kunai

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by kunai 13y ago
Obviously, you and I live in different areas. Where I live, the traffic lights turn yellow even when the yellow light has not become solid. Then, there's also the issue that many pedestrians are still in the process of crossing when the han
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by kunai 13y ago
This is unsafe for pedestrians. The yellow light means "Clear the intersection," not "Slow down." The purpose is to give time to people crossing the sidewalks to finish walking over to the other side. Shortening them is a safety hazard for
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by kunai 13y ago
There's no need for the animosity. I didn't mean it was only designed for touch screens, just that desktop features had been deprecated in favor of touchscreens. And that's true. Look at the hot corners you can't disable, or the Metro d
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by kunai 13y ago
Because every damn computer manufacturer out there insists that the only thing that is worth a damn in Windows 8 is the touch interface, when it's the exact opposite. The bean counters always love to do this, even though they haven't the sl
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by kunai 13y ago
I don't know why Microsoft insists on putting a touch UI on a desktop OS. There have been similar, more successful attempts at convergence, such as OS X's, Chrome OS', or Ubuntu's approaches, that keep the traditional desktop metaphor in pl
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by kunai 13y ago
So far, I haven't heard anyone pronounce it as "spuddy," which is how I thought it would be pronounced. Words without vowels are a disaster.
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by kunai 13y ago
I really like the source model that you've got here. All the benefits of open source without the sales leeches. Smart idea.
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by kunai 13y ago
Pretty much both sides of the spectrum look pretty grim. I used to be a hard-ass liberal, but now I've changed my outlook, matured a bit, and become a libertarian. Their philosophy makes the most sense, but no one seems to listen.
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by kunai 13y ago
VOIP is just as easily snooped as regular lines. It's not as easy, but you can do it with the right tools.
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by kunai 13y ago
There's no bow or arrows on the modified version. In that picture, she's been changed into a stereotypical Disney princess, and some other aspects of the original character design were also betrayed, like the hair and eyes.
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by kunai 13y ago
Since this is a hacker forum, I wanted to use an analogy that many could relate to here, although it seems not to have worked. The problem with your reasoning, however, is that Sinclair had the choice of several publishers, and could have c
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by kunai 13y ago
The pushback doesn't come from "agendas," it comes from heated debate about the righteousness and morality of Disney's actions. The notion that you would attribute the backlash to some sort of hidden agenda is preposterous.
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by kunai 13y ago
Point taken, however, would you say the same if your client, who has some programming experience, takes your code, mucks it up and deviates from the original vision? I don't think so. Especially when this is a moral issue more than it is a
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by kunai 13y ago
Who wanted this, though? All I see is backlash, not praise.
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by kunai 13y ago
I agree completely with the creator. The movie's ethos, its own theme lambasts this sort of behavior. The last thing we need are role models that pride appearance over substance. We have too many victims of that pseudo-culture already in th
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by kunai 13y ago
Well, really, a professional desktop is what they're missing, and features in OS X that may have been asking for, such as the latest version of OpenGL, ZFS or a suitable replacement, and better virtual desktop/window management that was cri
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by kunai 13y ago
I don't think I share your sentiment. Apple has always been a consumer-oriented company, whereas NeXT was oriented towards business, educational, and professional use. Apple is still a consumer electronics company, not a professional one. W
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by kunai 13y ago
It is. Personally, I think the analysts were wrong and Next should have continued with the Cube and the Station. They just should have cut down on profit margins slightly to accumulate more sales, and then return the margins to normal after
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by kunai 13y ago
Yes, Logo was actually what I was referencing. I knew about the expression, but it was interesting that the author of the article would use that specific catchphrase, probably knowing that turtle graphics is commonly used to teach programmi
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by kunai 13y ago
Made me chuckle. Especially "'look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles.'" Any well-versed programmer will instantly recognize the turtle joke.
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by kunai 13y ago
Very true. I feel like I'm sitting at a PDP-11, except a PDP-11 would be more intuitive than the Smart TV interface. I only use my Apple TV as an interface for Netflix, Hulu+, etc. now; the only thing I touch the actual TV controls for are
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by kunai 13y ago
I own a Samsung TV, a camera by them, and used to own a cell phone by them. My friend also has a GS3. All of them are just poorly-designed, cheap imitations of Blackberry and Apple UI design. The Smart TV interface is a disaster. It's a mes
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by kunai 13y ago
Even self-piloting flying cars would be a disaster. They'd be limited in speed, and the traffic collision avoidance systems would eat up too much time due to the constant slowdowns and changes in direction. Not to mention that it's impossib
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by kunai 13y ago
You described exactly how I feel a hell of a lot of the time. Depression is a drug. It causes a change in mental state, resulting in thought processes not consciously thought of during normalcy. Whenever I'm in this state, falling deeper do
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by kunai 13y ago
Any Rubyist or Python developer will be caught off-guard with C++. Dynamically typed languages are intrinsically easier, and languages like Python and Ruby do garbage collection for you, resulting in a lot less work for the developer. C++ d
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by kunai 13y ago
In the post above: > Imagine them as Debian testing installs that are very stable
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by kunai 13y ago
Only through zsh did I find out about tab auto-complete. When I used bash, whenever I needed to uncompress a tarball I downloaded, I would type in the full, ~50 character filename. Only through zsh did I find out about tab autocomplete, and
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by kunai 13y ago
I agree that current UIs are inconsistent and ugly, but I would argue against that ~2005-2008 UIs were inconsistent and ugly. The Gnome icons were cartoonish, yes, but they were consistent AND informative. If you remember using Ubuntu 8.04
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by kunai 13y ago
While I don't personally think that terminal transparency is a big deal (just switch to Xfce Terminal if you want it), the attitude of the developers is rude and uninformative. You don't have to be completely ingratiating; just say "This fe
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by kunai 13y ago
> Why can't the existing industry do this They are, but at a snail's pace. The Mercedes SLS Electric Drive came out a few months ago, I believe, and it's a work of engineering and art. But Ford isn't Mercedes, and they can't afford to s

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