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by ewzimm 13y ago
You're exactly right. I've heard a lot of developers burn out over the sheer amount of work github generates, let alone the amount of entitlement people feel to your labor once you publish your code. If we want to do social coding
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I would go one step further and say that the desire to find one's place inside a hierarchy is itself a (very large) subculture. It's certainly possible to operate happily outside systems of social evaluation. Hermit monks have bee
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by ewzimm 13y ago
I've been using KDE 4.11 for a while now, and it's by far the best release they've ever done. The new multi-monitor support is perfect and addressed a big issue for me, and everything is incredibly fast and stable. It's
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Yes, the Amazon integration is a Unity lens and has nothing to do with Kubuntu.
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It's logical that people would want to defend these things because abusive labor practices are driving almost every aspect of our lives in the Western world. Our food, our clothes, our phones, our computers, our furniture, almost every
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Users are the most important part of any information processing system, and any Pareto-optimal communication configuration requires that perfection extend to the users and their decision-making process. You could model this with the Prisone
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by ewzimm 13y ago
On a laptop, using Xmir instead of X will save battery life with almost no performance loss.
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Because it's so easily modified and distributed, free software has become the most common software in the world. Consumers might not care about licenses, but anyone who develops software has gained an enormous amount from free software
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by ewzimm 13y ago
I think their point was that the public perception of Mother Teresa's altruism is a myth created by a media campaign. That does not necessarily mean that she did not behave altruistically at times or that altruism itself is a myth, but
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by ewzimm 13y ago
It is one button that detects thumb position, so it can be split nearly infinitely.
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Hitchens is not the only one who has come out against Mother Theresa. Here's a recent study by the University of Montreal: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uom-mta022813...
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Thanks for the additional thoughts. I'm not arguing with you. I genuinely appreciate that Humble Bundle is being compared to EA. I think their distribution model is a huge improvement to EA's.
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by ewzimm 13y ago
I'm happy to read that you're complaining about the Humble Bundle's attempt get EA market share. That's as if someone were to complain about Orval trying to get Anheuser-Bush Inbev market share because their lead brewer
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by ewzimm 13y ago
This is fun as a "what don't I know" test. I think we all know of some professional software developers who wouldn't pass the advanced database talent. I might be one!
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Even in Ubuntu 13.04, Steam installs a bunch of Ubuntu 12.04 stuff instead of relying on native libraries. So the Debian base doesn't matter much for compatibility. It's more a matter of packaging it with everything it needs to ru
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Immortal's black metal classic "Call of the Wintermoon" makes much more sense translated to INTERCAL.
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by ewzimm 13y ago
But Yahoo never took a survey to see what people liked. Someone else took a survey. This is more like you declared a "silly hat month" and wore 30 different silly hats to work each day and someone at another office took a poll to
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by ewzimm 13y ago
This "church of design" approach to criticism is intense. The idea that you can't violate the sanctity of a logo by playing with it is refuted every day by Google and their doodles.
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Ubuntu GNOME
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Trisquel's abrowser also uses ddg as the default. Ddg contributes to the project
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He doesn't say that Brazil's refusal occurred in 1997 but rather shortly after he was elected.
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Defining consciousness as a mental model of attention seems pretty accurate and useful, maybe a bit incomplete, but the most striking thing about this article was the illustrated "extramission theory" of vision. I've never ev
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by ewzimm 13y ago
The FSF is an organization focused on freedom, not pragmatism. They leave the pragmatism to other people who are doing quite a good job at it. We need at least one organization to be hardliners. They do make the exception for running non-fr
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by ewzimm 13y ago
From what I can tell, OpenOffice is now the successor to IBM's Lotus Symphony (which was previously an OpenOffice fork). IBM donated their code to Apache, so anyone coming from that software can maintain UI elements that LibreOffice do
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by ewzimm 13y ago
If the default scrolling isn't to your taste, you might want to try addons like this one for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smoothwheel/?... Of course, if you're happy
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Can we please stop repeating the provably wrong statement that Firefox is too slow to use? Tom's Hardware has recently shown Firefox beating the performance of both Chrome and Opera. No benchmark is absolute, but you can just use it an
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Thank you. I am tired of people telling developers to stop making things, especially other developers. This is how evolution works. You have to try multiple approaches and see what works. If you have the money and developers to scratch an i
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Calendar and lots more! http://owncloud.org/
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Thanks, that's a good read. I'm interested to see how effective it will be. I'm certainly not saying we'll be able to break non-deterministic crypto, but there's a lot we should be able to do that's out of our
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Oh absolutely, but I don't know of any one-time-pad schemes that normal people use to encrypt their online activities. That means moving information outside the public network before sending messages over it. If we can get entangled pa

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