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AlexeyBrin
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Some books that could help: Brian Tracy - Eat that frog! Brian Tracy - No excuses! if you prefer a tldr: Self discipline is the key. Identify your long term targets and do one thing at a time until it…
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I'm curious if the author will be forced to remove his code from GitHub, given the fact that even the use of the title "Rubik Cube" is copyrighted. If anyone can shed some light on the …
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Not true for all courses (on Coursera), most of them will stop letting you access the videos after about 1 month from the course completion. However, you can download the videos once the course is fin…
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There was once a website were you, as a buyer, were assured of having complete rights over the source code and the binary of an application for which you hired a developer. Also, the developer was ass…
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I suppose you are simply trolling, otherwise a simple programming language history lesson will show you that one of the first compiled languages, Fortran, has one based indexes.
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+1 Thanks. Your commands installs the alternative window managers alongside Unity ? Or they replace Unity ?
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I suppose you know Mint is basically Ubuntu repackaged and with a different default window manager. I'm more interested in keeping my productivity up than in experimenting with installing various…
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There is no way you could run, in a VM, the latest Ubuntu smoothly on a low spec Windows host. You could use a less demanding Ubuntu derivative Linux that doesn't need a 3D accelerated graphical …
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Just don't install Ubuntu on this :). Your students will cry in despair every time their VM will freeze because of Unity. I suppose this is because Unity needs a 3D accelerated graphical card an…
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This course and the "HTML5 game development" will greatly benefit from an "Advanced JavaScript" course. Hope Udacity will consider creating a JavaScript course.
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You could always try to run it in WINE (I've seen people running Windows only apps this way in Ubuntu, e.g. MS Office, Noetpad++).
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This is a great little book.
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It usually depends in what CMS your website is written (like WordPress, Drupal etc ...). You could also ask your web hosting provider if they can help you with cleaning up your website. Personally, I …
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If you show the webpage source you'll see hidden divs that contains Viagra links and other things ... There are two possibilities: 1. OP website was hacked and he has no idea. 2. This page was p…
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They have a working kernel, HURD, you can play with it using a Debian release: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ …
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+1 Thanks for the correction.
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It is highly unlikely to see any updated displays (I suppose you are thinking at something like a retina 27" display) this year. The update of the iMac suggests that the display is not ready yet …
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OS X is more close to his UNIX heritage than Linux.
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Pragmatic has recently published a book about OpenGL ES 2.0 for Android (didn't finished to read the book yet). The author of this book has also some intro material on his blog.