mayhew

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by mayhew 13y ago
Locking people into their mobile ecosystem is probably worth way more then that in the long term. That's what these companies are all about, after all.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Go's numbers are quite impressive considering how young the language is. That combined with the concurrency primitives and ease of deployment makes Go very appealing.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Yeah, I don't think they had to compromise this much. Using the H.264 decoder on the host OS was good enough.
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by mayhew 13y ago
I'm not sure about uWSGI, but Gunicorn's default worker was designed to be behind a proxy that buffers slow clients.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Learning an editor is an investment in a developers time. Software has to be updated and maintained to work on newer operating systems. With popular open source editors, you're pretty much guaranteed that the software will continue to
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by mayhew 13y ago
I've been using rbenv. I didn't realize it could install gems without using sudo when the system Ruby is activated. Thanks!
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by mayhew 13y ago
Is there nothing equivalent to virtualenv for Ruby? It'd be nice to be able to use the system Ruby and just get gem to install into an isolated project specific location.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Because they can charge us $100 for it.
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by mayhew 13y ago
I doubt it. All Node.js libraries are built around the non-blocking model which is why it works so well. Python libraries will have to decide if they're a normal blocking library or an async one. Possibly maintain both versions of the
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by mayhew 13y ago
Thanks for all of your hard work. VLC is a great example of open source software that "just works" for normal users.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Yeah, the stock fonts on Fedora look absolutely terrible (especially on the web). To get usable fonts: 1. Install freetype-freeworld from RPM Fusion 2. Get the Microsoft fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana 3. Edit your ~/.co
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by mayhew 13y ago
"NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau." Seems like they just want Nouveau to work better dur
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by mayhew 13y ago
It'll likely just boot straight into Big Picture.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Ubuntu isn't planning to use Mir until the 14.10 release. [1] GNOME 3.10 will have Wayland support later this month. [2] [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037... [2] https:&#x
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by mayhew 13y ago
Sorry, but sending code upstream for their distribution-specific display server (which has no technical reasons for existing) isn't benefiting the rest of the community.
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by mayhew 13y ago
I'm sure upstream would be more willing to work with Mir if there was technical reasons for its existence. As it stands, Mir provides no benefit to anyone but Canonical, who simply want control. That control comes at the cost of fragme
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by mayhew 13y ago
That works fine because Intel has open source drivers. Not so much if NVIDIA and AMD decide to only support Wayland.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Ubuntu is creating Mir for political reasons. There's no reason for upstream projects to maintain code that only benefits a single distribution.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Backbone is a library, not a framework.
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by mayhew 13y ago
Backbone is a library, not a full-fledged framework like Ember and Angular. I could see Ember and Angular being implemented with Backbone. Backbone isn't opinionated and makes no design decisions for you. It's also very low-level
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by mayhew 13y ago
That and the fact that a lot of people want Linux to succeed as a desktop platform.
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by mayhew 13y ago
I hope Firefox's OS X integration improves soon. Lion-style scrollbars, the bouncy effect when you hit the top and bottom of a page, and back/forward swipes have no animation. It's pretty terrible in terms of usability compar
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by mayhew 13y ago
I've been using Linux for about 2-3 years now, and in every distribution I've used (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch), sound has "just worked".