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Linked in is the only social network that's managed to link me to other people in ways i cannot explain. An example: I had a real life connection to a trainer, i studied for an ind…

I agree, it's one of the factors that tipped me into pre-ordering (no word on my delivery yet though!) There doesn't appear to be that much spare capacity, at least on the 7010's F…

Middle paste has never been a reliable feature, (are you pasting from X clipboard or GNOME clipboard? - it changes depending on context). For that reason alone, i can see a case ca…

I didn't know about them until recently. To be honest, my first impressions of their site weren't great, just based on visuals i assumed it was some syndicated content with adverti…

That's just the dev concerns. Here's a rather contrived example but it illustrates the idea i'm getting at: "Will the inventory agent software be able to login to audit this contai…

Skills. Most developers are not full-stack aware - nor should they be. Having a pack of generalists drive a product is sure to reduce momentum. Better that the contract is "here's …

It's kinda cliched for someone with a username containing "ops" to come out and say "i love checklists", but i do! I've never found a better tool for communicating what to do and i…

"That said, the ISPs objections are likely cost" And rightly so. If this goes through, i'd like to see the ISPs add a line item to everyone's bill calling this out in plain sight t…

Would something like Keycard[1] work for locking the screen when you're not nearby? I wonder if it could be set to lock at boot unless your phone (or BT headphones or whatever) is …

I don't get the extra emphasis on Netflix here either. Netflix are part of the content industry, it's not that they're the best of a bad bunch, they're actively more open than some…

Reduce the quality quotient (severely, like .98 -> .3) and don't cut the resolution as far, e.g. Keep 2x the pixels. Much better appearance for the same file size.

I like the ingenuity but how would we track when the page has been left - conceivably I could delete an account on Friday then click undo on Sunday. I guess if it immediately gets …

Undo's, yes! Power users aren't tripped up with an annoying confirmation. Novice users can revert. This seems a much better paradigm. Are there any cases where this doesn't make fo…

This is a really good idea. We already buy in site licences for the Uncle Bob series (kinda comparable idea for programmers), i imagine many other places are the same. This model w…

Does this need funding? I'd be more than happy to chip in some pennies towards this effort. In my experience it's surprisingly hard to recruit good quality ops people. Actually it'…

Doesn't work for putting files on the desktop, the ~/Desktop folder doesn't have it's contents displayed on the desktop for some reason. Assuming a gnome3 thing...?

Who can afford to throw CPUs at parallel compute problems today with GPGPUs available? Oil and Gas industry? Nope, the 3 biggest are nVidia customers in a big way. Finance? Nope, s…

A GPU, as you know, doesn't exist in isolation. It sits on a multicore host. The load of input data and the writeback of results does not occur from the GPU as I suspect you know. …

Accessing databases, processing data from sockets, are not CPU bound activities? I believe you've misread my post. For all your IO cases, and all your cases are IO, would you, and …

How can the GIL, which is restricted to one process, hinder concurrency? It can only impact 1 single form of concurrency, threading. Why use threads? Noone does parallel compute on…

To some extent i agree; most will never scale so why worry about it? X times out of Y you'll come out ahead by just ploughing on and not considering the future. Even if we are thin…

This is definitely cool but the real hard problem isn't in these simple easily scripted cases. The real hard to solve problem is managing all the complexity of similar-but-differen…

>> [they] have no influences that really refute what they believe >> I believe as I do because it is an essential part of who I am (identity) You've not left much of a case for pi1…

This article could really do with a disclaimer at the top. I got about 25% in before i realised there was more than meets the eye (i didn't previously know who jitbit were, i had n…

Etsy sounds terrible to say! Sound enough reason not to pursue that idea :-) I know the old Bell manuals actually spelled out "et cetera" long hand in places, but still, any time i…