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by whacker 14y ago
Don't know about speed. I think the mere fact that it works on vmware vm framebuffer is amazing!
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by whacker 14y ago
In the Heinlein (SF, eg. "Time enough for love", and related books) universe, long life is achieved by paying children of long lived parents too marry each other. Ultimately the program is so successful that they are persecuted by the rest
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by whacker 14y ago
The rpm package has a bug: It has a bunch of translation files that conflict with the older skype version. So remove the old version of skype first before installing the new one.
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by whacker 14y ago
Fedora 17 added support to provide gnome3 support even with software rendering. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_...
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by whacker 14y ago
If you are in demand, then mobility is really not an issue. I know a friend who switched jobs within 6 months of coming here.
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by whacker 14y ago
Neither do email bounces!
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by whacker 15y ago
This is a simple problem and its kinda amazing that no one else has solved it yet. Good Luck! Others have said this too - We needs a Linux version, hopefully usable on the command line too.
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by whacker 15y ago
Sure, but you don't always have the time to figure out what that elegant way is. This is the reason people complain about the complexity of frameworks.
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by whacker 15y ago
Beautiful! Perhaps this should be a thread on its own.
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by whacker 15y ago
Why is this even being debated? How is the chef, or any other employee, any different from an early stage investor?
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by whacker 15y ago
the "test it out" button doesn't do anything other than show a toolbar at the top. Chrome Unstable 16 on Linux.
72.
by whacker 15y ago
Its not down for maintenance. Its to prevent the system from being taken advantage of by Internet users and put the rest, which is the vast majority at a disadvantage.
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by whacker 15y ago
fast is about development speed, not performance.
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by whacker 15y ago
what? Perl is older than PHP!
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by whacker 15y ago
> "usb ports with glue" Keyboards, Mice, Joysticks for these systems were probably designed with the idea that a USB bus would be available. Its not particularly hard to modify/remove the drivers which make only the usb-disks work on li
76.
by whacker 15y ago
I used to enjoy the title "Hacker" at my previous job. Was sad to leave it.
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by whacker 15y ago
What DRM?
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by whacker 15y ago
http://www.flipkart.com Very successful. And outstanding service. I am a happy customer.
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by whacker 15y ago
Direct link to pdf. http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/7/7f/Adam-lowry-postgresop...
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by whacker 15y ago
easy snapshots, fast/seamless provisioning (need another 1T?) All of which are doable with LVM.
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by whacker 15y ago
Not necessarily. Some entries might refer to both but be in the same entry. So the correct way to calculate totals would be `subversion + svn - (subersion and svn)`
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by whacker 15y ago
Ok two suggestions. Let the page title match the document name, and save all documents implicitly, or at least documents that have been edited to more than, say 32 characters. The save button is hard to find
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by whacker 15y ago
Unsubscribe from all the default frontpage reddits: reddit.com politics pics gaming videos f7u12 askreddit etc. and suddenly reddit looks much more civilized. The remaining reddits are mostly free of overt spamming and manipulation. checkou
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by whacker 15y ago
A lot of them do, but sometimes there are loops (Eg. Computer Science). If you make an exception, choosing the second link for example, then it will lead you to philosophy.
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by whacker 15y ago
any chance of a non-flash version?
86.
by whacker 15y ago
Because the plugin is written by a github user, not github themselves.
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by whacker 15y ago
> Likewise, if you fail to enforce your sovereign rights as a nation, you eventually establish a precedent that those rights are no longer yours, much like copyright enforcement. I believe trademarks work that way, not copyright.
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by whacker 15y ago
If many people are linking/searching for this contrived example, then its probably distorting the 'quality' of the article. I did not search it myself to deny them the google juice.
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by whacker 15y ago
I always use set -eu. Makes my scripts much safer and less unpredictable.
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by whacker 15y ago
Project Website: http://icylisper.in/jark/

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