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by slowpoke 15y ago
Question: Did you try the Compatibility Reporter[1] yet? I'd wager that 95% of all addons will work without problems with version checks disabled - and I'm using the Nightlies. The only one so far that didn't work correctly since a while is
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>This is typical behavior from geeks, putting the decision of about the choice of modules.conf vs. conf.modules which the user doesn't care about and just wants the software to work. I want my software to work too, as a geek. This entir
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I don't see how "logical lines", whatever that is At least by the definition I'm accustomed with, a logical line is a statement or series of statements which directly and logically belong together, for example a function call or an
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The "time and money" argument (financial incentive to innovate) is as old as it is irrelevant. Frankly, I don't care if you can't make money off the monopoly rents of an abstract concept (and I'm offended that you think I should). What I ca
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I got pointed to this addon in a past discussion about FB here on HN and I can fully support this recommendation.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> Yup, Microsoft Word is much nicer than LibreOffice Writer or AbiWord. But you don't know that if you've never used it. Or, you don't care, because you're writing a memo, not a book. And that's $600 Microsoft loses right there. The ver
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Maybe we could stop asserting that patriotism is in any way, shape or form a positive attribute. It's not.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If by "higher quality apps" you mean loads and loads of thinly disguised ad- and spyware, as well as generally useless crap, then yes, curated native app stores are "great". I'd say the density of pure and utter crapware has never been high
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The most fundamental flaw of this stupid idea is still trying to merge Desktop and Tablet features. It's what makes Unity suck beyond saving grace, it's what makes Lion the most colossal fail in the history of fails from Apple, and it's the
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I've been a GNU/Linux user for a bit over a year now, I think. Started out with Ubuntu 10.04 dual booted with Windows, then completely ditched Microsoft in favor of the better operating system some when in January. A bit later, after gettin
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by slowpoke 15y ago
He does have a point with the third parties though. Software ecosystems controlled by a single (in most cases proprietary) entity are bad .
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I might have misunderstood you then. :)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> Just not with their software. Again, why? It's still not an argument to hide what the program does on your computer. To put it bluntly, it's bullshit and you know it. > I'll trade the ability to run GDB on my media player the zero
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> Some people may have been spoiled by operating systems like Linux or BSD, where you can look up each and every line of code that comprises the whole software stack I'm quite sorry, but what? Spoiled by having the freedom we should h
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I have no idea why you are being downvoted, because it's the truth. It's exactly what Apple does. While yes, no one should need to understand how a TV/Car/Computer/<insert everyday technology> works under the hood, how is that an
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by slowpoke 15y ago
This is awesome, thanks. Every day is a day to learn new stuff in vim. :)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If vendor lock strategies (which this plain and simply is) were illegal, we wouldn't have some certain monopolies - I doubt, for example, that Windows would still hold such a big market share.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'd just like to add that a search for "git hosting" on DDG ("duckgoing" if you will) yields, aside from the SO quick info box (which mentions Gitorious and Redmine), unfuddle.com is the first result, github doesn't show up until the fourth
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Ghostery is a general tracker blocker. FBB only blocks, as the name implies, Facebook related stuff - at least that's what I infer from a quick skim through the description. So, if you only want Facebook gone, by all means use FBB. If you d
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I just like to try and see both sides of something like this. While I can certainly agree to that general notion, in Facebook's case that's simply a bit too stretched. I find it pretty hard - if not impossible - to assume honest int
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I thought it was "Perfect Emacs Rewriting Language".
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If it hadn't occurred to you yet that Facebook cares far more about the "Like" buttons that you don't click than about the ones that you do -- there you go. I've been telling this to people since ages. These stupid Like buttons
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I don't mean to be offensive, but George Carlin summed this up pretty decently: It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
How is it not 'computing'? The iPad runs programs, with threads, and stacks, and filehandles pointing to files. It runs what is basically Unix, fer chrissakes! Your dodging the issue. Can I do general purpose computing with an i
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Please stop calling using an iPhone (or similar devices and closed systems) "computing". It's playing around, nothing more. Someone else here on HN summed it up beautifully in a similar debate: if something isn't capable of general purpose
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Going by the name, those are based on Fuzzy Logic, I assume - which makes sense. Some people say that the first nation to develop a true AI will be Japan, because they've been studying Fuzzy Logic theory as a field of science since decades.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It's a bit unclear from the article whether the woman is a channel moderator I only corrected the claim that moderators have any administrative privileges, unrelated to the case at hand. If we consider that Anonymous is an organ
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by slowpoke 15y ago
A mod on irc is not a mere bypasser. It is, to some extent, someone who maintains the network. No, just no. There's a fundamental difference between a channel and a network operator. The former has absolutely zero to do with netwo
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by slowpoke 15y ago
These are exactly the problems that patents were created for to solve! Yet they don't fulfill this purpose in the slightest bit. Besides, I don't care if some people suddenly stop innovating because there is no longer any money to b
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by slowpoke 15y ago
People buy hardware, software, services all the time. There is a big difference between hardware and services, and patents. Software is a whole other deal, and I object to the whole model of proprietary distribution as well, but tha

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