Legion

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by Legion 17y ago
This is a reasonable statement. But there's a bit of a delta between this and the attention-grabbing title of the post.
752.
by Legion 17y ago
Yet it's a perfect opportunity to show that your "side" is the rational one. I read an opinion piece in a local (Monterey, CA) weekly paper, trying to explain why the Whole Foods boycotters are completely different than the "teabaggers". It
753.
by Legion 17y ago
I'm sorry to resort to such childish forum fodder, but.... IT'S A TRAP!
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by Legion 17y ago
I'm so glad to see Devo didn't get left off the list!
755.
by Legion 17y ago
It's kind of chuckle-worthy because it's being added in so late in the game, and because of the smart-ass bug report, but this is a non-issue. In saying this, I take my life into my own hands, as you can now bet that I will be forced in the
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by Legion 17y ago
Also, something I left out: one of the most valuable parts of Twitter comes not from following certain people, but following a search term (or "hashtag"). Example: Michael Vick signing with the Eagles this past week. I found out about this
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by Legion 17y ago
Facebook and Twitter are completely different. Don't see how a redesign of one would matter one iota for the other. Facebook is about one-to-one relationships. Yes, there are "groups" and "become a fan of X", but the essence of Facebook, as
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by Legion 17y ago
Watch directories is the big one. Virtually every other music manager supports watch directories. Its omission from iTunes isn't due to them overlooking the feature. Rather, it's a coercive measure to try and push users towards acquiring al
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by Legion 17y ago
Or you may have simply shown that India does the same thing I do: types "java" into Google to find the quickest link to the JRE download. Of course, the same could be said of .NET, though the fact that Windows Update pushes .NET Framework m
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by Legion 17y ago
Apparently India is concerned with nothing except .NET. Sadly, that is very consistent with what I saw in class as a CS undergrad. Went to a second-tier state school in California, was one of the very few non-international students in the w
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by Legion 17y ago
My theory is that programmers choose to use languages like Python and Ruby for their personal projects, despite their weaknesses, because these languages are more fun to program in. This sentence betrays the writer's lack of understanding
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by Legion 17y ago
I used to use Slackware and then Gentoo, but have been on Ubuntu for a while now. I gave Arch a shot a few weeks ago, and I struggled to find a real advantage to using it. What I did find instead, however, were a ton of broken packages beca