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by kunai 14y ago
I do agree with you on the well-supported and well-integrated part. Ubuntu has the polish and ease of use of OS X with the great hardware support of (nearly) Windows, with the solidity of a steadfast GNU/Linux foundation. But whenever I he
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by kunai 14y ago
I suppose it's time to switch to Fedora, now, even though I've been holding out for as long as humanly possible. This just pushes me over the edge.
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by kunai 14y ago
I was about to blog an article like this yesterday, but it seems I do not have to anymore. Another thing I might add to this exceptional piece of work is that whenever you force anyone to do anything, even if it is intrinsically "fun" (such
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Let's Get Rid of 16:9 Laptops Forever(popsci.com)
3 points by kunai 14y ago|0 comments
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by kunai 14y ago
As far as servers go, if you don't need the sophistication of OS X and its great development tools and process handling, why not just use an off-the-shelf and supported desktop (i.e., Lenovo ThinkCentre) with *BSD on it? Paying the premium
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by kunai 14y ago
> "Sir, the law prohibits wearing clothing that advertise things of a political nature in this building. Please take it off or leave," rather than simply telling him to remove it or leave Do you have any evidence that substantiates th
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by kunai 14y ago
Absolute hogwash. I'm fourteen. And I code C++ and understand everything flawlessly. If somebody isn't learning how to code (or how to do anything, really), it's either because of one of two reasons: a) they don't want to learn how to code
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by kunai 14y ago
Didn't see that, sorry!
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The AR-15 Is More Than a Gun. It’s a Gadget(wired.com)
10 points by kunai 14y ago|3 comments
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by kunai 14y ago
What coreutils are you using? I get: ~$ man su NAME su - change user ID or become superuser OS X uses the FreeBSD coreutils and not the GNU ones, so if you're on either OS X or FreeBSD, that would explain it.
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by kunai 14y ago
It's CISC rather than RISC, and ARM chips are also designed to use as little power as possible, reducing performance.
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by kunai 14y ago
May be true for desktops, but if you have ever tried to code on a 1366x768 14" laptop display, you'll agree. 8:5/16:10 or even 3:2 fill the horizontal field of view well while also delivering more vertical space. Even if 16:9 is theoretical
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by kunai 14y ago
You are missing something. 2 things, actually. Cache and instruction set. Intel is still more powerful than ARM because of its instruction set.
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by kunai 14y ago
> I'll take any steps in the direction of square as positive If someone proposes a Kickstarter project for a mobile developer workstation with a solid design, 4:3 high-res screen, pointing stick, and great keyboard, I'll be the first to
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by kunai 14y ago
> companies build screens with more code friendly aspect ratios Let's hope Lenovo takes a look at this. I'd love a Thinkpad with a high-res screen, 3:2 display, and of course, the venerable TrackPoint and keyboard. Touchscreen is a nice
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by kunai 14y ago
Props to them for making the display vertically rather than horizontally oriented. I've been incredibly tired of the stupidly short 16:9 displays dominating the market. However, one has to wonder why such a good display is being wasted on a
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by kunai 14y ago
Before this patch, this is usually how I would open PDFs in Firefox: "Okay, so I clicked on the link. Wait - where's the Download box? No, wait -- I told Firefox to download this MIME type automatically, right? Okay, but where is Evince? I
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by kunai 14y ago
Why not leave AMAs where they belong, Reddit? Call me a hipster, but I like the peace, quiet, and esotericism of HN. Adding AMAs would screw everything up; we'd get tons of new signups and the community would be diluted like Reddit is cur
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by kunai 14y ago
It's not my fault, editing code on the HN submit box is hell. ;)
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by kunai 14y ago
Not sure... I'll have to give it a go to see if it really is.
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by kunai 14y ago
Squiggly underlines? What, do you mean: 1 class Hello ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ --INSERT-- Like that? Of course; heck, even xterm does that fine. If you were referring to something else, I'm not too sure... EDIT: Never mind, now I know
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by kunai 14y ago
Trust me, when you have really crappy hardware (Intel Atom 1.3GHz w/ 512MB mem), you will notice the difference. Execution of commands that takes 2-3 seconds on Gnome Terminal will be nearly instant on xterm.
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by kunai 14y ago
The proof is in the name: Hyper TEXT MARKUP Language HTML is for documents. Some sort of sick, twisted ideology has proclaimed it the all-useful programming language, but I repeat -- HTML is not an all-purpose programming language, the p
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by kunai 14y ago
> With a modern, 256-color terminal like iTerm2 or Gnome Terminal, it will even look like gVim Uh, I use xterm... It's obsolete, I know, but it's still the fastest.
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by kunai 14y ago
Ah. I see. Sorry about the misunderstanding; it wasn't offensive, just interesting.
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by kunai 14y ago
Agreed. I tried the Retina MBP at the Apple Store when I was getting my iPhone fixed and kept hitting the G and H keys out of habit. I tried to get used to the multi-touch trackpad; after all Apple does make the best in the business, but it
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by kunai 14y ago
> just another tool. The "post-pc" era still has plenty of PC's in it Exactly. When people cry about PC sales diminishing, I am in no way alarmed, because for some things PCs will always be required, such as CAD, programming, etc... A
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by kunai 14y ago
I've tried Unity on 13.04; Canonical's make a lot of tweaks to the environment and it's much faster and the apps in the dock launch instantly on click. Of course, I never use full desktop environments anyways; all of them are too big and re
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by kunai 14y ago
I've looked into them, and they make pretty good products, but I'm just too hooked onto Thinkpads' timeless design, and of course, the TrackPoint, to switch.
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by kunai 14y ago
Legitimate it may be, and by no means is this the most shining example of a good article, but it's not spam or anything like what is usually on the homepage of Reddit. > if there are no real limits on what material is appropriate, then

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