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by xiaomai 10y ago
Netbooks were actually great. I loved mine. It had 11 hours of battery life (this was around 2007 or 2008 when typical pc laptops were getting 2-4 hours). A lot of my classmates liked their netbooks too. The ultrabook is also fantastic,
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by xiaomai 10y ago
I've been hoping someone packages nylas for it. I've been meaning to look into how to do this.
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by xiaomai 11y ago
Mercurial had a more familiar, but much worse interface than git. More familiar because it was essentially subversions interface made suitable for a dvcs. Worse for lacking (or requiring plugins for) features like the index, commit amending
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by xiaomai 11y ago
Mozilla shutting down Persona was one of my biggest internet-related disappointments this year. It seemed like the perfect OpenID replacement (that might actually get used by normal people). Bring it back please!
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by xiaomai 11y ago
Nintendo released one of these back during the original tamagatchi craze. It had a pedometer built in, so you needed to exercise to feed your Pokemon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Pikachu
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by xiaomai 11y ago
I have the chromecast and the Fire stick. I love my chromecast, I impuse bought the fire stick when it first came out and was selling for really cheap. I like the fire stick because my kids can use it (they don't have devices to contr
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Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla to Create Next-Gen Video Format(techcrunch.com)
10 points by xiaomai 11y ago|3 comments
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by xiaomai 11y ago
fwiw, I actually use Firefox (I say that because I assume most of the complainers don't) and was thinking of making my own reading-list service, but Firefox integrating with Pocket saved me the trouble. I use the integration many time
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by xiaomai 11y ago
It's a real shame chrome moved away from GTK. Aura is probably fine for many use cases but it does weird stuff on multi-monitor setups (drawing artifacts and windows jumping around).
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by xiaomai 11y ago
Nix is awesome . The last time I ran it stuff like gnome-shell wasn't packaged, which made it hard to use for a desktop (they did have a number of window managers packaged though). That's the hardest part about nix right now (t
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by xiaomai 11y ago
That is a clever fake interview quote, but the whole notion that hg's "easier" interface should have made it won misses the point. hg's interface is more familiar (especially since we were mostly all coming from subvers
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by xiaomai 12y ago
GNOME has pretty great screen reader support built in (I think this was work that Sun did before Oracle bought them). The native apps have good screen reader support in my experience, unfortunately, support for the web is lacking (a lot of
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Chromium can use Chrome's flash. Unfortunately, it's not distributed separately from Chrome. This is how Arch LInux pulls it out: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ch/chromium-pepper-flash/...
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by xiaomai 12y ago
This is great, I always remove the metadata from files before sharing them (why don't the social networks don't do this for you?). This is how I do it at the command-line: cp files-to-strip /tmp/foo exiv2 rm &
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Wow, I have fond memories of using WindowMaker. I was really excited to see some recent development with new featuers this past summer ( http://windowmaker.org/news.php ). I spent a few days with it, I was surprised at some
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Zuckerberg's Chinese does sound pretty awful right now (although his listening comprehension looked much better), but it doesn't seem right to compare him to individuals that are fully immersed in a Chinese-speaking environment (p
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Even if you keep it up to date there is frequent (relative to other distros) manual action required before running updates. An example from a few days ago: https://www.archlinux.org/news/java-users-manual-interventio..
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by xiaomai 12y ago
KDE doesn't do a ton of stuff that many (most?) people care about like handle add/removing displays frequently. Accessibility is pretty good in GNOME (but not in KDE) which makes it a better default option too. Also most of the
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by xiaomai 12y ago
The great thing about gnome-shell is you can have it however you want: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Those were good days, I remember buying the boxed version of WP8 (with Tux on the cover) from CompUSA.
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by xiaomai 12y ago
I wish this would have gone more in depth in his experience with colemak and vim. I've considered switching keyboard layouts in the past, but applications with lots of keyboard shortcuts (like vim) make it seem too difficult.
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by xiaomai 12y ago
What's the implication of being on the same bus? More CPU usage for ethernet?
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by xiaomai 12y ago
> Ember just seems to have been marketed much better than Batman was, which is no surprise, Yehuda is good at doing that. I don't think this is fair. We use Ember at work, although I wish we used React. We started out on Backbone
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Looks like there is an encrypt module that uses AES-128: http://camlistore.org/pkg/blobserver/encrypt/ . The modules are composable so you could encrypt your remote replicas of the main store (or hopefully al
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by xiaomai 12y ago
arrays don't do that, but map() does. Normally in js you can just ignore arguments you don't care about, but it does lead to surprises like this one.
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by xiaomai 12y ago
Have you expounded on your feelings about OpenVPN anywhere? It's my go-to vpn solution so I would love to hear about what I should be using instead (I don't think this is an option since it's only for connecting 2 computers
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by xiaomai 13y ago
I use it on Linux and it works really well too (at least it does with Ubuntu's font rendering or Infinality).
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by xiaomai 13y ago
I was going to replace my first-gen Thinkpad Carbon with the newer model (wanted the hi-res screen and better battery life), but this keyboard is a complete dealbreaker. Like the author, I am distressed at the removal of the caps-lock key
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by xiaomai 13y ago
I was under the impression that Tahoe-LAFS doesn't work offline. Is that not the case?
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by xiaomai 13y ago
Hey! It sounds like you're describing ori [1]. Be sure to read the paper [2] because the website is a bit sparse on info. It's still young but the syncing, cheap snapshots, auto backups, etc. have been really nice. (it's o

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