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_lce0on Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge

yes! ..but edit window is closed

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

_lce0on Electron 1.0 is here

Yeah. It looks as iPhone's icons on an Android phone. These could be high quality made but surely out of place.

Maybe detect the platform and use native icon packs when available?

Anyways it's amazing how good Linux have become that we could complain of such minor things ;)

_lce0on Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge

This! but YMMV, here's my journey so far...

Using Ubuntu on a 2016 MBP Retina 15"

1. First 14.x: mostly functional, trackpad was buggy. Brightness wont work. No Bluetooth. Blame on kernel 3.x

2. Then 15.x: almost functional! mostly everything worked great wth kernel 4.x, but no bluetooth nor camera. That's ok, I can live without that

3. Now 16.10: almost perfect. Bluetooth works again. Still no camera, but I have trust it will soonish :)

Also the machine never shutdown nor suspend correctly. I need to restart the machine, press ESC, write "exit" at grub, and then pick "poweroff" form the UEFI menu.

But even with all this drawbacks, I don't regret and full recommend to try this setup. This is the best hardware/software combo. And even the battery last more than 12 hours with linux!

_lce0on Why I Deleted My Social Media Accounts

Should "Social Media" be considered part of the OSI model?

Seems like it's another layer to _feed_ people's brains with information.

  802.3 | IP | TCP | Social-Media | Screen | Brain

This model could explain the popularity of feed-based apps, and these are primarily for entertainment.

_lce0on “We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”

> so long as the client owns the computer

Is Moore law against this?

A possible future scenario could be one were technology becomes so cheap that Apple/Google/Facebook .et all, starts "lending" their own hardware for free so people can access their _open_ walled-garden flavored internet.

Projects like of RPi/Arduino bring me hope that this wont ever happen, at least to us.

_lce0on Panama Papers source issues statement

> Why is there so little moral left in this world?

You can buy moral pretty much everywhere nowadays ;-)

_lce0on XKCD Plots in Matplotlib: Going the Whole Way

It just needs some random noise to be perfect!

_lce0on Bash Builtins

Do you know if there's a man section for keywords?

_lce0on Amazon Reports Surge in Profit

Firefox: https://github.com/rlr/dotjs-addon

Chrome: https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs

_lce0on Amazon Reports Surge in Profit

No need for a browser extension, just throw this into your ~/.js

    var ampLink = document.querySelector('link[rel="amphtml"]');
    if (ampLink) {
      var href = ampLink.getAttribute('href');
      if (href) {
        location.replace(href, false);
      }
    }

EDIT: woa! this works really wall ;)

_lce0on Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

I find the 10x funny..

If everyone is an 10x, then everyone is an 1x .. Isn't?

_lce0on Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

As an Information Engineer, you're totally right.

Almost in any interview I had, I been asked about CS stuff. Never anything related to my field.

I don't blame them. They ask about what they know and what they think it's important, even if it's not relevant to the position.

_lce0on Git Tips

these are really good! I have this one..

  lg = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

_lce0on The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux

For me it's the other way.

In Linux there's a clear separation of CTRL for sending messages to the app --ALT for commands-- and SUPER for messaging the OS.

I found OSX very confusing trying to mix everything into a single key.

_lce0on Patent: machine-to-machine instant messaging

Isn't this just what the OSI model does, but at the application level?

Well, to be fair seems like one side talks like for instance 802.2 and the other in X25, with a software layer in between --adapter pattern?

Can't believe such patent was granted.

_lce0on SECRET DOM DO Not USE OR YOU WILL BE FIRED

Interesting. This entry ...

    _NOT_ _NOT NOT_ ANOT NOTA ANOTA

... was changed into ...

    _NOT_ _Not NOT_ ANot NOTA ANOTA

is the re `/\b\w*NOT\b/`?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448402

_lce0on Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electricity

Just saw Maduro on tv telling women to avoid hairdryers, or at least, to use it in case of emergency

_lce0on 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn.

somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us

_lce0on What do you call this in Ruby?

Really? What about sleep/wake?

_lce0on A discussion about the breaking of the Internet

> I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. Through a long chain of dependencies, JSCS relied on left-pad@0.0.3, which was removed by the author yesterday. Our team was confused at the time as well.

I love the irony on this

_lce0on Punch Club has been pirated over 1M times

> The most interesting conclusion though is Localization and its impact. Punch Club clearly shows that localizing games to Western European languages pays off, and has a very low piracy rate.

_lce0on Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S. Campuses

On the other hand, what a great opportunity to learn another language!

A couple of weeks of duolinguo while using the language for daily talks will do the trick

_lce0on Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi

Or in November, in the 314st day of the year

_lce0on Google Metronome

I guess this only works on desktop?

_lce0on A Database Model for Simple Board Games

> We know which player starts first. After that, players move alternately.

During my teen ages I really enjoyed playing truco, which is a card game in which player turns are decided upon the previous hand's result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco

_lce0on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

Raspberry is the most important project that made my family interested in "computer things"

It gathered the whole family together to play old couch-games[0], something that most powerful consoles haven't even been close --specially with the grampas

Really exited about what the future will bring us!

0: http://emulationstation.org/

_lce0on DuckDuckGo ES6 Cheatsheet

ddg keeps getting better and better and better

go duck duck go!!

_lce0on Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

I wasn't aware of 10/GUI

Thanks for share!

http://10gui.com/

_lce0on How Elon Musk Stole My Car

This needs to end with Elon Musk delivering by himself a brand-new top-model car, with him saying: "sorry I took your car, now you'll get mine"

_lce0on IBM programmer controls a BB-8 droid from 'Star Wars' with his mind

Anybody tinkered with the headset? It's $360 for the most basic.

https://emotiv.com/insight.php

EDIT: seems you need to buy the $750 to read raw data.. and you can only publish open source apps or you need to buy a $1000 license, includes 5 user at 1 platform