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by starwed 15y ago
I got Ubuntu 11.04 on an Air -- it was more convoluted than I would have liked, but a lot of that is how Apple set it up. The Air won't boot from an external disc unless you're using the Apple-branded drive, which seems a little silly. The
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by starwed 15y ago
The optimus thing is annoying -- that specifically prevented me from buying an optimus equipped laptop when they came out. (IIRC nvidia gave no help at all to those attempting to provide linux drivers.)
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by starwed 15y ago
You might just be zoomed in. That's a sticky setting on Firefox -- I keep it zoomed one or two steps up on Firefox for comfortable reading, and the demo didn't quite fit on my screen. Return to default zoom (Ctrl/Cmd+0) and it works fine.
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by starwed 15y ago
FWIW, I've heard many times from people who play D&D (or the like) online that wave was absolutely perfect for them.
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by starwed 15y ago
The main problem with your comment is that it has nothing to do with the article...
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by starwed 15y ago
More than syntactic sugar is being added, for instance: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays
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by starwed 15y ago
The alternative to google developing Dart isn't doing nothing, but throwing more resources behind javascript. I think you are missing some of the context of Eich's comments. The very same leaked memo declared that Dart was developed b/c
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by starwed 15y ago
Sure, but this doesn't matter in practice. I have never heard of anyone with a physically broken device being refused service because they have rooted it. I imagine they want to be able to cover their ass in case some popular ROM start
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by starwed 15y ago
I think it's just a chrome proposal right now. Firefox also has an implemented proposal. Not sure if one or the other has any particular advantages? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API
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by starwed 15y ago
You're wrong about that. > ... these impressions come from someone who’s used mostly Windows at work and Mac at home. Sure, there’s a sprinkling of Solaris, IRIX, and Linux mixed in there, but I’ve never used Ubuntu, haven’t used any di
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by starwed 15y ago
How well they manage android version bumps has nothing to do with security updates.
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by starwed 15y ago
Shockingly, some people might not feel the urge to write out an essay length post discussing the differences between JS and CoffeeScript. Yet, they might still be moved to give a short, high level answer to the OP's question. Those fucking
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by starwed 15y ago
It got real answers. I imagine it was downvoted for its aggressive wording, coupled with the poster's later commments about 'fanboyism'.
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by starwed 15y ago
Ok, point to a specific comment/question that you think was unfairly downvoted.
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by starwed 15y ago
As someone who learned coffeescript last weekend, it took me literally minutes to figure out enough to translate some javascript I'd written. And I've never even used a significant-whitespace language before. That someone who knows javascr
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by starwed 15y ago
I wonder if there are any sites that simply forbid passwords that are known to exist in rainbow tables.
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by starwed 15y ago
This is the worst sort of comment -- blanket assertion of a controversial yet vague idea, no actual arguments, no specific statements, nothing to discuss. It's just as much noise as reddit-style joke threads. Those don't seem to be tolerat
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by starwed 15y ago
Just read this and thought of your comment... http://blog.bonardo.net/2011/09/30/is-your-firefor-freezing-...
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by starwed 15y ago
Mozilla's JS engine does, and there is at least some work being done to hook Node up to it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide/Iterators_...
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by starwed 15y ago
Aha, all is now clear. (I really liked the idea of the RSS button when they added it, but never actually ended up using it...)
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by starwed 15y ago
Then, what good did disabling it in the URL bar do? :)
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by starwed 15y ago
Earlier, I read a pretty interesting mozilla post about the problem with non-AMO addons. > it was quite eye-opening when I learned that only 25% of the 600 million add-ons in use every day in Firefox 4 and later are active on AMO. ht
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by starwed 15y ago
That's weird -- the icon is still there, but not default, and it just takes about two clicks to restore it. So what's the purpose of the addon?
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by starwed 15y ago
Sadly, this does absolutely nothing to help you understand the periodic part of the table. Without showing the structure of electron levels, I fear it's actively misleading. (They specifically show the electrons all orbiting at the same
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by starwed 15y ago
The SciAm article makes it sound like there is literally no scientific support in "the war against salt." This article pretty clearly claims exactly the opposite, so it makes a good counterpoint even if it was published before the most r
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by starwed 15y ago
Is there anything that Unetbootin won't work on?
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by starwed 15y ago
It doesn't help that the arrow only appears once you move the cursor -- when the page starts up, it's not there.
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by starwed 15y ago
Heh, I honestly can't tell whether you're serious or not... I will agree that it is exactly the same situation.
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by starwed 15y ago
You're doing that thing people do one the internet, when they see a disagreement that doesn't exist. The poster wasn't contradicting asa at all, he was (a) laughing at asa's joke, and (b) trying to make his own. Downvote him if you like for
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by starwed 15y ago
Not everything is subjective. I find Mozilla's arguments here convincing, so I give a thumbs up and a smile. :)

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