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by maheart 11y ago
Android uses the Linux kernel. That's where the similarities between Android and GNU/Linux end. Ubuntu Touch is GNU/Linux. It is largely[1] made up of "standard" GNU/Linux components (e.g. glibc, systemd [soon]
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by maheart 11y ago
Linux on the mobile has made some great progress in the last couple of years. A large part of this progress is thanks to the efforts of Jolla (SailfishOS), Canonical (Ubuntu Touch) and Samsung/Intel (Tizen). Linux on the mobile can tod
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by maheart 11y ago
The relationship extends further than that. Openshot 1.x was developed on top of the MLT (Media Lovin' Toolkit) Framework. MLT and Shotcut are developed by the same person.
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by maheart 11y ago
So much negativity in this thread. Where's your hacker spirit? It might not yet be as feature-rich or polished as Android or iOS, but this is a very hacker-friendly project! I for one am really excited about this. I wrote about why on
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by maheart 11y ago
Not OP, but I use emacs + jedi[1] for Python development. In addition to code completion, having documentation available to you as you type, and easily navigating code (e.g. jump to definition), you also have all the usual emacs goodies (un
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by maheart 11y ago
> - it appears PyPy performance improvements have begun to plateau [1] It does appear that Pypy's performance is reaching some asymptotic limit, but there's always new avenues to investigate. e.g. The STM branch of Pypy removes
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by maheart 12y ago
> Better than GNOME. They are having and developing actual application like geary and midori. As stated above Geary is built on top of GNOME technology (Vala, EDS), and uses GNOME infrastructure (i.e. bug tracker and git.gnome.org) -- an
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by maheart 12y ago
Windows Phone is backed by a $500B company. Jolla is a company started with ~$250M in funding.
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by maheart 12y ago
> Even if the source code is publicly available, and outside contributions may be accepted, Mozilla is still going to act as a gatekeeper, which inherently limits which contributions will or will not make it into Firefox OS. Even the Lin
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by maheart 12y ago
Off topic, but does anyone know what software was used to make/generate the slides webpage?
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by maheart 12y ago
As a non-American, can you explain why you would not support Obamacare?
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by maheart 12y ago
Wagtail ( https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/ ) does not use the Django admin. It leaves it completely alone. It really is just another Django app. Highly recommended.
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by maheart 13y ago
I don't usually post stuff like this, but I know that Python+Django are pretty popular in this community and startups, and this book covers good things like: security, deployment, and other "good bits".
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Two Scoops of Django 1.6 – $12 on Amazon(amazon.com)
2 points by maheart 13y ago|1 comments
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by maheart 13y ago
Educational costs are however drastically increasing in Australia. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aust... e.g. For CS (3 year course), pre-1997 you'd pay ~$9000. Today you'd pay
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by maheart 13y ago
>> are they any better than Android when it comes to privacy and security? Privacy +1: the company behind Sailfish OS (Jolla) doesn't generate its revenue through ads. Privacy/Security -1: Sailfish OS currently doesn't
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by maheart 13y ago
>> As a design goal Python aims to be as little flexible as possible to enforce its design goal of making code readable at any and every cost. I think that's a very narrow way of defining flexibility. By your definition of flexib
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by maheart 13y ago
> It lacks the flexibility of Ruby, general appeal of JS, philosophy of Clojure. This feels like a cheap shot. What flexibility, general appeal, or philosophy? Flexibility: Python is very flexible (I'll say dynamic), but not at the
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by maheart 13y ago
I wish you'd kept with Mark 8/Mark 9 style (allowing you separate the two halves of the keyboard). I find this the one killer feature of the Kinesis FreeStyle. Unfortunately Kinesis Freestyle does not use mechanical keys.
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by maheart 13y ago
This looks really good. I'm kind of concerned (wondering?) about the long-term viability of this product: 1. It's free (how does the company backing it plan to stay in business?). 2. It's free (as in beer), so I/the comm
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by maheart 13y ago
Why would Adobe do something like this? It costs them money and it doesn't improve their position (and IMO, their goals) at all.
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by maheart 13y ago
What exactly is attracting you to FreeBSD? I ask because Debian has a FreeBSD "port". That is, it offers the Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel. So, depending on what you're looking for, you might be able to gain ac
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by maheart 13y ago
> Redhat is somewhat open-core: They develop proprietary interfaces and products as well as the core OS. What proprietary interfaces? Red Hat does have things that are not available to the public (e.g. RH network), but these are more ser
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by maheart 13y ago
> There SRPMS are open source because they have to be, not altruism. Disagree. I think RH opensources a lot of products because they really do believe it's better (whether that be for "the community" or simply their bottom
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by maheart 13y ago
Hi Michael, thanks for all your work. About the second point (host specific information in Ansible roles): I was referring to this: http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks.html#roles -- I was (incorrectly) under the
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by maheart 13y ago
I've used and continue to use, both. I like both tools, it's hard to choose one. Ansible advantages: +1 no client required. Python libraries may be required on the client machine to take advantage of certain modules (e.g. Python&#
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by maheart 13y ago
<2% is a little rich. GNOME (not GNOME shell) is still the default in: Ubuntu (although admittedly less as time goes on), Debian, Fedora, Mint. All very big distros. If you mean GNOME Shell, I still find <2% hard to believe, as its
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by maheart 13y ago
I agree with agriculture, but how are banks unprofitable? EDIT: I should say "unprofitable without legislation"
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Help kickstart Openshot. Receive a nice Pythonic video-editing API(kickstarter.com)
3 points by maheart 14y ago|0 comments
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by maheart 14y ago
Your title is wrong, it's not what he said at all. Why would you write such a sensationalist title? The quote is "To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, ..., were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl" What he's saying is as clear as day

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