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by peller 10y ago
To actually understand what we as individuals can do, I recommend reading the Sustainable Energy book.[1] It's free online.[2] As a developer, you can educate and help people conserve energy. Heating and cooling are enormous culprits
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Yes, I'm well aware. My point was that I and many others would happily pay extra to pad their margins if anybody would just make a laptop screen/chassis/motherboard barebones combo worth paying for. In my judgment, nobody has
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For anybody who doesn't get this comment: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
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Aye, I wouldn't be surprised if the authors of this stuff might feel similar listening to you talk to somebody in whatever your area of expertise is. Experts use acronyms amongst themselves because it's more efficient for communic
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Well, if somebody legit wants to work for you, I suspect they'll be as curious about working with your team as you are curious about working with them. It's really a win-win situation for both sides.
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If it's not too big, could you just use tmpfs for compilation, and copy the final results to persistent storage if needed? Just food for thought; your point remains valid.
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To back up a step, why should there even be a "linux developer edition" model? Why can't they just make a solid laptop to begin with, that also just happens to support Linux? What's honestly different? The icon on the me
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Was just researching that myself. In America at least, looks like everybody except Verizon. But what I could find looks to be 2-3 years old: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil... hardware
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The semiconductor manufacturing processes might be flatlining a bit, but that's not entirely synonymous with "computer technology". One recent example we've already witnessed was in the GPU sector. They (nVidia and AMD)
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Ah very cool. Not sure if yours are similar, but the one near me has stuff for electronics, wood and metal working shops, a machine shop, rapid prototyping (laser engraver, 3d printers, CNC routers, ...) and lots of really quite smart and f
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Is there a makerspace/hackerspace nearby you?
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Do you happen to know if they use Clevo, or somebody else? I'd be curious to know which China OEMs are at least marginally Linux friendly.
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Just one command to decouple your project: "eject" https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app#conver...
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I think the line should be practical. Personally, I switched to running Linux full-time about 15 years ago. Never looked back. But I still used nVidia drivers even though open source would have been preferable. Using anything else was hell,
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These days the big names make both (Asus, MSI), so that's one way to reduce nightmares, but yea, I hear you.
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You can have the best of both worlds on *nix: tap == ESC, hold == CTRL http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...
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Meh. Personally, for desktops/workstations, the best part is spec'ing out the components and building it myself. I get it, it's not for everybody, but at least for performance-oriented software devs, in my opinion it's w
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I don't know if this is a thing on OSX, but tmpfs can be pretty sweet for speeding up various storage-IO-heavy tasks. (In essence, it's a filesystem partition mounted in RAM)
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"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has
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by peller 10y ago
Yep. Anecdotal but for what it's worth: One of my friends failed to get into med school after graduating. So she worked at her school's hospital doing various things (sorry I can't elaborate further) for 3 years, re-applying
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What are you, personally, interested in? Where do your passions lie? What do you want to learn more about? Try to build something, anything, it doesn't need to be complicated or awesome or even original, that scratches a personal itch.
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Huh. I felt the same way about my high school. I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised. I wonder if it could be feasible to rotate kids through some kind of county/state shared resource with opportunities for "demoing" var
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OK. What might you or your friends have found to be more helpful uses of time? It doesn't have to be in a classroom setting. Or in your experience was the curricula more-or-less sufficient and you consider something(s) else might be be
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Well I imagine the needs of inner-city-poor and rural-poor are often different, to pick two extremes. But I myself have never lived either of those lives, and I've only interacted with the rural-poor (through volunteer organizations).
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What I was getting at is that the subject matter often isn't applicable to helping them solve their specific problems. Education (curriculums) shouldn't be one-size-fits-all.
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> Poor kids don't do well in school because their families and their environment don't value education. Have you considered the possibility that the educational system doesn't value the needs of the poor?
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That recommended reading list is so good I'm going to save some people the trouble of finding the link: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/now-reading/
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Well, this is a complicated question :) AMD's "build more cores" strategy is, in comparison to Intel's "build more cores" strategy, all marketing. What I mean is, they both have to "build more cores"
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This entire thread is worth checking out: The "I want to do everything but end up doing nothing" dilemma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049208
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Very fair points. Hypothetically: what if the professional organization ("PO") were more concerned with all of the programmers' share of the pie, as compared to say sales or management, instead of each individual programmer&#

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