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by wjoe 10y ago
>how could you not love a high-dpi display? When the software doesn't handle it well. I don't particularly like any implementation of high DPI scaling. OS X's scaling caused performance issues for me, and programs would ge
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by wjoe 10y ago
Small companies usually. It helps being somewhere that runs a cross platform stack like Java and/or targets Linux servers anyway. Once I'd been here a few months, they trusted me not to brick the laptop, they're fine with me
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by wjoe 10y ago
It's not steep in the value it provides, or the amount I've used it. But it's steep enough that it's more than I often pay for one thing. It's steep enough to make me come up with some excuse - "well, it's
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by wjoe 10y ago
In the UK, everyone used MSN too. I ended up having MSN for my school friends, but AIM for all my internet friends from online games/communities. And then there were always a few using Yahoo.
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by wjoe 10y ago
Well, that almost makes up for our price increases over the last few months thanks to the worse GBP/USD exchange rates...
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by wjoe 10y ago
> When was a notebook ever the choice for running multiple VM's or heavy editing of video? When they became powerful enough to do it, and so more cost effective for companies to just buy laptops for everyone, rather than provide des
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by wjoe 10y ago
>Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again. I don't think it's Netflix's choice that they're getting rid of their broader rang
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by wjoe 10y ago
Hardly unique to writers, I've had much of the same issues with procrastination when working on personal programming projects. Much as they describe writer's fear of writing a bad novel, I give up when I think no one will want to
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by wjoe 10y ago
It amazes me how Sega failed so spectacularly and repeatedly. First they tried incremental updates to the Genesis with the CD and 32X and failed to bring anything worthwhile. Then they had the disaster of the Saturn, which was so complex th
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by wjoe 10y ago
Same in the UK, Vodafone include Spotify with some of their plans.
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by wjoe 10y ago
http://arewee10syet.com/ has a list of addons and their compatibility. I tried turning on the about:config option and the URL bar broke, so obviously something I have is incompatible - I suspect it's Classic Theme Rest
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by wjoe 10y ago
I've found Firefox performance to be absolutely awful at work on OS X. I have no issues at all with it at home on Linux, and didn't have any issues in my previous job on OS X either. I'm not sure if it's OS X specific, a
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by wjoe 10y ago
Yeah, to be honest I could just use OpenOffice.org from the pre-Oracle days and it'd still do everything I need for the occasional time I care about office documents. I didn't realise it came down to licensing. Thanks for clearing
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by wjoe 10y ago
What reasons are there to prefer OpenOffice? From my perspective, I hear about LibreOffice updates often, and OpenOffice doesn't sound like it's being maintained as much. I don't know if this is actually correct, but I never
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by wjoe 10y ago
For desktop PCs, not at all, Nvidia GPUs are very easy to get working and will give the best performance. In modern laptops, you usually have the complication of 'optimus' which allows you to switch between the onboard Intel graph
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by wjoe 10y ago
This is pretty interesting from a video encoding point of view. We're currently using g2.2xlarge AWS instances which are Kepler based. All we really need from those instances is the GPU (more specifically, the NVENC H264 encoding chip)
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by wjoe 10y ago
That's a shame. That does immediately rule out my use case of using it at work for working with multiple servers. I have all of our servers in ~/.ssh/config (populated from a script), which use a number of different ssh keys.
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by wjoe 10y ago
That's one of the benefits of Steam as a gaming platform on Linux. It provides a standard set of libraries that games run against, which match those used on Steam OS and Ubuntu. Occasionally a developer might use a library outside of t
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by wjoe 10y ago
"Features: Disruption-free Search The video keeps playing even while you are searching" When I do a search, the audio of the video keeps playing, and there is a working seek bar at the top, but the video itself vanishes. Not sure
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by wjoe 10y ago
Does that mean Sublime is not native, because it doesn't use the OS's theme or widgets?
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by wjoe 10y ago
It looks like you're writing a resume! Would you like to set your LinkedIn status to "Looking for work?"
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by wjoe 10y ago
Why is the Widevine support they're adding limited to Windows and OS X? It's supported by Chrome in Linux. Of course, HTML5 video is supposed to make video on the web more standard and easily available, but DRM means you need ever
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by wjoe 10y ago
Most people still claim Firefox is a memory hog, but from my observations Chrome uses a lot more from it's one process-per-tab model compared to Firefox's single process for many tabs. It might not be significant for a small numbe
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by wjoe 10y ago
I thought the plan was for Firefox to use the same process-per-tab model as Chrome, but this post does seem to imply that it's just 2 - "we’re using project Electrolysis to split Firefox into a UI process and a content process.&qu
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by wjoe 10y ago
Any reason why it won't be enabled for people using extensions? This makes me worry that there's some significant incompatibility with extensions, and that when they do enable it for everyone, it'll break some of the extensio
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by wjoe 10y ago
+1 for CalDav support, currently it looks like it only works with Google Calendar. I've moved away from Google Calendar to self-hosted CalDAV, but there's a frustrating lack of good Calendar apps that support it. I'd like to
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by wjoe 10y ago
The citizens of those countries. There are many better things Brazil should be spending their money on, and many people living in terrible conditions who they should be helping. Many countries and cities who have actually asked their people
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by wjoe 10y ago
They do maintain their own blacklist, which doesn't seem to be listed on any of the public monitors. When I had this issue it did give a helpful bounce message: Client host blocked using FBLW15; To request removal from this list pleas
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by wjoe 10y ago
Only in Chrome, it still requires Flash in Firefox for some reason. They're using some non-standard way of doing HTML5 Audio as far as I remember, which only works in Chrome. Bug report is here - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
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by wjoe 10y ago
They have attempted to in the past, but all it takes is one extra switch on KVM to get around any restrictions for passthrough to Nvidia cards. I currently have that setup running myself and it works perfectly.

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