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by pippy 13y ago
Thanks, I'll come back and read this next time I do it. The first thing I checked was the bit length, though it could be the file system type or the synchronized io
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by pippy 13y ago
I started making games when I was 5, and I love doing it. From flash to 3D applications I've probably given it stab. I've came to the conclusion that making games is far more constructive than watching TV or playing games, but unt
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by pippy 13y ago
I'd love to see a cross browser app, one that worked on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux that just required to to drag and drop an image and write to USB.
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by pippy 13y ago
Every single Debian USB image I've tried to flash with dd has failed in the last few years. I have to boot up a windows virtual machine and use LinuxLive USB Creator to create one. It's odd as the RaspberryPi debian image works pe
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by pippy 13y ago
For about last five years most linux flavours have been more usable than windows. Ubuntu and Debian have superb out of the box experiences, even more so given the disaster that was Windows 8. For example ElementaryOS is by far one of the be
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by pippy 13y ago
I'm still using python 2.7 because many of my libraries require it, such as wxwidgets and pygame.
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by pippy 13y ago
This post resonated with me. I love C#, but I refuse to use it. Much of the community is tied down to proprietary API's which would mean being sucked into the MS ecosystem, meaning I'd have to kill off over half my potential marke
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by pippy 13y ago
You do know that OSX is almost entirely built on BSD? Even their compiler that builds everything was open sourced by Apple.
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by pippy 13y ago
Healthcare.gov is all opensource: https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/ Some chunks are made in node.js: https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace They've taken down the source on
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by pippy 13y ago
Yes. The definition of art is more a philosophical question that varies from person to person, so getting consensus on defining what Banksy is is bound to ask the question. Perhaps that's one of his objectives.
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by pippy 13y ago
In most cases Banksy doesn't ask for permission.
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by pippy 13y ago
The line to me is clear - tagging is vandalism, but if it exists to send a message it's art. A high level of skill is required to make art, either aesthetically or emotionally. Of course there is the grey area where a tag can be so wel
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by pippy 13y ago
I agree 100% - however the alternative is just as worse. Going private means budget overruns, back room deals, and long delays.
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by pippy 13y ago
It's nice to see some scientific work going into the causality count in the Iraq war. Most of the surveys/official estimations are way off, the Opinion Research Business survey reported over a million deaths while most US sources
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by pippy 13y ago
It would be interesting to see how the Chinese envision an international currency. Essentially fiat currencies regard tax payers as asset-backed securities, and create value by issuing government backed bonds. With no tax payers and no cent
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by pippy 13y ago
MSIE is still lagging far behind in HTML5 standards: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html While MSIE may be 'good' browser (tastes may vary, I find the UI horrible) it's damaging to the web ecosyste
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by pippy 13y ago
I wonder why MSIE has made a comeback in the last two months. a 4% increase is quite a lot. As a web developer I hope the trend does not continue.
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by pippy 13y ago
HTML5 DRM video makes sense, and it might force content producers to modernise their distribution methods. This would be nice for consumers, many of who are forced to pirate simply because content isn't available in their country or do
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by pippy 13y ago
I still frequent Slashdot - I'm not that impressed. I'm reminded by digg 2.0
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by pippy 13y ago
If you're serious about art, you'll probably want a Wacom. If you're a professional you'll want a mac too, as there's the (almost standardised) software ecosystem with the creative types. There are Wacom Interactive
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by pippy 13y ago
One thing people haven't mentioned in this thread is the Windows Store. Windows is already following OS X in creating a walled garden with signed software. Microsoft implementing more controls on the Windows software ecosystem could be
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by pippy 13y ago
The first circle is SteamOS, the second will likely to be the Steambox: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/ There's also a third circle there...
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by pippy 13y ago
I am incredibly excited for this. This may well push Linux into the hands of everyday people.
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by pippy 13y ago
Why do people still use NetApplications as a source? It's obviously incredibly inaccurate.
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by pippy 13y ago
I've tried other fonts, nothing compares to Source Code Pro. You never really notice how much a decent font impacts how you read until you replace it with something else.
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by pippy 13y ago
I could see a huge market for Amazon or Google to step in and provide cloud based Legacy systems for large corporate clients. ReactOS could provide a nice foundation for that.
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by pippy 13y ago
>B) If you want credibility, share testimonials from your prominent customers, not reporters who spent 5 minutes reading your press release I don't know about this. If I read a testimonial on a website, I immediately assume it'
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by pippy 13y ago
ISS is not stable. Our company used to have the corporate website server going down multiple times per day. Even the developers working on .Net projects would have to restart their servers multiple times per week just to keep them up. That
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by pippy 13y ago
I much prefer wkhtmltopdf: https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/ It essentially allows you to make an HTML page and convert it to a PDF. It has powerful options around making footers, headers etc. The best part is you can run
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by pippy 13y ago
Let's not forget Microsoft's ad campaign around Google's privacy: http://www.scroogled.com/

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