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Martin Owens declares Ubuntu Community dead(doctormo.org)
5 points by mindstab 14y ago|1 comments
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Ubuntu 13.04 Will Be Released, Rolling Fate Unknown
2 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
http://i.imgur.com/u4DVg94.png Always on DRM overloaded. Please come back in half an hour to play your single player game? As my friend pointed out: "see if you can spot who got paid off by EA" http://imgur.com/E9Nkgyo
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by mindstab 14y ago
The same way bush got elected twice (despite all the tech people I hear from in the US hating him): a quiet(ish) massive population of conservatives coexisting uneasily with us. In Canada especially in our rather significant rural areas lik
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by mindstab 14y ago
I want two of these and Google glass. Seems like a match made in heaven. Should be able to get Silent Messaging going, straight out of Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End#Augmented_reality
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by mindstab 14y ago
> Isn't that leaving off a bit of context? Ask them if "Hiring someone who plays hoops on to a team that thinks basketball is a stupid waste of time and recently campaigned against tax payer funding of a local venue for an NBA team." is
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by mindstab 14y ago
I'll weigh in, I had no problem with her thesis. What about it did you have a problem with? As for her questions, they weren't a blanket judgement, more sometimes this is how far wrong what you say with good intention can go. It's a warning
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by mindstab 14y ago
True, and I recently did the coursera class on clojure. I'm definitely keeping it in the back of my mind for future projects. I still personally find JVM languages slow memory hogs during development but that's another issue :P It's definit
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by mindstab 14y ago
Practical reasons: The language is great for enhancing your style but in practice it's been one of the hardest languages I've come across to make do real things. It interacts with the outside environment very poorly and more awkwardly. It's
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by mindstab 14y ago
Learning to program in lisp (specifically reading Practical Common Lisp [ http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/] ) has made me a better programmer in all other languages even if I don't really use Lisp. Even my friends/coworkers have noticed it
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by mindstab 14y ago
or possibly sarcasm :P and demonstrating the point. Life can rock. it doesn't have to be a grind.
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by mindstab 14y ago
I'm actually quite surprised how offended some people are getting over this. It seems like a pretty reasonable article trying to bring awareness to how some of the things we laud thoughtlessly can be used as tools against us or others and a
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by mindstab 14y ago
Hey, unflag this, it's a really decent interpretation and can help wake some people up and let them form better startup culture!
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by mindstab 14y ago
Hardly the most bitter. Most of it is still assuming misguidedness and ignorance not active malice.
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Canonical might switch Ubuntu to rolling releases for 14.04(extremetech.com)
63 points by mindstab 14y ago|26 comments
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Dawson student expelled after finding online security flaws(cbc.ca)
6 points by mindstab 14y ago|1 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
Me as well, at least for a netbook replacement. Though to some extent possibly putting a debian chroot onto an SD card might almost be enough. There are a few different attempts to start putting dev environments onto android (and then ther
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by mindstab 14y ago
Ubuntu/Unity (and Gnome shell) are doing all the wrong things and this shows it. Ubuntu especially are now focusing on blingy desktops that somehow require really new cards and hardware only, and yet are also trying to throw away the tradit
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by mindstab 14y ago
I feel like this joke quote provides some wider context "Scientists baffled by Canadians' ability to watch movies, play video games and not shoot each other"
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by mindstab 14y ago
I would have thought "Have access to the entire world of smart talented people" would have cropped up but it didn't. I see why, that's not quite the direction the article was going in, but it's another benefit. In my company we had a prett
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by mindstab 14y ago
"Thalmic is being stealthy about what their [sic] working on but in short" really? :(
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by mindstab 14y ago
Battlecode is actually also open to the public and the two years some friends and I did it (09 and 10 I believe) we came in #1 and #2 outside of the MIT teams (since we didn't have it as a class and it was only free time it was a bit harder
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Port Torque 3D to Linux(indiegogo.com)
1 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time(thenextweb.com)
9 points by mindstab 14y ago|1 comments
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By the numbers: Guns in the U.S.(cbc.ca)
1 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
Ha thanks, that looks "amazing"! I will definitely check that out.
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by mindstab 14y ago
#4: loyal devs start to leave: they don't even cover half of it. What about all the game companies literally angry about windows store like valve who is leading the steam on linux charge? Or the unity game engine? Or Notch? Big names in win
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Canada prepares for crackdown on BitTorrent movie pirates(globalnews.ca)
2 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
touch centric design for people using a keyboard and mouse?
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by mindstab 14y ago
Could be the best news in the Linux desktop wars I've heard this year

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