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by ralphc 13y ago
If you play around 1) older machines, or 2) desktops in VMs, it's handy to know what uses less memory. I used to use XFCE in these circumstances but have switched to LXDE based on comparisons like these. Good balance between memory usa
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by ralphc 13y ago
EVE has full-time economists. How do you even put that in a job posting?
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by ralphc 14y ago
By the time you hit 50 you're taking care of aging parents. This can be worse than kids if they live somewhere else.
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by ralphc 14y ago
So the web version definitely doesn't do p2p? This would be good for work where there are usage agreements that specifically prohibit p2p
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by ralphc 14y ago
Walter Jon Williams' "Hardwired", 1986. Protagonist had billions of dollars on a chip that he had implanted in his body for safekeeping. I thought "that will never work." He also had people jacked in to the stock market, getting 10-second l
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by ralphc 14y ago
Anyone know a quick way to add who someone is following to a twitter account? I'd love to set one up and follow who he's following.
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by ralphc 14y ago
I had eight years of (hobbyist) Lisp experience when I was laid off in May; by then I was using Clojure in my home projects. Two of my interviews mentioned Scala, one place used it as their main language. I decided that, even if the languag
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by ralphc 14y ago
50, programming professionally for 28 years, still loving it, currently enjoying Odesky's FP class in Scala on coursera.
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by ralphc 14y ago
Linux Mint 13 with MATE is what you're looking for.
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by ralphc 14y ago
Having lived through it, the problem that Java uniquely solved in the '90s was that software companiesn had fallen in love with OO but C++ was too complicated for developers to use safely, with pointers vs. references problems, operator ove
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by ralphc 14y ago
It's my understanding that you can only torrent within the I2P network and can't reach out to the "outside" internet, is that true?
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by ralphc 14y ago
Am I the only Ubuntu user that likes Unity? Then again it could just be because it reminds me of Macs and a Mac is my main machine.
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by ralphc 14y ago
Look into the Mate desktop - it's a rebuild of Gnome 2 with maintainable code. Best way for a test spin now is get the Linux Mint Debian Mate iso and try it in a VM. I actually like Unity, but in Mint the Mate desktop is my favorite, lookin
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by ralphc 14y ago
Her Wikipedia article says "In the BBC television drama Micro Men a young Roger Wilson is played by Stefan Butler and Wilson herself makes a cameo appearance as a pub landlady.", I wouldn't think she has that much of a problem with it if sh
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by ralphc 15y ago
One of the suggestions that was worthy of a reply was that it's some derivative of Mosquito Lisp.
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by ralphc 15y ago
I upgraded three things at once - OSX Lion, VMWare Fusion 4, and Ubuntu 12.04 - and one or more of those things enabled the fancy graphics, windows fade in and out, the nicer task switcher, all that when you enable 3d graphics in the VM.
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by ralphc 15y ago
There was some switch around 9.10, different drivers or kernels or something. Here's what I used to get Lucid working on an old Gateway with a i915, it might work for you. http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-bl...
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by ralphc 15y ago
I had Ubuntu 10.04 gnome on my EEE pc 901 (Celeron, 1G ram, 16 G flash disk), I just installed this on it, it's definitely peppier, also Flash is smoother on youtube. It's a keeper.
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by ralphc 15y ago
I'd use a VM if you're running things like mysql, nosql stuff, etc. OSX it seems like everyone has a different way of installing things, on a Linux it's just "sudo apt-get", plus if you have issues there's more documentation and forums for
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by ralphc 15y ago
All the searching and outrage about the anonymous blogger is orthogonal to the original questions - are the majority of songs on Grooveshark put there by employees, by order of management (I'm guessing this takes away safe harbor), and is i
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by ralphc 15y ago
I have the same anecdotal battery life on my i7 Asus, so I ran a semi-anecdotal experiment. I'd charge the battery, connect to wifi, unplug the battery, do nothing for 10 minutes, then see what the OS reports as the time left on the battery
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by ralphc 15y ago
Working now, 4:15.
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by ralphc 15y ago
Still not working in US, 2:30 eastern time.
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by ralphc 15y ago
I got most of these right away, but could you expand on what you mean by "high throughput imaging (chemo/bioinformatics)"?
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by ralphc 15y ago
My favorite - "I recall the hot summer in remote Bulgarian village, almost on the Turkish border, with car broken and no way to get home, where I devised the first version of ØMQ wire protocol. Thanks to the guy who fixed the car! Without h
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by ralphc 15y ago
Someone at work bought two, one each for his under 6-year old sons so they wouldn't fight over them. Don't see that as a long-term market.
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by ralphc 15y ago
It's for people who like Macs. A Mac is my main machine, and I can see all kinds of parallels, down to the "disk utility" for formatting drives. I'm feeling right at home with Unity, with the menus at the top, the Dock (excuse me, Launcher)
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by ralphc 15y ago
If Steve was going to crush them, why bother to buy them, especially for nine digits?
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by ralphc 15y ago
I'm running the Live CD in a VMWare Fusion VM, and it just goes to Unity 2D, so I'm guessing that a lot more hardware will see Unity in one form or other with this release.
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by ralphc 15y ago
I'd agree with that, I especially found with metal that Spotify has a larger selection.

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