nycticorax

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by nycticorax 8y ago
I could have used some examples of "the war" in progress. Personally, this war has not really impinged on me. I'm not claiming it's not happening, but it would be good to have some evidence that it is happening. O
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by nycticorax 8y ago
There's an xkcd about this: https://xkcd.com/1285/
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by nycticorax 8y ago
Well, I know that I hate them. And I know a lot of other people that hate them. And I'm pretty suspicious of 'features' that allegedly make life easier for naive users by definitely making life harder for experienced user
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by nycticorax 8y ago
Maybe I'm being unfair to the snap devs. But maybe not. Comments like this don't inspire confidence: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053... Also, the bug was first rep
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by nycticorax 8y ago
I can't find "official" XDG documentation of this, but the Arch Wiki describes, for instance, the XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR and XDG_VIDEOS_DIR environment variables: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_
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by nycticorax 8y ago
To me, the real problem is not the dotfiles, but the regular (i.e. non-hidden) files that applications surreptitiously create in my home folder. (Which the author does mention as being particularly bad.) dotfiles in the home folder are no
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by nycticorax 8y ago
A USB DAC+amp seems like the right answer if you don't want to break out the soldering iron and don't want to buy an Apple product. I just don't think makers of commodity hardware have much incentive to spend money on good
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by nycticorax 8y ago
Does anyone have any insight into why Paul Romer is a Julia skeptic? In the blog post https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-... he says: "Which reminds me. If you are a Julia enthusiast, how do yo
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by nycticorax 9y ago
For WSL to be perfect (for me), it would also have to have better integration with the native filesystem. This whole business where the WSL filesystem is a separate thing, hidden away in the user's AppData folder, that you can't
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by nycticorax 10y ago
> Think that's bad? Try switching back to windows. I've found it is at least as bad, except you can't edit driver source to work around brain damage. It is like staring into the abyss. This does not match my experience at
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by nycticorax 10y ago
1. It's optional, but its existence increases the testing burden for all other parts of the application, because now there are more options to test. See here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list&#x
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Sure seems like LibreOffice would be better off investing in stability than in this sort of thing. Honestly, one of the things I like about LibreOffice is that the UI is fairly traditional. I'm all for innovation, but in my opinion m
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Or Ubuntu Mate 16.04, and switch to the "TraditionalOK" theme. (The default theme is, IMHO, not attractive.)
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by nycticorax 10y ago
This looks like a nice service, and the price seems very reasonable. Hope it works out well for you!
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by nycticorax 10y ago
So... in practical terms, what's the simplest way for me to get an account on an XMPP server that supports all these modern XEPs? I could maintain my own XMPP server, but I'd really rather not. Life is short, etc. Is there a
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by nycticorax 10y ago
I think your viewpoint is really wrong-headed. Since around 2001, Apple has given you pretty much a single way to write OS X apps: Objective-C and Cocoa. Yes, there was a brief flirtation with Java, but that lasted what? A year? And aft
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by nycticorax 10y ago
What are some examples of well-known desktop applications written for .net? Recent versions of Visual Studio are the only ones I know of, and those are only well-known to developers.
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Is there any evidence that desktop users want UWP applications? Given the reception of Windows 8 and MS's subsequent backtracking with Windows 10, it seems like most desktop users prefer traditional winapi applications.
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by nycticorax 10y ago
This article would be better if it talked more about what applications he typically uses on his Chromebook, and talked about any downsides he's experienced. From the article, it's hard for me to tell whether my experience would b
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by nycticorax 10y ago
That was in the early 90's, when most papers were still distributed as, well, paper. Back then, someone had to build and run an actual printing press.
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Word is awkward for this. (At least the offline versions of Word are---I've never tried the online ones.) Word does have a "track changes" feature, which is invaluable when you have multiple authors, at least in the absence
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Maybe I've drunk the kool-aid, but saying "academic institutions fetishize academic papers" seems wrong to me. It's like saying that developers fetishize working applications. It's not a fetish, it's the whol
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Just adding another data point: When I was in CS grad school (late 90s), everyone used LaTeX (including the journals). Then I started hanging out with neuroscience people, and everyone (including the journals) used Word+Endnote, with basic
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by nycticorax 10y ago
So... The ultimate source of the breach was an exceedingly weak password? OK, I guess that does seem like a rookie mistake, which is worrisome. Sorry for the naive questions, and I apologize for my confrontational tone. But I really ha
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by nycticorax 10y ago
> They basically had no effort in their security, This is clearly hyperbole. "no effort"? C'mon. > no idea how long they were compromised, and couldnt even respond effectively. The hacked .iso was up for less than 24
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by nycticorax 10y ago
Certainly, lack of security can lead to lack of stability. But sometimes Ubuntu makes changes that can render your machine unbootable, in the name of security. And in some cases the Mint devs chose not to make those changes. There's
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by nycticorax 10y ago
No, I read all of the "thorough" discussion. I found it unconvincing.
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by nycticorax 10y ago
None of these statements are correct.
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by nycticorax 10y ago
It's been a while since I used Unity, but as I recall it uses a global menu (yuk), it lacks a window list (which I like), and Alt-Tab works in a per-application, not a per-window, basis. And I think it does the Mac thing where clickin
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by nycticorax 10y ago
I agree with you, that's why Canonical did what they did. It's also why Gnome 3 is the way it is, and why Windows 8 was the way it was. But to me, it feels like a huge mistake in all cases. I use my desktop all day. I want an

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