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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   Good point. I was referring to the 1999 date of the demo, but you are 100% spot on here.
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   There were quite a few interesting softwares on BeOS. It's always the same thing: "you have no software, so you have no users / you have no users, so you have no software". If I had to guess, I would say the real growth
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   Linux never had a chance with the average consumer at that time. Shall I pull up some GNOME 1 screenshots to show you? Do you know all of the refresh rates of your monitor, per resolution? "If you get this wrong, your monitor may becom
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   Hey carlesfe, see my previous post -- it was not a simple lack of promotion but a complete lockout from pre-installation for any PC vendor who didn't want to get royally stomped on by Microsoft.
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   For anyone who is prone to ignore vertical dynamics, keep in mind that this OS was competing with Mac OS 8, Windows 98, and GNU/Linux in the Lesstif/GNOME 1.x era. In short, it trumped all the rest in speed, development environmen
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   I guess I can't say that there were no consequences, since they were able to pay $2 billion to walk away scot free: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se... According to this analysis
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   Under what legal precedent can you declare that using a VPN for those purposes is illegal? I'm curious about actual cases, laws, and rulings. Is the claim that the DMCA anti-circumvention laws make it illegal? You do know that the DMCA
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   How do you explain the complete lack of any consequences to HSBC, then?
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   by ab5tract 12y ago

   I can see the "focus the effort" part, but it has always seemed like a case of personal determination amongst core members. It's been argued that if the ABI compatibility were not considered a requisite, this effort would hav
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    by ab5tract 12y ago

    But Perl 5 is _not_ dead. The camel lives, and has two humps. The "lost decade" cannot be ascribed only to Perl 6. Developers were leaving in droves to newer dynamic languages of the same generation (Python, PHP, and eventually Ru
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    by ab5tract 12y ago

    You are really reaching to say that sed/awk/shell and Lisp were more of an influence on either Ruby or PHP. Ruby has all the same special variables as Perl, FFS! PHP was originally written in Perl. But somehow awk was the bigger
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    by ab5tract 12y ago

    I've been in and around Perl for a long time, and this line of argument feels very tired to me. Perl 6 did not "kill" the Perl brand, the state of Perl circa-2000 "killed" the Perl brand. All the issues @perlgeek ju
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    by ab5tract 12y ago

    Just to clarify, as you responded "I don't think so" to two questions, the language is not going to change too significantly prior to release, so yes you should bother learning Perl 6. No one I've met who has actual