scribblemacher

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by scribblemacher 13y ago
I work for a IT government contractor right now. We don't do work even close to the size of these exchanges, but even in our work the amount of bureaucracy and overhead involved is mind-numbing. To put a simple form on our web page req
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I spent nearly an entire summer doing this, back after I graduated from High School in 2003. If you just follow the manual and enter the commands blindly, you can do it a lot faster. Instead, I took the time to look up each package I was in
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Debian testing as been a good mix of "stable" and "new" for me. I was using Squeeze for awhile and it seems like "stable" in the Debian sense can also mean buggy and feature-less. There was a battery eating, CPU melting bug in the Squeeze k
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I really want a distro that is minimal but also "just works." I like tweaking things as much as the next guy, but when I'm heading off to work and want to print a shipping label from my laptop quick, I really don't want to have to sit and r
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I've run into many problems and conflicts doing this. Upgrading becomes a mess and I'm often forgetting why I needed a PPA in the first place. I don't think this is a very good long term solution for people that don't want to re-install the
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I never heard of Tesla growing up, which is either a sign that my school gave a poor education or a sign that we've recently gone back and looked at this part of our history again. (Or a sign that I was a lazy kid who slept in science class
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Excellent tool; does exactly what it's advertised to do.
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I agree. For reading, high contrast is exactly what I want. Despite all these trends in UX design, the best user interface is still a white piece of paper with blank ink.
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I used GNOME 3 for awhile. Of all the heavy, DE-style desktops, I like GNOME 3. I use Awesome WM more often because it's lighter and saves precious battery on my laptop, but GNOME 3 is zippy and mostly stays out of my way. As long as you ca
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
The console doesn't exist yet and SquareEnix already is already making FF-remakes for it! I'm happy to see a big name in the gaming business offering some support, but I'm more excited to see some original, thinking-out-of-the-box homebrew
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I see my hometown of Harrisburg isn't getting startup love. Kind of surprising; I've heard from friends and family still there that their economy is prettty strong. The cost of doing business there is probably a lot cheaper than the Philly
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Using butterflies: http://xkcd.com/378/
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I like Gnome 3 in that it made me explore other WM/DE options and think more about what I wanted. I found Awesome, and though there are some things I don't like about it (or namely, some programs that don't work nicely in a tiling environme
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Ouya = Indrema 2012?
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
To be fair, users aren't Facebook's customers.
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
As a Technical Writer trying to weasel his way into more developmenty tasks, I find this advice insanely insightful. I spend a lot of time frustrated at my lack of development training, and maybe don't step back enough to clearly define the
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Does anyone here at HN identify themselves as a member of the Pirate Party?
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
+100 for introducing me to apt-cyg!
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I've never used anything besides bash before. I use a terminal a lot, but don't really do anything fancy so I thought switching would be a waste of time. Reading the features in fish though made me want to give it a whirl.
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I've never understood who exactly is the target audience of Gnome 3 (and, to a lesser extent, Unity). It seems like these things would be great on an iPad or something like that, but what Linux users are really running Fedora or Debian on a
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I joined your site. As an avid backpacker/canoe tripper, meetup has been basically useless. It's very hard to gauge the experience and skill of people on that site. I've had a few bad experiences, such as people flaking out, not being able
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Of my approximately 150 friends on Facebook, it seems like it's only the same 10-15 wankers actually posting things and liking stuff. I suspect that the majority of Facebook users are like me---logging in once and awhile to see if they got
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Am I the only one that thinks there's a really big advertising/personal data mining bubble that's ripe for popping?
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Has anyone had a chance to read this yet? I've heard many things ago it. Either way, this is a great thing for Debian.
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
While not epub specific, this question on SO might be useful to you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Not to mention those of us in a workplace still using XP (and thus unable to upgrade past IE8).
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
I read through the sample on the site and found it surprisingly hard to put down. I'm not a programmer, but I've read TCPL. Your sample made me think of C a little differently, and was easy to understand despite my lack of formal training.
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
To be fair, isn't that what most sites look like in IE8?
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by scribblemacher 14y ago
Has anyone tried using this on a netbook? My wife is interested in trying Linux, and I was thinking Ubuntu (or Lubuntu) might be a good choice for her. Speed is an issue for her and one of the reasons she's not satisfied with Windows. I'd i