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by mgunes 17y ago
Fantastic, I am just sad that KDE didn't do this first. Actually, KDE did it first: the application indicators specification started as what was basically a port of KDE's KStatusNotifier.
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by mgunes 17y ago
That's because you've happened to grow accustomed to the misdesigned concept of "minimizing applications to tray". The fact that it's been part of graphical user interfaces for some time and mostly gone unquestioned doesn't mean it's good d
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by mgunes 17y ago
If it's an SLR, you do, in that you block the stray light that can go in through the viewfinder, which is perhaps the counterpart of the wifi signal emitted by the netbook in your analogy. Most photo enthusiasts and professionals will block
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by mgunes 17y ago
This is effectively a summary of his Google Tech Talk on git. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
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by mgunes 17y ago
I'm using the Droid Sans font for the UI. It's a great improvement in conciseness and should be the default interface font. Here's a good argument as to why it shouldn't: http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-droid-isnt-answ...
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by mgunes 17y ago
And then there's http://raptranslations.com , which is way more hilarious.
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Uncoiling the Spiral: Maths and Hallucinations (plus.maths.org)
4 points by mgunes 17y ago|0 comments
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by mgunes 17y ago
Indeed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=629383
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by mgunes 17y ago
Transcript: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Freedom_Businesses_Protect_Pri...
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Eben Moglen on privacy and the technology of memory(blip.tv)
1 points by mgunes 17y ago|1 comments
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by mgunes 17y ago
That's a good argument; one that I've seen raised in favor of web apps in the ChromeOS context multiple times. I have no doubt that Nerd Apocalypse in your sense is not on the radar. The question I'm trying to raise (and I'm really trying t
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by mgunes 17y ago
The concern is not with whether there are enough machines to tinker with today or whether there will be that many five years down the line. The concern is with what kind of computing culture is being instilled by the largest mobile computin
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by mgunes 17y ago
Also on HN: "Git: A Designer's Perpective": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774983
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by mgunes 17y ago
Reading this right after reading Clay Shirky's recent "rant about women" was an interesting experience.
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by mgunes 17y ago
And is in the current development branch as well: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/clojure
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"I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by mgunes 17y ago|0 comments
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by mgunes 17y ago
No, just someone who deemed it suitable to present to the UN security council false intelligence based on biased, unconfirmable sources, to justify invading a sovereign country. This is not a baseless accusation, since he has admitted it fu
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by mgunes 17y ago
That must be the experience that underlies Lesson 6 (no pun intended): "You don't know what you can get away with until you try".
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by mgunes 17y ago
Every install of Ubuntu 9.10 (going final in two weeks) will come with CouchDB, managed with Desktop Couch: http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2009/07/09/desktop-couch-initi...
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by mgunes 17y ago
Check out Tracks. http://getontracks.org
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by mgunes 17y ago
Yes, and all it provides is anecdotal evidence. Do you have a link to Microsoft's tech specs for the Vista / 7 graphics stack where I can find factual evidence? Probably no, because they're only made available to graphics chip manufacturers
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by mgunes 17y ago
No, the point of the article is that "X is old and bloated, and that's why it crashes when I'm resizing a video, so it should be deprecated". And that's not sound technical reasoning, and is factually inaccurate. Windows graphics drivers th
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by mgunes 17y ago
Blaming the X architecture for slow drawing and windowing operations is a common mistake. Most of the latency that's introduced into operations that affect the user's perception of GUI "speed" is introduced by toolkits and inadequate 2D acc
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by mgunes 17y ago
I'm at peace with the notion that non-technical users aren't interested in and shouldn't have to learn what's under the hood. However, the author of this article is not a non-technical computer user, despite his claim to be one; if you're a
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by mgunes 17y ago
You don't know that the majority of the X drivers for high-performance hardware are closed source and proprietary, and are developed independently of X, at times going in conflicting directions with it (take the NVIDIA proprietary driver),
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by mgunes 17y ago
It's every bit as arguable that it's data generated by the commons, which they merely aggregate and circulate.
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by mgunes 17y ago
"That's all very well in practice, but will it ever work in theory?" -- G. R. Hill III
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Streams vs. Documents(software-libre.rudd-o.com)
2 points by mgunes 17y ago|0 comments
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by mgunes 17y ago
There's also the option of simply using a wiki. MoinMoin can render pages to the DocBook format, through which you can output to many formats, including TeX.
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Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?(cooper.com)
2 points by mgunes 17y ago|0 comments

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