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by hiram112 10y ago
I think the solution is to install the Brew version of the Unix-land tools you use, then set your path to favor these over the Apple supplied executables. That's what I did for Emacs, find, bash, etc. and it works fine.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I haven't used my CD drive for probably 2 years, at least since my car can play USB and Bluetooth music. You can buy a USB DVD-RW for about $20. I am glad most laptops and small form factor PCs are doing away with the drives as default
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by hiram112 10y ago
Yes. I recently almost purchased one of these for $800 on eBay simply because I have a spare SSD and 16 GB of DDR3. I won't pay $2000 for a laptop from Apple that has these things already soldered in. In the end I still couldn't j
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by hiram112 10y ago
XPS is technically part of Dell's consumer line. The business Precisions and Latitudes are much sturdier. All of Apple's products are essentially business grade, and you're definitely paying for the premium. People tend to o
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by hiram112 10y ago
Which is exactly why the War on Drugs is so contested. Poll the population, and you'll get about 75% in agreement that it should be wound down or pivoted to a health issue. Even higher stats for the younger generations. However, you st
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by hiram112 10y ago
Agreed. I worked for the company that was infamously associated with FBI's 'Virtual Case File' fiasco. Though I joined a few years after it was already finished, there were many employees still around who had worked on the pr
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by hiram112 10y ago
I've been hearing these NIMBY complaints for a while from SF Hacker News commenters and didn't really pay attention as I live in the suburbs of DC. Sure enough, I noticed a sign from a concerned citizens group at Starbucks the oth
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by hiram112 10y ago
> The risk and cost of any other options are just far too high. A few years older than you and in a somewhat similar situation. Don't answer if it's too personal of a question, but did you check out IVF? If so, what was the ave
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by hiram112 10y ago
As another java dev who is glad I didn't get stuck with .Net seven years ago, why do I want it not? We're doing fine: deployed on centos6, devs on OSX and win 7. Intellij licenses are the least of our problems, compared to the clu
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by hiram112 10y ago
I (an American) did almost a year as a 'corporate exchange' engineer in one of India's flagship campuses - an area where the young developers were trained, worked, and lived for the early part of their career. Honestly, it wa
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by hiram112 10y ago
Though I don't necessarily agree with you, I'll upvote you as I think you bring up a good counterpoint that's not being discussed. It's possible that this company's business plan assumed the replacement by obsolesce
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by hiram112 10y ago
You don't realize that many people (less since 2008 albeit) use home price increases as a piggy bank via home equity lines of credit. Personally I think it's financially absurd, but then again I'm a single guy. If I had 2 kid
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by hiram112 10y ago
Most security breaches don't allow the malicious user to root the entire server farm either. I just spent a week fixing permission validation done in JS on the browser. Users could have potentially allowed themselves to see parts of do
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by hiram112 10y ago
Can non enterprise users purchase enterprise licenses to avoid the worst of the Telemetry, ads, etc?
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by hiram112 10y ago
Petraeus received a $100k fine. Not a huge deal for someone who made a lot more on his biography, which was the cause of the issue, but still not zero punishment.
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by hiram112 10y ago
Where do you work? I've never worked at a company where I pocketed the extra money by coming in under schedule. On the other hand, I often pay out of my own pocket for licenses, books, etc that benefit the company. In return, I get mor
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by hiram112 10y ago
I've had the same concerns. Seems like Windows and the Linux layer cannot share files systems. So how does that help a developer wanting to use both the shell and the the IDE?
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by hiram112 10y ago
Agreed. The world is worse off without a 'challenge' to the current system. The Soviets, for all their faults, at least kept the system in check. The amount of propaganda in the West against communism, socialism, etc until the 90s
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by hiram112 10y ago
Again, the racism card is getting really old. We were able make are own overpriced, shoddy quality GAP and Nike apparel long before sweat shops in Asia were popular with our wealthy capital owners. The only difference is the execs of these
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by hiram112 10y ago
Evidently you've never monitored log files on a server open to the Internet. If you had, you'd know that filtering off a few 'specific' nations' IP ranges will instantly cut your risks down by 90%. The nations causi
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by hiram112 10y ago
That's true, but what about the sales guy that takes 5% of a $10 million deal as commission? Or the exec team that gets a 10% cut of the increased profits this year? There was always a huge amount of players at work helping the upper e
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by hiram112 10y ago
I'd be interested in knowing if all housing prices in India are going up or just for certain demographics. For example, I'd assume that there is a large burgeoning middle class based on tech / offshoring in places like Bangal
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by hiram112 10y ago
My latest foray involved Infinality patches on Fedora 23. Honestly, with the exception of Ubuntu, this is the best I've ever gotten with Linux. I think part of this is due to Google having released a lot of great fonts with open licens
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by hiram112 10y ago
I think that Reddit tends to have a bit higher level of users than the typical site. The mods of each group spend a lot of time curating the content - unpaid. Most users and Reddit itself know that pissing off the majority of this group tha
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by hiram112 10y ago
Nice translation. I'd love to see more of this type of thing; it is really difficult to read a lot of good texts from hundreds of years ago due to the changes in prose. Sadly, it seems like we as a nation have broken nearly every rule
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by hiram112 10y ago
Linux on the desktop is still full of issues that were solved by Windows and Mac a decade ago. Fonts still look like crap (Ubuntu is an exception), and even with patches there are still problems with Java, old GTK libs, etc. I could care le
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by hiram112 10y ago
VNC has never been near as fast as even Remote Desktop, and even that is pretty slow for anything more than basic administration. Maybe in a local lan it would work better, but I doubt considering it's slow even in a VM on a powerful w
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by hiram112 10y ago
Do you have any more info on this? I have to do some work on a Linux VM, but also need Windows for Office and a few other apps. But the Fedora VM is much slower than the native OS, even with a good SSD and plenty of Ram. I could care less a
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by hiram112 10y ago
You do understand that the reason the government uses contractors is specifically because they do NOT want to hire software engineers for projects that do not last more than a year or two, similar to how most private companies now operate?
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by hiram112 10y ago
There are. It is mostly illegal to import drugs from overseas. There used to be 90 day exemptions that did in fact lead to many older Americans creating tour groups with the express purpose of crossing into either Canada or Mexico to purcha

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