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by fps 13y ago
I've noticed the same thing, and I can't figure out why they do it. You can usually get hints about where they are by the advertisers they have, or in the case of TV or radio stations, by looking up their call letters on wikipedia
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by fps 13y ago
with docker, your guest machines run the same kernel as your host, but a different root filesystem and init system. the result is that you can run centOS on docker on Ubuntu, but you'll get centOS with the Ubuntu kernel. So, you lose
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by fps 13y ago
Not really. Some applications I use (like Gnome terminal) only have a right click menu. Everything is there, or in the "profile preferences" dialog accessible from within right click. Other applications (like Chrome) have a very
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by fps 13y ago
I'm an Ubuntu + Gnome 3 user, but this seems a little pointless. None of the applications I use these days even have the 90's style File/Edit/View/Tools/Help style menus. Everything is in a right click menu, a
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Advanced History manipulation in Bash(youtube.com)
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by fps 13y ago
This video was made in 2008, when mortgage rates were 6% and money market accounts were paying close to 4%. Now, mortgages go for 4.5% and money market accounts pay less than 0.5%. In 2008, rent prices were low while home prices were hi
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by fps 13y ago
Amazon's return policy is amazing. They give actual refunds instead of store credit, cover return shipping, and there's never any open box/restocking fee. Stores frequently require arguments, pleading, or the threat of a cre
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by fps 13y ago
I've been using irccloud for about 3 years, after 15 years in ircii, irssi and weechat inside screen and tmux. Aside from irccloud's mobile clients with push notifications, the biggest improvement over a terminal client has bee
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by fps 13y ago
I mainly use gnome-shell, but I fired up Unity on my Ubuntu 13.10 running Thinkpad T400 (~4 year old machine, core 2 duo) with 8 GB of RAM and a Samsung 840 pro SSD. the unity dash comes up instantaneously for me; certainly less than 1&#x2
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by fps 13y ago
Credit card fraud is generally not a problem in the US for consumers or the credit card companies, the two groups that would be in a position to adopt a new credit card technology. The merchants accept all the liability in the US credit ca
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by fps 13y ago
why would you click thumbs up when you meant bookmark? that's the wrong button.
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by fps 13y ago
I (32, not in good shape at all) started biking last year for the first time in years and was able to do 60 miles (100km) my second time out. with hills. It's about 5 hours at a very slow pace, but we did it in 3 1/2. My fathe
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by fps 13y ago
if you pay for lastpass premium, you can use the android app with an android keyboard plugin. The keyboard is secured with your lastpass password and/or mobile PIN, and will fill forms on websites or login boxes on apps. It's p
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by fps 13y ago
gmail/google calendar/google contacts. I've been a desktop Linux user for 14 years, and while Evolution worked well enough for a while, it really stagnated about 8 years ago as all the users switched to webmail. I tell chr
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by fps 13y ago
That seems really unlikely. Steam for Linux runs on Ubuntu as it's platform of choice, and installs via apt-get. They're already running all their games under X and the standard Ubuntu userspace tools, with BigPicture, it would
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by fps 13y ago
That's a $319 laptop ( http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-G505-15-6-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/... ) and, while I can see the brand of the bike, that's likely a less than $150 bike when it was brand new. Pit bulls&#x
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by fps 13y ago
Those are hardly the only reasons. I want a vehicle that has my stuff in it: My kids' car seats, my cell phone charger, my wife's umbrella, our radio presets, etc. If a random car pulls up at my house and I have to put 3 armlo
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by fps 13y ago
I've been supporting production RedHat and CentOS servers since RH 7 (15 years), and while RHEL 6 is a huge improvement over the bad old days of up2date and RPM dependency hell, RedHat still has a long way to go to catch up to where De
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by fps 13y ago
> As part of 511, state DOTs also purchase cell tower data to estimate speed on highways. My understanding is that is where the Google Maps traffic indicators come from. Close, but actually Google gets that data from Android devices tha
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by fps 13y ago
Green Mountain owns Keurig. I agree, there's no reason to put soup mix in a K-cup, because you don't need the normally included filter. It's expensive and wasteful. However, it's probably a great idea for both Keurig an
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by fps 13y ago
I keep all my dotfiles in a directory called "~/dotfiles" and symlink just my .bashrc. everything else gets reconfigured via aliases. eg. alias vim='vim -u /home/derf/dotfiles/vim/vimrc&
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by fps 13y ago
I would disagree. The command line is really no more about "how their computer works" than a GUI is. They're both interfaces to run programs. In each you can navigate to a location on a filesystem (which is, itself, an abst
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by fps 13y ago
I feel the opposite. I can't get anyone that knows puppet for under $110k in the Boston area. All these salaries seem low for Boston, and probably the bay area as well.
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by fps 13y ago
Unfortunately, they keep increasing the minimum charge amperage on devices, so the micro USB charger I got with my first android phone won't charge my newest one.
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by fps 13y ago
I have a 2007 prius, and that car is nothing like you describe. - It's quick enough to merge onto any highway around Boston safely, without waiting at on-ramps. I don't notice it being slow, and my previous car was a BMW 330. - it
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by fps 13y ago
Gmail's filtering in this case seems to be 100% spot on for me. It's grabbed all the stuff I consider spam and hidden it away, and hasn't touched anything from people who I want to hear from. A few thousand messages have b
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by fps 13y ago
there are 7 billion people on the planet, and many of them pretend to be multiple people online. Am I supposed to click 10 billion unsubscribe links, most of which I've discovered are actually "subscribe me harder" links?
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by fps 13y ago
Docker runs on linode and digital ocean ( https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/469 , https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/424 ) by loading a custom kernel. Assuming the
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by fps 13y ago
I was piecing something like this together on my own with a laptop and a pile of external hard drives, when I found my desk overrun by the little things. They were too fragile and didn't stack well. I started looking around for a shelf
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by fps 13y ago
I've never had one of those crank flashlights work after more than a few hours of use. I bought several for my kids, and they didn't even make it through a weekend camping trip. I also tried keeping one in my car, and found that

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