primelens

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1. 61.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   I do have XCode, but I am wondering if I could have just installed gcc with macports since they seem to have it.
2. 62.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   I was just thinking on the same lines. I work in the humanities and even if the article form remains, there is the possibility to radically rethink the journal model. The journal model is too closely tied to assumptions about print and dist
3. 63.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   And that's how long I've been MS-free :-).
4. 64.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   I tried it because I wanted to try free (as in freedom) software and never felt the need to switch back as it did everything I required of a WYSIWYG word processor. I guess I have just gotten so used to it now that when I use Word/Exce
5. 65.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   I switched to NeoOffice several years ago and currently use LibreOffice. Wrote my dissertation on it. And this despite having access to MS-Office for free through a university license.
6. 66.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   LibreOffice is fighting the good fight and for most things it's a great substitute for word. But I've always wondered what would happen if something like Latex were to become truly user friendly - I mean pre-compiled distributions
7. 67.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   > Typical self-congratulatory anglo-conservative clap trap. No one outside of a very small group of wealthy Britons and Americans (and, alright, some wealthy educated descendants from the former colonies) could possibly share such an im
8. 68.▲
   by primelens 13y ago

   > Look at the size of the war memorials outside Europe. Consider the sheer number of volunteers. During the Second World War, 215,000 men served from New Zealand, 410,000 from South Africa, 995,000 from Australia, 1,060,000 from Canada,
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   by primelens 13y ago

   Yes, I know about the PDF issues, and I also realize that there are so many great resources on the web that having a dedicated general purpose programming magazine doesn't make business sense anymore. It is quite possible that what I m
10. 70.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Aside - I miss the paper Dr. Dobbs' Journal from the early nineties. Is there a modern equivalent?
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    by primelens 13y ago

    My knowledge of the actual workings of Watson is sketchy, but doesn't it devote a massive amount of resources to understanding natural language queries? Can it scale its ability to handle one question at a time to handling a billion qu
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    by primelens 13y ago

    What bugs me about the Sokal affair is the implication that they didn't catch a bad review process but proved an entire discipline to be a sham (a discipline which they understood relatively little of to begin with). So, when you get j
13. 73.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    I've been amazed at how compelling a platform IPython - especially the notebook format - has become. On the R front, RStudio also seems to be getting better quite rapidly.
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    Ubuntu Touch OS launching Oct. 17(phandroid.com)

    2 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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    How to install Ubuntu on the Surface Pro(geek.com)

    9 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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    Projecting without a projector: Smartphone content on display(googleresearch.blogspot.com)

    9 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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    Verizon pleads incompetence, refuses to activate Nexus 7 on its LTE network(extremetech.com)

    4 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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    Valve to reveal Steam Box details next week: Is this the year of Linux gaming?(extremetech.com)

    1 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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    by primelens 13y ago

    OTOH, it must be nice to know that even if your house blows up (hopefully when you're not in it), your life's work is mirrored and backed up on millions of computers. All he lost were some pull requests which have to be re-sent. T
20. 80.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Ah! But then I'd have another Apple specific gizmo in my life :-). But it looks interesting nevertheless. Thanks.
21. 81.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    I've never used it, but do you mean a Desktop with a permanently attached external drive to backup to? How does that work on a laptop?
22. 82.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Aren't those contract prices?
23. 83.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Just saw one of his videos. And while he was a very skilled pilot, I wouldn't get within meters of those things while they were airborne and spinning at those speeds. Geez! What a waste for someone to have such skill and yet lack the s
24. 84.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Anyone used one of these touch screen laptops for Linux? How useful is the touch display with say the latest Ubuntu distribution?
25. 85.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Speakers that visualize your music as it plays. Play the 1812 overture and it actually goes up in smoke.
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    by primelens 13y ago

    Wow, I'm sure there's plenty of things to vehemently disagree with Torvalds on and even to criticize him - manners, politics, management style and even the finer points of programming. But I would have thought he'd earned his
27. 87.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    That's a little harsh. Yes he has a tendency to be - erm, 'vehement' about the quality of code, but there is no one else anyone would rather have at the helm of the kernel project.
28. 88.▲
    by primelens 13y ago

    Looks like this can't do email. Is there such a thing as an otherwise dumb phone that can just do email (specifically Gmail)? I can live without all the other smartphone features, but email would be nice to have.
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    by primelens 13y ago

    It's the hardware and the fact that it's Unix. Seriously, the Macbook Pro is a beautifully designed machine. The only things that could compete with it would be similarly priced Thinkpads etc, but you have to install and customize
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    by primelens 13y ago

    This is more about being very good at sed than bad at chess, really :)