javanix

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by javanix 17y ago
Of course their costs are ridiculous - I was trying to make the point that we are living in a "golden age" of relatively ad-free bliss on the internet. We won't have YouTube in its current, awesome-for-the-consumer implementation forever. E
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by javanix 17y ago
Yes, for now there is AdBlock. AdBlock basically works by blocking inline ads loaded from offsite - eventually someone is going to figure out how to get around it. And as far as "too intrusive", that will only last as long as people let i
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by javanix 17y ago
Unfortunately, the internet won't always be completely superior. The advantage of newspapers is that you can always just not look at the ads, or at least not pay attention to them. Eventually everything online will be monetized, and more li
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by javanix 17y ago
I usually sit down and write something right away. As soon as I get stuck, then I think without coding, so to speak. The unfortunate byproduct of this is that my code ends up looking very confusing, even to me, and I have to do some major
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by javanix 17y ago
Why on earth do all of these so-called "perfect desktops" just rely on installing some n packages? By that measure any reasonably-supported distro could become the "perfect desktop".
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Michael Lewis on Warren Buffet(tnr.com)
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Curveball optical illusion(bucknell.edu)
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Engineered monkeys successfully pass on genetic modifications to offspring(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by javanix 17y ago
Hopefully acquiring Sun will accelerate Oracle's work on btrfs, and we Linux users can get our own copy-on-write system.
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Windows 7 won't have the impact that Vista had(pcworld.com)
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by javanix 17y ago
At least we are decently well compensated for our salt mine jobs. There aren't a lot of professions that aren't salt mines in today's corporate culture - so I'd much rather spend my time actually creating and designing something (no matte
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by javanix 17y ago
Exactly. Most of CS also revolves around making things easier (correctly, of course) for yourself. If there's a method that will get things done with less work, you are usually encouraged to take it, provided it gives the right output - nob
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by javanix 17y ago
I'm the complete opposite of the OP. My intro CS courses were taught using Eclipse, and I am constantly using it (for lack of a better, free, option) at work. I am getting more and more fed up with the bloat in Eclipse. Running in a Linux e
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Mininova begins filtering copyrighted material(torrentfreak.com)
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Missing the point about suggested searches(arstechnica.com)
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by javanix 17y ago
He doesn't mention the overly restrictive DRM that most digital purchases come with, mostly movies and TV shows (music is getting better). It's simply more convenient for people to pirate material that they can use hassle-free - no softwa
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by javanix 17y ago
Well, I think sub-optimal performance is to be expected if you upgrade from a fairly entrenched system, rather than doing a clean install. I've yet to run across an OS that does a seamless upgrade from a preexisting installation.
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by javanix 17y ago
I'm not really sure how this is any different than any other Ubuntu or Debian installation. Installing the required packages for multimedia playback and GIMP and such is fairly simple on any Deb/RPM based distro anyway, and its a skill that
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Microsoft releases final Windows 7 system requirements(blogs.zdnet.com)
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Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament(torrentfreak.com)
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by javanix 17y ago
If you are starting a project from scratch, and need GC, I would imagine it would be less of a pain (on a non-trivial bit of code) to abide by the restrictions than to have to find and plug memory leaks by hand all the time.
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by javanix 17y ago
It may be old, but he raises some good points. Java's syntax is probably a step forward from C++, but both are still far from intuitive. In an ideal world, I'd love to see a pared down version of Java's syntax matched with a better-optimize
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by javanix 17y ago
I think most CS degrees still do (and should) require the algorithms and data structures programming. They are useful skills, and, I think the reason that the section seems "old-school" comes from the proliferation of Java in early CS cours
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The Pirate Bay Verdict (in English)(arstechnica.com)
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by javanix 17y ago
In response to your edit - agreed wholeheartedly. To any Linux developer/admin who hasn't used it - if you want to push your terminal wizardry to the next level, make a concerted effort to learn Screen. Once you get the basic commands down
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by javanix 17y ago
Well, the headline is a bit misleading then. I doubt that sysadmins will ever be considered "the masses".
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by javanix 17y ago
I'm pretty sure nothing that runs solely in-terminal can ever truly be brought "to the masses", unfortunately. New Linux users, even those who are competent within Windows, are just too intimidated by a CLI. That said, the simplified config
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by javanix 17y ago
These articles are fascinating - does anyone know of a good book that goes into more depth?
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by javanix 17y ago
I don't know about anybody else, but there are only one or two shows that I can handle watching - I don't think I could watch more than 2 or 3 hours a week total , let alone in one day.
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by javanix 17y ago
Of course, pretty much every viewer on *nix is faster than Adobe Reader, which makes it all the more irritating and confusing every time I forget that it is set as the default in our CS labs...

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