sixtofour

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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Unity isn't going to drag any joe-average users to suddenly want Linux on their PC." 'What comes with the PC at the store' is what joe-average is always going to use. Always. What a Linux desktop looks like and aspires to be and how well/w
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"The places where this become stupid are things like using an integer for height and width, or returning a signed integer count. Why on earth would you want to return a negative count?" Manipulating values that don't seem, at first cursory
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Details from fiction, cataloged and connected to other books and the real world. Fascinating idea. Signed up, looking forward to the invite. This is something that Wikipedia could have done. I suppose it does do this as a casual side effe
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The problem is perception. With ads, there is the possibility of influence, so there is also the possibility that readers would trust wikipedia less. Although I would prefer that they take ads rather than disappear.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
One way to distinguish between distros is package management. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and other Debian derivates use apt/deb. Fedora and other RH derivatives use rpm. Other distros use whatever they use. If you don't care one way about package
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"how is buying Yahoo going to plug the holes?" Volume.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Because that means the tech world is getting flatter." If an 800 lb Google can't make a dent in 1600 lb Facebook's enclosure, then how flat is that, really?
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by sixtofour 15y ago
But it is patentable in the United States.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Damn this cube." I immediately had a picture of a mime.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"How much of this stuff will doom you if any of your users are still stuck on IE?" Or "stuck" on Firefox. His nice minimal html running example works on Chromium/Ubuntu for me, but not on FF8/Ubuntu for me. In the part where you're supposed
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Sometimes open source on locked down and jailbroken hardware is better. Sometimes it bricks the hardware. I wonder what it's like to have a brick in the eye? Also this is a thing that goes in your body, and the FDA might have something to s
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by sixtofour 15y ago
It works for the paying customers.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
People of the world: be prepared for international copyright police.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Why would you think this could ever be open source. It will be expensive to develop, and no corporation will spend the money to do so and then open source the software. It may (not likely) be jail breakable, but you still have to pay (proba
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Make sure you're healthy, if it's an issue with you. I was fired for being slow. I was falling asleep at inappropriate times, and was generally feeling stupid, to the point that I hated myself for being stupid and lazy. This was particularl
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by sixtofour 15y ago
> The first thing the sys-admin who helped me said was, "type 'man'." And that also happened. It used to be virtually impossible to jump in alone, because someone had to create an account for you. It's now possible to start in Unix with
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I was taken aback by one commenter whose command he wished he'd known for years was man, newly discovered by him. "All those years of googling, wasted." What happened that it's possible for someone to not know that it exists?
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Fantastic. I've always wanted to know what I'm going to do next.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I stand enlightened.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
To the site owners: (I couldn't find a way to contact you on your site.) This is a very nice, attractive web site. You are clearly trying to do good things. One very strong suggestion: it's very important that you find a better translator,
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Just diff the two directories. $ ls a b a: 1 2 3 4 b: 1 2 3 # Yours: $ diff -u <(cd a && find . | sort) <(cd b && find . | sort) --- /dev/fd/63 2011-11-20 02:50:21.919
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by sixtofour 15y ago
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1723 vimpager. Set vim as your pager. I love reading man pages in syntax-colored vim glory.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I was going to mention a similar scenario of cooking accounting books as a counter to my non-lawyerly argument.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
You have a fifth amendment right not to incriminate yourself, which the article mentions by noting that you don't have to give up your password when asked. In my mind (IANAL), if I don't have to give up information about myself, then I have
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Writing like Hunter S. Thompson is not something you learn, it's something you let out. Most people can learn to sing well enough so they don't annoy the congregation, but most people will never develop a voice as distinctive and recognizab
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Startups are Hollywood's new real estate. Smart Hollywood actors (smart anyone) take their fortune, major or minor, and invest it. Actors make their money acting, but they sustain their fortune by investing it, and that has often been in re
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by sixtofour 15y ago
And you might support the book (in both senses of the word "support") with a web site.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
A list of types of threats, organized by target area, summarizing: - each threat - its basic mechanism - basic effective defenses - common ineffective defenses - tradeoffs between more effective and less effective defe
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Unless the RIAA wins, in which case 100 years from now will be the dark ages.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Quality is unbearable.

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