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by reidrac 14y ago
I said 12.04 and not 12.10. There's no way of disabling the lens I removed in 12.04 (may be because they got introduced in that release). EDIT: at least I couldn't find a way to disable them. Nothing in privacy settings and nothing with dco
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by reidrac 14y ago
In fact it turns out that 12.04 has some lens making queries to different services when I was searching stuff using the dash, and I didn't know about it. I fixed it with: sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores unity-lens-video unity-le
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by reidrac 14y ago
"stop with the hyperbole that is actually misleading to readers about what the real situation is" I wonder if readers do really understand the situation or not. I don't think the hyperbole is a bad idea when features like these should be op
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by reidrac 14y ago
OT, but I'd love to know what HN think about this: The license part of the README.md says "The content in this repo is BSD licensed". AFAIK licensing requires: - A copyright line with the year (or years) and the name of the copyright holder
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by reidrac 14y ago
You're right, there was not other option back in the early 90s: piracy or nothing (specially in countries where it was impossible to acquire some specific software legally). I remember going to a computer shop when I was 13 trying to buy a
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by reidrac 14y ago
I know it's not illegal, I didn't say that at all. I said it's the same strategy. Although a customer that can move from RHEL to CentOS can be seen as a problem, I think it's just an investment. Look at the consequences of CentOS. There are
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by reidrac 14y ago
Definitely, but I think is just Microsoft investing in their ecosystem. In schools students learn "Word" and not "a word processor". I've seen high schools getting software licences with special deals (way cheaper), and thanks to that other
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yep, that's what I thought. And it is advertised as "developer edition"...
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by reidrac 14y ago
That reminds me of Poe's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law As she didn't state she was trying to look stupid on purpose, it's very possible it was genuine.
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by reidrac 14y ago
"Get Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight working in WINE." IMHO that's the stinky part of it. Saying "Netflix on Ubuntu is Here" is misleading when you're actually using a special version of a compatibility layer* to run the Windows version.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Are you sure? It looks correct to me. If the number is not multiple of 3 or 5, you must output the number. That's what is he doing. He prints output at the end of each iteration, setting it to empty string at the beginning.
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by reidrac 14y ago
I totally agree. There's nothing like reality and customers doing absurd things to break stuff you'd never imagined that could break.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Having used DBus in a couple of projects, the "consistent, reliable" part of your comment made me chuckle :) I agree with you. Having APIs makes everything easier and it means developers building on top of them can focus on more productive
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by reidrac 14y ago
I think he's complaining about the "Linux-centrism" of some projects. What I find ironic is that those Linux focused projects are turning more like BSD: a tightly coupled system. If I want my app to work best with X and I need to interact w
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by reidrac 14y ago
There's a follow up to the linked post that explain the cases where Gnome 3 it's not an option and the fallback mode is OK: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2012-November/m... Basically: some GPU drivers are not good enough to
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by reidrac 14y ago
A stable API always benefit the user because it makes possible more (and better) applications. Saying "ranting and foaming of mouth" kills the conversation and I believe is one of Gnome problems for some time now (_aka_ If you're not with u
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yep, let me add an example link to complement your comment: https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/braid/ I don't know how big is that, if Ubuntu users are really buying applications. EDIT: the apt:// URI triggers the Ubuntu Software Ce
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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't use Chrome myself, I use Chromium for testing when doing web development. Apparently you can't get the exact Chrome binary form Chromium source code, so I don't know if there are remarkable differences... but I find these quite amus
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by reidrac 14y ago
I was wrong. It looks like they share code in their on line services.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yep, checked the Spanish Santander online services and I couldn't reproduce the problem described here. I got the XML with an userID field, but that's all. Also the cookie was removed when I logged out. Seems fine to me.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Same name, but different banks. I don't think Santander (the Spanish bank) changed all systems of Santander UK (formerly known as Abbey) so your experience with a Santander ATM in Barcelona is probably irrelevant. EDIT: typo
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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't know how things work in the UK, but apparently you can report them to ICO so they take action: http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/handling.aspx
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by reidrac 14y ago
After reading the comments I was expecting something else :) I think one reason could be that they follow different philosophies: as end user you're going to use a Linux distribution, that includes a kernel, userland tools, applications, et
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by reidrac 14y ago
This site was discussed 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193152 This "combine" feature seems new though. I don't understand how it works. I tried MPL 2.0 and GPL 2.0 and it doesn't say that they are incompatible, in fact
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by reidrac 14y ago
Although I think you're right, I can't understand why they didn't try to "fix" OpenID and started a new thing instead. http://xkcd.com/927/ That said, I'd love they succeed and we have finally something that works well and it's not under
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by reidrac 14y ago
I totally agree. Actually the point of the Raspberry Pi IS the price because most of the OSS you can install and use in your Raspberry Pi can be installed and used in any regular PC that students may have at home, but can we assume all the
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by reidrac 14y ago
This is a little bit off-topic but... they removed basic support and now there's a "self-support subscription" option instead for $350. If you don't get support for that subscription, I can't see a difference worth $350 between RHEL self-su
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by reidrac 14y ago
You may find this interesting: http://www.kompoz.com
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by reidrac 14y ago
The icon reminds me of Instagram. Is it possible that something as simple as that did increase the downloads?
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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't know if the 350k hits run that script, let's say they did. The OP is praising the performance of lighttpd + php5-fpm, but the script actually spawns an external process to search for the UUID. That's like running an old GGI that nee

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