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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Yeah... poorly phrased. I understand that there's more than a kernel and a shell; I started with Gentoo and worked quite a bit with RedHat/CentOS/Fedora before moving to Ubuntu and then to Debian. The point was that what you
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
So your contention is that there is no basic installation... followed by the assertion that the basic installation, which does not exist, is larger than that of any BSD. Sorry, I'm going to have a hard time taking this seriously. And,
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
As a Debian user who started on Gentoo, I think the linked article was very interesting in terms of at least getting an idea of what the differences in design are. I've never used a BSD or even looked into it... given what I read the
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Never listen to anyone saying that. Better suggestion: Be careful when listening to anyone making absolute judgments based on generalizations. Some operating systems, just like some applications, are better for certain purposes (often bec
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Google throws its weight around just as much as Microsoft ever did, they just smile while they do it. I think it's less a matter of attitude and more a matter of being really, really good at doing it either unobtrusively or at least
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Absolutely agreed on the great knife bit. As for the bread... I think ditching the expectation of perfectly even slices is a good start. Cut a piece and cut it in half; there, half a sandwich (assuming your bread maker spits out loaves with
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
I can respect your aesthetic reasons for running OS X, but it's entirely subjective. I'm exactly the opposite: I run Mac hardware because, for my requirements, it's the only option. I run Debian on it because, for my requirem
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
There are two fairly consistent benefits to running OS X: 1. It usually comes installed on great hardware. 2. It's less vulnerable to most things than Windows. Beyond that, if you choose to build a Hackintosh, in my opinion you (for wh
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Why does "we're taking it down while we figure out what's going on" not qualify as a valid approach? Shouldn't safety be a higher priority than "well someone might want to look at the home page so we'll pu
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Yep, the recycling/trash system is nightmarish. Furnishing a new apartment (they don't typically come with anything, including a washer or fridge) results in a huge amount of packaging (the Japanese absolutely love to box, rebox,
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with that for people who choose to use it that way. But it kills discoverability (well, more accurately, there is no discoverability) for people who may hear about it without being given the direct link to this pa
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
I've been using and (for the most part) promoting Android ever since the G1... but after 2.x the rate of UI change has, in my opinion, been terrible from a usability experience. Pretty much all software (whether that's apps, websi
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
For Chris “Douggs” McDougall, his definition of insanity is a lifetime of boredom, comfort and caution, wasting away on the sofa and hiding from the inevitability of danger. I'm too exhausted to go look up the exact fallacy, but this
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
While I agree, I don't think attempting to perfect a ranking algorithm is useful beyond a certain point. At least for the topics I checked, it's reasonably close; there were a lot I didn't agree with, but then if it yielded m
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
That's an interesting and potentially useful idea, but if you go down that road, I think it'd be immediately relevant to also go into available subtitle languages. It also really depends on where this site gets its data from, as t
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
I love the UI and the results! I'd just say that I have two concerns; while the click-to-add nature of the genre list is great, I don't think it's immediately intuitive. Perhaps I'm just part of the old "if you clic
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Inescapable? Sure, if you ignore sample size. There aren't enough countries period , and I don't think they're all similar enough in meaningful ways, for any subset to be considered a representative sample for just about any
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
This meshes with my impression that the separation here is almost nonexistent; the zones are more a matter of density than category. The lower residential zones can't have quite the same type of commerce in them, but I think most peopl
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Yep. I really, really dislike cities in the US (where I'm from), but now I live in Shinjuku, and it's great! Being able to just stroll down any alley and find an incredible amount of varied restaurants and shopped stacked on top o
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Why? That's a bit like saying a back end development framework is only a starting point, and you should start working outside of it as soon as your product is mature. I don't think the name carries the explicit rejection of ongoin
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
"Localize your app" is a serious overstatement for what's covered by this article. To actually localize an app, automation is not an option, nor is just getting your keywords and descriptions done. If your target audience is
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Sort of tangential, but my first job was working in a Barnes & Noble, and it's still the one I miss the most. More than that, while I do believe electronic distribution is both more ecologically rational and practically efficient,
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
I'd say it's exactly the opposite: Early on is exactly when comments about "the new direction" can most reasonably be expected to have an effect, assuming anyone is listening/reading.
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem. This is trivially incorrect. If the problem is the creation of a magnum opus, then the solution is creating a magnum opus. Failure
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
In many environments, expectations don't have to adjust. With corporate clients, expectations were never reasonable in the first place, and many common requirements that have been around for decades still aren't reasonable. Clie
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
You can continuously fail while acting irrationally/irresponsibly. You can also fail despite having done everything right. Platitudes like this don't help anything, they just detract from actual discussion of reality, which is vas
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
There is not "a problem." Not even relevant to this issue. Perhaps many Americans don't understand how authoritarian the nation is becoming, but that is a far cry from a defining or singular problem. Propaganda is propaganda,
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Response to corollary on #7: "Anyone else" deserves about as much respect as your cat. The idea that a creature that enjoys destroying your possessions, arbitrarily ignoring you for most of its life despite depending entirely upon
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
This is why I skipped the high priced crap and went straight to a pedometer. It's not perfect, but it is engineered to serve its purpose and does so in a predictable way. What is this high-price-point, high-maintenance appliance worth
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
insert snarky comment about the time it takes to learn to set up a hosting environment that can survive an HN self-post here

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