jammygit

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by jammygit 8y ago
There needs to be a sustainable free software business model that small and large companies can easily adopt. Donations aren't enough. Support based models like RedHat lead to bad incentives and seems to limit one to enterprise clients
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by jammygit 8y ago
(that said, I think evolution works properly and I'm glad it exists. I don't recall the specific reason I moved on from it)
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by jammygit 8y ago
I wish there was a way to release free software and also charge money for it. This team deserves more than just congratulations and donations for all their good work
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by jammygit 8y ago
Honest question: we have unlimited examples of corporations run amok. What examples of law abiding billionaires run amok have we lately? I'm sure they exist but all I can think of is funding ventures that harm the public good (eg, taki
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by jammygit 8y ago
This seems to say that societies where the rich consume more tend to consume their resources more quickly? I think the opposite is through though. The rich don't consume in proportion to their wealth, but doubling the income of plumber
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by jammygit 8y ago
I had not thought of that before
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by jammygit 8y ago
That's probably more lettuce and zuccini than I can easily eat, maybe not practical...
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by jammygit 8y ago
Its hard for me to plant a tree, but I could expand my garden or add a bush. How many gardens are needed to equal a tree?
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by jammygit 8y ago
As someone in Canada looking at an offer for much lower than that, I'm not sure what to do to negotiate upwards. I can't find concrete enough numbers that others are making up here for example.
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by jammygit 8y ago
Work week is the week view I'm used to I guess and needs to be configured slightly to get the weekend days included. Week view is like an upcoming events view separated by day of the week, which I'm sure many people like, but I ca
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by jammygit 8y ago
obligatory test: Generate hacker news comments from titles hncynic 1 minute ago I thought it was going to be more like /. but I'm confused. Can you add some sort of comment link to /, which is something I could have easily na
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by jammygit 8y ago
Does it make more sense to think that a grandson should get paid because the grandfather inherited a billion that the son (who dies) wasn't able to spend fast enough to squander? Both inheritance scenarios are conventions and both are
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by jammygit 8y ago
Not sure if this counts, but I heard fman released its build system. Its based on QT and I found this link https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs-tutorial/blob/master/README...
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by jammygit 8y ago
I used minetime for a bit after getting frustrated with some bugs in Thunderbird with lightning. It stopped updating my calendar mysteriously on my desktop but not my laptop, but was good besides that. I'm uncomfortable sending them my
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by jammygit 8y ago
If the keystroke analyzer was an automated script, being used by some script kiddie who found it on the internet in the near future, the path of least resistance ends up with a really really large number of lanes.
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by jammygit 8y ago
There are some startups making new kinds of computing hardware. The limiting factor in the success has been software to go with it. There is an opportunity here, maybe
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by jammygit 8y ago
I'm fond of the term 'data modelling' for most 'machine learning' tasks. Except for the systems that play DOTA, Go, and Starcraft - those are something else.
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by jammygit 8y ago
Companies try to replace people with machines every time they think its even half possible. A recent example with Suncor: "As Suncor Energy prepares to shed 400 jobs to prepare for the implementation of driverless ore-hauling trucks, t
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by jammygit 8y ago
Fair enough, but I'd just say that I don't mind an extra half inch if the device weighed the same. IMHO, 10 year old 13 inch laptops were plenty small, but I do appreciate the lower weights
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by jammygit 8y ago
The secret to the bad grammar in spam emails?
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by jammygit 8y ago
I know somebody who spilled a whole slurpee into a cheap desktop keyboard once and had it continue working fine. I would pay extra. To have a laptop like that for sure.
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by jammygit 8y ago
But think of the whiteboard algorithms they can all put together in a pinch
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by jammygit 8y ago
In the startup world there is a lot of customer obsession. What is it about these big companies that let's them de-prioritize that and still thrive? Honest question.
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by jammygit 8y ago
I know about it from the Raptor PC team and their Foss compatible microcode. Would you say it holds its own performance/reliablilty wise with competitors?
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by jammygit 8y ago
I work at a startup that uses machine learning for medical purposes (junior position). My biased impression is that the interest in this tech is growing rapidly and not even IBM can ruin it. IBMs problems might be good in a sense if it lead
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by jammygit 8y ago
So far at least, working great with no issues. In the case of the xps, I reinstalled from scratch instead of upgrading. Apparently things often use 16% less battery now too based on some benchmarks I read. Its been about 3.5 hours I guess a
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by jammygit 8y ago
Thanks!
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by jammygit 8y ago
The Linux world has a lot of conventions you just 'need to know about' in order to navigate. It works very well for experienced people, but it isn't helpful for newcomers. When I was first starting out I didn't understan
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by jammygit 8y ago
How well can you control your xfce desktop with keyboard shortcuts? One of the main reasons I use gnome is how easy it is to avoid touching my mouse.
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by jammygit 8y ago
I noticed the update mirror uses http. In my inexperience, I'm not sure whether this introduces a MitM vector or not. Can anybody comment?

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