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by mhw 15y ago
The problem is not that enthusiasts who want to run an open source operating system won't be able to choose appropriate hardware to run that OS. The problem is that Secure Boot may remove the option of buying a Windows PC and then at some l
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by mhw 15y ago
I don't know the precise reasons for the Gnome developers choosing to go with a binary format, but there are some fundamental (and well understood) constraints that you're working within. First of all, can we just take it as read that the m
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by mhw 15y ago
Not all of us tech people aspire to be system administrator on every single box with an operating system that we own or come into contact with. Eventually you start to realise there are too many boxes and not enough time. I have absolutely
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Entrepreneur characteristics(monevator.com)
1 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
Hmm. From a quick scan through the screenshots, of the 13 apps reviewed only two use a large image of a microphone in their UI and only one of those is a photo-realistic rendition - the other is much more stylised. So what I get from this i
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by mhw 15y ago
Touché! :-) Seriously though, do Barnes and Noble actually sell the Nook to international customers? They certainly don't market it over here, while Amazon have run quite a lot of TV and print ads. Buy the look of it I'd have to buy the dev
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by mhw 15y ago
I'm in London. Where's my nearest B&N so I can go and pick one up?
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by mhw 15y ago
A feature which was copied from rlogin and rsh, I seem to remember. Me too.
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Android in trouble(quirksmode.org)
3 points by mhw 15y ago|6 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
Sorry to be all nit-picky, but the title of the submission here is significantly different from the title of the petition. The title here suggests running government IT like a startup (and a number of comments seem to be addressing that ide
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by mhw 15y ago
For those parts of the system that are GPL licensed, they (or the handset manufacturers who are distributing the compiled code) shouldn't be able to: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/most-android-vendors... From the article, nice l
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by mhw 15y ago
Hmm; I don't see that, but I visit the site quite regularly. Perhaps they're doing it deliberately to put off new visitors?
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Borders Bankruptcy: How Much Do You Want For Those IPv4 Addresses?(storefrontbacktalk.com)
5 points by mhw 15y ago|2 comments
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Measuring the mobile web is hard(matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
9 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
> Usually, new product categories sound pretty crazy at first, but by having others copy you, they're basically giving you social proof for your business, and saying you're not crazy for making that type of product. Ah, of course. Becau
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by mhw 15y ago
I agree with you to some extent, but the problem is that the political parties have decades of experience with the current winner-takes-all model. If we were to move to a model where they have to share power and cooperate they would have to
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by mhw 15y ago
When? Oh, 20-odd years ago! Rob Pike's sam editor ( http://sam.cat-v.org/ ) is architected as two components. One is the graphical front end that typically runs on your local machine, the other implements the actual editing functions and ca
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by mhw 15y ago
> What Airbnb does need to do is find a sustainable method of dealing with incidents like this in the future. What Airbnb needs to do is find a method of preventing this type of incident in the future. They have to work out how to cha
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by mhw 15y ago
It was built by a small, low cost team. At the middle of last year it was run by four people, but then the company got bought by Twitter: http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html
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by mhw 15y ago
I'm surprised that this is considered news, because it's been an observable issue for 15 years or more. As I understand it, when O-Levels were replaced by GCSEs the maths syllabus dropped some of the more challenging areas like calculus, le
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by mhw 15y ago
But all corporate employees are also consumers, and the last ten or so years of consumer-oriented web and native application development has raised everyone's expectations about how software can look and behave. The corporate IT shops are n
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The Attraction of Laws(julianbrowne.com)
1 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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Peer To Patent (UK)(peertopatent.org.uk)
1 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
Given the 10 hour difference between the publication's time zone in Melbourne and the developer's in London, it's likely that the email dropped in to their inbox between the hours of 11pm London time (9am in Melbourne) and 4am (1pm in Melbo
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by mhw 15y ago
The earliness and specificity of the preview seems to me like a pre-emptive strike against whatever Apple announce at WWDC in a few days time.
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by mhw 15y ago
When thinking about my career overall, I broke things down into small company/big company and buy side/sell side (or customers and vendors). I think you are likely to get different experience from working at each. This may be less true if y
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by mhw 15y ago
The internet changed that, eventually. I'm the mid-90s I worked at a UK university computer science department. At the time there were no firewalls around the departmental network and pretty much every machine, from the Sun and SGI workstat
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by mhw 15y ago
Also worth a quick look through the release notes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes
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by mhw 16y ago
I think the problem you need to tackle is not whether your source control system can scale to handle your huge project as a single entity, but whether your whole development process is being hampered because you're looking at it that way. I
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by mhw 16y ago
Agree 100%. Two anecdotes that show how far we've come in the last few years: * Working on my laptop on the train the other morning I cd'd into an old source tree that was checked out from subversion a few years ago. I was brought up short

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