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by mithaler 14y ago
The key problem with Gnome 3 is that it wants to be both general-purpose and opinionated. Gnome 2 was an excellent basis for a desktop because there were so many ways it could be used. It didn't limit you; you were free to trim out things y
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by mithaler 14y ago
I must be missing something. Is there anyone who actually thinks Turing wouldn't be worth remembering if he hadn't been mistreated for being gay?
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by mithaler 14y ago
Actually, other Middle Eastern nations are nearly as worried about a nuclear-armed Iran as Israel is. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/23/nuclear-iran-un-...
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by mithaler 14y ago
Makes me wonder: what system was in place in the time of the Apollo missions for determining the exact location of a reentering spacecraft? Was it just, "here's the probable drop zone, commence search-and-rescue"? I imagine GPS would make t
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by mithaler 14y ago
A good friend of mine recently tweeted[0]: "Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it; those who do not study mathematics or programming are doomed to repeat themselves." [0]: https://twitter.com/#!/Sniffnoy/status/20118726619
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by mithaler 15y ago
I don't get it. Am I supposed to be mad at them for not removing www from their domain? Aren't there more important things to be mad about?
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by mithaler 15y ago
I have sympathy for the outcast with poor social skills because of mistreatment by society. But such an outcast ceases to be sympathetic the instant s/he makes someone else's life unpleasant. This isn't about "man hate"; this is about someo
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Another look at Dropbox(scripting.com)
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by mithaler 15y ago
In that sense, notifications are actually a good deal better than phone calls, which demand immediate attention (or frustrate the caller by making them think "you never pick up the phone!").
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by mithaler 15y ago
I doubt they will, seeing as how they've never blocked this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjoc...
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by mithaler 15y ago
For more background on the engineer-manager disconnect that led to the Challenger disaster, it's worth reading about Richard Feynman's famous appendix to the Rogers report (even Wikipedia's summary is a fascinating read): http://en.wikiped
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by mithaler 15y ago
The government is listening to its people to find out when they disagree with it? It's almost like they're a democracy! Folks, this is GOOD news. I know it's fashionable to complain about squashed civil liberties, but seriously, I'd be a lo
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by mithaler 15y ago
Intuitively, I think similarly--and then I put two pieces of the same text next to each other, one in Helvetica and one in Roboto, and I immediately sense a subtle difference in personality that I can't put my finger on but I know is there.
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by mithaler 15y ago
There was one discussion that I participated where I predicted that Apple would see declining profit margins due to increased competition. Remarkably this completely benign, seemingly obvious observation saw me declared a troll, and shortl
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by mithaler 15y ago
What would a "SOPA-like law that only applies to corporate websites" be? SOPA gives rights holders a process for removing content from websites that they own rights to. What would the equivalent be for a corporate website?
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by mithaler 15y ago
So if that is the way the world works, what of note have they accomplished, aside from drawing the ire of the US government and getting a leader martyred, their finances blockaded, and a barrage of at-best ambivalent media attention? The na
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by mithaler 15y ago
Wikileaks should not be editorializing. Feeding us a party line about a "mass surveillance industry" and "Orwell's World" and "Selling Surveillance to Dictators" is not going to bring people to their cause. All it does is make them look lik
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by mithaler 15y ago
I'm curious now: do you have citations for the "growing body of knowledge around porn-induced ED in 20-somethings"? I don't mean to undermine your point, I'm just interested in hearing more.
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by mithaler 15y ago
I use the Ubuntu patchset. The difference between that and stock fontconfig is night-and-day; installing it is a constant reminder that for all the controversial moves Canonical has made in recent months, making Linux fonts not look like a
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by mithaler 15y ago
You didn't respond to my point, which is that you're derailing the comment thread by accusing people of saying things they didn't say. That's a perfectly legitimate reason to downvote a comment, and it has nothing to do with being an "Andro
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by mithaler 15y ago
You seem to be trying to make some kind of wider point about "Android fanboys", and in so doing you're accusing people of making statements about Android sales that they haven't made, and are irrelevant to the OP. In reality, all I pointed
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by mithaler 15y ago
I'd like to see this broken down by manufacturer and model. Without that, all this tells us is "some Android phones are cheaply made", which is to be expected for an OS designed to be cheap and easy to put on hardware.
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by mithaler 15y ago
Y'know, no one here is saying that you shouldn't receive the same accolades as Shifra for stopping a talk in the middle and calling out the speaker for making a sexist joke about men. When that happens, post about it. But until then, this c
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by mithaler 15y ago
That sounds a little like steganography, or an IOCCC entry.
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by mithaler 15y ago
And this is my real beef with stallman's brand of free. His freedom is a narrow-minded ideology, abstracted from what freedom means in the real world. In the real world the only freedom I care about is the freedom to spend my time the way
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by mithaler 15y ago
Wait, what do you mean? Right now I have two Gmail tabs open at the same time, one personal, one work. I'm using the multiple accounts feature: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/MultipleSessions You need to keep the accounts separate becaus
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by mithaler 15y ago
To provide some context on his aims, Stallman sees money as a malign influence; he lives his own life cheaply so he can concentrate on what's important to him, not what money tells him to do. See this transcript: http://www.gnu.org/events/
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by mithaler 15y ago
Chrome just added an API for this in their dev builds, for Native Client at least. http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/10/dev-channel...
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by mithaler 15y ago
Was this actually written in assembly by its original developers? I'm not familiar with the history--I get the sense the code explained here was originally disassembled from a ROM, and then systematically analyzed to gain an understanding o
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by mithaler 15y ago
I have a Facebook account. I never use it for communication; I only use it for keeping my Android contacts up to date, for which I have yet to discover a better tool. If not for that I'd have deleted my account and /etc/hosts blocked it mon

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