I’m working on some amazing new features for GNOME Do. Currently, I have two plugins that index Evolution contacts and Pidgin buddies respectively. The cool thing is that these plugins are able to merge contact information from Evolution and Pidgin into single contacts in Do. For example, if I have a contact for “John Doe” [...]
Pursuant of a psychology, a moral science, and ultimately a civil science, all grounded in a materialist worldview, Thomas Hobbes defines “good” and “evil” in terms of the individual subject’s particular appetites and aversions. These appetites and aversions correspond to pleasures and pains arising within the body in reaction to external matter in motion. Hobbes [...]
If you’re reading this blog, you probably use a computer for at least a couple hours a day. As a computer science and philosophy student, I spend a lot of time writing programs and even more time writing papers. I must spend at least three hours a day in front of a computer screen, and [...]
As of this post, GNOME Do draws most of its windows as splash screens in order to avoid some bugs in the way focus stealing and window raising is handled. Because of this, when GNOME Do windows are brought to the front, they are drawn abruptly and a bit blandly. If you’re using Compiz Fusion [...]
My name is David Siegel and I'm a student at the University of Pennsylvania, currently studying Computer Science and Philosophy. I'm trying to share what I learn.