jamespcole2

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by jamespcole2 11y ago
Needs Kilometres, Miles are meaningless to me
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by jamespcole2 11y ago
I use a 28" 4k monitor with ubuntu 14.04 and it works great(with an nvidia card). One issue is that in gnome 3 the UI scaling cannot be set per monitor so that if you are using a mix of HD and 4K it can become a bit annoying. If you&
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by jamespcole2 11y ago
My biggest frustration with Linux development is how poor it has made windows development env look in comparison. Every time I have to fire up a windows VM to do some work for some of our clients that still use MS tech I hate it. Before u
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by jamespcole2 11y ago
Try the Asus Zenbook UX305, everything works out of the box with Ubuntu and it's as thin as a Macbook Air but more powerful and with a ridiculously high res screen.
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by jamespcole2 11y ago
A big issue for me is the completely unnecessary size of most of the products they provide. Why are SQL Server, Visual Studio and Windows itself so big? It takes almost no time at all to provision a dev environment on Linux but hours on W
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by jamespcole2 12y ago
Try UbuntuGnome 14.04 LTS, I use it daily and can highly recommend it. I've tried a ton of different OS and UI and always keep coming back to UbuntuGnome
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by jamespcole2 12y ago
fair point, when I say "really gets it" I mean this is a huge step forward in comparison to the vast majority of enterprise clients that mandate IE. He knows IE is broken and the extra money spent on supporting old versions of IE
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by jamespcole2 12y ago
Not to be overly negative but if I had to guess the extensions system will be hobbled and sub-par. This is just based on my years of experience with IE and other MS products. If it had an extension that could give me the hours of my life b
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by jamespcole2 12y ago
Unfortunately yes, but one of our enterprise clients has just mandated Chrome only for all their internal apps(their new head of IT really gets it). Another one of our enterprise clients has just allowed all users to run Chrome and/or
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
News organisations are already obligated to print retractions when they make mistakes and asking a questions(although it is often used by the media as weasel words) is different to deliberately misleading someone. In regards to the other tw
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
Although it's slightly different as I am Australian so it is a different legal system I have strongly believed for a long time that lying for personal gain should be a crime. If it could be proven that a politician, organisation or in
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
I have owned a couple of System76 machines and they have always been pretty good, I currently have the Darter and I have no complaints. If you want something small and portable my Asus X202E works well.
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
I have noticed a drop in stability and quality recently. I personally have never owned an apple product, I only use Linux, but I do need to interact with iDevices fairly frequently and some little areas of quality are slipping. The apple T
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
UbuntuGnome 13.04 for my day to day and Ubuntu 12.04 on my servers and through Vagrant for dev
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
It's mainly things like the lack of a good package manager for provisioning, inexplicably large installers, sub-par automation, inscrutable GUI's packed with useless features, having to RDP into a server to perform basic tasks rat
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
I don't think people hate MS, they just don't even think about them. Whenever I am at tech events(usually web related ones) MS isn't openly criticised, they're not even discussed as an option. I spend about 50% of my ti
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
100% agree, I have extensive experience with both and I would never recommend .net to anyone. Unfortunately many of the larger companies I do work for will only use it. In general the SOE of an organisation is usually defined by non-tech
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
Having been a dev for 10 years, 5 of which were almost exclusively using .net and the other half using open source web tech I feel like I can add something to the discussion. I've recently got back into .net for a couple of recent pro
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
I don't use Ubuntu because I'm cheap, I use it because it's the best tool for the job. I think in general Ubuntu users are going to be developers(read have expendable income to spend on gadgets). I think making a play for t
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by jamespcole2 13y ago
I have worked remotely for companies in other countries for extended periods of time quite a bit. I'm Australian but have worked remotely for companies in Canada from Australia for over a year, I have worked for companies in the UK while l
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
The only real similarity is the superficial UI styling, the underlying OS is actually Ubuntu Linux where as OSX in based on BSD Unix.
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
I think it's also generally a misconception that people pirate things because they are cheap and don't want to spend the money. I think most people would be happy to pay if it matched the ease of convenience of piracy. I'm sure some peopl
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
For me the requirements would be: A flat monthly fee of less than $120AUD An open API so apps like XBMC, Boxee, Plex etc. can integrate the service. NO ADVERTISEMENTS! - this is a must I refuse to pay for something and have to watch ads. Sh
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
The coffee here in Victoria, AU is amazing, I've had coffee in probably around 15 - 20 different countries and while I get the odd good coffee here and there the consistent quality here is hard to beat. Many countries in general don't actu
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
Really interesting article. I spent 6 months living in Kathmandu a few years ago, it's an amazing place but has a lot of serious economic problems(among other things). It's great to see people helping to develop skills and income within Ne
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
Why would it matter what country it's from? Why not have a South Korean company in the lead? I don't really care what countries things are from as long as they are good products, although personally I'd rather see a South Korean company d
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
lol, don't forget your right to bear a tin foil hat too
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
I have a System76 Lemur UltraThin it came with 11.04 pre-installed(I'm now running 12.04) and it runs like a dream
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
Congratulations guys
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by jamespcole2 14y ago
unfuddle is down also, can't access any of my repos. I was going to spend the day working too - oh well time for a long lunch. This isn't the first time this has happened to AWS - we moved our app to linode last year after this happened to

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