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by tsahyt 14y ago
Beware of opinions in the following text. For the past couple of years now I kept banging on about how Apple was basically a brilliant marketing division selling slightly polished and shiny PCs (not mentioning the brand name intentionally h
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Being a geek this isn't too useful for me then. Say I want to keep a private journal that is accessible from anywhere I'd just keep it on my server and rsync it with the devices I want to view/edit it on... or probably just create a git rep
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How is this different from say, having text files as a journal? Except for data being in the cloud obviously.
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Kind of off-topic, I'm slightly reminded of this: http://xkcd.com/1007/
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This is a perfect example of how Betteridge's Law can fail. Yes, algebra is necessary. Very much so. It's basically the first time students are required to operate on a formal system, which requires strictness and analytical thinking. As an
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On a sidenote, mpd + ncmpcpp is a killer combination for playing and managing music. I can only recommend that to anybody geeky enough to use a CLI music player :)
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Exercise seems to work because it allows us to switch our brains off and concentrate on our bodies. I like to see it as a way to give your brain room to breathe. Reminds me, I need to work out and free my mind more often :)
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They're probably not just under-discussed in software but in any industry, because they're under-discussed in society as a whole. I don't know about the US but I believe mentally ill people often refuse to seek help even after they recogniz
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From a technical point of view this is remarkable. Seems like the recognition works really well, and that's great. However, from a usability point of view this is probably awful. I've had an app on my phone for a while now that doesn't do h
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That's just plain stupid and annoying. I didn't notice yet since I've abandoned my Google Account a few months back and am therefore not signed into Google at all. However, why do they do that? Hasn't it occurred to them that not everybody
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Not exactly an open-source project but id software releases their source code under the GPL license after a couple of years. So you might want to have a look at the sources of say, Doom or Quake. Both of them were written in C. In fact ever
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I use both. I've got about 10,000 tracks sorted as Artist - Album/Song.ext in the filesystem. Since I'm a bit of a geek about my music anyway I remember which song is where anyway and if not, there's still find. In the music player (mpd + n
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They didn't replace mice. They established themselves as an alternative for an entirely different use case.
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There's a slight difference though. A tablet is meant to be carried around and an external keyboard kind of ruins this, though I admit there've been solutions to this which didn't completely suck. A workstation is stationary, so mobility is
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I never claimed they literally can't do productive work, they're just not built to do it. Touch interfaces and the corresponding on-screen keyboards are good enough for short texts but even writing a medium-sized email is a pain in the bo
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It's not about learning the inner workings of the computer but about having a very basic understanding of fundamental concepts. A computer is eventually nothing but a tool to get stuff done. A user not willing to learn those basic concepts
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> I think that at a certain point people have to accept that there are just some things must be learned in order to operate a computer. This! I personally like the idea of learning concepts in order to be able to make sense of a compute
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Patriotic pride? Unless I've missed something about your train of thought here, AC/DC is still an Australian band and not from the US.
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Considering how much effort went into stuxnet and flame this seems to be rather weird. Go to extreme lengths in coding malware to... play AC/DC? Something doesn't seem quite right. The choice of music is excellent though ;)
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I too love C. And I would use it over JavaScript any time. But that's mainly because I can't stand JavaScript ;) For prototyping and problems which are just easier to handle in higher level languages I'd go for Python. I think it's a shame
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It might be an enormous security issue. Since everything is computer-controlled in a car these days, security is extremely important. Imagine somebody messing with the system, having access to the internal bus and disabling the (electric) b
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My favourite is actually bash. I've looked at zsh for a while and found nothing I needed that bash didn't already provide. My bashrc just features aliases to a couple of things I often do, and that's basically that. Bash is actually suprisi
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But then again we're asking a lot of people in a lot of jobs to fuck up their bodies in order to make a living. Think about jobs involving large amounts of manual labor. However, even hackers have job hazards like repetitive strain injury.