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   by pavanky 10y ago

   As someone who has done this, including project fi, I maintain my own backups on a personal server at home and another one on a VPS. Owncloud / nextcloud provide automatic syncing of photos if need be. I sync up all my important docume
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   There are other socially liberal issues outside of gay rights and drugs. On some of those counts Gavin is very very conservative (for example he is very very sexist).
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   He explains it later on in the article: I could have wiped it there and then, handed it over and later restored from last night's iCloud backup, but I don't like not having a fully working outgoing device before doing a res
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   I am really glad that e-commerce is taking off in India. The code factories model of relying entirely on foreign projects is not sustainable in the long run. The problem however is that there aren't a lot of jobs for other kinds of eng
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   That has to be the most ridiculous line of reasoning I have seen.
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   > American voters want change. Change at any cost right now. And they'll keep trying for it. And yet they keep voting in the same Congress which can affect the most change.
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   This is slightly different. All 500 and 1000 rupee notes in circulation right now are being demonetized. In previous cases demonetization was done for older currency over a longer period of time.
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   I hope they support the Nexus 6. I am lining up to buy a new phone and this would be a great use for my old faithful.
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   by pavanky 10y ago

   They only get bashed if you hang around /r/linux. That place is toxic sometimes.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    Firstly, I see a lot of people complaining about the design, but the matter of fact is a lot more programmers are willing to work for free and make their contributions open source than designers are. This was more true a decade ago than it
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt... I have an earlier version of the precision. You can easily extend the RAM in the precision line, but I am not entirely sure about the
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    Indian government agencies have weird recruiting procedures and age limits as far as I can tell. I am not sure if things changed now. Perhaps getting work at Antrix would be different ?
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    I would argue that most people simple love to argue.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    Good luck supporting newer hardware without such a cadence.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    I did not say gnome and KDE. I specifically mentioned gnome on Fedora and KDE on opensuse.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    Oh please, just because you don't like something does not mean people in the Linux space before elementary were just slapping stuff together. Sure, there are a lot of distributions and desktop environments that focus on getting stuff d
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    They are using a 4 year old model (it has a sandybridge processor in it).
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    > The part of this article that highlights what Douglas Crockford did to get him removed from Nodevember is fine. A bit boring, but fine. But that is the important part though. He got removed because he used words like "promiscuous&
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    > "Increasing inclusivity means making the Node.js project a safe and friendly place for people from diverse backgrounds." That seems like a solid goal to me. When you have people who have different opinions of what "safe&
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    That is only going to be a problem if they do not upstream the changes to Chromium.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    > Nexus 5 > Expensive phone Really ? That phone costed less than half of what an iphone costs and you can easily get a well supported ROM if you wish to. Granted the situation sucks, but Google has been upfront about their support tim
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    I mean Intel is comparing their publicly unavailable product against NVIDIA's publicly available product. Now NVIDIA is replying with the benchmarks on their (as of yet) publicly unavailable product. I think this blog post is fair game
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    I remember reading that they updated it to be full key a few versions ago. I can't seem to find the actual link for that..
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    GNU is not an OS either. GNU/Hurd is. GNU/Linux is.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    I don't have access to KNL so I can not comment on it. Any competition is good for the HPC space.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    > Larrabee ran Compute Shaders and OpenCL very well - in many cases better (in flops/watt) than rival GPUs Oh god the horror that was OpenCL on Xeon Phi. 1) It was extremely buggy. Any OpenCL program of decent complexity was bound
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    If people here are interested in Linux and are not convinced about the Dell XPS developer model, check out their precision models: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt... I
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    Even if there is copious amounts of comments, doxygen is still pretty terrible. Unfortunately there's nothing better for C++. Everything else seems to be more pain in the ass than it is worth.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    This leaf isn't generating oxygen though. It's generating alcohols. I wonder what it would take to generate oxygen out of the alcohol.
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    by pavanky 10y ago

    No, it's done because it covers two of their largest markets Gaming machines and clusters used for scientific / finance applications.