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by Sapient 15y ago
They haven't done a whole lot about MS (which is basically the definition of this behaviour) though, even looking at Europe.
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by Sapient 15y ago
With Facebook and Google racing to beat each others free products, could this mean Microsoft may have just wasted $8.5 billion? This is a real question, I don't really use video chat much at all. edit: Or at least massively devalue their in
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by Sapient 15y ago
I don't know if this reply was read as being sarcasm, but It honestly wasn't. I was wrong about the whole idea, it would never work.
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by Sapient 15y ago
You are of course correct, this was a horrible idea!
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by Sapient 15y ago
Just reading your comment, it occurred to me that this is an editor problem. What we actually need are editors in which you can set you language (haml, slim, less etc), and then those are compiled and saved, in realtime to html, erb, css et
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by Sapient 15y ago
I have seen this claim a few times, but noone ever gives any real reasons as to why. A monopoly born through a superior product is not the same as a monopoly born through anti-competitive practises. Noone is forcing or coercing anyone to us
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by Sapient 15y ago
That's awesome to hear. I actually know a bit of C, but it has been years since I used it - so this book seems like a good one to read to 'reboot' my C skills. I'll definitely be waiting anxiously for you to finish. Good luck!
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by Sapient 15y ago
Having read a fair bit of LPTHW (though I had no actual interest in the language), I am really excited about this. One of the best things about LPTHW was the context it was written in, and if LCTHW is written in the same way, it should be a
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by Sapient 15y ago
How so? No one is forced to use any of Google's products - Bing and Facebook are only a click away. A monopoly born from having a superior product is not the same as a monopoly gained through the practises of price fixing or forcing people
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by Sapient 15y ago
I got an invite two days ago and had the same problem. However when I installed the Android Google+ app, it allowed me to register start using it immediately.
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by Sapient 15y ago
The RIAA and MPAA would disagree with you.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Ah thanks, I need to learn to read gooder. The password got me so curious I couldn't even finish reading the sentence. Edit: Thinking about his explanation, it doesn't really make sense to me. If that were really the case, those accounts wo
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by Sapient 15y ago
The 10th most common password was far too interesting for me to ignore. While it is fairly easy to type, its not easy enough for it to be some sort of tap-password. Having a closer look at the list, and assuming the dump is organised in som
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Starlite, the nuclear blast-defying plastic that could change the world(telegraph.co.uk)
13 points by Sapient 15y ago|1 comments
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by Sapient 15y ago
Yep, I saw, thanks!
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by Sapient 15y ago
This patch seems to introduce a bug when loading files with extra periods in the name (I think). My app which includes thinking-sphinx (which has a require '0.9.9'), breaks with it.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology. * Anonymous Metagen
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by Sapient 15y ago
Coitus interruptus has a failure rate of 15%-28% per year, 4% when used perfectly. In comparison, condoms have a failure rate of 10%-16% (2% when used perfectly). You were perhaps aiming for a sound-bite, but saying "It works in very few ca
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by Sapient 15y ago
I haven't used sorcery, but I have just finished quite a large rails project in which I decided on Devise right at the start. It was great in the beginning, but as soon as I needed custom behavior, it became more of a liability than a help.
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by Sapient 15y ago
When I read that phrase, I was thinking he MUST have known it was going to get him fired.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Thanks, I also found a few small ones, but it looked like there was more information on the one in TFA than in the ones I found.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Does anyone know where I can see a larger version of PG's "Famous Whiteboard"?
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by Sapient 15y ago
There are a number of escrow services available for Bitcoin transactions. https://clearcoin.appspot.com/ for example.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Try Xylitol rather, my wife switched me over to this about a year ago, and I could barely tell the difference. Possessing approximately 40% less food energy, xylitol is a low-calorie alternative to table sugar. Absorbed more slowly than su
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by Sapient 15y ago
I believe Lustig says the fiber in the fruit reduces the amount of sugar absorbed by our bodies. However, he also says that sweet fruits in large quantities can still be bad for us.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Nine years to get to version one. Happy birthday nginx.
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by Sapient 15y ago
Java programmers commenting on this story seem to be claiming that Ruby is a messy language and hard to grow a team around, while Java somehow solves all these problems, yet I see only anecdotal evidence and opinion to back this claim up. O
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by Sapient 15y ago
I think you nailed it there. Most startups fail anyway, so devoting a single day more than needed on development is a waste of very valuable time and money. How many extra VPS' is a month of saved development time worth? All skill being equ
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by Sapient 15y ago
I don't believe Ruby and Rails are prescribed for most projects. Just the ones where they makes sense. That said, I have taken over development of a few legacy rails applications and never had a problem adapting to the idiosyncrasies of t
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by Sapient 16y ago
I have fantasized about doing this for 15 years, and after reading this, I think I have finally got the motivation to do it.

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