jebblue

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by jebblue 13y ago
>> There is a desktop environment. Gnome. I'm in! I'll give it a try in a VM for a while. That's how I ended up moving home machines from Windows to Ubuntu years ago. Thanks Debian, Gnome and Valve! EDIT: DISREGARD. &qu
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Hack on the JDK itself(openjdk.java.net)
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It's interesting but didn't Quake Live run inside the browser?
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With DART and Go and Google Fiber, all one company. It kind of worries me to be honest. Overall though as long as Larry and Sergei are there it should be OK I think.
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>> It's extremely slow compared to what I'm used to with Exchange and Outlook, and navigating around is more of a chore. Its performance is fine from what I see every day. Plus it integrates with my phone and my home Linux d
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Eclipse is fully featured and professional and free as in beer and software.
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>> Things just work (subversion, Spring, hot swap). The same has been true for me in Eclipse for over 8 years.
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The global menu was a bad move on the part of Canonical in Ubuntu's Unity desktop. I don't even use it or that ridiculous scroll bar. I keep those packages removed on my systems so my Unity experience is closer to Gnome and Eclips
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>> As someone who has used Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ for years I can say that without a shadow of a doubt that IntelliJ is far ahead of the other two. Wow it's like different universes. In mine, Eclipse and even NetBeans are
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by jebblue 13y ago
>> If you eliminate shared state, you have no reason to misuse those synchronization primitives. A multi-threaded program that doesn't need to share state probably isn't the usual case, not from my experience anyway. Locks a
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by jebblue 13y ago
I thought a web app that lets users upload pictures was so easy there's no way you could make much money with it.
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It's a psychological thing, a perception, on the part of the users of your nick. I know people who publicize their nick and real name, still post under their nick and their nick gets more attention by far. There's something about
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by jebblue 13y ago
McDonalds's fish sandwiches can't be beaten. That is a fact.
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I end up thinking about how I'm not supposed to be thinking about anything.
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Your data seems like, off. Ctrl+Alt+F1 does indeed give you a nice way to kill the game. On Windows, you have to hit power reset and hope you don't lose anything important.
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by jebblue 13y ago
>> Linux forces user to learn about OS and computer in general, which is not needed for most of people. My wife switched in one summer night in 2007, she hasn't looked back, she's a casual user, her laptop came from Dell wit
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by jebblue 13y ago
My wife only needed one night to switch to Linux.
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>> I appreciate and use Wine quite a bit, but it's far from perfect. A lot of things just plain crash from the get go. This hasn't been my experience. Wine works great, Netflix runs very good on Ubuntu because of Wine. I&#x2
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by jebblue 13y ago
Adobe is backwards and kludgy and needs to get with the future, get with Linux, get with the program.
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>> I'm a developer but I've dabbled in graphics since the 70's with charcoal and paper then computers starting in the 80s'. My younger brother is more talented than me but it's relaxing sometimes. GIMP's
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by jebblue 13y ago
>> Well, their motives aren't sinister, which is all you can really want or hope for. In a capitalistic market, vanishingly few players will switch to Linux out of altruism. There was a time when no one thought gamers would switc
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by jebblue 13y ago
Actually I discovered great Indie games like Urban Terror and Minecraft among many others.
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by jebblue 13y ago
Ubuntu Linux came on my last PC, my wife's current laptop, and will probably come on my next PC if PC makers get their heads out of ... the sand.
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>> Therefore more work is required to use Linux. Not according to most Windows 8 users, check YouTube.
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>> Linux tends to attract developers rather than users who spend a great deal of money on their gaming hobby. Gamers want fun. Gamers don't really care what's underneath. There was a time, back before the illegal deals of Ga
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by jebblue 13y ago
>> Ubuntu is just a buggy distro MMM, no. All of the others you listed, yes. Else, I wouldn't be running Linux. I'd be running Windows. Ubuntu rocks.
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These guys have so much smarts and common sense, congratulations guys. I'm enjoying Steam on Ubuntu, holding true to my promise to buy games and play them. Even bigger news for me, now I can look forward to purchasing a Steam Machine d
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by jebblue 13y ago
Reads like a list of how human beings are. Was there news somewhere in there?
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>> I just wish there was a place for those of us who appreciate the craft to hang out. Hacker News, for a long time, was that place for me. I still don't get what you're talking about, you like to look at and admire code lik
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by jebblue 13y ago
And there are plugin developers making good money, server operators doing nothing but running Minecraft servers and living on donations and other monetization schemes. Was he supposed to make the best selling indie game in history and make

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