wanorris

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by wanorris 18y ago
At the risk of drifting further afield from the topic, isn't the real solution to to scarce water supplies better filtering and water recycling -- in other words, wouldn't there be plenty of water if we just took what went down the drain, f
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by wanorris 18y ago
> Also, teaching to the test is fine if the test is good. If the test accurately measures knowledge of the subject (1), then teaching to the test means teaching the material. It's very rare for one of my students to do well on a test wi
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by wanorris 18y ago
I stand corrected. Site traffic is definitely a weak metric, and total users indeed probably isn't that interesting. I find the 200K active users/week and 3M messages quite interesting. I admit, it would be more enlightening to know the dis
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by wanorris 18y ago
Why is it useless?
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by wanorris 18y ago
Yes, if in the future it were possible to take your family with you. What better way could there be to teach your kids to dream big than to show them first hand what the Earth looks like from outer space?
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by wanorris 18y ago
I helped my dad start an office furniture store back in the 90's, so I learned a bit about ergonomics by osmosis. The central problem with kneeling chairs is that one of the most important ergonomic principles is that you have a natural (an
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by wanorris 18y ago
> C++ is universally regarded as a language for large system development. Actually, C++ is a terrible language for large system development. Far worse than Ruby. Then again, I'm not entirely convinced that Ruby is a great language for
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by wanorris 18y ago
This is very biased toward the considerations of an enterprise datacenter, and thus against languages like Ruby, Python, et alia, that run in their own interpreters, which makes them harder for enterprise datacenters to manage than language
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by wanorris 18y ago
> your 50 year old aunt won't be able to install MythTV or whatever on windows either Especially since MythTV only runs on Linux. :-)
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by wanorris 18y ago
Red Hat charges for their Enterprise Linux, but releases it as open source. I forget the names, but there are now 3rd-party Linux distros that basically just redistribute RHEL freely to whoever wants them. If someone openly pirates your pro
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by wanorris 18y ago
> Just as Ubuntu now has "restricted drivers" it should also have "popular non-free apps", and a screen should appear on the first boot that lets the user install flash, skype, etc. Actually, it does come with a package called "Ubuntu r
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by wanorris 18y ago
In the enterprise software business (and typically, the desktop software business as well), the most straightforward business model is to offer a product and charge people for it. That way, you get paid whenever people use your software (ex
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by wanorris 18y ago
Upgrading to Hardy borked my nvidia, as well. I ended up replacing /etc/X11/xorg.conf with xorg.conf.1, which used the generic vesa driver instead of the nvidia driver. (If you don't know command line, this is 'sudo /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/
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by wanorris 18y ago
> Mac users that want to run Windows buy windows and install it inside of a VM (or dual boot). What's preventing you from doing the same under Linux? Seconded. Lots of apps run really well in XP with VirtualBox in seamless mode. That's
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by wanorris 18y ago
I'm old enough to have presented from transparencies on an overhead projector, though I've never had occasion to present using an actual slide carousel. BTW, I'm not sure I understand why you think it's so important to present with a Powerp
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by wanorris 18y ago
Firefox started its ascension by systematically eliminating any reasons users had for using IE, until it was similar to IE, but with more power, less suckage, and a better interface. It certainly doesn't mean Linux should jettison things th
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by wanorris 18y ago
Is it that Gimp is so much worse, or is it simply that they're different? I used Corel Photo-Paint for years and years, and when I tried Photoshop after that, it seemed like it was designed by space aliens. I don't mean to say that Photo-Pa
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by wanorris 18y ago
I hope the Ubuntu team sees this and learns from it. They've built a great system that I love using, and I'd really love to see it guide new users well enough that my wife would be happy to permanently switch.
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by wanorris 18y ago
If you want to really be well versed in programming techniques, it's worth learning a statically-typed functional language -- Haskell, OCaml, SML, or similar. This will teach you techniques you won't commonly see anywhere else. I wouldn't s
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by wanorris 18y ago
See -- there are good reasons to take all that money from venture capitalists! ;-)
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by wanorris 18y ago
I also find it hard to believe that Apple wants to get into the microprocessor business. Of course, one of the biggest traditional problems with device manufacturers owning a chip supplier is that losing out on other chip customers (who don
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by wanorris 18y ago
Personally, I'm not worried at all about the U.S. government getting at my stuff. But a company working on security sufficient to keep the NSA from reading my mail has more security than I'll ever need, which is reassuring.
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by wanorris 18y ago
Just to let you know, this pitch totally worked for me. As soon as I finished reading your pitch I totally clicked the link to find out more. I hope you release soon. :-)
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by wanorris 18y ago
I'm extremely curious about the methodology, even more than the results. The kind of distinction they draw seems very difficult to capture in an objective study.
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by wanorris 18y ago
> Perhaps balancing the challenges of work and family five you a healthy dosage of time management and prioritization skills. Plus, I don't know about you, but I have real world experience about a boatload of pitfalls that I know to avo
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by wanorris 18y ago
> If they did, you could prove by induction that the ideal strategy in a startup would be to work an arbitrarily small amount of time per day. For a given startup, a particular limit on startup time might actually be optimal. But I thin
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by wanorris 18y ago
I use a second monitor at work and only my onboard screen at home. After fiddling around with settings for a while, I got it to work, but I also shut down the system when I go to and from work (I expect restarting X would also work). The ma
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by wanorris 18y ago
Yeah, Envy totally did the job for me. Which is nice, because video drivers were the only nontrivial thing that didn't work for me in Gutsy -- the free nvidia drivers don't work at all with my T61p, and the version of the proprietary driver
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by wanorris 19y ago
> there is a dedicated team of around 50 people just devoted to managing the "Start" button. Worse: it took 43 people just to build the shutdown feature. http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c... This article
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by wanorris 19y ago
Not all websites are basically just documents with a management interface, however. Remember, there are an awful lot of sites with database back ends that store structured data. The technical difficulty of emitting that structured data out

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