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by wuest 13y ago
This is exciting news. I'll probably end up with one of these as well as a Jolla (the Sailfish phone) in the near future.
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by wuest 13y ago
Saw this posted by Mikko earlier. It's an interesting ploy, and I'm interested to see what comes of it. Specifically, I want to know whether the media, as it were, is going to be willing to propagate this sort of story, even with the plan
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by wuest 13y ago
While that's a fair statement, an OS--mobile or otherwise--doesn't really need to be among the top few in terms of adoption to be valuable. Lots of people still use their N900 and N9 phones and want something to be a successor to them. Th
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by wuest 13y ago
It's an interesting (read: niche) market, to be sure. It's the same market as someone who might buy 8 raspberry pi boards, or 4 ODroid U2 machines for the purpose of learning about parallel computation. The Epipchany chip (the coprocessor
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by wuest 13y ago
> What is not cool about Perl? Perl is my first interpreted language. It has a very special place in my heart, even if it was awkward at first to get used to it coming from a C background. Perl will always be a cool kid.
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by wuest 13y ago
>May be a better way is to create a nice atmosphere where women feel welcome and comfortable, having very strict code of conduct in conference and generally us (male engineers) being nice to them - this might take time, but the changes
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by wuest 13y ago
Is this a limitation of Widgets, or of the status of Widget development, though? It seems to me that there's a LOT of untapped potential when it comes to widgets.
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by wuest 13y ago
Anecdotal data, admittedly not perfectly analogous. I got serious about playing the game of go relatively late in life for a go player--I was 23 years old at the time. In 2 years of hard study (1~2h/day, and a bit more on weekends) I rose
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by wuest 13y ago
...Which they ought to do. Offering the ability to enumerate user accounts is unlikely to be the immediate goal of this utility, but it's an effect nonetheless.
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by wuest 13y ago
A good portfolio can be created well before one goes into--let alone graduates--college. I understand the graphic design industry to be largely portfolio-driven, and it continues to confuse me that the IT industry isn't the same way.
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by wuest 13y ago
I lean pure CLI as well except on macs, which I use purely to try and maintain compatibility with as many Unixy OS variants as I can.
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by wuest 13y ago
Just in case anyone isn't aware of the video to which you're referring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVCk10AzS0
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by wuest 13y ago
I don't speak Swedish and I'm considering using it out of spite.
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by wuest 13y ago
Order of installation on new macs: Quicksilver. Brew. Tmux. JewelryBox. Lazy package maintainers have created the perfect atmosphere for a project like rvm to be an essential part of life.
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by wuest 13y ago
I think it's probably marginally better than linking the Expect site proper, since it provides decent context.
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by wuest 13y ago
It's a really useful tool that has a surprisingly small amount of awareness.
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by wuest 13y ago
Shameless plug: I built a small library to provide more Expect-like features in Ruby, since I didn't care for the interfaces exposed, for application development. Presently works on Linux and OS X for 1.9.3, and Linux for 2.0.0 (OS X untes
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by wuest 13y ago
> Facebook's button seems to be perceived as more user-friendly than the unknown button on someone else's site, even if the unfamiliar button was designed to be less hostile than Like. I expect that Schneier's blog is one of the best pl
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by wuest 14y ago
I love my N900! It's on my shelf as a backup phone. Ours aren't all that uncommon in terms of Maemo users' stories, as I understand it.
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by wuest 14y ago
The parallax effect on the final page was a nice touch. This makes me want to visit Austria (and Vienna in particular) sometime soon.
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by wuest 14y ago
> Values? You make it sound as if it's ethical values. One could make the point that I mean ethical values. Telcos' ethics are certainly at play here. The values to which I refer can be summed up as, "prioritize profit over a robust n
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by wuest 14y ago
I don't think so, personally. Skype just adds yet another factor to work against them.
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by wuest 14y ago
> Nokia (with Microsoft) make beautiful hardware and Windows Phone is lush, but for some reason is not getting the market love its quality deserves. Two points here: First, it pains me to see MS lumped with Nokia. I'll be clinging to m
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by wuest 14y ago
Indeed. Either that or consider it a rental--because that's all it really is.
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by wuest 14y ago
> Steam's DRM is reasonable. This has yet to be seen. For a while, Steam was seen as a way to keep other DRM at bay. Bioshock changed that (I'm not aware of 3rd party DRM on steam titles prior; open to correction here). Now Steam is
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by wuest 14y ago
I don't think that Google showing a propensity to give services the axe, rather than simply deprecating them and giving them little or no support is a case of "not satisfying demands." That, mixed with their history of spotty support for t
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by wuest 14y ago
This bug is not yet completely squashed in the wild: ' OR 1=1 --
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by wuest 14y ago
This is an awesome petition. Thanks for bringing it to our attention; I've signed it. That being said, I don't view the cellphone response as particularly progressive. The way it parses for me is "we think your phone should be unlocked if
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by wuest 14y ago
Totally valid reason. I use cards for the sake of ease of tracking and protections offered by cards. I wish there were an optimal situation wherein you had privacy and protection both.
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by wuest 14y ago
The last time I had cash on my person, it was because I was traveling, and wanted some on hand. I haven't carried cash, as a rule, in almost a decade.

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