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by npsimons 12y ago
They are both much, much faster than X11. X11 has higher latency and uses significantly more bandwidth. In my experience, this hasn't been the case. Running Emacs via X full screened across two monitors (both at 1920x1080) is much sn
902.
by npsimons 12y ago
I don't think X11's network transparency is useful at all nowadays. RDP and VNC give much better results. And yet every single time someone brings this up, plenty of people chime it that it is useful, because they're usi
903.
by npsimons 12y ago
Try "Peopleware" (DeMarco, Lister) and "Flow" (Csíkszentmihályi).
904.
by npsimons 12y ago
Much like the old "beatings will continue until morale improves", these interruption articles will keep being posted until interruptions cease. Why, are you feeling annoyed by the interruption of this article ;) ?
905.
by npsimons 12y ago
What we need to fix the situation is more pressure on hardware vendors to release specifications and free software. Very much this. Even with the vast power that kernel developers wield, even with offers to write (for free!) and integrate
906.
by npsimons 12y ago
By that argument, you should be naming servers after Aztec gods (Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli, anyone?)
907.
by npsimons 12y ago
This was addressed at the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux kernel mailing list a few years ago. The problem is not just hardware manufacturers trying to differentiate themselves, but carriers fucking around with software loads trying
908.
by npsimons 12y ago
Came here to make a very similar comment: I have a friend with Celiac's disease. Wish the fad dieters would stop ruining things for people with actual adverse reactions. That, and people shouldn't be so quick to judge.
909.
by npsimons 12y ago
Not to second guess someone else's motivations, but I would have to disagree. To me, current HN design feels perfect, and I'm sure if pg had wanted it to be "shinier" he would have done so. After all, it's implement
910.
by npsimons 12y ago
I just don't think that you can follow some rule dogmatically Sure you can, if the rule is "don't write shitty software that crashes". In which scenario do you think users are more likely to buy: when an app crashes wi
911.
by npsimons 12y ago
And how do you know that wasn't the commit where the bug was introduced? You check it by hand? Great, you've now defeated the purpose of git bisect.
912.
by npsimons 12y ago
And how do you know that wasn't the commit you were looking for? The whole point of bisect is that you don't have to do a manual bug hunt; you can create a script that tests for the thing you are looking for. If it's somethin
913.
by npsimons 12y ago
This, to me, sounds like the much more reasonable and sound approach to containers, as opposed to the "SSH bad!" article. As someone who doesn't use containers or virtualization heavily, but maintains multiple systems (server
914.
by npsimons 12y ago
And one of the major benefits of git is that you can do short, small commits often, to your private repo . When your fix or feature add is ready, you can squash them into a more coherent commit that builds and passes tests (so that it does
915.
by npsimons 12y ago
There's an issue here where people are conflating two definitions of "history". Sure, what happened in the real world can't be changed, but why should we be constrained by that in the worlds we construct in software? Jus
916.
by npsimons 12y ago
MMDV, and for my current project we have code reviews that don't pass and merge unless the automated CI (builds, tests, lints, etc) pass, so if your new feature takes 1000 lines of code, so be it. We do try to keep to the minimum neces
917.
by npsimons 12y ago
Not that I'm any sort of expert in mindfulness, but I like to relate the concept via a few analogies. The first is that for dieting, one strategy is to be mindful of your satiety. Pause between bites and feel if you are full. Another
918.
by npsimons 12y ago
So basically, you're saying the real estate agents are just the next casualty from the collateral damage that is the elimination of friction in society, and they are doing what they can to remain as middlemen.
919.
by npsimons 12y ago
Reminds me of this (seen in /usr/bin/fortune): Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practic
920.
by npsimons 12y ago
Having said that CCS is based on Eclipse, at least when I used it a few years ago. To me, this speaks volumes: it clearly shows that open source is as good (and in many cases better) than closed proprietary. Granted, as you said, code
921.
by npsimons 12y ago
Picking Stallman seems like a poor choice of example: he's been called a "smelly weirdo" by probably more people he can count, and I'm afraid that arguing it's all down to his politics would just be making excuses.
922.
by npsimons 12y ago
Yes, the feeling I got comparing the two articles is that "Big-Man" situations are subtly different from ostracizing of more generous people. For one thing, it sounds like "Big-Men" are more of mediators than actual dono
923.
by npsimons 12y ago
As a customer, I've always felt that companies that have a lot of advertising (eg, certain insurance and banking companies), are wasting their current customers' money. Just stop to think how much a TV ad costs, then think about w
924.
by npsimons 12y ago
for example, you don't want someone to mistype their password, paste it twice And right there, you've made the wrong assumption that so many have in this thread; the whole point of password managers is that you're not t
925.
by npsimons 12y ago
The possibility that this completely ignores is pasting the password twice. The best passwords are randomly generated, lots of what looks like line noise, and very long. Computers are very good at making these passwords, so much so that pro
926.
by npsimons 12y ago
That sounds remarkably like my school; New Mexico Tech perchance? I was a UC, then SysProg at the TCC for a while.
927.
by npsimons 12y ago
Lookup Trovebox; it was on HN a while back.
928.
by npsimons 12y ago
It's not rocket science. I built a database that does this, but obviously falls short of platform-level access, which is what's really needed to sync up everything from alarms, brightness settings and email/calendars to wher
929.
by npsimons 12y ago
OpenGL might be broken, but Direct3D and DirectX are not the solution. Otherwise, you might as well just correct yourself and say "Windows gaming" not "PC gaming". And clinging to a different single vendor's pro
930.
by npsimons 12y ago
On its own it tastes like grass clippings. Not quite as user friendly or accessible as Soylent which differentiates the two. Arguably, Soylent sounds like it doesn't taste much better than grass clippings, so I don't think they&

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