Huh? I never stated that Pulseaudio isn't necessary.
I just pointed out a possible solution/workaround with ALSA and dmix for redirecting the audio output to two devices/pcm outputs.
After years of using just ALSA and messing around with its config on different computers I am now using Pulseaudio too. Once it's running it's a lot easier to use and more flexible, especially when it comes to hot-plugging and switching between inputs and outputs.
I never had a laptop where plugging in headphones didn't disable the speaker (and nothing I could do about that in software).
If that really is the case you could use dmix and have audio played on both the headphone and speaker output. You would still have to mute the speakers when plugging in the headphones though.
Some of the "Get Started" links don't work at all and the one at the top only asks for an E-Mail. It hasn't even launched publicly yet.
On a side note: I found the website on my phone really annoying to read since lots of paragraphs are animated and it keeps slowly sliding from left to right/right to left every time you scroll over it again.
A terminal emulator is not a shell. Using bash has nothing to do with the decision whether you use the OS X Terminal or some third party terminal emulator.
Game physics engines update their objects (acceleration, collision, constraints/joints etc) only so often at a certain tick rate to leave enough cpu time for other things.
You can have very precise and realistic physics simulations already - they just don't run at realtime.
I don't think this is a solution for bad physics in games.
Imgur has its own community. By now you can't even tell if something is posted on imgur and someone submits it on reddit or if a reddit user uploads something and it gets upvotes on imgur.
I think that imgur can exist on its own and will have more than enough content.
How would they run *nix binaries in a node.js environment if they call it "Cross-platform Linux without the suck"? You are talking about Cygwin here which is what these guys hate for some reason.
Maybe people run most things maximized because window management on Windows is so limited? With 8.1 and now 10 you can arrange up to four windows on the screen without using the mouse, but even that is too basic to be useful compared to tiling window managers.
I think Google could actually pull this off by "forcing" users to use a tiling concept (like a couple of different layouts to choose from and letting you launch/drag apps into the screen areas).
But apps access files, databases, listen for intents. You definitely need some adjustments by app developers, even if Android handles most of the implementation details.
And if you jailbreak your kindle you get SSH. I have my kindle mounted via sftp so I don't even have to send anything to amazon just to have it sent back to my device.
Actually I know several IRC channels that have bots that send messages for activity on GitHub, Twitter, etc. And writing IRC bots is among the easiest things ever. The IRC protocol isn't hard and there are lots of libraries, snippets and bots out there.
The question should be "why not use a self hosted irc client instead".
At least developers will use IRC anyway to get and stay in touch with open source projects and the countless communities that have their own irc server/channel. Why not use one protocol that's widely used?
Sadly IRCCloud is still lacking one 100% crucial feature: a backlog search.
I've been a paying IRCCloud user for almost 2 years now and back then they already had the search feature on the roadmap as "coming soon".
The only way right now is to keep scrolling and scrolling and then some more scrolling until you find what you are looking for. In a busy channel this is pretty much pointless.
Not the user you asked, but I took 800-1200mg a day for a while. Then I finally went to the doc to find out I was having a depression. So I unconsciously tried to
treat my depression, which obviously didn't work out. The caffeine enabled me to get out of bed at all though. Without it I was just sleeping/staying in bed all day.
And coming down from a lot of caffeine really makes you feel a lot worse than not taking any at all, just like the comedown of other stimulants.
I am not saying there is no need for more complex web sites. Personally I just think it is sad that in 2015 there are lots of sites that won't load anything at all if you disable JS or have a bad connection.
With a 50k connection at home I simply can't accept waiting 3+ seconds until your site loaded its 500kb of JS and 4 different web fonts to finally show something.
I just pointed out a possible solution/workaround with ALSA and dmix for redirecting the audio output to two devices/pcm outputs.
After years of using just ALSA and messing around with its config on different computers I am now using Pulseaudio too. Once it's running it's a lot easier to use and more flexible, especially when it comes to hot-plugging and switching between inputs and outputs.