protospork

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by protospork 13y ago
> retail POS generates a large amount of transactional data, and you need low latency for database syncing and credit card/loyalty card transactions. I've always been curious about what sort of infrastructure the average big-box retail
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by protospork 13y ago
Thank you, that's a better-written answer than anything I could get down. I'd just like to add that (as the article does a pretty good job of saying) perl is /unparalleled/ as a text-processing language. There is no other language that even
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by protospork 13y ago
> First off, the Flash updater on Windows works quite well on modern Windows systems. Speak for yourself; I only ever see it on system startup. I only reboot once every few months (and it doesn't respond to waking up from standby), but
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by protospork 13y ago
None of the clients I've used have passable lists support. Bitlbee (my current client of choice) doesn't have /any/ lists support.
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by protospork 14y ago
>I use keyboard shortcuts in Firefox, and occasionally dream of an Awesome Bar that works like bash. This reminded me to check up on Ubiquity[1]. Mozilla doesn't even host a page for it anymore, but apparently someone adopted it[2]. I'm
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by protospork 14y ago
I do similar things with tab groups/stacks in Firefox and Opera (mainly to keep fewer than 20 tabs visible at once). Guess it just doesn't feel "right" to me to run my whole system that way.
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by protospork 14y ago
I'm primarily a Windows user, though I dip into Linux pretty often. The first thing I do in any new install is to disable all but one or maybe two workspaces. Multiple workspaces just strikes me as a hack to get around poor panel design, or
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by protospork 14y ago
>Has either of them actually good (foss) drivers? I have to ask, what is the preoccupation with FOSS GPU drivers? Not just with boards like this, but even standard desktop hardware. Does anyone seriously think a firm like NVidia is goin
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by protospork 14y ago
I think it's worth noting that even with several free alternative builds, some of them more frequently updated from source than the official binaries, people still buy and pirate the official one. I'd be really interested to compare how man
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by protospork 14y ago
From what's been said in the forums and implied in that email they sent to API users, they're leaving the functionality in and just no longer creating the folder on install. My question is: How long is that functionality going to stick arou
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by protospork 15y ago
YES! For anyone with a high latency (huge swathes of the US are still stuck with satellite or mobile and the tech industry seems to have ignored this), twitter is a nightmare. The first pageload only pulls the empty 'framework' page, then a
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by protospork 15y ago
I think that may just be because "normal" people finally got a real person to associate with the faceless (ha!) entity that is Facebook. Shifting from "I've never heard of this man" to "his moral character aside, this man is responsible fo