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by billybob 16y ago
I see what you're saying, but it might still be useful for them to know what trade-offs are being made. Like, "for this site and audience, we recommend supporting IE6. But FYI, that does eat this much of our costs, which can't be spent on s
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by billybob 16y ago
While we all sympathize with your stance, the author's is more reasonable. For the client, it's really quite simple: it takes some extra hours of work to support IE6, which costs X dollars in labor. For a given site, not having IE6 support
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by billybob 16y ago
I suppose if they make using non-backdoored encryption a felony, they can convict them of that, even if they don't know the contents of their communications. Of course, if there is a back door in all encryption between, say, businesses or m
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by billybob 16y ago
Am I the only one who sometimes wishes I could write PHP-style pages in Ruby? Sometimes a whole framework is overkill. I wish I could make Ruby pages as simply as I can take an HTML file and sprinkle in some PHP.
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by billybob 16y ago
Seconded. I don't understand OpenID, but it works, and it's not tied to a single (ominous) company.
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by billybob 16y ago
"We succeeded at failing!"
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by billybob 16y ago
I thought the point was that this is UNLICENSED spectrum. I can't legally set up a WiMax tower like I can set up a WiFi hot spot. Doesn't opening whitespaces mean that you could set up, say, a city-wide access point without asking permissio
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by billybob 16y ago
"Would you also be willing to pay a monthly fee for software that you download? Why should a company fix your problems forever when you only paid them a one-time fee?" 1) Companies who sell physical goods generally offer a limited-time warr
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by billybob 16y ago
I agree with you, but people who claim not to believe in moral absolutes, such as "it is wrong to steal someone's kidneys even if the law says you can," really should never protest any law, copyright or otherwise, except to say "I don't per
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by billybob 16y ago
Yes. A "disruptive skill?" How exactly is that different from "a skill that could be really useful?" Is this a skill that somehow lets you singlehandedly overturn a market, or are we just tossing around buzzwords? Maybe we should discuss ou
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by billybob 16y ago
Some jobs don't "require" more than 40, but when your fellow developers are always there earlier and later than you are, and when your performance reviews go from bad to good after you ratchet up your number of working hours, and when your
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by billybob 16y ago
If you're hitting the up arrow more than a few times, you could easily see search your history instead with "history | grep somestring", or, as someone else mentioned, Ctrl+R and start typing a command.
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by billybob 16y ago
My question is: if there are no public DNS records, how is the domain name being used? Not doubting, I just don't get it.
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by billybob 16y ago
"We don't have a free market of authors and readers. Readers don't currently pay authors, this is what needs to change." OK. But 1) readers are free to reward authors IF they want to, and 2) authors can potentially make money from their rea
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by billybob 16y ago
The question is "who will they fix them FOR?" If the parent poster's experience is typical and nobody cares about this OS, improvements to it are irrelevant. Personally, I'd like to see Palm OS stay in the fight. I like the stack UI concept
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by billybob 16y ago
Be that as it may, can you see that it's legitimate for a musician to want to make, record, and sell music - not an associated industry of products? And there are fans who don't go to concerts or buy t-shirts, but really like listening to m
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by billybob 16y ago
"Of the hundreds of thousands of posts being written each day, there are maybe 5 at best that don't completely suck." I'm sorry, but that's just silly. 1) You're not reading the whole internet, 2) you're not the intended audience for much o
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by billybob 16y ago
"...because they haven't seen THIS fart app! BRRRAAAAFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTSSSSPPLSH!!!"
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by billybob 16y ago
But that's not Apple's style. Their style is "be amaaaazed at our new thing! It is perfect in every way and your life is useless without it!"
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by billybob 16y ago
Here are my observations as a layman: 1) The economy is really, really complex, to the point that people who study professionally are about as good at predictions as a dartboard. 2) Therefore, monkeying with it means pulling levers on a mac
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by billybob 16y ago
"Increasing the size of the workforce will tend to put downward pressure on wages." I am also not an economist, but you're only covering the supply of workers. Do more workers = more money being spent = more products/services demanded = inc
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by billybob 16y ago
Proprietary storage? I'm skeptical. This is contrary to the open-source mentality: let the details of how the system works be known to everyone. Like PGP encryption: nobody's hiding how it works - in fact, more scrutiny helps prove it's saf
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by billybob 16y ago
Great! Now, I'm a salesman, and I'm trying to plan a trip. I need to find the shortest route to visit each city...
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by billybob 16y ago
It could have a compartment for beef jerky.
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by billybob 16y ago
Ah, cheating. An integral part of playing games. And one of the benefits of having the actual code, in this case. Hooray for JS and Canvas.
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by billybob 16y ago
Your comment is a marvelous antidote to hype and rumor. Thank you, sir.
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by billybob 16y ago
For devs not familiar with jQuery (and on the off-chance that you'll need no-conflicts mode at some point), you might even avoid the dollar sign. jQuery(document).ready(function(){});
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by billybob 16y ago
THIS. Get comfortable with moving from command to insert mode and back, moving around using the keyboard, and basic commands like delete, change and search (/). See how to combine these. From there, you're doing everything from the keyboard
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by billybob 16y ago
An illusion. You're as attached to your digital possessions as you were to your physical ones. You just have different preferences.
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Not necessarily. Imagine that you get a performance bonus based on how quickly you finish a task, and you're waiting on someone else for something. You don't have a specific deadline, but the sooner you get what you need, the better. You CO

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