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by billybob 15y ago
Exactly. Web standards - or standards in general - are not a player in a competition; they are a field upon which to play. We want everyone playing on that field.
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by billybob 15y ago
No, I see your point. I guess it's an open question for me whether this is a transcoding service or a music license. Arguably, if I have a crappy MP3, and I pay Apple money, and they give me a version with a higher encoding rate, they have
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by billybob 15y ago
Yes, but IE has a history of being the slowest, most insecure, least standards-compliant browser, so if I'm trying to get people onto a "good browser treadmill," I'm going to steer clear of it. If IE becomes the dominant Awesome, Fast, Safe
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by billybob 15y ago
Is this perpetual? For example, could I pay my yearly subscription fee, torrent anything I want, upload it and get a legit version? If so, this is $25 a year for all the music I want. Which, if the labels have agreed to that, it's very surp
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by billybob 15y ago
I wonder how much of that loss is due to people adopting Mac vs PC?
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by billybob 15y ago
The biggest advantage Chrome has over the others (for now) is invisible auto-updating. That alone makes it more compliant and more secure at any given moment. As a web developer, I want everyone in the world to have a modern browser, always
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by billybob 15y ago
Call the company? Why can't you just log into their site and request a new one? :) Maybe you have to actually show up physically and give a DNA sample. Oh dang, you have an evil identical twin?
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by billybob 15y ago
This post makes me very happy. Cleaner code, more contributors, more excitement: these are the signs of a project that will flourish when I had feared it might die. Kudos to the LibreOffice team! I'm excited to see what you do next.
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by billybob 15y ago
Pure free market capitalism would be if I could buy your book the day it's released, make photocopies, and sell them outside the bookstore for cheaper. Pure free market capitalism would let me make a fake Rolex. It would let me reverse-engi
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by billybob 15y ago
If they don't have a ship date yet, why are they showing this off? It seems like they're just asking for any of their good ideas to be stolen before they launch. Apple's approach seems to be to develop in secret and show something off just
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by billybob 15y ago
Counterpoint: as an airplane passenger, my experience is the same whether there's a human pilot or not; I sit in my seat until the ride is over. But in my car, if it could drive itself, I could get in the back seat and sleep. I could have a
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by billybob 15y ago
I guess I don't get it. If somebody shows me information I can't read with my own eyeballs, I have to really care to take the time to read it with a device. When the novelty has worn off, I'm not going to keep beeping my phone at every code
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by billybob 15y ago
"Except for that part of the population that believes contraception is immoral" If you're thinking of Christians, it isn't necessarily all-or-nothing. Although I believe the Catholic church disapproves of all contraception, Protestants typi
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by billybob 15y ago
"It's not just the way we are, it's the way we are under capitalism." What line of reasoning makes you think that humans are naturally unselfish and are made so only by an external economic system (which is itself created by humans)? Judeo-
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by billybob 15y ago
"Competing companies do the same things, duplicating effort, mostly to make a profit. (e.g. Do we really need so many social gaming companies?)" In theory, we don't "need" more than one of anything: one telecom provider, one computer maker,
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by billybob 15y ago
Also for a car. You're going to buy a car eventually, right? Do you want to borrow the money and pay interest while it's wearing out, or save the money and BE paid interest while your current car is wearing out? Notice that either strategy
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by billybob 15y ago
It has never occurred to me before how odd it is for Disney to take public-domain stories, rework them into blockbusters, then lock them up with copyright indefinitely. What a strange combination of ideas.
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by billybob 15y ago
A slight improvement would be if you can export to a file, which is importable via Gmail's own interface. I'd still be trusting you with my Facebook login, but I'd be keeping my Gmail login secret.
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by billybob 15y ago
If you don't have enough money to handle an emergency, you have an emergency. Go ahead and panic. Trade your car for a cheaper one, move into a cheaper apartment, stop eating out, sell your TV, and get an emergency fund . If you're alrea
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by billybob 15y ago
My thought: Microsoft should try to capture the low end. I know, it sounds dumb, but right now they have a terrible history of competing with Apple and Android. If you're going to shell out hundreds of bucks, are you going to risk it on ano
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by billybob 15y ago
Dollars or street cred - I wonder which the blogger will choose? :)
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by billybob 15y ago
What do you mean? Opera had Opera's 2011 adoption rates way back in 2009.
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by billybob 15y ago
How do you know when you use a style the first time that you'll never use it elsewhere? If you've got many one-off style declarations, you probably don't have a very consistent graphical style. Besides that, it's nice to know where all your
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by billybob 15y ago
How does he explain helping unrelated strangers?
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by billybob 15y ago
Honestly this sounds kind of strange to me. It's almost like, "I need someone who can code Ruby and also take out the trash." Making appointments isn't quite the same, but it's certainly not using the skills of a technical person and seems
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by billybob 15y ago
Also: Bing to make Google the default for search. Oh wait, they already did that. http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...
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by billybob 15y ago
Silly. The internet has plenty of potential for government abuse, but Facebook gives governments a single entity to talk to whose sole purpose is to centralize your personal information. If you're paranoid, the Internet at large can be pret
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by billybob 15y ago
I haven't used LINQ, but I do use Rails and its ORM. Using Rails' ORM to generate SQL is a case of optimizing for development time rather than execution time; assuming I would write faster SQL by hand, which is questionable, it would still
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by billybob 15y ago
Absolutely. Today, if I need to know about a specific CSS technique, I can Google it. A few years ago, when I was clueless about CSS, I didn't know where to start. So I read "CSS: The Definitive Guide." It walked me through why CSS exists,
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by billybob 15y ago
"if you are targeting a specific platform you really should (completely imho) use the tools meant for it. Anything else will easily lead to issues that may not be debug-able if you aren't already familiar with your target." By that logic, s

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