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by random778 10y ago
We have a Dell XPS 13 (9343) (originally came with Windows) at work. I used Ubuntu on it and couldn't get the display set up so that menus on IDEs etc. was a readable size. Attaching an external display was a disaster. Then a colleague
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by random778 10y ago
I'd like an easy-to-use plugin for FF to call youtube-dl.
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by random778 10y ago
It's sad that books and blog posts on this topic needs to be written.
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by random778 10y ago
Not sure, but it doesn't beat a fully loaded Thinkpad from 4+ years ago. I hope Lenovo rolls out the retro design they are teasing.
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by random778 10y ago
Could you give examples of tools which make your easier vs. those that make it hard / are impossible to use? This seems like a good additional argument for open / interoperable systems vs. closed, tightly controlled systems.
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by random778 10y ago
This.
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by random778 10y ago
I'm not sure that I follow your argument. Are you saying that because a similar research project was successfully commercialized Plan-9 should be judged akin? Even if you accept that, UNIX was not developed to what it became by AT&
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by random778 10y ago
++ for picking out the +Fravia reference, and a middle finger to Google Plus for using the same thing.
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by random778 10y ago
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html "Introduction Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system..." It does not seem that it was ever meant to compete with or replace commercialized operating systems. Th
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by random778 10y ago
Do you have experienced engineers/developers who can mentor junior employees?
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by random778 10y ago
I don't see how the discussion around an open plan office is tricky. Simply googling it will give you droves of articles like this one http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/why-your-company-will-bene... as well as res
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by random778 10y ago
Can't support this enough. Management bullshit. Appoint an engineer who has developed some empathy and START TRUSTING HIM. If you're not an engineer you will very like fuck this up. Getting someone to give you the right words for
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by random778 10y ago
... http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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by random778 10y ago
I use the MX500. Had it for 12 years. Took it apart two years ago and washed the plastic parts in dishwashing liquid, still good as new - only the black background of the logo is worn.
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by random778 10y ago
How do you think things would have played out had he become president 10 years earlier, 5 years before the revolutions of 1989?
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by random778 11y ago
Hacker News: Mark All Read [1] [1] https://github.com/GMouron/HNMarkAllRead
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by random778 11y ago
I'd like to see HN, actually.
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by random778 11y ago
Anecdotally the taste is lost when they breed tomatoes to not burst when falling 3 feet to the floor.
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by random778 11y ago
When it comes to a textual user interface, have you considered Rob Pike's Acme? http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
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by random778 11y ago
Mediatek :(
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by random778 11y ago
(My reply is specific to this happening in 2016. There will one day be Judge Dredd-like firearms. I don't see that being widespread in my lifetime, though.) If you work in a company developing a hardware product you will learn, amongst
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by random778 11y ago
Can you please point me to communities / sources around these topics? Super interesting!
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by random778 11y ago
I was with you until nr. 7. Definitely not going to happen. If some genius makes it happen, expect it to be an epic failure. 8 and 10 maybe, 9 I don't know...
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by random778 11y ago
EPUB: https://transfer.sh/zIKhO/gsglgl-piotrwozniak.epub (3.7 MiB) PDF: https://transfer.sh/17RsID/gsglgl-piotrwozniak.pdf (13 MiB) btw transfer.sh is great thus far.
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by random778 11y ago
How do you define freedom w.r.t. software? Based on your examples, you differ from Stallman, but it is unclear to me how you see it.
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by random778 11y ago
It seems you want open source software and the positive things that that entails. The GPL does not want that, it wants free-as-in-freedom-as-defined-by-RMS. There are naturally pros and cons to each. People seem to forget the cons of a non-
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by random778 11y ago
Possible to upload an example image + result?
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by random778 11y ago
True (to an extent), but take into account how much more expensive putting together a small amount of units (compared to say Dell) is. One really needs to go through the costing of something, even a simple PCB, to realize the orders of magn
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by random778 11y ago
Yep, it's double what a similar Dell XPS 13 costs.
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by random778 11y ago
I would argue that it's really powerful for certain, niche applications. Having an FPGA onboard is awesome. Now if we can get software everyone uses (office apps, browsers, and the big ones, not specialized ones 1% of people use) maybe

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