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by remir 9y ago
We're now living in a crashing world. There's too many people, we're consuming resources at an alarming pace, the environment is getting trashed. Things will get ugly before there can be a significant paradigm shift.
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Diet drinks and food actually trigger weight gain and diabetes, says new study(telegraph.co.uk)
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by remir 9y ago
For some people Unix is like a religion. What the GoboLinux developers did is wonderful, and yet some people will criticize them because "what about Unix traditions?!".
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by remir 9y ago
It shouldn't be a refuge to homeless people either. You go to the library to read, study, look at things on the computer if you don't have access to one. Everybody agrees that homeless people should have access to knowledge, but a
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by remir 9y ago
Voilà. I think a big problem in software dev is that technical people struggle to think like non-technical people. They can't put themselves in the shoes of their grandma or "Joe Six Pack". I mean, just look at the download p
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by remir 9y ago
The team at Savoir Faire Linux seems to be French-Canadians (Quebecois).
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by remir 9y ago
Can you have your stuff delivered at your work place? I did this a couple of times.
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by remir 9y ago
Spain alone had four Linux distros funded by different regional governments. How is that efficient? What a waste of public funds. What I am talking about is making ONE operating system for every level of governance. I'm talking about
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by remir 9y ago
Perhaps we need to fund this using, gasp , public funds? I mean, I bet every government worker around the world needs a computer with an OS and an office suite. G7 countries could pool their resources together to hire engineers and designe
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by remir 9y ago
Not really. At least, that's not my perception. I would say, however, that the macho attitude is clearly out of date.
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by remir 9y ago
Well, I don't see how Windows 10S helps push adoption of UWP since you can already distribute Windows Forms, WPF, or Win32 desktop apps on the Store today. At that point, why bother making a UWP app? Also, Edge only have a handful of e
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by remir 9y ago
We would have to define what is considered "masculinity", but I would say society definitely prohibit aggressivity, especially as more people are educated and can communicate better, more women entered the work force but also the
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by remir 9y ago
Microsoft strategy with Windows 10 was to encourage developers to write UWP apps so they could eliminate the app gap in Windows 10 Mobile. Good strategy in theory, but looking at the Windows Store today, it seems like developers are not tha
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by remir 9y ago
The reality is that for a while, Chrome was simply a better browser. Extensions "just worked", it silently auto-updated (huge for non technical users), was very secure (anti-phishing), it came with Flash, sandboxing from day 1, et
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by remir 9y ago
Sure, I said "type" because that's what I would do, but you can speak to the phone or Assistant and achieve the same result.
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by remir 9y ago
I would say apps are at a dead end. The way we are using our mobile devices with rows and rows of single purpose apps seems so... primitive now. I mean, you need "Pizza Place" app to order pizza, "TicketMaster" app to or
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by remir 9y ago
I also see ecological reasons to justify working from home. Less people on the road= less traffic, less pollution.
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by remir 9y ago
Apple switching to x86 was great publicity for Intel. It was a big deal. People, blogs, mass media talked about it a lot. Because of this, I'm sure Steve negotiated a good price on those chips without Apple needing to be part of the &q
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by remir 9y ago
I don't know why MS acquired Skype. It seems like they never really knew what to do with it, so now they try to make it "cool".
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by remir 9y ago
FirefoxOS should have competed against ChromeOS, not Android and iOS. Over time, as the product grow in popularity and web technologies become more capable, then you can introduce a mobile variant of the OS if it make sense to do so. Chrome
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by remir 9y ago
I don't agree. Chromebooks are wonderful for the elderly and folks who don't need a traditional OS. They can browse the web, read email, watch videos, without worrying about drivers, virus, downloading gigs and gigs of update ever
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by remir 9y ago
Fastmail has an elegant solution for this called subdomain addressing. For example, let's say your email address is joe@fastmail.com. You can use amazon@joe.fastmail.com or facebook@joe.fastmail.com, spotify@joe.fastmail.com, etc... h
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by remir 9y ago
Take a look at the repo. Fuchsia is an OS for mobile devices. The UI is clearly made for phones, they use the Flutter framework, which was made specifically for mobile app development and can target iOS and Android too.
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by remir 9y ago
It depends. My father goes to an evangelical church and there's a lot of cooperation. People help each other for free, lend things, fix things for free, etc...
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by remir 9y ago
Let's go further; I believe Firefox should compete against ChromeOS. The web is the ultimate platform, Mozilla should know that, but now it's more and more Google's platform. The reality is that Chromebooks and Chromeboxes ar
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by remir 9y ago
At the Code conference, Andy said that Ambiant OS will be open source.
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by remir 9y ago
The company's culture, perhaps.
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by remir 9y ago
Just saw the prices in CAD. Yikes! $1,729 for both base models.
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by remir 9y ago
What I want to know is: can the HomePod stream music directly from the internet like the Sonos or even the Chromecast audio? I mean, it would be quite stupid to have this thing requiring a iDevice/Mac to stream audio.
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by remir 9y ago
The expansion port will be open source, like Ambiant OS, according to Andy.

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