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by pavanky 15y ago
I tried out pcbsd, which I think is based off FreeBSD. The only issue I had was everything being built from source. Considering that userspace is pretty much the same for BSD and Linux, I am guessing there wont be many issues. Coming from a
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by pavanky 15y ago
Debian for server arch for desktop ?
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by pavanky 15y ago
Aren't the macbooks over-priced ? Personally I'd rather buy a laptop and a tablet (something like the transformer) rather than get something that costs twice as much or offers lower return on hardware for the same price. Disclaimer: I am fr
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by pavanky 15y ago
Any particular reason you have a Windows host + linux VM instead of the other way around ? Personal experience has been Linux hosts + Windows VM performs better than the other way around.
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by pavanky 15y ago
I am not from the valley and it is heart-warming to see Linux beat out OSX. Especially considering the number of mac books I have seen engineers carry about, the couple of times I have been there.
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by pavanky 15y ago
Sorry, I was talking about two completely independent things in the same comment. 1) About the negative points for the downvoter 2) The concept of "fan-boy downvotes".
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by pavanky 15y ago
Stack overflow does this, but I think only under certain conditions. Like if the question has been upvoted, or if you are the first person. I am not too familiar with how they do it. I disagree a bit on the fan-boy downvotes. From what I ha
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by pavanky 15y ago
I'd like to think I have two different peak periods depending on the kind of work I am doing. - 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Usually great for bug fixing and such. - 10:00 p.m.- 2:00 a.m. Usually when I am working on big, solo, projects. EDIT :
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by pavanky 15y ago
I don't really buy the cheap argument. The galaxy Tab 10.1 is $448 on Amazon, while the ipad 2 is $449.99. The galaxy tab's in the other form factors may be cheaper, but those are the markets that Apple is not trying to, and may never, com
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by pavanky 15y ago
He did not.
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by pavanky 15y ago
Perhaps, that is what you get by putting ex microsoft employees in charge.
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by pavanky 15y ago
Meh @ incentives. If I could make decent money doing what I love, working with like minded people and changing the world for the better, I would take even smaller odds / profit ratios. Add to that the open source projects they fund, the sha
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by pavanky 15y ago
Upvotes for being funny atleast.
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by pavanky 15y ago
> You'll pardon me if I meet that with some skepticism. Both my work-issued and personal laptops are Core 2 Duos, both run Lion just fine. The same is true for everyone else in my office: same model MBPs, same OS, no issues in upgrading
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by pavanky 15y ago
But at what cost ? I have seen horrors faced by people trying to upgrade their core2duo or even nehalem based laptops to the latest version of OSX. Besides, the post was about hardware fragmentation more than software fragmentation.
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by pavanky 15y ago
I wish I had the capacity to downvote this. Anyone who wants consistent design just because it is a pain to you should not be a programmer / engineer / hacker. Because if you are, any one of them, you whine, but then find solutions anyway a
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by pavanky 15y ago
Is it just me or does anyone else think all the doctors need is a bug tracking tool ? Preferably something that can be used from a smart phone / tablet via an app ?
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Isaac Asimov memorial debate - Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson (amnh.org)
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by pavanky 15y ago
_the millions of foreigners who just use what's provided._ Funny thing to say after seeing the statcounter shown in the comments show that >40% of north americans use internet explorer compared to ~30% in europe 35% in asia, 30% in sout
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by pavanky 15y ago
I completely agree. The biggest difference I have noticed, ironically, is while loading _google+_ (try it, firefox 10/11 is faster). The only reason I would use chrome over firefox is because of the incognito mode. I like randomly opening a
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by pavanky 15y ago
I just want to know what is so complicated / confusing about firefox. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6cqbdjZl7gM/T2eqjPeprhI/A...
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by pavanky 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neil+degrasse+ty... See them. See them all!
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by pavanky 15y ago
Isn't the problem that the distributions are downstream to the apps and libraries they install ? Quoting android and ios ecosystem is well and good, but in those ecosystems the os comes first and the apps are developed downstream. You simpl
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by pavanky 15y ago
As long as its not in my backyard.
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by pavanky 15y ago
I have been using Archlinux for over 2 years. During this period I have installed it on all the machines I _own_ (3 laptops, 1 work desktop). The biggest problem I had was when I had /usr on its own partition. This behavior was not recommen
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by pavanky 15y ago
Arch linux by default does not even have X installed by default. So while I install X, gnome, and nvidia drivers, the installation of the fonts of choice is the least of my concerns. P.S. I am not bashing arch linux, I am just pointing out
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by pavanky 15y ago
If you are going to go anecdotal, here is one from me too. All Indians that I know who reside in / near Silicon valley are programmers, software engineers, computer scientists. There are dozens, if not hundreds of startups that have been fo
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by pavanky 15y ago
1) Literacy The problem with the 75 % literacy is that many of those uneducated people are old and can not be taught now. The literacy of youth is about 85% which is still bad, but the number is gaining exponentially and should be near Amer
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by pavanky 15y ago
Boy, are you wrong! http://research.fhda.edu/Planning/2010-20%20EMP%20Demographi...
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by pavanky 15y ago
Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile! -- On a serious note, I love the technology like any other guy. But there will be this nagging issues about privacy. We would need to give up some parts of our lives, but who draws the line a

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