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by sjs 15y ago
I don't understand the purpose of this post. You're not asking anything, you're defending RMS with some incredibly shallow logic and then presumptuously chastising us for not caring about free software ideals, mixed with some ad hominem att
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by sjs 15y ago
The worst is when zooming breaks the layout causing some of the text to be located outside the viewport. I can't think of a specific example right now but it has happened to me a few times and it's infuriating. (There are workarounds but th
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by sjs 15y ago
Who will watch the watchmen?
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by sjs 15y ago
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
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by sjs 15y ago
Can tools like Keyboard Maestro[1] do anything or is the problem lower in the stack? [1] http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
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by sjs 15y ago
Having looked at neither of them closely myself, I wonder how this stacks up against Thomas Fuchs' keymaster. https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster
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by sjs 15y ago
I generally despise hosting services, with their pages crammed full of ads, obnoxious waiting times, and constant attempts to get you to pay them that all just scream "we hate every last damn one of you so much that we're going to make it a
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by sjs 15y ago
It's not sad, that's simply the reality of how fast mobile technology is currently changing. We're doing more and more with our "phones" each day and thus are demanding more power from them. Even if you only play games and such the old phon
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by sjs 15y ago
That certainly offsets costs of living in SF.
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by sjs 15y ago
The last time I bought an HDMI cable I checked local stores because I didn't want to pay shipping on a $5-10 cable. The cheapest cable I found was on sale for $20 or something. Turns out it's cheaper to go with Monoprice and pay shipping on
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by sjs 15y ago
I suppose this may do for articles that just deliver some facts. However the kind of stuff I enjoy reading doesn't just barf up some facts in the form of sentences, it provides insight into what the implications of those facts may be and al
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by sjs 15y ago
Asking for a citation is fair but he did say average and most folks on HN do not use average computers. My guess is that you have an above average machine.
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by sjs 15y ago
Although I don't use NoScript (or NotScripts) anymore the web was far less annoying without arbitrary JavaScript. I never had to leave a site because some irrelevant box popped up over the page I was looking at, or about to be. It will be e
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by sjs 15y ago
I wrote the Dvorak letters on my keyboard with a marker and by the time it wore off each key I knew what that key was. It took a couple of weeks.
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by sjs 15y ago
I think one key factor in the average quality of workers found in North America and elsewhere is the social aspect of career choice. In North America there's a pretty strong culture of pursuing jobs that people are interested in and enjoy.
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Sane RSS usage(marco.org)
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by sjs 15y ago
That's what I was thinking, it sounds like she just replaced RSS with Twitter. She's obviously constantly checking Twitter. Instead of reading twitter all day every day I'd rather just browse my RSS feed in the morning and in the evening. I
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by sjs 15y ago
Since this came up, my take on deploying from Github looks like this: https://github.com/samsonjs/ThePusher ... deploy by pushing.
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by sjs 15y ago
Number of repos.
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by sjs 15y ago
That's a lot longer than it takes to sign up for Github.
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by sjs 15y ago
Github's widest margins are obviously at the high end business plans, and businesses would run an internal github in a second if it was OSS. There goes Github FI as well. It would cripple them, the only way they can possible host all open s
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by sjs 15y ago
That's a good reason to prefer Linux. If OS X didn't have pretty stable and easy system upgrades and migrations I would miss Linux package managers. Copying the list of installed packages to a new machine and then running aptitude update is
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by sjs 15y ago
Would it be significantly relevant to set a precedent early on?
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by sjs 15y ago
After using Linux for a few years and learning that you had to do a bit of research and buy hardware carefully to make sure it all worked, I discovered that I could choose ever so slightly more carefully and everything would work with even
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by sjs 15y ago
You have to restart X to hotplug displays with some drivers. That's a deal-breaker.
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by sjs 15y ago
If Wayland delivers on the multiple monitor support that would help put Linux back in the running for me.
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by sjs 15y ago
Maybe they didn't feel safe wiring the mechanism that physically opens the doors up to a network. If you can't access that system via the network then you definitely can't exploit it. It's the old "the only secure system is a disconnected o
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by sjs 15y ago
Don't worry I'm sure some bean counter crunched the numbers and they decided it was an acceptable risk. I mean, if you want a fully functional pirated version that doesn't expire every 30 days and you never have to activate you don't exactl
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by sjs 15y ago
I agree, and started writing about that in my first comment before rereading tseabrooks comment. > [...] a lot of bashing of programmers that don't code outside of work and/or [...]
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by sjs 15y ago
I've written more assembly for the M68HC11 than x86 so I can relate. Indenting it never even crossed my mind. x86 is an entirely different beast.

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