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by wowtip 10y ago
This is why we can't have nice things...
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by wowtip 10y ago
Thanks
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by wowtip 10y ago
I really like GIMP, but does anyone know why current stable release takes forever starting up when using Windows, and if there is anything you can do about it?
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by wowtip 10y ago
> For example adding a Firefox addon to display tabs vertically in a tree structure instead of a horizontal list has changed the way I use the internet Sounds interesting, which extension would that be?
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by wowtip 10y ago
Some of my friends are moving from Skype to Discord, but it seems to be a plethora of new IM clients popping up all the time. From what I can see Telegram doesn't have VoIP, which could be a deal breaker for some. Are there other advan
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by wowtip 10y ago
Looking at the screenshot it looks more like a ripoff than an alternative. I am an open source advocate in almost everything, but that kind of ripping of / stealing ideas leave a bad taste.
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by wowtip 10y ago
Paywalled?
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by wowtip 10y ago
> 2. A publisher cannot prevent you to do that. Not directly, but wouldn't it open up a box of issues where publishers make it harder for authors who distribute their papers for free to get published the next time around?
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by wowtip 10y ago
With good latency combined with pressure sensitive display this would be exceptional for artists and just for everyday taking notes.
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by wowtip 10y ago
- Security - Reasonable cost - Availability - Ease of use, especially setup - Eye candy - Social connections If you can check all of those for an FOSS solution, then I think you are home. Unfortunately most of the points are still not avail
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by wowtip 11y ago
Does it work fine for you as a laptop OS? Battery time, suspend/hibernate, etc?
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by wowtip 11y ago
And if tags fail you, or you forgot adding a tag I found org-occur-in-agenda-files will almost always let me find what I am looking for fairly quickly.
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by wowtip 11y ago
Surprised he did not mention org-capture for this use. http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html#Capture
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by wowtip 11y ago
Combine this with some kind of haptic feedback device and you will have something really cool. I just skimmed the description, so not sure if it support volumetric 3D objects, i.e. sculpting, or only painting?
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by wowtip 11y ago
Gnuserv + Gnuclientw But I have not yet found a way to make Emacs close all frames and keep server running. But it is better than restarting Emacs for each file...
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by wowtip 11y ago
Many more articles on what aliens were up to a long time ago?
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by wowtip 11y ago
Only english, or also for other languages?
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by wowtip 12y ago
Tested OpenBeOS / Haiku, any opinion on the project?
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by wowtip 12y ago
Thanks guys, that makes sense. The 1 line curl backup looks nifty. Going to look into this a bit more. Should improve on my current local bookmarks + external backup setup, without involving Google or any other data mining cloud service.
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by wowtip 12y ago
I really like the idea and the philosophy behind this site. What bothers me and keeps me from using it is the fact that it seems to be a one man show. I could really use this, but my bookmarks have too much time invested to be put on a serv
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by wowtip 13y ago
You are very humble. No, usually talk is not worth much, but seeing what you have achieved so far without help increase the value of your talk, even if awesome talent for coding gfx not automagically = awesome talent for coding AI.
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by wowtip 13y ago
Got a Rob Hubbard / Populous I vibe to it. Not bad for a beginner. :)
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by wowtip 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Selling-Creating-Difficult-Ma...
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by wowtip 14y ago
That worked very well. With mouse support it would be great. Also, quite scary how well you remember the maps, 15 years later.
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by wowtip 15y ago
I would put i like this: It is like you own this huge supermarket. Lately some shady guys have started putting flyers with information on where you could buy pirated merchandise from China for cheap. With SOPA this would mean the Governmnet
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by wowtip 15y ago
Sorry, not going to happen until someone release something like the Android of desktop Linux, or an actual Android for Desktop(TM). Preinstalled, with lots of applications, and easy to use.
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by wowtip 16y ago
C-x C-f was the intention. When I realized what I wrote, it was too late to edit. :(
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by wowtip 16y ago
My OS of choice has a nice implementation of this functionality C-x f <filename> [enter] ;)
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by wowtip 16y ago
I've always been intrigued by optimizing the keyboard for writing, and this analyser is a really cool idea. What has always stopped me from using one of these is that I am working at lots of different boxes at work, and there is no way I co