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   Remarkable new monkey discovered in remote Congo rainforest(news.mongabay.com)

   1 points by tammer 14y ago|0 comments
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   by tammer 14y ago

   I concur in all the above. The application is responsive, powerful, and well designed.
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   by tammer 14y ago

   Wait, I think I know what it is..... Hmm, what's that word.....? Oh yeah..... Privatization! Of course it's less than ideal! In a perfect world, we'd have had a nationwide gigabit deployment years ago. Internet would be a global human right
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   by tammer 14y ago

   Interesting point you picked out - I didn't think of doing this either, in my tests with 8 I was annoyed at how difficult it was to get to a shutdown menu. I think the real trial for the OS will be whether people will be able to re-learn th
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   by tammer 14y ago

   If your vim is on a box with an X server, look into client/server mode. You can then specify if you want to open a file in its own process or in the server process you spawned earlier. Also, you can set the default yank register to be your
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   by tammer 14y ago

   I saw the same situation happen for many classes at Rutgers... I was lucky and didn't get burned too badly, but I know those who did.
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   by tammer 14y ago

   You motivated me to clean mine up. Here's the result: https://github.com/tammeri/.files
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   by tammer 14y ago

   I use precisely the same setup, and love it. Full control over every tool in the whole chain. I'd add one more that I find essential: Pentadactyl. Without it, the context switch when using a browser really disrupts the flow.
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   by tammer 14y ago

   I've still got faith that with enough patience the editor itself can be made ubiquitous. Pentadactyl is perfect because it creates it's own verbs. Once you grok that a tab is it's own buffer it works as supplement to vim, not as replacement
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    by tammer 14y ago

    I was hoping the article would express the opposite meaning of the ambiguous title. You could look at the difficulty of generating a distribution that works perfectly before, during and after install, and see it as a usability problem as th
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Thanks for the detailed info! Combined with two-factor ssh auth[0] for using a public connection, looks my gpg file is the perfect solution. [0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029680
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Quick question for all you security experts: Which is more secure: LastPass with 2factor, or a gpg encrypted password safe on my home server accessed by a passphrase-locked rsa-encrypted key? I've been trying to decide for the past few week
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    by tammer 14y ago

    % cd ~/.local cd: no such file or directory: /home/tammer/.local % uname -s -r Linux 3.4.7-1-ARCH
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    by tammer 14y ago

    I think the lack of positive feedback on the blogoweb is due to the the degree that 8 is directed at non-technical users. Many HN'ers and the tech writers we read will be put off by the metaphorical down-talking of the start 'menu'. I doubt
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    by tammer 14y ago

    You, sir, are a genius and a scholar. Do you have any idea how many tutorials there are out there that involve some kind of obscure plugin or xclip incantation for something as simple as pasting text over ssh with formatting? To think all I
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    by tammer 14y ago

    As much as I wish this were true (I've been gunning for the MS downfall forever), I doubt it will be the case. My (non-technical) girlfriend recently needed a reformat, so on a whim I installed the 8 RC to see what her reaction would be. Sh
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    by tammer 14y ago

    I know it seems like a big jump, but once you've gotten the swing of things you'll wonder why you ever bothered worrying. Don't worry about learning all the benefits at once. Make your shell look exactly like what you've got now and figure
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    by tammer 14y ago

    OT, but something I've been wondering for a while: Why, WHY is it called "The GIMP"? I mean, I understand the acronym. I understand that nerds in general (such as myself) are the kind of folks who look past names and appearances and judge j
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Precisely. I was a diehard chrome-lover until I tried pentadactyl. Now I realize that any tiny reduction in perceived speed (not due to slower JS or loading, but probably some of chrome's UI speed tricks) is made up for by the lack of a con
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Again, it's all perspective. iPads just work, closed game consoles just work. Linux can just work (until the next update) but a lot of the time it doesn't. And that's just the way I like it, because in the end (for me), its the only OS I ca
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    by tammer 14y ago

    I concur - the different levels (as well as the option of sitting) make for a very comfortable setup. FYI, my relatively cheap solution was to get an ikea fredrick "computer workstation" off craigslist. The item is discontinued, but they're
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Thanks a lot for this, it was a great read. I think the following phrases things far better than I did: >The answer, for people who don't like Damoclean questions, is that since Microsoft has won the hearts and minds of the silent major
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Interesting - babarock is incredibly wrong from the windows perspective, but from the unix perspective entirely correct. (I work in IT and handle things on both sides.) Comparatively, the recent and steadily increasing reliance on PS is evi
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Welcome to every Mac OS upgrade I've ever encountered. Although, I can't place the blame entirely on Apple. I find that for any consolidated release OS, a reformat is ALWAYS the way to go (after waiting a good long time for all the bugs to
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    by tammer 14y ago

    You must have felt the same way I did about the original Google Wave announcement. So much potential squandered by a poor design team. I've always hoped some developers would turn the code into what it was meant to be.
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Catering to these users now will preserve the design for the next round of display technology. We all know the future belongs to these types of displays.
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    by tammer 14y ago

    I'm starting to wonder... perhaps the "made in USA" tagline isn't a selling point, but a PR move? An attempt to bring back the "don't be evil" mantra?
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    by tammer 14y ago

    As much as I love the mockup, in the end I probably agree. Microsoft's core branding strength in the consumer market is its "genericness". Look at the new homepage - very standard US families using MS products. While Apple's aesthetic appea
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    by tammer 14y ago

    I'm toying with the idea that the problem is due to Apple and Microsoft's decisions to obfuscate the entire metaphor. With the unix filesystem, "/" is the quintessential representation of the ungraded, unlimited hierarchy. Once I understand
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    by tammer 14y ago

    Most people (as in the majority of the population with access to digital media) have a very difficult time understanding that the filesystem is a hierarchy. I'm always espousing the necessity of backups to my friends/family, which means I