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by tx 18y ago
So this is "Hacker News"? i.e. site for HACKERS to hang out? Where stories about weight loss, Hollywood-grade entertainment industry rumors and get-rich-quick speculators routinely get voted up to the top, while kick-ass Rails API documenta
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by tx 18y ago
Yes, making an OS with pre-emptive multi-tasking with a modern graphical UI that could be installed (and be fast) on an affordable family PC with just 4MB of RAM, is "software mediocrity". The stories of "old glory days" should be reserved
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Free download ebooks on Computer & Programming(free-itebooks.com)
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Nice, downloadable Rails API documentation.(railsbrain.com)
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by tx 18y ago
emacs and vim are so different from "desktop apps" that you won't notice the difference. Well... gVim is pretty nicely integrated into Gnome, picks up theme/colors/icons, etc. I like it a lot. Thank you for replying BTW: I will definitely
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by tx 18y ago
Why do we need to "save music industry"? The entire "industry" was a byproduct of inventing a way to record sound. Someone with money and equipment (the aforementioned "industry") suddenly was able to record something and make a profit on t
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by tx 18y ago
So... what's the point of KDE then? I don't think I've ever seen KDE ports of vim or emacs (only GTK), and FireFox is also GTK... Then there is Gimp, how can you do without it... The only KDE app that is worth using compared to GTK counterp
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by tx 18y ago
Hm... I look at this as a history lesson. I jumped on Linux wagon fairly late, in 2006. Since then I had to install it on 4 laptops and 3 desktops, with minor hiccups related to wireless and video: nothing that Google couldn't solve. And I
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by tx 18y ago
How do Gnome Apps look like on KDE 4.x? I really dig their improvements, but nearly all applications I use are GTK-based [Firefox, gVim, SqlBrowser]. Do they get the same window look/feel? Font settings? How well are they integrated into K
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by tx 18y ago
How pathetic. (you, not cuil). Go and make fun of Facebook instead. It's a fucking MESSAGE BOARD WRITTEN IN PHP. At least Cuil is trying to build something not trivial and useless, facing real competition and going after real money.
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by tx 18y ago
They need to hurry up, otherwise there won't be any developers left to try the new thingie out, only 60+ old ex-taxi drivers who position their monitors facing a corner, fire up an anti-virus in "perpetual disk scan mode" and fall asleep in
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by tx 18y ago
1.9 will introduce native threads, which aren't much better. What? They're not only "better", they're actually _threads_, i.e. are able to run in parallel, you know? What are Ruby 1.8 threads good for, except for sitting on sockets?
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by tx 18y ago
I don't get it. We aren't building any new highways (easy to check) yet our expenses are going up. WTF?!
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KDE 4.1 review: "KDE marks a triumphant return to full usability with the 4.1 release"(linux.com)
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by tx 18y ago
I upmodded you because I share your wish, but unfortunately what you're asking for is impossible. Both of my parents have been railroad engineers all their lifes, and the main thing I learned was this: railroads are not economical at transp
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by tx 18y ago
My wife is a wedding photographer and I must say that projectwedding.com was a brilliant idea.
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by tx 18y ago
I think I am giving up on this "hacker" thing, there are just too many possible meanings and different people perceive it differently, thus it makes no sense to use the word in real life anymore. The original, true meaning has been lost: no
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by tx 18y ago
Does Ruby 1.9 have a web page or something? Ruby's site has very little information on how's the project going, and I am not too involved to follow the mailing lists. Questions like: when Rails support is coming? Or will native threads be s
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by tx 18y ago
HUGE thanks! BTW, I've been experimenting with web-based software running on a desktop with XUL/WebKit-based clients that run their own in-process HTTP server (I've used CherryPy) and I like this approach: HTML-based UIs are way easier to c
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by tx 18y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a while: currently I use Tomboy on Linux but the UI is too basic. I love your attention to detail: Ctrl+B makes my selection bold - fantastic. Are you going to open the code? I'm sure you've use
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by tx 18y ago
Daniel, the stories regarding Russian corruption are greatly exaggerated in US media [which, of course, doesn't mean there isn't any]. The book by Phillips explains why: this isn't about anti-Russian/anti-American politics, there are real a
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by tx 18y ago
His nick implies, at least statistically speaking, that he lives in a informational isolation and has no access to news, unless he knows more than one language [and uses it]. For English speakers the only source of information about interna
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by tx 18y ago
200ms is very slow. I wouldn't put my business on anything slower than 100ms, I manage servers at three different US data centers and ping is within 50..70ms range for all of them, including cheap slicehost.
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by tx 18y ago
I belive that just like WallStreet was driving/encouraging increase in housing prices and spending habits of Americans, Silicon Valley VCs of late have been encouraging build-to-flip ventures.
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Second Mac clone maker set to sell systems(computerworld.com)
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by tx 18y ago
Yeah, shadows.com tried the same thing, and they had plugins for IE/FF, are they still around?
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by tx 18y ago
TV programming is junk, it's anti-Internet, it's old. What's the point of watching whatever someone else pre-selected for you? Netflix is obsolete too: these funky plastic disks are so last century. If I can't download a video, I don't care
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by tx 18y ago
On the one hand, you have to admit this is revolutionary. #1 No it isn't. Remember Microsoft Passport? The web will be transformed from the still (somewhat) closed system it is today, to a massively social experience No it wont. See #1.
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by tx 18y ago
There is another knol out there, it's called "about.com", and all 3 points the author is making (including high pagerank) isn't working for them. Most of content on about.com is utter junk: a bunch of bored housewives trying to make a buck
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by tx 18y ago
No, they aren't. The former suppresses competition because it relies on existence of "big gorillas" to come over and buy you, therefore no new gorillas can emerge. Meanwhile, most often than not, big gorillas simply put their new toys on th

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