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parbo··on Twitter SVP Chris Fry Breaks Down How His Engineering Org Works
He suggests that it might scale logarithmically, not linearly.
parbo··on Beatbox: A Drum Machine Obsession
The Korg Volca Beats is pretty cheap, $150 iirc. The whole Volca series is very inspired by the Roland TR series.
parbo··on Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
As a European, the need for this baffles me.
parbo··on PeerCDN - A P2P CDN
Offices often have caching proxies, right?
parbo··on Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners
I use cmd for meta, there is an option for that:

    (setq mac-option-modifier nil
          mac-command-modifier 'meta)
parbo··on History of Emacs & vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design) (2010)
You can make it so that F-keys are F-keys by default, and the other actions require Fn. It's in the settings.
parbo··on Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
At Spotify, we have a lot of team-rooms which seat 8-10 people. They all have a lounge area with whiteboard walls as well as a small conference room for design discussions, 1-1:s etc.
parbo··on The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)
Have you tried Rust?
parbo··on Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux Ultrabook review
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on an old LG F1 Express Dual. Everything works, including repeated sleep. Sleep did not work on it with 12.10. It also has two finger scroll with inertia, even on this old craptop.
parbo··on Alienware X51 Gaming PC with Ubuntu OS available
Like this? http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx
parbo··on Ask HN: What are some good laptops for Linux right now?
Dell XPS 13
parbo··on Why do game developers prefer Windows?
Because of Visual Studio?
parbo··on Introducing Netflix Social
Hmm, I'm pretty sure we've had these features in Scandinavia since Netflix launched here.
parbo··on fatcache - Memcache on SSD
Shouldn't it be possible to make the linux kernel behave like this with the swap partition on SSD, to get this benefit for all programs?
parbo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013)
The Gothenburg office is also hiring, if you prefer the west coast of Sweden!
parbo··on 8pen - A new way to write on mobile devices
If you regularly write in multiple languages, Swiftkey3 is the way to go.
parbo··on Show HN: 2u.fm is a social music discovery site, my side project for over a year
For recommendations, we use our own algorithms. For radio, we use Echonest in some cases, but mostly our own stuff.
parbo··on Show HN: 2u.fm is a social music discovery site, my side project for over a year
Spotify does not use Echonest for recommendations.
parbo··on 4 inches
The 3.7" 858x480 (240 ppi) 16:9 screen of my Motorola Defy pretty much hits the sweet spot for me.
parbo··on Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
What's your city and postcode? I can forward it to the devs responsible for the signup page.
parbo··on Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
Actually, it is now possible to sign up with only email. Not sure if it applies to all markets, but in the US you can.
parbo··on Study finds hunter-gatherers' energy expenditure same as modern Westerners'
How about sugar from soda?
parbo··on I didn't learn programming when I was 12
It's never to late to start. If you love it'll work out anyway.

I started "programming" at 10, didn't do anything useful until 16-17. I didn't program for real until I was 25, and it wasn't until I was past 30 that I felt like a proper programmer.

parbo··on One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse
I assume it's patented.
parbo··on Dear Facebook, It Could Really Be This Simple
Wrapp does this, but with gift certificates. Multiple friends can chip in to the same gift certificate. https://www.wrapp.com/
parbo··on Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows
No, Sam Lantinga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga
parbo··on Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows
The lead developer of SDL is now working at Valve, so I guess that is a very likely solution.
parbo··on Gnome: Staring into the abyss
Bring up the Unity dash, go to the apps section (icon with ruler/pen), click "See X more results" in the Installed section. You can filter these results on category. Not perfect, but workable.

To get a second instance of the terminal, right click the launcher icon and select "New terminal". Or middle click the launcher icon. Or press ctrl+alt+t.

How can you say that Unity is still crap, if you haven't tried it in 12.04?

parbo··on Couch hacking - A proof of Ikea's excellence
The best part about Ikea is the experience when you return something. No fuss, and it's no biggie if you lost the receipt or come after the return period has ended. Awesome customer treatment.
parbo··on BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds
Independent music stores were killed by iTunes Music Store.
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