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by lvillani 15y ago
- "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert C. Martin - "Physics for Future Presidents" by Richard Muller Not really a book but I found the "MIT Guide to Lock Picking" an interesting read.
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by lvillani 15y ago
Sure he could, but things like that happen all the time. Countless people start forks and new projects every day, while they could improve the existing ones (the world is full of examples). I have this darwinian vision of the software world
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by lvillani 15y ago
Honestly, I don't understand why move this personal attack against Lennart. From my point of view he just wrote pieces of software he deemed necessary. I would rather put the blame on distributions other than Fedora¹ for trying to integrate
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by lvillani 15y ago
You might be affected by: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/763005 There is a series of known bugs where the window manager picks the wrong refresh rate resulting in choppy animations. I noticed that this happens consi
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by lvillani 15y ago
It's not a whole separate distribution. It's akin to Fedora's "spins": an ISO with a different default set of packages. Nothing prevents you from installing Ubuntu proper and then "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" on it. I agree, though, th
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by lvillani 15y ago
Genuine question: did they announce when the source code for ICS will be released? AFAIK, http://android.git.kernel.org is still down, I can't seem to reach http://android4.git.kernel.org and http://source.android.com/ still lists Gin
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by lvillani 15y ago
> [...] It's perfectly possible to ignore something for decades and still fall in love with it later. > [...] I can believe you are no Windows fanboy without you presenting credentials. You're right. Sometimes I believe it is be
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by lvillani 15y ago
Foreword: I've been using various flavors of Linux for a good chunk of the last decade (since 2001) and totally ignored Windows until last year, so I am no Windows fanboy. 2. This may be true for the good old cmd.exe but.. have you tried Po
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by lvillani 15y ago
From the FHS: "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated." [1] And I believe that "system software" today
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by lvillani 15y ago
I guess you can try it yourself (if you have a VM or a partition to spare). Steven Sinofsky says they're going to make Windows 8 Developer Preview ISOs (with and without development tools) available to everyone: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b
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Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview(blogs.msdn.com)
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by lvillani 16y ago
You can force a screen to become primary by running: xrandr --output VGA1 --primary Adapter name may be different on your machine. I have to use it because in my case it always defaults to laptop's monitor.
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by lvillani 16y ago
And for those of us with Linux (needs notification-daemon and libnotify): #!/bin/sh while true; do sleep $((30*60)) notify-send -i applications-games -t 60000 "Play" \ "Hey, it's time to take a break\!"
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by lvillani 16y ago
I can't live without: - IDO - Smex - (Enhanced) project-root.el ( http://piranha.org.ua/project-root/ ) and its project-root-find-file function. (and my modular configuration is here: http://github.com/lvillani/.emacs.d )
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by lvillani 16y ago
... except that the N900 isn't Symbian-powered (and we're talking about Symbian phones here)