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jebblue
12y ago
>> Not a lawyer, let alone a Texas lawyer. Are you insinuating that Texas lawyers as a mass are bad or good?
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I tried it, had issues installing it, here's what I did: 1) Tried sudo dpkg -i chrome-remote-desktop_current_amd64.deb 2) It complained about missing dependencies. 3) I tried aptitude and one of its choices was to remove the Linux kern
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12y ago
Actually if we could all agree to go back to plain HTML, no CSS and especially no JavaScript and use solid client applications for client work; the web would be infinitely more secure. That isn't going to happen though, unfortunately.
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12y ago
Me too! I've been using a plain TODO.txt for years, it's amazingly efficient.
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Unreal should be a nice addition to the other games on Linux. :-) I tried the Ninja demo and it seemed fluid. Then I tried the Elemental Demo (we just watch right?) and it seemed to pause periodically through the demo. It seemed laggy in th
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12y ago
>> The font rendering for Linux is terrible. Ubuntu fonts are great, which Linux are you talking about and is this recent as in the last 5 years experience or is it qualified non-sense on your part? >> Just look at Intellij IDEA
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12y ago
GRAMMAR: [must have*] not of.
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Gunmen torch churches, kill dozens in Nigeria
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You need to look up the definition of martyr. He committed suicide, he was not killed. He was not persecuted for doing right, he was being prosecuted for doing wrong.
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12y ago
I don't know about ATI but nVidia has been great for me on Linux going back to 2007 when I switched to Linux (Ubuntu) FT.
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12y ago
On even my old machine I tried running UT 2004 on Windows then natively on Linux then on Wine on Linux and Linux beat the performance on Windows hands down. I'm not the only one, when Valve ported their engine to Linux the performance
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12y ago
Kids may read HN, I'd think that exposing them to serious profanity would violate some countries laws and put HN at grave legal risk.
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12y ago
Well I can attest that having user's file limits set lower than 4096 will cause some web servers to not handle a multi-user client performance test of any decent size.
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12y ago
>> Edit: I've run across a few comments complaining about these large max values. The reason I set them high is that the machines I work on are not multi-user in any way. Then why is this posted at all, this isn't improved d
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12y ago
I didn't read anything about how the increasing numbers of older Americans who are not working might have a significant bearing on the matter. edit: What I'm saying is, America has a baby-boomer generation that is retiring in drov
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AWS lowers prices again
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A Yeoman generator for AngularJS and Spark
(github.com)
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12y ago
No cost for private registration, that would save me some bucks.
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In 4 year it's always worked for me. edit: years
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12y ago
So if they are any good, someone should stand up and say, we should pay this person what they want, if they want to work remote and there are no specific restrictions placed upon them by their job requirements; let them. Keep them. That mus
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12y ago
>> I disagree with this assertion. To be a software engineer is to be in a constant state of learning. 3 years ago at age 47 I interviewed at a promising game company in Austin, TX. The first thing the smug young guy said after weighi
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>> I've been a software developer for 27 years and have encountered none of the "incredibly cruel" discriminations you suggest. It's definitely true and I see this often that many as they age don't bother to s
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12y ago
>> And you start at zero reputation and connections at a new company. As an employee, so true. It takes me about a year after switching and I'm 50. >> Unfortunately, the interview skills required to get into the top tech co
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I read some of the comments and decided to go read the article, click the link, up pops a massive ad window for Slate. :-)
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Right, you don't need the script as long as it's an executable jar, it will run fine with: java -jar Product.jar If there are any native libraries then they need to be built into the jar, you could do one jar or one for eac
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I've seen many and worked on one in the late 90's that could out do any HTML5 app I've seen or written. We did it with cohesive API's of the caliber of Windows API but multi-platform and web transparent. Those who wrote
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Despite EFF syndrome, patents are a tool, they are not evil, patent trolls are evil, patents are just tools.
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This seems crude to me compared to my experiences with jQuery Mobile. This also affirms my belief that custom Android and iPhone development is going to go the way of the dinosaur. It's all about the web.
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I've been with them for 4 years and don't see any decline, at all.
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You just need to hunt for it a bit, https://library.linode.com/prepaid-billing Edit: I don't know who downvoted me, moderators fix please?
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