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by thenduks 17y ago
Personally I don't base my opinions of someone on their public support of the things I support. I like Jobs because I like his products, I couldn't care less about Gates because I find his products sloppy and awkward to use. Why do we have
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by thenduks 17y ago
Being cool takes a lot of work. You can't just write one text editor, get your 10 minutes and then carry on. It's a constant battle where you always have to be looking for those 10-minutes-of-cool. In other words, people who care about 'c
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by thenduks 17y ago
While the first type of ad (the 160 hours in 2 weeks for $500 ones) are obviously ignore-worthy, the second I don't see the big deal about. It's simply some new slang around the growing-in-popularity field of software development. It shows
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by thenduks 17y ago
It's enabled 'by default', but it's still a regular Firefox extension that can be turned off easily. Comment #2 by Alexander Sack reads: Thanks. To workaround you can disable the extension in tools -> addons. Later Adam Bielinsky fles
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by thenduks 17y ago
Just a clarification: It's not 'mandatory', it just gets installed by default with the Firefox package. Put clearly this means "you can just disable it". Still, what a crappy 'extension' to Firefox :/, this is why I build mine from source.
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by thenduks 17y ago
I stopped there, too. I guess I haven't read enough gizmodo to have expected it. Later, I brought myself to read the whole article and it was better... Still, considering the alternative's to Windows available these days -- the article does
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by thenduks 17y ago
I used pygame a lot back in college and had a lot of fun doing it, but... hasn't someone on the project noticed the god awful website yet? That thing is embarrassing!
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Then a virtual machine would be the obvious choice.
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by thenduks 17y ago
Unfortunately, no. Go to a blank line inside a code block that's indented a bit and hit tab. Nothing happens :/ I wasn't clear above, I have been able to have it never insert a tab, but it's that and the "don't try to 'intelligently' preven
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by thenduks 17y ago
I'd love to finally use emacs 24/7 (rather than randomly jumping between (ubuntu) gedit, gvim, vim, emacs and (osx) textmate) but arg I still can't figure out how to force emacs to: Never insert a tab character, ever. When I press tab, j
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by thenduks 17y ago
He's saying that the kind of people who frequent HN are indicators of what the future might be like: Regular people don’t think about their choice of computer platform in detail and with passion like nerds do because, duh, they are not ner
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by thenduks 17y ago
Hey I'm no fan of Windows, but I really don't see what's so wrong with having a 2-3GB virtual machine around on an external hard drive or something so you can sync your iPod. Perhaps if you're that against Windows on some sort of fundamenta
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by thenduks 17y ago
IMO they are both pretty terrible.
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by thenduks 17y ago
Maybe I don't read enough flame wars but I feel like hatred is a bit of a strong word. I'm thoroughly unimpressed with almost all of Microsoft's software, but I really don't see the point of any 'hate'. Perhaps this is Linus' point :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
Wow, I don't get all of this. I use Ubuntu and have an iPod touch, it doesn't sync at all, total brick. But, obviously, I have a windows partition (or, sometimes, virtual machine) which I use to test in IE or play games, etc... So I just us
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by thenduks 17y ago
You just follow the exact same procedure again to update.
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by thenduks 17y ago
In that case you will need to stay away from all laptop manufacturers that use LG-Phillips panels.
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by thenduks 17y ago
WOW. I'm finding this hard to believe. So the MacBook Pro 13" doesn't have an 8bit display, that's a little lame, we agree. But, here's the problem. You were in an Apple store and used the laptop and didn't notice. Then you took the lapto
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by thenduks 17y ago
My version: - wget http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefo... - make && sudo make install - change symlink at /usr/bin/firefox to point to new binary
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by thenduks 17y ago
I'd hardly call it fast, but true. The only 'fancy feature' I use in LaunchBar is it's speed :)
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by thenduks 17y ago
It has page up and page down. This ( http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/07/imac-slim-... ) is the keyboard I'm referring to. Still, I don't ever use those, vim supplies plenty of navigation methods that can be used from the home
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by thenduks 17y ago
Vim implements it's own 'insert' style functionality. I have no use for it. Never really did even before vim.
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by thenduks 17y ago
Turns out reddit doesn't have polls :P
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by thenduks 17y ago
Put your windows where you want them at the size you want them and don't ever touch them again... that's what I do, anyway. Expose to get at things that are hidden. I also use hiding apps in general a lot, cmd+h to hide and then either clic
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by thenduks 17y ago
Indeed, if you ask me, Apple has dethroned IBM for the go-to keyboard... especially for programming, there's nothing that's not perfect about it.
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by thenduks 17y ago
In general, I'd put it like this: A "web application" is a browser-based tool that allows a user to create and consume content . A "web site" is a browser-based tool that allows a user to consume content .
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by thenduks 17y ago
Kids who can't form their own opinions will be exposed to holocaust-denial information as well as the opposing views. It's not Facebook's job to parent your kids.
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by thenduks 17y ago
Protected impressionable people from dangerous or unpopular opinions is about as far from Facebook's business as it gets.
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by thenduks 17y ago
I also support Facebook's right to remove them from the virtual, private premises for expressing it. And Facebook has decided that it will not remove them. Issue closed. They've made their position pretty clear.
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by thenduks 17y ago
There's a difference between removing hate-speech from comment threads and such and removing the group entirely because we don't agree with it. You're right, though, that the issue is deeper than free speech. What I gather from Facebook's p

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