thejdude

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by thejdude 12y ago
I think you can also be quite productive in Emacs in a much shorter time. The difference is: the flexibility of IDEs stops after a while, and then there's nothing new to learn to become more efficient. With Emacs, you can keep on learn
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by thejdude 12y ago
Well, Clojure also was a mess when I tried it (2 years ago maybe?). Leiningen (a/the build system) was pretty slow, and I couldn't find a way to use the language in a more lisp-like way easily, like editing a few files and (re)loa
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by thejdude 12y ago
Yes, it's very cheesy, but maybe rephrase it as "people who are open to trying new languages are more open-minded by definition, and they keep a flexible mind and learn to think about problems in different ways." I mean, howe
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by thejdude 12y ago
I think you can easily learn to accept people, but really really liking them is a lot harder. Most people I meet don't have the same interests as I do, and many are also very shallow that I really don't want to hang out with them.
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by thejdude 12y ago
It doesn't matter how much free time my friends have, or I. It matters how much free time we have available to see each other. I have a reasonable amount of free time, but spend it on recovering from work (unfortunately, I need time of
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by thejdude 12y ago
Fair enough. I was only sharing my thoughts and impressions, thus the phrasing "I think" and similar words. My preference doesn't in any way imply I think less of others that like playing games. I generally like playing games
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by thejdude 12y ago
Huh? If you think I'm a bragging idiot/hipster/wannabe cool guy, you obviously don't know me at all. And wow, did I hit a nerve there, with all the people downvoting me. Insecure much? I'm just saying, I prefer (or
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by thejdude 12y ago
AFAI'm concerned, even the standard German cinema chains (Cinemaxx; UCI) have very decent theaters and seats. And maybe it's because I avoid going to movies on Friday/Saturday night, or because I avoid the worst of blockbuste
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by thejdude 12y ago
Definitely. I used to play RPGs as a teenager, but now when I see 20 or 30-somethings playing RPGs (or announcing it on FB), I think "OMG nerd". When I want to relax I read or play casual games, but other than that I'm just t
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by thejdude 12y ago
Is that an Outlook Ctrl-F or a Find Ctrl-F?
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by thejdude 12y ago
Compared to code that's very regular, like say Java, Lisp might be less readable, but IMHO Lisp is in general more readable than other languages as soon as your code is more than a sequence of simple non-nested assignment and method ca
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by thejdude 12y ago
If all editing is done in the cloud, I don't see any problems. MS Word isn't designed for collaborative editing. That, or use something like markdown + version control.
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by thejdude 12y ago
Please please please let companies use this instead of SharePoint. Anything sane. Ah well, probably the kind of people who make "enterprise" buying decisions will not even SEE Zocalo on their perception radar, so it will never hap
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by thejdude 12y ago
You could say research is well researched. Unfortunately, the same doesn't apply to unethical treatment. More and more patients get certain treatments or recommendations by doctors or hospitals not because they need them but because th
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by thejdude 12y ago
Which is outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us Basically, after January you will only get paid support (if you bought that) and security fixes, up to January you could get other stuff as well
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by thejdude 12y ago
Manjaro (I tried the XFCE flavor) was really nice. It didn't support Bluetooth, but at the time all distros were having some problems with upgrading to BlueZ 5. Regularly, they have some kind of update packs which they announce on thei
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by thejdude 12y ago
"What makes distributions different are mainly the package manager and the packages in the repositories." ...and the packaging/updating philosophy, the packaging/defaults, the configurability. How they handle your hardwa
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by thejdude 12y ago
I'd really like to switch to a Debian-based system, but ALL Debian-based distros seem to have TERRIBLE battery life, whereas Mint 17 has an excellent one (better than Arch/Manjaro or Fedora and on par with Windows 7). Sigh. And ye
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by thejdude 12y ago
I agree, LXDE has never looked very sophisticated. I'm curious what the merger brings (LXDE+RazorQt -> LXQt). If you're not too starved on memory, I found MATE a better alternative compared to XFCE, almost the same performance,
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by thejdude 12y ago
Hell, I even switched to Windows 7 for a while, back when Fedora came only with Gnome3. It didn't help, that at the time the Linux kernel also had some general problems with power consumption. By now, Gnome 3 is actually quite good, bu
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by thejdude 12y ago
"It's planned in the official Java 8 runtime." Do you have any sources on that? Java 8 has been released for a while now, and this is the first time I hear about this. Given the dynamism of most Java code and the very very wi
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by thejdude 12y ago
I've been browsing the internet for 15 years with 3rd-party cookies disabled. I never had ANY problems with any website - no idea if there would have been more functionality with 3rd-party cookies enabled. But then again, how can funct
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by thejdude 12y ago
If you're one of the 0.01% whose app cannot run on Linux, or needs a very specific patched version of the kernel to run, then sure, I agree. Who knows, maybe Citrix has something to sell that makes the author's opinion very "
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by thejdude 12y ago
What is it that makes "most modern Linux apps" not run on 32bit? Last I checked, pretty much all packages were available for both x86 and x64. If you're talking enterprise use, sure, some app servers might need more than a fe
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by thejdude 12y ago
So by JDT you mean something other than the Java Development Tools of Eclipse, I guess. To me, Eclipse has been mostly stable/stagnant for many years (4.2 has actually felt like a regression from 3.x, in that the UI lots some features,
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by thejdude 12y ago
Wat? I thought the whole point of patents is to make information public, because competitors are simply not allowed to use the information without payment anyway.
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by thejdude 12y ago
Lots of people actually do that, but it involves lots of work that you might not want to do if you're interested in (and really good at) software development.
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by thejdude 12y ago
It's also a culture thing. In the USA, selling yourself like you're the absolute King is ok, but in Germany many people would consider you an arrogant snob that's full of it, if you pretend too hard. They'd also consider
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by thejdude 12y ago
The problem with technical management is often that good developers stay where they are (they are NEEDED), but bad developers are often promoted because it's convenient, and because they don't exactly cling to their technical posi
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by thejdude 12y ago
Depending on the job market it can also be very expensive (time vs yield) to hunt for job offers. If there are hardly any offers, and if the companies all look like rather bad employers, or the job looks like it will pay probably less than

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