iwince

6 ms·

1.
by iwince 12y ago
It looks like they have a pretty good user list going: http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
2.
by iwince 12y ago
Where did "e" get declared at? It just seems to leap magically into existence.
3.
by iwince 12y ago
They are a step backward. They try to make a complicated thing look simple. That is always a mistake.
4.
by iwince 12y ago
I like the verbosity of anon classes, they make sense. They look right in the debugger. Lambdas do not look clear they look like vodoo, I very much dislike them and wish they'd never been introduced.
5.
by iwince 12y ago
Eclipse's debugger can be configured to show a refined output. The controls are in the upper right in the Debug Perspective. Programmers who make applications are not programmers who write IDE's. If I'd noticed this I don&#x2
6.
by iwince 12y ago
Why are there so many Haskell articles on HN? It seems like nearly every day there's one or more Haskell articles yet in the real world I've run into one guy in decades that even knew it.
7.
by iwince 12y ago
It's reassuring of the human condition that these two stick with it through thick and thin. Charting a course to success even when the medical expert(s) said otherwise.
8.
by iwince 12y ago
>> But the idea that this was a thunderbolt of inspiration that hit notch with the best idea ever that then changed the world is just fantasy. It was a series of thunderbolts and Notch and the whole Mojang gang are freaking geniuses i
9.
by iwince 12y ago
Yep that's what I was thinking, "Thirty-five blocks of Broadway were destroyed".
10.
by iwince 12y ago
Truly amazing! I wonder what would happen to a large city like that if in a blackout for 3 days.
11.
by iwince 12y ago
Actually the real problem is people who have your attitude about the problem.
12.
by iwince 12y ago
Aging does not necessarily stop the ability to learn anything new. You cited your dad so I'll cite mine, he taught himself assembly programming for fun when he was in his late 60's. He lived to be 75 but always challenged himself
13.
by iwince 12y ago
I've been playing with WebGL demos on Ubuntu for years, first Chrome then Firefox. It isn't new. You might also be impressed to find out that Steam is on Linux now too.
14.
TIOBE Index for January 2015(tiobe.com)
6 points by iwince 12y ago|1 comments
15.
by iwince 12y ago
I retract my earlier comment, this is cheesy at best Intel. Sad. Still kowtowing to the Gates regime.
16.
by iwince 12y ago
This is really big. We might now upgrade to the next Roku with Netflix running in Chrome on Linux, fast, now an Intel CPU device, really cool.
17.
by iwince 12y ago
"Hi, I don't think anyone from google is even looking at this since we have no resolution" What's up with this Google?
18.
by iwince 12y ago
>> resume didn't work I still sometimes have to use Windows for work and resume/hibernate works about half the time. The other half I have to power reset it. That's with HP, Dell and Lennovo running Windows 7. FYI: htt
19.
by iwince 12y ago
What version of Ubuntu? If it's 12 then you might need to do what I did for my new PC a year ago to get the latest drivers: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack That fixed the only issue I had which w
20.
by iwince 12y ago
>> If you are looking for a locked-down consumer appliance of a computer then linux really isn't for you. As other have pointed out System 76 targets Linux. I've got an old Dell that shipped with Ubuntu, still works great. S
21.
by iwince 12y ago
I use the proprietary drivers for nVidia on Ubuntu, always have, works great.
22.
by iwince 12y ago
I never [bought] a Mac, always looked like a control freak's dream, a step down from even Windows, let alone Linux.
23.
by iwince 12y ago
I propose that going into space is a worthy endeavor on its own without the need to find aliens. The journey of exploration enables us to invent new things that often help our lives on Earth.
24.
Ask: Updates and rebooting
1 points by iwince 12y ago|1 comments