gonewest

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by gonewest 12y ago
In my experience you don't get anywhere asking a vendor to do that. There isn't enough Linux desktop market share to justify a change to their business model. hell, vendors can't even be bothered to use consistent chipsets f
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by gonewest 12y ago
+1
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by gonewest 12y ago
When the article says "wifi required a firmware update" the premise that openbsd "just worked" is false. This sort of tweaking and configuring is exactly the same as for any Linux distro. We've been doing this sort
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by gonewest 12y ago
too bad Github didn't acquihire the SublimeText and Package Control developers and re-release those tools with free licensing and direct integration to Github.
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by gonewest 12y ago
Same here, plus github enterprise at work and a private install of stash for a different project at work.
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by gonewest 12y ago
You can decline / reject / whatever they call it in stash and it won't be merged...
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by gonewest 12y ago
I would say "trust" isn't just about "don't be evil" in some willful sense. Trust can also be the confidence that a service is made well, is reliable, and is effective.
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by gonewest 13y ago
As a drummer I really like odd time signatures, for example the Pat Metheny Group song entitled "First Circle" is in 22/8... For fun, try memorizing and clapping the pattern at the opening of the piece. http://www.
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by gonewest 13y ago
I don't see how learning programming is beyond the ability of a younger child, provided the syllabus and the style of teaching is developmentally appropriate. I've seen elementary school kids mess around in Scratch and (without n
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by gonewest 13y ago
Occam's razor
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by gonewest 13y ago
text entry is broken on iOS safari.
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by gonewest 13y ago
Is learning objc really so difficult compared to learning all the obscure things you have to do to make a native-like html5 app?
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by gonewest 14y ago
Now let's look at that list again but remove languages that don't have native threads and vectorization.
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by gonewest 15y ago
I took 6.001 at MIT in the 80's. Clearly, Abelson and Sussman did not choose Scheme because of it's popularity in industry, not even then. Nor did Barbara Liskov expect us to use CLU professionally, but that was the language for 6.170 bac
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by gonewest 15y ago
an abomination, pure and simple.
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by gonewest 15y ago
any kind of replacement parts: - kitchen appliances - automotive - garage door opener - electronics yes, there are specialty sites for most of these but wow, all such sites are categorically awful.