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Ditching Unity + Mir, and returning to Gnome. Convergence is good. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...

This is a pretty timely statement of values and development ideology apropos Canonical's sudden pivot from fragmenting the Linux desktop community.

Consider a video of an office worker smashing their keyboard in frustration and an interview about the server being constantly down. If the article and comments section focused on …

Surface is getting all the heat in the article, but in the linked interview [1] he blames pretty much every part of the infrastructure other than the interface: > The other communi…

I think they're saying it's not the best way to go about asking someone for a gift of money. It's not all that cynical to be skeptical of vaguely defined goals.

TextSecure SMS is getting phased out. https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

If you use crouton [1] to manage chroots, you can easily run Sublime and everything else in Linux land. You should be aware of what developer mode is on Chrome OS, though, and all …

In the comments he says he changed his mind about Go, and the necessity of the efficiency gain over Racket. So there's some confusion apparently. https://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/201…

On the contrary, Ruby and it's community feels off-topic. I also question that functional programming is Groovy's prime feature or use case.

You are right to not do so. Describing what is not impossible is hardly advocacy, however. There are a few uses for allowing mouse in terminal emulated emacs of varying utility. Sa…

You can use the mouse + scrollwheel in the terminal as well. Eval (xterm-mouse-mode).