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by fernly 14y ago
$450 isn't a "lie". Just above in the article he made clear he considered the requirement to take the next higher model before you could order the FD -- when (he says) the cheaper model could support it -- adds a $200 premium to the $250 pr
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by fernly 14y ago
"It is _rare_ to find a labtop that when you install la fresh modern distro on it , things don't work..." Nunh-unh. I recently tried to repurpose an original MBA to Ubuntu 12.10 because it isn't supported by current OSX. While I was very fa
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by fernly 14y ago
About a year ago I somehow got an invite to the beta and played maybe 20 or 30 hours, on and off, over several weeks. The whimsy and quirkiness of the design elements were always impressive. And it was commendable that they were building a
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by fernly 14y ago
> ...hardware designed from the ground up to be developed on, open systems so that folks can easily work with it, and a team dedicated to making sure integration and support is there so that folks like you and I can say "Hey this audio
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by fernly 14y ago
Our land-line telephone received at least six calls each day for two months, from political organizations representing candidates at the federal, state, and local levels. We never answer that phone, only let the answering machine take the c
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by fernly 14y ago
TL;DR
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by fernly 14y ago
Yeah well... I'm 2 months short of my 70th and I'm still programming. But not for money nor to a schedule, and I pick my own projects. There nevertheless remains some of that "skimming great oceans of APIs" and "reading between the lines of
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by fernly 14y ago
> Microsoft has been delaying the release of its SDK for third-party developers to build apps for the phone... Oh thank you so much for giving me an evil flashback to a dim and distant time, nearly 30 years ago, when I was trying to cr
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by fernly 14y ago
Thanks so much for replying and the links. Actually the third one, permanent residency, is quite encouraging for me as I would be a "pensioner" and thus the 3-year work requirement is waived.
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by fernly 14y ago
What is your legal status in Denmark, and how did you achieve it? Are you a "resident alien" or an immigrant or what? What restrictions/hoops did you have to jump to get permanent residence status? What did it cost?
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by fernly 14y ago
but, but -- Qt moved to an open-source model a year ago. qt-project.org