takluyver

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by takluyver 14y ago
> iOS and Android have no relevance in this discussion as they are not real OS'es... And that's how it will remain. This sounds seriously shortsighted. So far, Android and iOS are focused on media consumption, but I'm already starting t
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by takluyver 14y ago
All three of his points seem reasonable to me. If people can take online courses in place of traditional university courses, it's no great leap of imagination that a handful of professors will teach many thousands of students. That's not ne
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by takluyver 14y ago
That's more or less what they did when they were selling Ubuntu laptops before. It seems that despite the warning, enough people unwittingly bought one to cause headaches for Dell. I imagine their margins are thin enough that even a few ret
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by takluyver 14y ago
KDE is famous for making everything customisable. But the market for skinning software isn't that big - most people will never go looking for that feature. So it's much more important that it looks good by default.
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by takluyver 14y ago
I've noticed that the top 3 most requested packages to port now all have Python 3 coming in a release soon. (Django, matplotlib and wxPython - from the poll on the python.org homepage)
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by takluyver 14y ago
Secure Boot adds protection against certain classes of malware. It's not complete protection by itself, but it's blocking off one possible kind of attack.
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by takluyver 14y ago
You will still be able to run any software on your computer once it has booted, the signature is for the bootloader. So this would only be an issue if Wikileaks for some reason had to implement their own operating system. Even then, users w
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by takluyver 14y ago
That's sufficiently unlikely that we shouldn't be relying on it: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12897.html
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by takluyver 14y ago
So they're releasing two versions that look much the same, but one of them can run all of your existing (x86) applications, and one of them can't? That sounds like confusion waiting to happen.
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by takluyver 14y ago
The OS knows, at some level, the orientation it's displaying the screen in. So in principle, there's no reason it can't use subpixel rendering appropriately. Although it might be hard to achieve - I don't know how the graphics stack works.
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by takluyver 14y ago
This raises an interesting question: where is the line drawn between 'freemium' and 'free trial of a non-free service'? Your mention of prompting after a set number of logins suggests that you're offering the free tier as a taster, rather t
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by takluyver 14y ago
I think the complaint was about games where as you progress, the time cost increases until even the most time-rich player isn't prepared to keep paying it. Advertising these as 'free' is kind of disingenuous, even if it's technically correc
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by takluyver 14y ago
A double digit percentage overall is still on XP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
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by takluyver 14y ago
The missing bit of that is the actual profit . The praise of the world's hacker community does not pay off the mortgage. On the other hand, if it's open source, anyone can compile a client which doesn't show their ads, and give it away. Do
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by takluyver 14y ago
I would assume Amazon can negotiate with local carriers in each region, rather than paying through a US carrier for data sent to Australia.
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by takluyver 14y ago
But that's not a "delivery fee", which makes it kind of dishonest. Amazon already take a fixed 30% cut, which ought to include any subsidy on the devices.
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by takluyver 14y ago
Let's summarise what the study actually found. The researchers go in with the expectation that static languages will have advantages in their study. They designed a brand new language - 'Purity' - in both dynamically and statically typed va
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by takluyver 14y ago
IPython has seen quite a large refactoring in the last couple of years, and now there is a popular vim-ipython integration: https://github.com/ivanov/vim-ipython
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by takluyver 14y ago
Yes, that's right. On Linux, you already have readline installed. But neither Macs nor IPython can ship with readline itself, because of the GPL, so by default you get the inferior libedit. The Qt console doesn't require readline, but it do