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by loevborg 15y ago
I think Adobe is nuts to be so hostile to its Linux users. Surely it can't be that expensive to continue developing the old plugin? The thing Flash had going for it was its ubiquity: it worked on all (desktop) browser. Now that that's gone,
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by loevborg 15y ago
On Unix, a new process is supplied argv[], an array that contains the executable name and invidual arguments. Clearly, supplying call() a list of arguments is the right thing to do. I seem to remember that on Win32, all you get is an argume
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by loevborg 15y ago
I was intrigued by the author's library "envoy", which is intended to provide a more intuitive interface to running processes from python. ( https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy ) The back story is that the older APIs that Python comes wit
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by loevborg 15y ago
This is what I do as well. To make thinks simpler, I use this script to automatically create the symlinks (if they are not already existant). If you put it in your `.zshrc`, you can run the command `dropbox-update-dotfiles` to make or updat
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by loevborg 15y ago
That's true, although in Germany I find it ridiculously expensive, like 7 EUR for a small bottle which lasts only so many pancakes. Although I like the flavor a lot, I can't afford to buy it regularly. Perhaps if I can find larger quantitie
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by loevborg 15y ago
Language log ( http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ ) and The Satorialist ( http://www.thesartorialist.com/ ).
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by loevborg 15y ago
Population density is hardly a good measure. Munich has 4300 people/km2 and, let met tell you, it's hard to find an affordable flat there. NYC or Paris are hardly a good comparison, either. In this sense, Munich is very crowded. In October,
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by loevborg 15y ago
I must say I had a similar reaction to the post. I'm sure it's hard to find a flat in Kopenhagen. On the other hand, that's just what I would expect: big cities in wealthy European countries are crowded and the rents too high. You would hav
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by loevborg 15y ago
For me, the important selling point would not be that I save the time required for installing the distro - that only takes a half hour anyway. What would make me buy your laptop (even with shipping from the UK to Germany) would be the assur
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by loevborg 15y ago
Perhaps this is not the right place to discuss this, but I have been surprised by the low general quality of answers (and questions) on Quora. At least in the topics I follow - philosophy, writing, clothes - the answers are often factually
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by loevborg 15y ago
Is it just me or is it meaningless that profits are down by a certain percentage? Suppose a company is just about breaking even. Last quarter it made $1,000,000 (of a revenue of $100M). This quarter it makes $1,000. Profits fell 99.9%. So w
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by loevborg 15y ago
This is as good an occasion as any to note that tex.stackexchange.com is a fantastic place with friendly and competent contributors. There's already a wealth of informative answers that one can search through, enormously more useful than se
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by loevborg 15y ago
A comment about "speller". All in all, I like it, especially the clean optics along with nice animations. 1. Looking at the site from Germany, I automatically get German translations. In German, the tool "speller" is called "Buchstabierer".
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by loevborg 15y ago
The German political spectrum is interesting to watch at the moment. There are substantial changes, with real consequences on all levels. So far I think this is democracy doing its job well. Thus established parties, like the "liberals" (FD
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by loevborg 15y ago
I don't think this is valid criticism of the party in its current state. If you can't give any evidence other than a post from two years ago based on a Twitter message (!), we can assume that, if someone denied the Holocaust, that was the o
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by loevborg 15y ago
This is really excellent. I like the concept a lot. Here are some of the things I really like: - This uses a proportional font. Most web-based editors I've seen so far used monospace, which, frankly, makes them bad for writing prose. The fo
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by loevborg 15y ago
I just saw that you can use viemu for Word as well. Does anyone have experience with that?
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by loevborg 15y ago
"altus" is an adjective and can mean both high and deep, depending on context. The literal meaning of the phrase is "Through wider things to higher/deeper things." "Through breadth to depth" is pretty close to that.
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by loevborg 15y ago
I thought this was a very funny comment.
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by loevborg 15y ago
What a thoroughly evil idea!
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by loevborg 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. So I guess the plan is at some point to get a work visa with the help of your own company. Best of luck for your endeavours!
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by loevborg 15y ago
As a fellow EU citizen, I'm interested in this. Could you elaborate? Are you able to found or work at a start up in the U.S. with only a temporary visa?
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by loevborg 15y ago
The best thing about philosophy is that it helps kids prepare for law school? A backhanded compliment if I've ever seen one!
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by loevborg 15y ago
Works perfectly in Chrome 12 (linux).
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by loevborg 15y ago
Pointing out that bug to the developers (with a patch for the html code to fix it in Safari) would be a wonderful way to apply for the job :)
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by loevborg 15y ago
Or the mailing list archive software they use, which must be the worst of a bunch of very bad ones. It seems incredible that there is no halfway decent way to view mailing list archives (mailman's html pages don't count).
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by loevborg 15y ago
I agree, this is very useful. Other than the advantages already noted, this is very easy to configure and you don't risk (potentially) misconfiguring your sshd in the process. One thing this could be useful for is using a public server as a
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by loevborg 15y ago
People always say this, and on my recent Thinkpad it works out of the box - but not every time. I can't completely rely on it. It's a world of difference to my friend's Macbook Air. To get these things right (polish), you have to spend some
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by loevborg 15y ago
Remember that ASUS shipped their first EeePCs with Linux pre-installed. They soon ended up selling most with Windows, though, after Microsoft made XP available for them and cheap. They didn't put a lot of commitment into Linux, using idiosy
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by loevborg 15y ago
Sublime Text claims to be an editor for prose as well as for code. But does it allow you to use good-looking proportional fonts with good line spacing? Yes, in this respect (though in no other) a text editor should be like Word. I write all

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