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by richardk 12y ago
Also perhaps worth mentioning Baserock ( http://wiki.baserock.org ) which can reproducibly build an OS from sources in git and deploy the resulting artifact to various popular targets, kvm, virtualbox, openstack etc.
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Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence(nickbostrom.com)
1 points by richardk 14y ago|0 comments
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by richardk 14y ago
I personally felt that the "What killed the Linux Desktop" article was completely irrelevant. It seems there's always going to be some people who complain that GNU/Linux isn't 'good enough' or whatever, and as a community we should simply i
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by richardk 14y ago
For what it's worth, GNU/Linux never really was about some desktop conquest, so this whole discussion "What killed the Linux desktop" is quite absurd. That aside, what we have here is a thread apparently devoted to shitting on the work of p
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by richardk 14y ago
Going into my final year at Edinburgh uni, studying Comp Sci. I've always felt that I'm not nearly as talented as the folks around me, however I've loved computers since I was 10, I'm still in love and I'm always writing programs. Ever sinc
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by richardk 14y ago
Yeah, because ice cream the sky and the sea are things I experience once in a blue moon... pretty sure I see the sky everyday, eat ice cream most hot days and I live by the coast, so... In any case, those were obviously examples, like I nee
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Bell System Technical Journal(alcatel-lucent.com)
1 points by richardk 14y ago|0 comments
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by richardk 14y ago
Sorry, what? Life is awesome, the sky, the sea, ice cream - all of it. I'm only sorry that I don't get to stay here longer. Sure we suffer sometimes, and some people suffer more than others. But to insist that we stop reproducing in an atte
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by richardk 14y ago
On the other hand when I criticized Chris Granger's "LightTable" I was told that I was a "hater" followed by several statements suggesting that Chris should ignore folks like myself: the "haters". So I'm not sure, perhaps it is more about w
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by richardk 14y ago
Been dabbling with OS stuff for a while now, looking at xv6 sources and using Tanenbaum's Minix book. Have got to say I'm very excited about this site, it looks incredibly useful.
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by richardk 14y ago
I'm not familiar enough with Clojure to comment.
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by richardk 14y ago
I'm not sure about others, but I wouldn't give my money to any software project that didn't describe in detail how it might overcome such glaring design challenges.
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by richardk 14y ago
Also even if the code were indeed based on just basic numerical or string primitives, how would the 'instant feedback' work if the code were in a long, tight loop or did heavy cpu intensive stuff? I think this is a critical point, has the
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Programming and Social Interaction(peternixey.com)
1 points by richardk 14y ago|0 comments
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by richardk 14y ago
Sure, I just get the feeling that you're lucky to find such jobs (jobs where you can do what you love and still love doing it).
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by richardk 14y ago
This article is a wake up call, thank you.
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by richardk 14y ago
As a student taking a CS degree for fun, I think the 'Happy Hacking' article is fairly insightful. Not of the best quality, perhaps, but insightful none the less.
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by richardk 14y ago
The title seems pretty misleading: it seems they only built an AND and an OR gate, I wouldn't really call a couple of logic gates a Computer . Still, building logic gates using crabs, very good. :)
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by richardk 14y ago
Techno's nice, but I prefer this kind of thing for when I'm making something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTovW5Pb2w
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by richardk 14y ago
I think most people probably don't care so much about karma, since it doesn't really mean an awful lot. However, getting negative karma hurts, for some reason. Often if I'm down voted, I assume I've done something wrong and either try to fi
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by richardk 14y ago
Yes
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by richardk 14y ago
No
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by richardk 14y ago
Debian Stable since 2009, before then I used other Linux distros and Windows. I'll admit I was quite a fan boy in my teens, but now I really just use Debian because it's what I'm used to, or most comfortable with. I think GNU/Linux in gener
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by richardk 14y ago
I'm 21, 5 years and counting; I still don't know how to program.
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by richardk 14y ago
I don't buy this, I spent the first two years of my degree working as this guy suggests and completely burnt myself out. Now I take things easy, I'm still getting good grades and I'm a lot more relaxed. The other things I want to learn (not
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by richardk 14y ago
I couldn't agree more, I can't imagine how much more I could have picked up at that young age if I'd just had, say, a tty, instead of endlessly playing with window themes, notification sounds and so on. Another thing that's important though
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Poll: You tried Gnome Shell, then you switched (back) to...
2 points by richardk 14y ago|1 comments
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by richardk 14y ago
(still using) Gnome Shell
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by richardk 14y ago
Gnome 2
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by richardk 14y ago
KDE

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