padraigm

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by padraigm 13y ago
Yeah, my first thought was "wow look at all these old white guys". If the pictures weren't right next to each other I'd probably have trouble telling any two of them apart.
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by padraigm 13y ago
"mail" is actually a fantastic interface to an email box assuming you don't receive very much mail. I still use it for things like sending myself an email notification when a long-running job is finished. Maybe this wasn&#x27
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by padraigm 13y ago
I use org-mode, with links between files as necessary and some helper functions to quickly create new files in an organized manner with a single key combination. That particular set of org-mode files looks a lot like a wiki, and I can use
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by padraigm 13y ago
DanBC is right about the comments here on HN, but I was talking about the response from the "tech community" at large in my original comment anyway.
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by padraigm 13y ago
The guess-and-iterate method would still be more efficient than trying to work through a stats textbook if the author is not educated in mathematics, though. Anyway, a lot of people don't enjoy learning math (crazy as that concept may seem
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by padraigm 13y ago
And, importantly, much of the backlash has been quite sexist. Ultimately that's a huge problem in the tech community - when a man does something inappropriate it's seen as evidence that he's an asshole, but when a woman does something inap
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by padraigm 14y ago
Hormone replacement therapy stops and in some cases reverses mpb. Maybe not the solution you were looking for, though.
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by padraigm 14y ago
The Mincome experiment only failed in the sense that despite proving the benefits of a minimum income, it hasn't caught on very quickly elsewhere.
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by padraigm 14y ago
The results are only representative of /r/linux readers, not linux users as a whole.
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by padraigm 14y ago
Whether they count or not, I would expect to see "regular" users to be orders of magnitude more common than web crawlers.
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by padraigm 14y ago
I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter whether there's a 3D printer in every home or not, because there will always be a non-negligible number of people who find the ability to rapidly prototype objects on demand in their home
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by padraigm 14y ago
Like graue said, Firefox OS is for phones only. However, installing Firefox was just about the first thing I did when I got my Cr-48. http://i.imgur.com/eCWwJ.png
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Stable, Vetted Hackage: Call for Participation(yesodweb.com)
2 points by padraigm 14y ago|0 comments
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Building a Princess Saving App(lunar.lostgarden.com)
2 points by padraigm 14y ago|0 comments
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by padraigm 14y ago
Has your group taken a serious look at KDE 4? It has reached or exceeded feature parity with KDE 3.5 across the board, it's a lot more stable now than any previous release of KDE ever has been, and it's well supported by RHEL (and SUSE, fo
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by padraigm 14y ago
I'd consider the flagrant human rights abuses in the U.A.E. to be a pretty substantial downside. The U.A.E. routinely imprisons rape victims for extramarital sex, imprisons or castrates people convicted of homosexuality. There is little
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A secret of game-fu(esr.ibiblio.org)
1 points by padraigm 14y ago|0 comments
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by padraigm 14y ago
"Is this job ad fake? Report it! or Recommend to a friend" Why would I want to recommend a fake job to a friend? ;)
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by padraigm 14y ago
I don't know, at the time almost everyone way saying they got way more than they were worth. If this were a field with a lot of room for further innovation, I'd tend to agree with you, but social photo sharing? Take the $1B and move on to
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by padraigm 14y ago
The thing is, most game engines don't even simulate Newtonian physics very accurately; it would be much too computationally expensive to do so. Gravity only works on certain objects and is usually a constant acceleration applied along the
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by padraigm 14y ago
Every time I join the YouTube HTML5 trial it gets silently turned off and videos start playing in Flash again a week or two later. Does that happen to anyone else?
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by padraigm 14y ago
As tikhonj mentioned, Emacs evil-mode is very likely exactly what you're looking for. I had considered myself a hardcore vim user, but I felt the call of Slime and org-mode. When I finally took a serious look at Emacs, I became convinced
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by padraigm 14y ago
I think your parent's point was that if the union can guarantee that its members are high-quality, it will have a lot of leverage to negotiate with employers. A union taking that approach doesn't need to stipulate that employers only emplo
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by padraigm 14y ago
The Qubes project is interesting in some ways, but I think they're trying to do too much in one go, and as a result the final product doesn't seem very practical. For example, applications can't use hardware accelerated video according to
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by padraigm 14y ago
Some people complain about bloat and bad compositing performance under X, but my real problem with X is that it's very insecure. Any program running on a given X server can see any keyboard input to any other program running on the same se
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by padraigm 14y ago
Here's an interesting coincidence: I noticed that October 14 is also the date that Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 [1]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1
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by padraigm 14y ago
"I wonder if the extra electricity generated from the solar panels will go into paying the rent for the spaces." The article definitely made it sound like that would be the case. They might also be counting on charging people in cars other
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by padraigm 14y ago
I had forgotten that Armadillo Aerospace existed. Do they consider themselves to be a serious competitor? In other words do they actually employ engineers and design rockets, or are they just talking about it?
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by padraigm 14y ago
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are both extremely serious about civil liberties. It's really unfortunate that the U.S. political system is so heavily stacked against third parties.
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by padraigm 14y ago
This is false. Unity is an alternative to Gnome-shell; it uses (sometimes patched versions of) the same underlying Gnome 3 libraries.

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