Getahobby

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by Getahobby 16y ago
This isn't meant to be a rhetorical question so please feel free to show me the light. A constant drumbeat from teachers seems to be complaints about standardized testing. Are there really any better ways to measure progress across the boar
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by Getahobby 16y ago
This is going to kill me to say this because I have been using freebsd since 2.x but the lack of commercial support from the likes of Dell really hurts. Recently I couldn't find the cli utility to manage a raid card because the ports system
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by Getahobby 16y ago
So you know that scene in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon's character chides the Harvard student for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an education that could be obtained for the cost of some late fees at the library? That is o
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by Getahobby 16y ago
Writes once, run everywhere has been promised forever and delivered never.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
That is pretty much why I said "most". There are some legitimate native apps out there. You named one.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
Most of the argument should be native apps versus browser based apps and history really has answered this for us even though we are talking about a different client in the form of a smartphone.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
Yes I did. Thought the sarcasm was obvious. Apparently not.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
Gee, I just don't know who to believe - Jenny McCarthy or billg.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
I didn't mean thievery in the classic sense. Only in the sense that he/AAPL didn't come up with the innovation of the GUI as the parent was suggesting.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
Wait a second. Can't let you completely get away with the MS stealing UI from Apple comment when SJobs stole it from Xerox/PARC first. Although to be fair he does readily admit the thievery.
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by Getahobby 16y ago
People, please read this parent again. Why are we all comparing PHP to ruby/rails? If you want to be fair use Zend or any other framework to get apples to apples.