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by lanaer 15y ago
Of course that is expected behaviour: tux loads multiple independant shell environments. A change in one will not affect the other. The same holds true for modifying the PATH environment variable, which is how rbenv works. So I'm not sure
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by lanaer 16y ago
Right. The author is saying he should become an entrepreneur, and that his family should be advising him to do so.
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by lanaer 16y ago
That, and I thought link rel="next" already existed… and had a more semantic meaning than pre-fetching. It (and its brother, rel="prev") are meant to inform the browser (which then hopefully informs the user, but that never took off) of wha
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by lanaer 16y ago
Right, but if you bought the iPad, with the intent of getting service only when you needed it, and haven't yet needed it…
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by lanaer 16y ago
I don't think I'd call these criticisms so much as _reasons_ why Chinese is so damn hard (for a Western speaker). It’s not like there's anyone around who designed the language to complain to. Anyway: Reasons 1-5 aren't about the many langua
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by lanaer 16y ago
Hm, on that point I'm not sure. In any case, Steam isn't running with any elevated privileges on my own system (I already had access enabled for assistive devices, which Steam only seems to need to actually launch its games), so I have no c
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by lanaer 16y ago
It actually doesn't need access to download & update games, since those are simply kept inside the user's home directory. It also doesn't need admin access to view all running processes, any user on a unix system can do so. That being s
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by lanaer 16y ago
When an SSD modifies a page, it has to erase & rewrite the entire block. SSDs try to avoid this by marking the block as “free” and writing data to an entirely different block, if one is available. The point here is that in order to writ
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by lanaer 16y ago
Same colorscheme, too. Granted, I have my vim configured to look almost like TextMate in just this way, so maybe he's just ripping off textmate… somehow I doubt it.
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by lanaer 16y ago
No, it doesn’t really support JS. The very minimal JS support it has is implemented in an interesting fashion as well. In any case, the software on the phone never sees any javascript code, only the proxy does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by lanaer 16y ago
In this I rely on my browser to filter deceptive characters in domain names. When I hover over the link you gave (or click it and see it in the address bar), it looks like http://www.youtube.xn--combad-site-hx3f.com/something_else (which
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by lanaer 16y ago
So it is important to also check the URL in your address bar _after_ you click, as well. This trick won’t be able to fake that.
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by lanaer 16y ago
That applies to other places in Asia and the middle east (go arabic ninja, I guess?)
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by lanaer 16y ago
Rockstars are loud & noisy, maybe they get stuff done. Frequently care more about what people think about them then the quality of their work. Ninjas do the job, and nobody knows until it’s too late. I'm not seeing desirable qualities h
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by lanaer 17y ago
Ah ok. I didn't learn of the issue until after Theora was removed, so all I saw were the reasons why neither H.264 nor Theora were in the spec (and the impression that at least one of those had been considered for it).
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by lanaer 17y ago
I see the good ole' question-mark diamond. I see the same thing when I view-source. Changing my text encoding to latin-1 fixed the display. I'm on Chrome, amusingly enough, on OS X 10.6.
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by lanaer 17y ago
I think a while back that was under consideration, but the spec-writers gave up since they knew that no matter what codec they picked, they knew they couldn’t get all browser vendors to implement it.
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by lanaer 17y ago
Since there is no standard video codec for HTML5 playback, it sounds like your last clause, at least, is satisfied. Personally, I'll probably use H.264. Why? Because I find it preferable than flash, and if I want my web video to be viewable
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by lanaer 17y ago
If you're able to afford the payments, and are otherwise financially stable, I'm not entirely sure how another 5-6 years will worsen things. Unless the economy manages to crash again in that time, and worse. Then, though, you'd probably be
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by lanaer 17y ago
SSDs still have substantially higher sequential read speeds. The specific one they are using (the Intel X-25E) has over two or three times the sequential read speed of 2 of the fastest standard drives. http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.
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by lanaer 17y ago
If a GUI tool is written where you can just select items in the explorer/finder, launch tool (from keyboard), enter thumbnail sizes, then GUI may win, since you won't have to switch from file browser to CLI in the first place. Problem with
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by lanaer 17y ago
" are fundamentally a better input interface for expert operations than the mouse/trackpad/pointer (with a rasterised but basically more analog feel that makes me "look where I'm going")." This is fundamentally incorrect. See the millions o
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by lanaer 17y ago
> However, the cognitive load of this distraction is lower than that of having to remember keyboard commands. I do not find this to be the case. But then, there are various keyboard commands, both in Vim and on the command line, that I
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by lanaer 17y ago
They were testing it back then, but now it seems they are launching it to everyone. However, gotta clear caches in Safari to see it.
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by lanaer 17y ago
I don’t see it on google.com. Also Safari 4. Edit: Now that I've read further down the page, apparently I really should try it in Firefox, or thoroughly clear my Safari cache.
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by lanaer 17y ago
“(including saying you have to buy a peripheral to use more than one mouse button)” Seriously? People still say this? This hasn’t been true since Apple standardized on the Mighty Mouse (horrible mouse that it was). That was a long time ago
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by lanaer 17y ago
I think he meant that it's harder to figure out if a given video is a deliberate attempt at viral marketing vs. just a video that some guy posted.
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by lanaer 17y ago
“It's a lot less deadly than previous seasonal flus.” Cite? I was under the impression that it was about as dangerous as others.
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by lanaer 17y ago
By default, yes, all slices you get are kept at the same data center. That way, if you have traffic between slices, they're on the same LAN and they don't have to charge you for that bandwidth. As has been mentioned, you can request a slice
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by lanaer 17y ago
That seems to contradict the wording on B&N. “Browse eBooks, magazines and newspapers on AT&T's 3G Wireless Network or on Wi-Fi. And every Barnes & Noble has free Wi-Fi, so you can connect at lightning fast speeds.” Sounds like

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