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by paol 14y ago
Oblig. cartoon: http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
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by paol 14y ago
No, I'm a Boltzmann brain. The rest of you are just a figment of my imagination.
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Whoneedsaccess.org - making the case for public research access to the public(whoneedsaccess.org)
1 points by paol 15y ago|0 comments
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by paol 15y ago
Can you tell us what the site is? I've once or twice found sites that blocked even mailinator's alternate domains. Having a less well known alternative to mailinator would be nice.
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by paol 15y ago
The definition of risk you're using is incorrect. Roughly, risk = probability x consequence. The probability of a startup failing is the same for the founders as for the employees. The consequence is not.
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by paol 15y ago
Works well in Gnome 3 fallback mode. Works well in unity as well, provided you get rid of the global menu which is fundamentally incompatible with FFM.
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by paol 15y ago
Apologies, when I said "all" I wasn't thinking of KDE which is actually the only major DE I've never used in a multi-monitor setup. From what you say I should probably try it.
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by paol 15y ago
All OS's support multiple monitors offensively badly. The least bad used to be linux with Gnome, which had a bad default configuration but could be quickly configured to work great (without installing additional software even). Of course bo
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by paol 15y ago
So, you can clearly do the math, and still choose to be irrationally afraid. That's... interesting.
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by paol 15y ago
No, people like you are the cause of the problem described. The whole point of the article is that "we all know that in practice MAX_INT+1 is negative" is wrong . Apologies for the confrontational tone, but someone making that kind of mist
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All XKCD cartoons, now in 3D(xkcd.com)
3 points by paol 16y ago|2 comments
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by paol 16y ago
In short, no. It means using the subset of C++ that the author considers good. Obviously that varies a lot. At one extreme you have what is usually referred to as "C with classes": swearing off the use of templates, STL, etc. Having said th
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Peter Pomerantsev - the state of Russian TV(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by paol 16y ago|0 comments
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Global illumination + raytracing in a realtime engine(voltaico-engine.net)
2 points by paol 16y ago|0 comments
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by paol 16y ago
For any given diagonal size, the actual area of the LCD decreases as the aspect ratio increases.
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by paol 16y ago
"if Lenovo wanted to go back to 4:3, they can't because of the screen manufacturers" They certainly can , they (or anyone) just would be at a disadvantage in terms of price because of volume (and manufacturing cost, if what I wrote above i
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by paol 16y ago
3 years later the situation is even worse. Not only has 4:3 disappeared entirely, 16:10 is going away too in favor of 16:9 (apparently, I hear, this is because the 16:9 form factor allows better yields in the lcd manufacturing process). Thi
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by paol 16y ago
Uh, NVIDIA made the decision to fully support linux a long time ago. Within that ecosystem , Ubuntu is too big to ignore.
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by paol 16y ago
While I loved reading the Unix haters handbook it gets many things wrong. It gets a lot right too, but the point is it takes some critical thinking (and good knowledge of Unix) to tell which is which. In that respect I found the chapter on
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by paol 16y ago
This is a huge shift if it happens. X has been synonymous with GUIs on unix for more than 20 years, and has accumulated all the attendant baggage (both good and bad). There are also some big consequences for the linux landscape. The first a
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Inside story: The birth of Xbox(develop-online.net)
7 points by paol 16y ago|0 comments
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by paol 16y ago
Yes and no. The 747 is still in production and has been revised many times since. A 747 bought today will have relatively little in common with one bought in 1970.
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by paol 16y ago
I find Chrome full of little annoyances like this. I tried to move to it because of the huge speed advantage over firefox but gave up pretty quickly. I understand - and generally approve - the drive towards simplicity, but things should be
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by paol 16y ago
"When in doubt, use brute force." -- Ken Thompson
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by paol 16y ago
If you are goint to port an existing game you definitely need to get permission from the copyright holders first. If you don't you risk being forced to shutdown the project later, after already having spent a lot of effort on it. (This has
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by paol 16y ago
Is that with the ubuntu supplied drivers or the nvidia ones? Everything is working well for me with the latest nvidia drivers (256.53) on a GTX 260 card.
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by paol 16y ago
You can make borders as thick as you like. The "1px border" disease is a theme design problem. It wouldn't matter if bottom-right resize handles were standard, but as it is only a few windows have them.
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by paol 16y ago
No, you're seeing it correctly. I was of the (apparently minority) opinion that they had really dropped the ball with the new theme introduced in 10.04. That one release later still suffers from blatant UI screwups like that is really disap
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by paol 16y ago
For me what killed C++ above all else is how incredibly 3rd-party-library hostile it has turned out to be. The article covers a bunch of stumbling blocks that are external to the language, but there are at least as many in the language itse
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by paol 16y ago
To the point where the article becomes semi-uninteligible. And the writer seems oblivious to the irony.

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