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by pavanky 13y ago
I have the dual core evita. Using 26/9 nightly.
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by pavanky 13y ago
I got ~40 hours yesterday on my HTC one X by doing nothing special. My phone still had 6% left when I plugged in. The 2 days prior to that have been busy days at work for me and I have used the phone for ~3 hours (1 hour phone calls, 2 hour
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by pavanky 13y ago
For those of you who are unaware, it got pulled the same day it was put on the play store. It did not exist long enough to do any serious damage.
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by pavanky 13y ago
Motorola Atrix shipped with fingerprint scanning back in 2011. The reason any other device doesn't have that feature ? Apple bought the company that made the scanners and stopped all further support. This even killed support for new an
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by pavanky 13y ago
Well you'll have to show me what Ubuntu has that Debian does not. Kubuntu, I suspect, is only named because it was originally sponsored by Canonical. Nothing more.
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by pavanky 13y ago
You are right, that is what I meant. Something a person fairly new to Linux can use.
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by pavanky 13y ago
> The majority of desktop installations are either Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based, and Ubuntu is quickly becoming the server of choice as well. Unless you are using unity, I don't see why a distribution should be called ubuntu based instead
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by pavanky 13y ago
It takes a few days. Even less if you read the specifications. Years seems unreasonably high.
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by pavanky 13y ago
What are the equivalent locations for windows ? Also almost all programs installed via the package manager will use the same paths. If you are installing a package manually, then things get more.. interesting.
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by pavanky 13y ago
As opposed to windows where the user binaries are not located in a central location, I'd take this any day of the week. You can't blame *nix for having too much choice. Especially when it's coherent.
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by pavanky 13y ago
You can't plan for user stupidity. The system paths do not have spaces in them.
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by pavanky 13y ago
It used to be the same in India. But it changed a few years ago. Now you can Indian citizenship if you are born in India and atleast one of your parents is an Indian citizen.
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by pavanky 13y ago
A little bit disappointed that none of the Indian languages have been listed. Wikipedia places Hindi above Persian and Japanese among the most spoken languages in USA.
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AMD releases APPML source code, creates clMath library(developer.amd.com)
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by pavanky 13y ago
Well shit. Not all companies hire H1Bs just to reduce their operating costs. Sure there are some that may work that way, but given the current demand I haven't seen any of my friends from India working below market value.
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by pavanky 13y ago
It is a matter of semantics. Once you have an H1B, the new employer does need to make a petition. In immigrant speak, this is usually called a transfer. The transfer does not usually fall under the quotas that the original application fal
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by pavanky 13y ago
The idea that H-1B workers are paid less is idiotic. Especially if the employee is from Harvard. You may be saving tens of thousands of dollars if you outsource the job, but hiring an employee to work in the USA is different.
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by pavanky 13y ago
429 million sounds about right. 439 million skews the numbers way too much.
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by pavanky 13y ago
Linus frequently talks about how all he does these days is merge stuff with very little coding of his own.
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by pavanky 13y ago
You have to realize he was probably talking about each of those points. Slides don't translate well into reading.
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by pavanky 13y ago
How is that smugness working out for you ? Windows users are fewer than iOS users. Would you now compare Windows phones to Ferraris by using the same analogy ?
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by pavanky 13y ago
Why should companies care about selling software for $9.99 when there are free alternatives, while instead they can focus on other things where they really add value ?
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by pavanky 13y ago
People using FORTRAN have this weird tendency of not changing much with the times. Their code bases go back decades, and PGI compilers are something they continue using.
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by pavanky 13y ago
Remember these are people who have been using windows all their lives. Change is not something all people can deal with easily. It also says, given the chance to be the default desktop, Linux can have higher than 1% market share.
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by pavanky 13y ago
There is money to be made making software for Linux. Mostly in engineering / Scientific software. Making money of utility software ? Not so much. If you are a company like PGI you are probably making a ton of money selling fortran comp
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by pavanky 13y ago
That is not totally true. The reason most people stay with Windows is because the hardware ships with it. In my experience Linux usage has about 50% retention rate among those I installed the OS for. If you'd install OSX or Windows on
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by pavanky 13y ago
Some would say that is the meaning of being stagnant. If you want something that "just works" in that the environment is recognisable, use something like Redhat. You caught Ubuntu (or Fedora or other distributions that moved to GN
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by pavanky 13y ago
> There's a lot of things in that blogpost that would make most linguists facepalm (especially the part about Sanskrit being "more expressive" and "more systematic"). The idea that Sanskrit is an ancestor languag
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by pavanky 13y ago
> Not sure what he is referring to exactly, but Sanskrit itself is a descendent of proto Indo-European, from which many other Western languages were derived. So it is a near cousin to the original language of the Indo-European people, bu
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by pavanky 13y ago
Relevant xkcd http://xkcd.com/1189/

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