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Xubuntu 13.04 released(xubuntu.org)
3 points by givan 14y ago|0 comments
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by givan 14y ago
Is eating healthier, living in a better environment, having access to better health services etc worth it? In the capitalist system you can't have them without a non trivial amount of money.
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by givan 14y ago
I know that there are machines that automatically solders all the chips and electronics on a board which I think is the hardest part, why isn't the whole electronics manufacturing process automated yet? Whatever the reason I don't think it
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by givan 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/356/
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by givan 14y ago
He does something more important than donating money, because you can't do what he does you can donate money.
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Time Warner CEO Reacts To YouTube's Massive $100 Million Bet On Original Content(businessinsider.com)
1 points by givan 14y ago|0 comments
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Sharp's first 4K 32-inch IGZO LCD is destined for Japanese workstations(engadget.com)
1 points by givan 14y ago|0 comments
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by givan 14y ago
C++ provides high level stuff at the expense of making the programmer part of the compiler that must give it hints about memory, types or cope with multiple page error outputs because of one missing semicolon. C++ exists because real high l
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by givan 14y ago
This is strange "I like the Macbook Air, but I don't use OS X on it obviously; but they did stupid things, so it's more inconvenient than a PC."
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by givan 14y ago
It wasn't my intent to make it look like a personal attack. I just tried to summarize the typical person that always pops in this kind of discussions arguing how bad language X is because it has ugly syntax or does not have Y feature. Or lo
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by givan 14y ago
> What. So I guess you also don't understand why PHP is popular. > It reeks of someone who doesn't know a whole lot beyond the PHP ecosystem. You are now making some "fantasy" assumptions. You missed the point from the beginning an
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by givan 14y ago
PHP being popular is a fact, that doesn't mean that I use or advise using php only. And the fact that lots of people that don't understand that syntactic sugar is not the only thing that matter in a language always bash popular languages th
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by givan 14y ago
I guess that the reason you don't understand why php is so popular is that you never built anything, you probably just play with the latest cool language building toy projects as a hobby.
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by givan 14y ago
Write your damn code so that is easy to read and understand so it doesn't require comments. Code comments are like subtitle for movies, when the code is chinese and you don't know chinese they are helpful.
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by givan 14y ago
>This is nonsense fanboism I'm not a fanboy, I didn't mention apple or anything else, I used ubuntu for a long time and it doesn't have this kind of problems.
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by givan 14y ago
>I'm not quite sure what this means. I was referring to the fact that Microsoft does not bundle multiple browsers to choose from and forces everyone to have IE installed and unfortunately most users don't understand what a browser is to
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by givan 14y ago
Not computer users, just the windows users. I never understood the install wizards for windows software, in 99% of the time you just click "next" until it stops asking for more "next". And now they all sneak garbage adware with the check bo
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by givan 14y ago
People usually don't read those 50 page license agreements, even if they did, they have all those legal terms that make it hard to spot all the inconveniences and everybody should need a lawyer to understand all the risks, and hiring a lawy
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by givan 14y ago
I don't like this kind of "smart" technology, technology should help people not make their lives hard. Richard Stallman is right, we should all oppose DRM, is unacceptable where all this DRM is headed for. People camouflaging in their livin
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by givan 14y ago
What do you think of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptical_trainer to stay fit and avoid this thing of problems? I don't like losing time going to the gym and this machine seems to train a large number of muscle groups and could be
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by givan 14y ago
Why would you need "experts" and A/B tests to tell you obvious, common sense stuff like this?
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Copying Is Not Theft(youtube.com)
3 points by givan 14y ago|2 comments
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by givan 14y ago
I think that there is a big problem with having so few candidates, even for the president there are only two candidates. This is a very big problem if one supports acta and the other one supports baning abortions or something like it, choos
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by givan 14y ago
Research in this direction could provide us cleaner air in the cities and more health. Just one small change like this, nuclear instead of gasoline in the cars could make a tremendous impact on our lives. I think adding a new variable to th
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by givan 14y ago
only images with no links to the original website, pretty useless
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by givan 14y ago
Nice themeforest referral program link collection.
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by givan 14y ago
This also applies for you and me.
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by givan 14y ago
"I think our ultimate goal is to learn to survive outside of these systems" Surviving is not the goal is only a requirement. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?qt0324253 Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had du
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by givan 14y ago
I hope not, people are already losing too much time sharing pictures of cats and "interesting articles".
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by givan 14y ago
"for an application to be truly independent of the frontend and backend the code must be developed in different languages." Don't bother reading.

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