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by nickolai 15y ago
>An "appealing design, an expedited set-up process and better customer service" are easy to replicate. For any bigco the size of paypal to replicate it, they would first need to realise they are doing it wrong. Which requires a relative
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by nickolai 15y ago
Nice list, A few nitpicks : + *Coffeine* Gaaaah. An IT guy misspelling Caffeine. + *twits* This one is actualy funny. A "twit" is a moron. A "tweet" is a twitter message. The "No twits" thing definitely helps concentratio
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by nickolai 15y ago
Don't get me wrong. It is possible, the community website provides an accurate walkthrough[1] of how to do so and it looks totally scriptable. Mint just doesnt seem to have the "fire and forget" option ubuntu has. Their justification is tha
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by nickolai 15y ago
I "sidegraded" to mint 11 right after the dubiously-named "upgrade" to 11.10 which broke the ubuntu 'classic' desktop. Mint had a normal interface and behaved as one would expect. Given how close the base was to ubuntu, the transition went
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by nickolai 15y ago
I may have missed it, but have they actuelly had real users(i.e. not ui designers) do some usability testing (i.e. actual real work) on this? Coming up with it an pushing it into a public release in 4 months looks risky to me. Given how fru
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Group settings can diminish expressions of intelligence(research.vtc.vt.edu)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
Not that kind of UX. In this article UX stands for 'Urban eXperiment', not user experience. Have a look at it it is an interesting read.
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How Neutrons Might Escape Into Another Universe(technologyreview.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous' new weapon(h-online.com)
74 points by nickolai 15y ago|18 comments
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U.S. website blackout draws praise in China(latimes.com)
84 points by nickolai 15y ago|3 comments
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What to Do If Your Business Gets Hacked(entrepreneur.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms(articles.latimes.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
> So in reality this is a modest improvement (2x) over existing laminated glass armour More than 2x actually - the guy behind the glass would be dead, unlike the one behind their improved glass. I'd say this is a significant difference
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Darpa authentication project focuses on humans as secrets(zdnet.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Epigrams on Programming(www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Woz concedes Android advantages over iPhone(news.cnet.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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SOPA Opera: Anonymous Targets Media Execs, Moguls Take Aim at Google(venturebeat.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Air Force Drone Controllers Embrace Linux, But Why?(informationweek.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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HealthCheck: Linux Mint(h-online.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
One of the ways ive seen these systems born is when the user requirements are ill-defined. "Okay so you are not sure - you may need either foo or bar, so we will put this little foo-to-bar knob here so you can tune it just as you like, howe
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by nickolai 15y ago
Umm, yes C/C++ will not parallelize your code for you, whereas Language XYZ will. Im not sure how this is an argument against C/C++ being effective. C/C++ will not parallelize your code by design. It's was never meant to. I'd never blame my
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Thinnest silicon-chip wires refuse to go quantum (newscientist.com)
42 points by nickolai 15y ago|10 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
I dont like the term "nuclear option". The fact that there is no "mutually assured destruction" if they follow-up with this makes this so called "nuclear option" much less scary. Besides it is never been done before, so no one even knows wh
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by nickolai 15y ago
>Plain orange juice has a higher pH than Mountain Dew. I think that comparison would be enough to quell any shock over citrus soft drinks. Having a higher pH actually means being LESS acidic. And no one would ever expect a mouse to 't
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by nickolai 15y ago
I'd feel uneasy if asked to show some of my code. Obviously i cannot show something i'm currently working on, and everytime I look back at some code I wrote six moths ago I find myself wondering "did I really write this piece of crap?!".
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Video game industry voices urge ESA trade association to drop SOPA backing(venturebeat.com)
4 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Sony, EA, Nintendo drop explicit SOPA support(digitaltrends.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Avengers, Controllers and Games PR in the Wild West of the Superfan(forbes.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
I frankly wouldnt mind if the abortion opponents, or the climate change deniers, creationsists, flat earthers or any other such group decided to blow up a few politicians' careers by emptying their closets on Main Street. As long as they ac
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Points about migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux(zdnet.co.uk)
3 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments

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