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by junkbit 16y ago
Internet Explorer is the new Linux. Sweet sweet justice. Works in Chrome/Firefox in Ubuntu
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Numeronyms. Or, wtf does Mozilla i18n mean?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by junkbit 16y ago|0 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
Thanks! It wasn't working in the UK even at dot com
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Ethercodes is a crossbreed between Etherpad and Skywriter for collaborative code(ethercodes.com)
18 points by junkbit 16y ago|11 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
There's also some great lectures and discussions on http://fora.tv although they have recently put some of them behind a premium model and butchered the site. Still lots of free videos
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World's fastest radix sort? 1B 32bit keys a second using a stock GTX 480(code.google.com)
74 points by junkbit 16y ago|31 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
Matt Cutts tweeted a design document about the technical details https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/desig...
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by junkbit 16y ago
The main selling point of screen is not actually the way he uses it in the video, to manage multiple windows, but the way you can disconnect and reconnect to any screen session from any computer using the screen daemon and ssh. For example
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by junkbit 16y ago
So is this just the beginning of part 4?
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by junkbit 16y ago
Not to mention doing it on all 3 platforms as well as translating OpenGL to Direct3D on the fly using ANGLE.
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GTK+ gets CSS style theming(blogs.gnome.org)
41 points by junkbit 16y ago|13 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
Maybe a retract button instead of delete would be a fair compromise? The comment still appears but the karma is frozen and cannot be downvoted further
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by junkbit 16y ago
Strange to see this a week after Intel announces a PCI express co-processor that looks like a Tesla I like the sound of quadcore ARM64
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by junkbit 16y ago
Let alone in which to fit. (j/k)
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by junkbit 16y ago
If you put things on a pedal stool you are just asking for them to get knocked down
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by junkbit 16y ago
There's are a number of reasons I don't use online banking. This is one of them. schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/ The only fees I pay are a 75c/month fee for having on-line banking, a $1.50 fee for having a Visa Debit card, fees for usin
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by junkbit 16y ago
Why all the hate? That's an arrow → not greaterthanorequal
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by junkbit 16y ago
Trolleywood is funny (shopping trolley == shopping cart), but DVDs? seriously? is this 1999?
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by junkbit 16y ago
=> 1024x768. I run 1920x1200 on my primary monitor but it can be really hard to read large articles in a maximised browser, so I usually have a floating window that takes up about half of the desktop width. This means that it will be n
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by junkbit 16y ago
There's are careful balance between not letting technology pass you by and jumping on the latest fad. You never want to be out of touch but you can't invest your time in a dead end. It's an obsolescence bell-curve
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by junkbit 16y ago
Not long ago they said Cannonical was 200 employees, with about half of them in Taiwan working on netbooks and other embedded devices They probably only have a couple of dozen programmers. Although they are growing all the time.
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by junkbit 16y ago
I had an A5 piece of cardboard on my bookshelf in full view and every Monday I'd put another mark on it with a felt tip in groups of 5 like |||| + \ The idea was to have four rows of 13 notches for the 52 weeks of the year. After about 6-7m
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by junkbit 16y ago
This is Boomerang, Welcome. You can do anything at Boomerang. Anything at all
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by junkbit 16y ago
+1 for Vala
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by junkbit 16y ago
Sounds like Vala: reference counting instead of GC (full pointers underneath if you want), zero cost to call C, lambdas, generics, signals/properties, native unicode strings and other sugar such as foreach. Can't do operator overloading th
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by junkbit 16y ago
There are games like the new Settlers which have crazy DRM that has to be connected to the internet 24/7, even in single player mode, and there are games like Starcraft II which compel you to play online because the multiplayer experience i
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by junkbit 16y ago
I think it benefits these companies for students to train in Maya/3D Studio
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by junkbit 16y ago
I am amazed at the amount of trivial mac apps that sell for $20+. OMG, bold font pro and spellcheck+ are on special offer! Culture shock for a Linux user.
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by junkbit 16y ago
Farmville. Seriously though something like an open source Flattr without the 10% rake would be nice (micropayments)
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by junkbit 16y ago
So that I can go back and forward without reloading the webpages

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