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  1. Elixir and Phoenix on Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question · · Score: 1

    What do you think of Elixir and Phoenix? I haven't used Ruby on Rails but I really like Phoenix and looking at Rails I can see a lot of influences. But it's hard to beat the foundation that Erlang brings. Maybe I should have taken a better look at Rails while I was still using Python.

  2. Try github, release date 26 of march on Studio Ghibli Animation Software Going "Open Source"; Details Pending (toonzpremium.com) · · Score: 1
  3. It goes up to eleven

  4. Crowdsource it on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just a thought if a lot of people are going to benefit from your algorithm then you could think about having a kickstarter campain to open source the code. With the amount you are looking to get from the VC's. Maybe with stretch goals of a iPad and Android version. You'll get money up front and might also be able to license it to somebody that doesn't like either (lgpl or gpl) depending on the strategy you choose. You could try having the opportunity of corporate sponsorship and trying to contact Google they are probably going to love having something that makes Youtube videos look better. It would trow some money your way because we need more funding of R&D through crowdsourcing. And remember to have some accessories for people like T-shirts.

  5. Different stages of code on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 1

    Here is a good presentation on what to do: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erlang-Scalability

    But there is a short description, if you want to innovate you have to write prototype code. If you want somebody else to be able to work on it then you have to make it more beautiful. Then you can have somebody come in and make it fast.

    If you break it down and segment who works on what face then you will be able to convince somebody in charge of change, unless he's pointy haired and then your screwed :)

  6. Deus does not exist on First Full Observable-Universe Simulation · · Score: 0
  7. Asciidoc on Is Free Software Ready For E-publishing? · · Score: 1

    You should try Asciidoc or docbook directly. I don't know if LaTeX has enough information to be faithfully converted to epub. But Asciidoc can reuse the LaTeX notations for a number of things.

    I think it's the questions of right tool for the job, docbook is very widely used and is designed for working with books, and asciidoc and simular tools are for the non masochistic of us that prefer to edit text files and not raw xml. If you like gui there are plenty of guies for docbook, including LyX.

  8. Brave New World on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 1

    How long until this is used for thought control. Imagine turning of any critical brain center and planting things right into the unconscious. But at least we will have more knowledge :)

  9. Re:Desktop Community Support? on Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus · · Score: 1

    https://launchpad.net/malone is a good place to start, you can file bugs there Also you can register to ubunt-user list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-u sers But it's better to have a gmail account for that, if you need one I can give you one if you mail me at olafra at gmail.com

  10. Re:OOo shows how bad Java can be on A National Archive Moves to ODF · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must be kidding OpenOffice.org is almost all C++ code, it's slow to start because it calls to many files on startup, it has certain parts of it which use java like the Base and some templates.

  11. Use FAI to deploy Ubuntu on Linux Desktop Deployment Postmortems? · · Score: 1

    Here is a good description for using FAI to install Ubuntu http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/I nstalling_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI

  12. Re:Autocad on Autodesk Embracing Open Source · · Score: 1

    I think the offical reply is when enough customers what it on it, I think if you want CAD solution of linux you should sponser something like brl-cad, it has potential but is far of having the same features as autocad.

  13. Re:harmony / kaffe on IBM Collaborating With Open Source Java Project · · Score: 1

    Kaffe started before anything and had a company behind it at one time. Then GNU Classpath started and Kaffe joined that effort. Now Harmony has arrived and they are going to use GNU Classpath, and Kaffe fokes are helping with the design. If that answare your question.

  14. Apache Harmony on IBM buys Gluecode · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IBM has campaining for open source J2SE.
    When Classpath is turning almost compliant, Apache tries to help it's accepance by requesting
    them to move the code to the Apache Licence.
    The man behind it is a VP at Gluecode.
    IBM buys Gluecode.

    Also there was a rumor on jpackage about an undisclose three letter company that
    was getting them to test a free j2se impementation.

  15. Re:XGI drivers are 2D only on XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    I don't know if they are going to add 3D but the code seems to be based of an other driver so they had to open source it.

  16. XGI drivers are 2D only on XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers · · Score: 5, Informative

    When looking through the kernel source code there is only support for 2D. Kernel bugreport X.org bugreport

  17. Re:Got CMYK? on Gimp Hits 2.0 · · Score: 1

    The new Gimp has CMYK support. Check the Print icon in colors. There will be better support soon, i think but this is enough for now. And please check before you post.

  18. Re:shake and mac prices? on Linux In Hollywood: Status Report · · Score: 1

    "Shake 3 is also available for Linux for a suggested retail price of $9,900 (US) with an annual maintenance of $1485 (US)." This is from the Shake homepage. So $5,949 is cheaper than $9,900 you could even buy two of the cheapest G5 and a licence for the price of one Linux version one. But I still think the Total cost of ownership is still better for Linux.

  19. It works on Windows. on Missed Your Flight? linux.conf.au 2003 CD Out · · Score: 1

    It works with the speexdec.exe and Winamp plugin on windows, speexdec works better. This is the same file that doesn't work with linux. I tried to use RC3, 1.0 and beta 4, which is the one that was used to encode it. Maybe it just a problem with me. P.S. I know it's lame to reply my own post.

  20. Mickey Mouse speex? on Missed Your Flight? linux.conf.au 2003 CD Out · · Score: 1

    I downloaded two diffrent speeches in the speex format. And tried to listen to it, but it sounds like Mickey Mouse is giving the speech. I've even tried to force ultra-wide-band but it still is faster than it' supposed to be. I can't find any way to slow it down. So be warned.

  21. Re:How is the database support? on OpenOffice.org: New Beta, and Ximianization · · Score: 1

    Look at gnome-db.org they have information about Mergeant a Access like front end for database handling. With the integration from Ximian you won't know that it is not apart of openoffice.org, also you can then connect the database to oo.o