virtualwhys

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1. 1021.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   "The most striking thing about the Gaza photo is that it" is real, those are in fact dead children, digital editing notwithstanding.
2. 1022.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   Yah, well fuck you and your stupid piece of shit POV on why Americans have a folk up their ass. The English aren't exactly swinging naked from the trees now are they? Every freaking day in France some man or woman is letting it ALL hang out
3. 1023.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   I've given Gnome 3 a fair shot despite the fail whale cries from community at large, but after a couple of months it's really starting to wear on me, particularly drag & drop support, which is straight up GONE, system-wide, ouch. On the
4. 1024.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   No windows, madness, is the big shitty really all that to suffer solitary confinement...and pay for it to boot?
5. 1025.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   pulseaudio -k Was more than helpful pre-Fedora 18 in dealing with sound issues; now, things are pretty good. Gnome 3 on the other hand, wow, fail whale on many fronts ;-)
6. 1026.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   Well, the article does mention that he was born in Brazil. Perhaps he was a glue sniffing Sao Paulo street kid who was adopted by a caring American WASP family that got him on the fast track to old/new money success. Seriously, boarding sch
7. 1027.▲
   by virtualwhys 13y ago

   More often than not you'll either be strong in design/art, OR strong in programming. There are of course amazing artists that are brilliant coders, but this would be far more rare than the norm, which is one or the other. Saying that, I'm a
8. 1028.▲
   by virtualwhys 14y ago

   "...though I still breezed through college (prestigious school in 3.5 years, deans list, didn't "study"). I probably related that story here (and definitely did on reddit in one of those kids-called-gifted-where-are-you-now thread), so I'll
9. 1029.▲
   by virtualwhys 14y ago

   Didn't know what was being discussed here re: readability until I realized, oh, site must have a default white background. On Linux the xcalib package is an absolute godsend, white backgrounds are like being yelled at to these eyes. Windoze
10. 1030.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    My estimates are always off the mark...unless there's a "real" deadline; at which point I go into unconscious mode and get whatever needs to be done, done. Necessity is the mother of all invention. If the deadline is a vague ballpark date,
11. 1031.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Got a Galaxy Nexus here, makes me wonder why people buy iPhones -- truly amazing device, am sorted for awhile here, zero need to get the latest & greatest from Google just yet (although $350 with Gorilla Glass is a pretty absurd deal).
12. 1032.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    There was a post on HN a few days ago that illustrated U.S. government spending; namely, what does 1 trillion dollars look like. Apparently 1 trillion dollars is a veritable warehouse of pallets of stacked bills. Take the 201 digit number;
13. 1033.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    the 23rd root problem is just unfathomable: straight up channeling the over mind. What is that number, I mean really what on earth is that string of digits called, in human terms?
14. 1034.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Yeah, Conky or similar status bar window manager widget is better for me for the real-time data (battery, cpu temp, date/time, etc.); too much to visually parse otherwise. Definitely some nice features in here at first glance (colored direc
15. 1035.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    this...makes me laugh, thanks ;-) I would agree that the real world can bait one in the ass, out of the blue, just, what the, things are trying to eat my ass! As for herding spherical cows and the vacuum, I'll do my best: val maybeCow =
16. 1036.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Completely agree, a manger without a technical (coding, sysadmin, etc.) background has a weak foundation: how can they make decisions without knowing the domain itself? Not so sure coders trump managers in the intelligence dept. After all,
17. 1037.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    "WordPress can do all that" Can do all what? What WordPress can do out of the box is far less than what it can't do, which is every custom website functionality one can imagine; thus the custom backend. I agree, trying to stretch WordPress,
18. 1038.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    WordPress does not bode well for the roll-your-own crowd; that is, if you aren't able to leverage a custom backend designed to solve business requirements that WP cannot out of the box. I started out in PHP years ago and WP put me out of bu
19. 1039.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    First of all, if you're an introvert you'll have little problem spending most of your time alone; add in interesting geographic locations and, really, it's not so bad ;-) I've been an expat coder for nearly 10 years -- have seen way more of
20. 1040.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    That's what has me on the fence between existing Scala/Play framework server-side and some-js-framework client-side. Would be thrilled with my stack if it weren't for the slow-ish build times, so the thought of offloading the view to the cl
21. 1041.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Yeah, Kendall Square. What sold me on the Cambridge Innovation Center was the unlimited supply of FREE organic coffee, tea, peanut butter, butter butter, soy milk, milk milk, cereal, jams, etc. ;-) Couple of guys were actually living there,
22. 1042.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    compact G84-4100 Cherry mechanical keyboard here, $20 new off eBay ;-) Makes a racket _if you hammer away_ Wish the cord was a bit shorter (might be 6 feet), other than that, love it, tiny little gem.
23. 1043.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Firefox consuming 3.5GB...well, there's your problem, must be a memory leak in whatever version you have. Upgrade/downgrade or try Chrome as alternative until the FF issue is resolved. Agreed re: most users not requiring a high end quad cor
24. 1044.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    In France speeding ticket robots abound. Can easily rack up hundreds of Euros in fines without knowing it...until you get notice in the mail/post that is, ouch. Then later your insurer gets in on it, increasing your monthly fee via form let
25. 1045.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    I did run through Korma docs; if I were coming from Rails or other ActiveRecord based framework I might get excited, but as soon as I see start to see things like has-one and belongs-to I get worried about the generated SQL. ClojureQL, howe
26. 1046.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Luminus and LightTable (wow, that in-editor javascript demo) look pretty awesome. Coming from Scala/Play my initial resistance to jumping the fence are: 1) lack of compile time type safety 2) odd, for me, language syntax 3) no ScalaQuery/Sl
27. 1047.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Fedora user...if Arch's forums are any indication of the quality of the distro, then Arch is excellent. Was looking for some help getting started with Awesome WM as well as sorting out an issue with crap Broadcom wireless card -- both searc
28. 1048.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Interesting google searches: Apple "macbook pro loud fans 2013" Lenovo "W530 fan noise intolerable" In the end you can't (yet) stick a quad core CPU with a high end graphics card into a small chassis with a single cooling source, the techno
29. 1049.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    I've got a 23" LG monitor that I travel with (6.5lbs) which it just so happens is 1920 X 1080 -- plenty for coding.
30. 1050.▲
    by virtualwhys 14y ago

    Indeed, and dual fans to keep quad core CPU and GPU cool. MBP roasts under load, no? ;-)