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by mhw 13y ago
So if it's between 9% and 15% cheaper (your figures), what word would you use to complete the sentence "genuine, _______ priced alternative"? Higher? Same?
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by mhw 13y ago
I think you're right that there's a quantity of data where using D3.js will start to be more productive than doing it manually in something like Illustrator. It's an instance of a trade off that we're all familiar with:
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by mhw 13y ago
Your question is answered in the Q&A page linked from the email: Has the recent revert from Intel triggered this decision? A: No. It is completely unrelated. This decision was made by our engineering management team and was based solely
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by mhw 13y ago
I think part of the difference in approach can be explained by the arrival of the 386 processor. At the time Stallman makes his announcement he needs Unix workstation vendors to donate their proprietary hardware for him to work on, because
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by mhw 13y ago
I don't - I use ctrl-s instead. Similar position so just as easy to hit, but it seems to clash with fewer important terminal keystrokes as it has been historically used for flow control in the terminal driver. Here's the relevant
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'Critical phase' for Iter fusion dream(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by mhw 13y ago|1 comments
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by mhw 13y ago
> Developers are now forever beholden to the big corporates. Same as it ever was... Through the 90s and the early part of the 2000s, Microsoft had enough control of the market that it could often kill other vendor's products (or pro
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by mhw 13y ago
Just to be clear, in case the post's headline misleads you, there's nothing OS X specific about colout - it'll work just as happily on Linux. The documentation even points to an PPA from where you can install an Ubuntu package.
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by mhw 13y ago
I really don't understand this view that seems to be shared by quite a number of people: that Canonical shouldn't attempt (and some seem to suggest aren't competent) to build their own system components, but should instead confine their eff
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by mhw 13y ago
Is there any particular reason you prefer dogmatism to pragmatism in choosing your Linux distribution?
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The 1953 technology used to climb Everest(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mhw 13y ago|0 comments
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Clear your desk and go anywhere (almost) paperless(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mhw 13y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 14y ago
http://brightbox.com/ is UK based and privately owned. I don't think they've said anything about plans to expand into the US or otherwise.
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by mhw 14y ago
Not to mention that official law enforcement has governance in place to at least try to make sure they don't go and lynch someone on a hunch. It might not be perfect, but it's better than the alternatives.
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by mhw 14y ago
So the actual article title is 'Moving your contacts and calendar away from Google', not 'Move your contacts and calendar away from Google' as it was posted here. Less of an instruction/warning than might be expected, and more of a how-to g
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by mhw 14y ago
More interesting stuff from one of the developers here: http://samohtv.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/mir-an-outpost-envis...
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by mhw 14y ago
I think that's a very well reasoned proposal and I'd be very happy to see it implemented. I might be unusual, but I find myself in both of the user groups that the proposal identifies. For my 'utility' machines (home server, XBMC host, web
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Dell’s Ubuntu based Developer laptop just got better(blog.canonical.com)
3 points by mhw 14y ago|0 comments
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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS(ubuntu.com)
3 points by mhw 14y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 14y ago
What seems bizarre about this is that the licensed software market seems to be moving full-speed towards app stores with one-off fees, perpetual licenses and broad usage rights across a customer's devices. But with Office 2013 Microsoft see
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Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?(theage.com.au)
42 points by mhw 14y ago|32 comments
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by mhw 14y ago
Just a small warning about starring things: unstarring items by pressing 'y' from the Starred list (including bulk unstarring) is one of the operations in GMail that doesn't have an 'Undo'. So a key sequence like 'gs*ay' will remove lovingl
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by mhw 14y ago
It would be helpful to know what age range the app is aimed at.
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by mhw 14y ago
I think we used to have something similar in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_interest_relief_at_sou... Seems to be another one of those perks that got removed just as I reached the point in life where I'd benefit from it.
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by mhw 14y ago
Oh, yeah - absolutely. The servlet API was very much of its time, and for several years it seemed to be a good solution. I think it's only in retrospect that it became more clear that there were key challenges that everyone faced in buildin
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by mhw 14y ago
Personally I wouldn't let servlets off that easily. One of the basic design choices they made was one request handling function per class (the service method, delegating to doGet/doPost/etc for http requests). As a result, most applications
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Lenovo's quest to be cool(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mhw 14y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 14y ago
I find that too - much of my best thinking in the past has come to me during the walk to the office or back home again. I once took to carrying a dictation machine so I could capture these thoughts because I used to find that the process of
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by mhw 14y ago
My simple solution on the iPad has been to install the Google Search application and get my wife to use that for web browsing and email. That way she gets her own set of cookies so she can sign in to things separately from me (I use Safari)
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Don't Design for Reuse(cafe.elharo.com)
2 points by mhw 14y ago|0 comments

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