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Ubuntu is more than Unity. If you don't like or have trouble with Unity, try one of the other Ubuntu variants. I love lubuntu (lxde-based), it's just windows and a panel. Anything …

There should be a Congressional Technology Office, similar to the Congressional Budget Office.

They say that you should never re-write a project, but that's in the context of something deployed and operating. It sounds like you are not deployed. You've put a lot of time into…

It's a network study. :)

If dev is outsourced, then they'll be right there in the building when they need to tap a QA shoulder.

I'm no economist ... I think houses were appreciating while people were upwardly mobile in the economy. So not just more people, but more people with the means to buy a house (or b…

I have received mail from SSA addressed to Unknown, because of confusion over my name.

You need the best and brightest so that you can say you have the best and brightest. You say that you have the best and brightest so that you can say you have the best and brightes…

This was my immediate (and only) concern.

"Am I the only one ..." The answer to this is always "no." Except this time.

"Of course, there’s a catch. You couldn’t offload all those metals on the world market at once, for fear of crashing their prices. But the company would still own that much in equi…

The worst thing we've learned is that all we have to say is "we followed standard procedures" and we get a free pass, regardless of how egregious standard procedures or implementat…

Yes, exactly. We need tutorials for people who are primarily learning to program and are using a language for that, and tutorials for people who already know how to program and are…

I have just been educated by reading more of this thread. I can see an obvious need for one virtualenv, so that you can separate your service and its needs from the system python a…

"First DO use packages that come with the OS." I'd go middle ground, and start here, but consider a self-built package where necessary. It depends in part on the focus of your dist…

Wasteful organization. The post: http://static.matthewlmcclure.com/s/2012/04/22/wasteful-computation.html One up, 404: http://static.matthewlmcclure.com/s/2012/04/22/ One up, 404: …

I got my ... pointer stuck in the zipper.

Welcome.

It looks really cool. I wish, however, that the overall ecosystem was easier to create these things cross platform rather than per-corporation. I don't really want three or four di…

It sounds attractive to me, I like the idea of separate animated panels. I also think the idea of localized animation, to coin a phrase, could lead to some interesting presentation…

So, the guy has reverse engineered the cause for a perceived slight, and his response is to block readers of HN from reading his stuff, even though HN readers have nothing to do wi…

At work I use Outlook Tasks, because we use Outlook, Office and Sharepoint and it's easier to work within all that instead of fighting it. Tasks are basically a customized Outlook …

1. Talk to a lawyer if you're concerned. An hour of time can't be that expensive, compared to the consequences you're worried about. 2. My guess is you're just a worker and employe…

I envy you your tube, and I'd be up in that every day if we had one.

"Don't be a cog." Inserted as the subtitle at the top of my TiddlyWiki organizer (my rolling ToDo list), and linked to pg's essay.