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by otis_inf 11y ago
Does it show more lines than consolas in the editor? I just measured Hack with Consolas (9pt) in VS.NET, and Hack shows 54 lines, Consolas 65 (and for reference, lucida console 131). The page you linked to shows the typeface, which is nice,
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Same here :) I was a lucida console user for years (and before that Courier) but as I passed 40 my eyes told me it would be better to use something else. Consolas it was, and I have to admit, it's great. I tried hack, it looked OK (in
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by otis_inf 11y ago
That was a great read, thanks for sharing!
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by otis_inf 11y ago
I'd still be interested what massive probs other distros have on e.g. VMWare?
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by otis_inf 11y ago
I use Mint 17.2 inside VMWare and didn't have a single problem. Not sure what VMWare version you're using, but 'hands down' suggests other distros have a lot of problems, but I don't see them.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
AFAIK you can disable it but it will enable it automatically after a while again, so it's not indefinitely disabled.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Enterprise. Pro has the 'delay till we say it's time' option.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Yeah I ran into that wall 2 weeks ago. I tried to switch to Linux for the host and run my Windows 8 VMs in VMWare on Mint. After fighting with the nvidia drivers at install for a bit I got it working but VMWare using dual monitors is super
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The Rise of JavaScript Frameworks – Part 2: Tomorrow(weblog.west-wind.com)
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> Online surveillance has better arguments against it but 90% of Internet surveillance is by permission (possibly given by people who are not fully aware they are giving it). It is not as bad as this hyperbole makes it out to be. No it i
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by otis_inf 11y ago
You don't have to edit the files directly on github in the browser, really ;) Just edit locally, commit even! It's magic!
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> these aren't the world's reserve currency. U.S could just pay its debt to China by 'printing money' China isn't the entity which holds the US debt, the US citizens do. Besides, printing money doesn't make
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by otis_inf 11y ago
for android users it doesn't settle anything. "Photos: We will never access your photos without explicit permission", but what does that mean? When the app is installed the user has to give permission to the app to access pho
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by otis_inf 11y ago
On unmodded phones? If not, that could be a problem ;)
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Not really, it's a limitation Spotify has to deal with if they want to offer 'services' which require these permissions. Access to photos is not needed to stream music, last time I checked ;) That Android has 'one-ticket
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> Well, actually, they want you to be able to set a photo as the cover of a playlist, and there is no difference between "Allow user to upload 1 photo" and "Have access to all of users photo" in terms of mobile permis
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by otis_inf 11y ago
For my understanding: why is my post downmodded to -1? Could someone explain that to me please so I can avoid the mistakes in the future? Thanks.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Only chapter 5 and 6, the rest isn't. Are we talking about the same book?
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Yes, I used 'Palas' as a base template for my company's site. Support is in general good, I'd say: lots of elements are worked out so you can build your layout with building blocks very rapidly, and configurability is of
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> When it comes to relational databases, I can’t help thinking that something is missing. They’re used everywhere. There are many different databases: from the small and useful SQLite to the powerful Teradata. But, there are only a few a
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by otis_inf 11y ago
There are much cheaper, well made templates available for bootstrap, e.g.: http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=bootstrap
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> I highly doubt they added a Google account requirement to improve ad targeting. Ad delivery networks, and google is one of the biggest, have one core business: delivering ads. Everything is setup to make that as big and as solid as po
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the info. :)
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by otis_inf 11y ago
"Could you come up with a counter-example to the hypothesis that drummers are actually natural intellectuals?" "Lars Ulrich" "..."
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by otis_inf 11y ago
In an article which states "..IBM's z13 mainframe computer, which had been designed for high-volume mobile transactions.", all bets are off with respect to reality. I mean, what does 'designed for high-volume mobile tran
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by otis_inf 11y ago
You shouldn't. The cloud is just someone else's computer. You can mitigate things by encrypting a lot but there's no way you can't know they don't peek at your data. So if you can't trust the company offering t
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by otis_inf 11y ago
In the post-Snowden era, USA tech corporations, like Microsoft, felt the downturn on trust from non-USA companies and citizens in their online offerings. With Microsoft betting more and more on their cloud services, I find it strange (or ma
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Modern day Lava Lamp. Very nice!
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Why whitelist ads at all? Ads are evil, the ad agencies track you, you run the risk of viruses / malware (like the recent 0-day exploit on a russian news site through ads), and there's zero gain for the person visiting the site.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
It might be me, but the article seems to make the same point as "The Web we have to save" https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a4...

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