become the
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by etherael 17y ago
The virus thing is getting a little old, five words sum it up to joe sixpack, although he sometimes has to take a couple minutes to think about it till he fully gets it. "Ever heard of dodo flu?" (I guess it should be tasmanian tiger flu or
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by etherael 17y ago
I ponder, you realise that your description of real life vs gaming worlds sounds like a fairly severe indictment of real life? What I mean by this is that success in real life can often be reduced to a fairly wide array of things that extre
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by etherael 17y ago
of course, there's a difference between being discerning and simply being a victim of marketing aimed at people who like to imagine themselves as discerning. I think this fellow is the later, as evidenced by his cited taste in products.
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by etherael 17y ago
Was the first question that sprung to mind for anyone else on a few of these not whether it was accurate or not, but whether it actually opens an exploitable space? Myth #6 particularly, I have a lot of reason not to doubt this, and if true
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by etherael 18y ago
Actually I agree, it is getting old, but there were too many comments in one direction, I thought. Anyway, there are two comments now. ;) Would I be wrong to assume you're a christian, based on your work on OneBody? If so, and if you rtfa'd
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by etherael 18y ago
I need to be less wordy. My central argument was supposed to be that when you've spent the time to develop the skills necessary to use Linux as a platform to the point where the advantages of the OS X platform are invisible and the defici
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by etherael 18y ago
I follow you, but what I was talking about with regards to unconscious competence is exactly what makes that "nagging 1%" totally irrelevant, case in point, upgraded an 8.10 system to 9.04 today, didn't boot, remembered something about grub
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by etherael 18y ago
Curious: When was the last time you used Linux, why do you find OS X to be the best development environment you've ever used, etc etc etc, Details are ace. Not attempting to be confrontational, just genuinely want to know.
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by etherael 18y ago
This puzzled me for the longest time before I finally figured it out. My position basically ignores windows and puts it in the "you use it because the company who bought you a computer and subsidises your environment bought it for you" bu
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by etherael 18y ago
Two paths spring to mind; 1) If you're sublimely self confident and prepared to deal with the intense difficulty of this option, just leave. Strike out completely on your own, hit the garage, make the Next Big Thing(tm). 2) Kill all the pie
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by etherael 18y ago
This kind of mustered venom typically indicates a deep seated fear on the part of the complainant, and it isn't hard to imagine how this might be the case in this particular example. Imagine something you thought was more important than any
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by etherael 18y ago
Yes, and then someone forced me to code in ColdFusion and run EXCEL imports into a really bad CF ORM with SQL server on the backend. I now freelance django / RoR and PHP and I do not complain about any of them, ever. ColdFusion is the lan
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by etherael 18y ago
Your response showed me I'd managed to be insufficiently clear in actually spelling out my argument. I apologise for that and thanks for the feedback. I've included a follow up post on the subject going into more detail as to why I think it
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2 points by etherael 18y ago|3 comments