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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Obviously lines of code is a poor metric, but wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code ) would suggest it is not as complicated as: Linux kernel 2.6.35 13.5 million lines of code Windows Server 2003 50 MLOC Mac OS X 10.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
If you haven't got tests, you can't automate your deployment. If you can't automate your deployment, you can't rapidly iterate.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
My Android@Home device is set-up to flash all the lights in the house as soon as registration opens
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
An alternative way (but more intuitive) to find approx a / 9 in your head: result = (a x 0.1) + (a x 0.01) + ... so e.g. take a random number, 22103 answer is about 2210 + 221 +22 + 2 = 2455
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Have you read "The myth of Britain's manufacturing decline"? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/manufacturing_figure...
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
"Why I still use a rock" At school, I’m known as the Rock guy; when people have questions about using a Rock and hitting things a certain way, they often come and ask me. Sometimes, some people ask me why use a Rock to hit a nail? Isn't it
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
I run ubuntu 11.10 on a thinkpad and I find that battery life is on a par with Windows. You might want to investigate the ASPM power regression issue; pcie_aspm=force might work for you (or wait for ubuntu 12.04 which cw the 3.2 kernel cont
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
I use Fabric for my deploys. The process is something like: * Check out to clean directory * Run tests * Zip source * Upload * Unzip * Backup existing (in case of needing rollback) * Deploy static files * Run South db migrations *
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
I'm on o2 business / htc desire / cyanogen and my phone number is in the header. wtf.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
The algorithm for determining when writeback from memory to persistent storage is interesting: https://lwn.net/Articles/456904/ (Linked from http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.2 , which has more detail than the HN posted article)
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
I've been finding the LD entry posts all quite interesting; they often have stuff (like bfxr) that I didn't know about, or at least, didn't know was that popular: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Forget compiling; if (for example) you want to have a couple of meaty java projects open in an IDE plus an appserver plus a db tool you're way over 4Gb before doing any work. And then if you want to run the database as well, or say virtual
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Here is the thing you need to look at http://www.anandtech.com/show/5177/holiday-2011-laptop-buyer...
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
One unintended effect is that accidents are going to be quite different. Although driverless cars are bound to be safer, I wonder what people's reaction will be to computer error causing death. The style of computer error is not likely to
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
From the article > "Mint 12 will be running Gnome 3"
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
I haven't seen anyone complaining about the keyboard on the Asus Transformer though, which would seem more relevant, right? Amazon has it as 4* with 138 reviews.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Perhaps power saving is the point, not money saving?
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
You've missed out on better battery life, definitely. I have a Desire running 7.1 Cyanogenmod, which is 2.3 and it has massively improved it.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
nice work but pity about the caveat "That leaves the door open to solutions with less than 5 initial numbers. I would bet that there aren't any..."
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Super-tab shows each window, Alt-tab each app.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
gnome-do works perfectly well under 11.10, unity has keyboard shortcuts for window placement (e.g. Ctrl-Alt + Numpad e.g. Ctrl-Alt-6 = window to the RHS of the screen) IMO unity much improved in 11.10 over 11.04
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
#1 Super-tab does the per window version of alt-tab #2 Why waste any more vertical screen space #3 Ctrl-Alt-T > New Terminal, then Ctrl-Shift-T new terminal tab (or Ctrl-Alt-T again for new terminal)
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Well, my 3 and 1 year old also have playdoh and lego, and love playing outside. And can also play Angry Birds. If the physical world is being 'lost' then an alternative cause (in the UK at least) might be the amount of it available per per
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Direct from the University: http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/windeng/en_aboutus_detail04.h... "Wind power is proportional to the wind speed cubed. If we can increase the wind speed with some mechanism by utilizing the fluid dynamic nature a
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Show location > will do Filter > when you sign up it uses your location to filter items, but maybe that isn't what you meant. Perhaps pre-sign up you can enter a location to filter items?
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
Yeah absolutely. I'm hoping that getting stories in the local paper, combined with flyers and that sort of thing will get it working in a small area, and then it will spread. Is all about the critical mass of users though.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
So here is is: http://www.freelywheely.com In short: FreelyWheely is a place where you can offer your unwanted belongings, for free, to someone who can make use of them. The longer version: Although there are similar things, Freecycle par
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Show HN: FreelyWheely (A better Freecycle).(freelywheely.com)
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
the "interaction" is a virtual representation of a sliding lock. apple did not invent the sliding lock.
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by jsvaughan 15y ago
I posted here before those comments were made. Perhaps should have posted there instead.

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