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by jdub 15y ago
... but not when you have deliciously usable and tactile "cards". :-)
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by jdub 15y ago
Rust-proofing is objectively good. It does not, when applied, change the quality of the car underneath it. Matte coating puts a layer of gumpf between your eyeball and the screen, which affects the image you see.
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by jdub 15y ago
Glossy is better because it's uncoated. "Matte" is a coating, an extra layer of gumpf on top of your beautiful, bright and colourful screen.
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by jdub 16y ago
Sadly, BeOS was stuck on the "Palm Source" side, which was hoovered up by ACCESS, most likely never to be seen again. They were even jerky enough to poke and prod at Haiku over IP issues.
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by jdub 16y ago
(By the way, as stated on all of my posts about these issues, I am no longer involved in the GNOME project at all.)
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by jdub 16y ago
GNOME rejected the libappindicator code and approach (largely because it was irrelevant and badly timed), but not the StatusNotifier protocol (as defined mostly by KDE, then once modified, the basis for libappindicator). The "not contributi
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by jdub 16y ago
Canonical have nothing to do with Wayland. Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post saying they wanted to use it (in a ridiculously unrealistic timeframe), but they've contributed nothing to meeting that goal. They haven't tried to "force KDE/GN
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The Rails/Node Lesson: Frameworks Lead Adoption(redmonk.com)
1 points by jdub 16y ago|1 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
But the key word here is "you".
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by jdub 16y ago
Money quote (Campbell's law, paraphrased): “Any quantitative social indicator used for decision-making corrupts the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
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Seeing like a superintendent: education and Campbell's law(economist.com)
1 points by jdub 16y ago|1 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
Ubuntu 11.04 won't include much of GNOME 3 at all, and definitely not shipped or included by default. Ubuntu 11.10 is likely to be built on the GTK+ 3 and GNOME 3 platform libraries, but will not include either the GNOME Shell or GNOME Clas
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by jdub 16y ago
a) Because your toolkit was probably ported for you b) Because Wayland is not widely deployed or even regarded as ready to use, so for now the X11 protocol is king c) Because the poster was talking about xlib and X11, and that is what I was
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by jdub 16y ago
btw, xlib != X11 protocol. Try xcb some time. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
You can, but the client has to support it... if the client is built with GTK+, it can already do it thanks to support built in to the toolkit itself! Try it with gtk-demo. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
Sure, it's awesome (and has served us well for a very long time), but as hardware and software change, it has placed limitations on how we can compose the logical components of the display server, and can be done separately anyway. Much lik
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by jdub 16y ago
It's a maintenance release on the stable series. Some really good fixes in there, if you care about node in production.
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by jdub 16y ago
To indicate they're talking about a Twitter user, without saying "The Twitter user, HipsterIE6", you humourless ninny.
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by jdub 16y ago
Unity? I don't think they want to upstream it, let alone upstream wanting to take it... and that's not such a bad thing. All kinds of downstream users of GNOME have made totally different environments with the platform. But what about stuff
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by jdub 16y ago
TL;DR: A very long cover letter for the guy's job application to the Microsoft Windows Phone team.
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by jdub 16y ago
They did that, but they also didn't even try to upstream a whole bunch of stuff. Then in 2010, after not laying any groundwork, they were annoyed that the very first thing they proposed which was (even only partly) related to their UX wor
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by jdub 16y ago
Will probably do that when it's more complete. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
This post seems to be written in the most diplomatic language possible. You should see his previous post. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
Everyone wants to forgive and forget, but I don't think human beings in general are capable of forgiveness unless there is acceptance of what went wrong and some sense of resolution, so trust can be rebuilt. The issue of "what went wrong" i
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by jdub 16y ago
Not sure it's a flamewar (the flames are basically going on one direction!), but let's go with it... I'm participating in that flamewar, but agree with you 100%. That's part of where the conclusion of my series goes. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
I'm writing a series of posts about the issue, largely as a result of extraordinary comments (attacking GNOME and individual participants) made by Mark over the last week. It is an attempt to correct the record and set a path forward. http
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by jdub 16y ago
First thing: Don't assume that this means they're going to replace Windows! :-) Besides the guts of the OS which talks to the hardware (a very slick Linux build) on webOS phones, the platform is basically just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It h
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by jdub 16y ago
Launchpad was conceived from the perspective of an organisation optimising the process of working on and building Debian packages (Ubuntu/Canonical), designed the same way 90s three-tier systems were: database schema first, and built as a m
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by jdub 16y ago
Meego (at least with regards to Nokia) transitioned into curiosity territory on the day of the announcement... if not from the morning press release, then definitely by the time we saw the CEO Q&A. What Nokia does with Qt merely indicat
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by jdub 16y ago
Already exists. Do whatever you want in a webworker, using (very nearly exactly) the same API as you would in an HTML5 client: https://github.com/pgriess/node-webworker

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