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by samdk 17y ago
I use Decibel Audio Player ( http://decibel.silent-blade.org/ ). All it does is play music, and it does that pretty well. If you're looking for a simple GUI audio player, I recommend it, although I'm not really sure how closely it follows t
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I almost agree. Gmail has everything I want in email, but it's tied to Google. You can (and I do) use your own domains with Google, but you still have to go through them. Is that a problem for me right now? No, not really. Might it become
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The biggest problem, I think, is that there's no vision. He says we need a better email client, but we don't know what he thinks better means. We don't even know what he doesn't like about existing clients. Even if this project does manag
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Flash is much less efficient than other video formats on all platforms, not just OS X. My netbook (when it's running XP) can handle most 720p video well enough, but has trouble with flash videos that take up less than half of that area. It'
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Access to a computer in a library is very often time limited and you're almost always limited in what you can do on the computer. It's good that people can use library computers, but it's absolutely not the same thing as having your own c
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Most of today's kids, yes. Not all of them. Lots and lots of low-income families don't have access to these things, and it's naive to think otherwise.
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I don't think I'd call Google's announcement either 'tight-lipped' or 'cautious'. It was unprecedented.
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by samdk 17y ago
I feel Wave could be a useful tool, but I think the UI is killing it right now. It's ugly, poorly organized (and hard to understand), and wastes a lot of screen space. I've also found it too slow to be comfortable--even on fast computer run
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by samdk 17y ago
I play trumpet and have since elementary school. Haven't had much time for it lately, though. Hopefully I'll get back into it after I graduate.
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I'm not sure whether it's really made me a better programmer, but I find that doing something like taking a shower or getting something simple to eat can be a good way of getting around mental blocks that have formed when I'm working intens
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I'd recommend an older Linux distro or Windows XP and using Chrome as your browser (rather than Firefox). My Eee boots in about 25 seconds (15 from hibernate) and feels quite fast.
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The Wikipedia page for the RSA Factoring Challenge has a nice chart that shows the dates RSA numbers have been broken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
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by samdk 17y ago
To summarize: HFOSS is an organization that helps get students (and hopefully, soon, others) involved in FOSS projects that have humanitarian goals/benefit society in some way. If you're looking for major, well-established projects, we've w
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by samdk 17y ago
A very similar thing happens to me when I'm doing visual design. I can work on something for hours and hours and love it. And then I come back an hour later and finally see all of the problems.
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Indeed. Those are the font sizes I'd go with doing print typography. On the web I almost always use 14-16px for body type. It's much easier to read.
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Apple has people falling in love with products it hasn't even started thinking about creating yet. They don't have these kinds of problems.
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It's related, yes. Both are classified as "Humanitarian FOSS Projects" and Sahana has been worked on in previous years by people participating in the HFOSS Project summer internship, which is where we started Collabbit. I'm not intimately f
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by samdk 17y ago
I'm working on a collaboration tool built to help government agencies and aid organizations coordinate during emergencies. I helped start it this summer as part of the Humanitarian FOSS Project (hfoss.org). It was used successfully in beta
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style=".." on an element is an attribute, not a style tag (<style>), and so is unaffected by this limitation.
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I put 31-50, but it's hard to keep track. There are very few times a day I say "I'll google this", but it's quite common for me to just enter a search term or incomplete url into the bar and Google ends up doing the work for me anyway.
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DRM.
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I was disappointed as well. I do recommend the articles listed on the Rails wiki's 'Text Editors' page for Vim, though: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/text-editors (Listed here in case that page is changed: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/
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by samdk 17y ago
I have not read SICP, but I have read The Little Schemer. It's my favorite programming book. If does a very good job of getting you comfortable with thinking recursively. It not meant to impart immediate 'practical' knowledge, and it real
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by samdk 17y ago
The difficulty of writing HTML is mostly having to type too much. Writing HTML isn't programming.
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Spying on your citizens and enforcing martial law are two very different things. The US already (illegally) spies on its citizens. Giving it more ways of doing so is not a good idea.
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by samdk 17y ago
There are lots of free anti-virus solutions available. The problem is not availability: it's letting people know that these things exist and then (more importantly) having them actually take preventative action. The second one is difficult
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I do almost the same thing: ~/projects and ~/projects/old I also have ~/tmp, which is where I put things I'm unlikely to need more than once or twice. Keeps my desktop clear and my projects folder uncluttered.
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by samdk 17y ago
Stanford has some engineering/comp sci courses available here: http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx Berkeley has a lot of lectures available online here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php There's also a lot available in Apple's iT
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He does, in fact, mention it: (although only briefly) "Aim to recover your CAC in < 12 months, otherwise your business will require too much capital to grow."
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It's worth remembering that this is an issue even in the US, too! Until about a year ago my house in rural New York was stuck on dial-up. (We now thankfully have 10mbps DSL.)

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