liljimmytables

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by liljimmytables 14y ago
> At the point one insists on Linux the desktop for an average user, the complexity argument has left the barn. This isn't meant as snark. Agree, but I'm not sure what you're driving at. I was talking about existing users that want to
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
It's more of an unnecessarily substandard user experience than anything else. The virtualised system is necessarily more complex than the bare system (it is the bare system + another OS + the virtual machine) so when something goes wrong t
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
I wonder if this will have an implication for running Linux on Surfaces, I hope it does because they're a very neat (and affordable - inb4 Asus Transformer) piece of hardware but I have little use for another Windows machine.
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
You're right about CRUD and canned solutions. On the other hand, I think that OP is in fact bemoaning their lack of investment in the product- that "CRUD" is just the most notable feature of it. So I would agree and disagree with you at t
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
> feedback was _not at all achieved_ To be more precise, _market_ feedback was achieved. A small, pizzling drip of market feedback. When you hand out devices, you're looking for _product_ feedback. That said, if someone offered me a f
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
Personally I've been waiting for this device for years. My primary phone usage is reading and composing email, making calls, and listening to music. I also use a Nook Touch to store reading material for reference and entertainment. This
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
This is broadly my take on things; I love the inspiration that I get from the startup community, but I'm not motivated at all by the rapid growth aspect. I'm sure that if one of my slow-growth projects developed into something bigger I wou
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
I think the interesting thing is that you can now raise large sums while still having an exit condition that isn't "IPO" or "buyout." To me, anything that brings the focus of the CEO back to "create cool thing" is a good move for capitalis
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
A personal opinion: Lua comes close to having a predictable control flow, as more program structure stuff is built in to the language. One of the headaches I had with Tcl was maintaining heaps of scripts that implemented structural feature
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
Humble Bundles have been my primary source of linux games for a while. They deserve much kudos for upping the game, as it were.
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
There is also already plenty of DRM-encumbered Linux software (I'm thinking of electronic engineering vendors, but that's only because my field of experience has led me there). If Steam will do anything in this space, it will bring mainstr
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
Everyone seems to be going on about bad webdesign, but with the exception of the blue-on-red in the search bar at the top I find the choice of colours uplifting. It's a personal taste thing I guess, but DDG isn't going to score points for
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by liljimmytables 14y ago
So, assuming one was a lazy slacker and wanted all their email to fall into a black hole for the purpose of work avoidance, have you got any advice other than "always mail people without CC?" It's not for me you understand, it's for a frien
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
I confess, after spending a few years as an inexperienced coder applying for anything I could get, that I take a perverse pleasure in updating my shitty resume only occasionally now, and not giving a wet fish about the formatting. (a) beca
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
Slightly off-topic, but it bugs me that the article feels obliged to contain a picture of the number. Firstly, why the hell would you want to display plain text as a picture? Secondly, if I click through to the source, I get a slightly be
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
I did something similar for a while but other concerns pushed my routine out of the window, and for the sake of my sanity I shouldn't have kept on with it as long as I did. If I could recommend one thing to anyone thinking of doing an earl
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
What do you think an economic incentive would add to the organisation? They have been working on this product for a while now, they're bringing it into production, they seem well-motivated and adequately resourced. Is this something that'
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
I expect it depends on the particular company, but I have noticed that there is a direct correlation between having a fully-staffed accounts department and paying your contractors on the last possible day you can get away with. (I'm sure s
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
I work in a very ad-hoc sort of way, but I find the idea of an n-hour work week very useful. If I work _n+d_ hours and feel exhausted, or I work _n-d_ hours and miss a deadline, I have an immediate and intuitive insight into what the probl
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
I think it's because people were trying to find their new social network and were getting errors instead. </conspiracytheory>
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
It really depends what it gives us. For synthesis what you want is to be able to stream bytes to audio out. You can currently do this with AudioTrack but it goes through IPC and is generally slow. Personally I'd call that a use case for
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
"Android 4.0 provides a direct, efficient path for low-level streaming multimedia" http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html I've been on the Android audio latency trail since 2009, and recently spoke to some platform d
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
This is a good point. Here's something I've found when arguing about similar things: Some people define "work" as "unpleasant tasks I do to get money," and by this definition I support the OP. Minimise that crap, get it off your plate ent
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
It looks great! One word of warning is that quite a lot of bugs in each Ubuntu release get fixed in the first month. If you're patient, you can sidestep a lot of stabilisation issues that might not have been found in the RCs. But in a mon
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
If this happens, you should take them up on the offer and see whether they notice when they try to initiate an introduction.
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
Hand-coding and maintaining bog-standard glue logic at the start of a project isn't good either. Auto-generation of database and glue logic for your app is possible, and the task usually falls to an ORM. The problem as described is that t
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
Or even due to awesome coding. I would hate to miss out on my occasional bouts of can't-drag-me-away-from-the-keyboard inspiration simply because someone "fixed" my work ethic and shut the office at 5pm. But yeah, I appreciate the sentimen
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
It's an interesting point. Mentally, I think of vi as meaning "a member of the set of vien" (from "emacsen"). Also, I never type that extra "m" so why should I say it?
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
"out of the people I know who use tablets" I didn't mean to make that comparison, I guess. I specifically don't own a tablet because it doesn't offer any really appealing use cases to me. I can't speak for the market in general, the iPad
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by liljimmytables 15y ago
"Most" is a bit presumptuous; email, social networks, and Hacker News are all good examples of things that are all reading-oriented. I'd say "most" of my casual computer interactions are eInk-friendly. I've ordered a Nook Touch for rooting

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