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by hp50g 14y ago
That's fine until you find one damn machine which has a buggy version procmail or a vim version which is too old for your filetype/feature plugins, 5 versions old emacs or an old version of bash etc. It's never "just that easy". Past startu
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by hp50g 14y ago
Nothing to do with tablets - no one really cares about them in business. You just don't see them other than in the hands of a few purposeless executives. I visit hundreds of medium-large enterprises and they just aren't any. The moment the
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by hp50g 14y ago
I think they would as software is moving towards width over height these days. All my T61's are 16:9 and I'm happy with that.
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by hp50g 14y ago
I disgree. I think they've changed but IBM would have probably followed the same path. The same staff are designing the ThinkPads apparently.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Actually the problem is already solved. Some of us spend more time doing productive work than pissing around making our editors and shells and whatnot all pretty. I rarely touch dotfiles yet I spend 10 hours a day in front of a Unix worksta
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by hp50g 14y ago
I hear you. I've been stocking up on T61's for a bit now. I have 6 now. It might sound crazy, but its the last well-built machine I've found which is open and not full of shitty hardware or odd screws. I can strip one with a Swiss army knif
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by hp50g 14y ago
Is another system an improvement? That is my question.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Having dealt with teams of developers and existing within them, I doubt this would impact them in any positive way. It would in some animal-farm-esque way empower an individual rather than everyone. People have so many differing opinions on
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by hp50g 14y ago
If I stopped doing all of those I would be miserable. This is someone writing about how they want you to treat them but is incapable of doing so themselves (we all are incapable). Happiness is an balance of many personality traits, not some
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by hp50g 14y ago
I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve. I tend to make do
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by hp50g 14y ago
This sounds about as close to art as SugarApe (in Nathan Barley) is to publishing. They're just being assholes, not ironic or artful.
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by hp50g 14y ago
That's absolute bollocks. Asus still sell OEMs bare bones laptops with no license as do a fair number of Chinese brands.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Good for you. I wish you both the best as an ethical company.
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by hp50g 14y ago
There are two issues with e-readers which need to be considered. One is obvious, the other is not. 1. e-readers like the Kobo, Kindle, Nook etc (ones tied to a store) phone home and report reading progress and are DRM encumbered. The Kobo e
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by hp50g 14y ago
Never thought of that - great suggestion :)
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by hp50g 14y ago
I worked for a similar class of organisation in Europe. It was promoted by my university and we were cherry picked with the threat of no employment otherwise (the whole industry was screwed back then) even though the pay was shit. Most peop
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by hp50g 14y ago
They are aware of the concept but are too apathetic to act on it before it happens.
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by hp50g 14y ago
There are still those of us who don't support total surveillance and will not stand for it. Were probably more traditional Unix people and not so embroiled in technology. Everyone else has been got if you ask me through media, social pressu
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by hp50g 14y ago
We wrote our own shell when I was at university (which was completely offensive, not at all obedient and generally no help whatsoever) and chsh'ed them if they left a terminal open :) (for ref, we had to do very naughty things to SunOS 4 to