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by chops 17y ago
Oh boy... It took years for me to convince several companies Java is not the only language that can turn out "enterprise level" applications... No doubt, but that's a different kind of "bet" (I briefly alluded to it in my original comment
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by chops 17y ago
this is bad for people who have bet on using different technology Absolutely true. An intersting thing is that I, and I'm sure quite a few others, would never have guessed that language choice was a "bet" (at least, not this kind of bet
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by chops 17y ago
I'm not suggesting that this is The Technological Achievement of Our Age (TM), only that it's impressive that two days after the posting of a webcomic, that the comic's theme has been actualized. Tetris isn't a hard problem, and this almos
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by chops 17y ago
It's a pretty fun little toy. More amazing though, is just how quickly this was hacked together. The comic was what, two days ago? Incredible.
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by chops 17y ago
As much as I dislike this particular move, and Apple's Orwellian control over their platform, bringing this to a lawsuit and getting the FCC involved would be straight-up wrong . Let the market decide this one, Adobe has no legitimate gro
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by chops 17y ago
There's nothing like that sinking feeling after an accidental delete, disk crash, or otherwise losing data in some form. It's scary, even if you're running backups. Then to find the backups are bad is just about the worst feeling one can
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by chops 17y ago
Money is not an end. Money is a means.
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by chops 17y ago
"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself ... and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards. If you care for others, then disp
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by chops 17y ago
From Wookieepedia: The Sith Order was a sect of Force-sensitives who utilized the dark side of the Force. The term "Sith" originally referred to a species of alien native to the planets Korriban and Ziost, who were later enslaved and rule
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by chops 17y ago
I've got a buddy with one, and I've seen at least two out in the wild around Milwaukee, not including my own Pre, and my wife's Pixi (both of us love our phones and for different reasons). I find this whole "Palm doing poorly" thing to be r
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by chops 17y ago
1) Started officially working on the project December '05 (before that, it was just a personal project for fun - no serious business intentions) 2) Never applied 3) No. Bootstrapped, launched running a single crappy tower server in colo (A
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by chops 17y ago
Perhaps the salesperson meant "one client machine" and the programmer assumed that, given the context, meant "one client company." Client can be a rather ambiguous term.
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by chops 17y ago
My boxers become pretty much shredded after 6-7 years.
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by chops 17y ago
Not only is it a great platform, but they're improving it regularly. The beta version running Webkit is so nice.
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by chops 17y ago
I've recently started using Chrome (for the first time seriously since it was released) and I find it much snappier than Firefox, but there are two major issues I take with Chrome. 1) The lack of slash searching, like vim, less, etc. I kno
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by chops 17y ago
It's nice having that battery as a UPS though, in the event of an outage.
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by chops 17y ago
I've never had problems hot-swapping batteries on my laptops while they're plugged in, at least with my Gateway.
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by chops 17y ago
I read this with a cringe the whole time. I actually found it a little depressing. I just want to say "Really...?! REALLY?!" It's easy to write these kind of users off as idiots, but this reminds me that any time you mess with a users' i
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by chops 17y ago
Awesome, Thank you. I'll have to look into it. I heard that piece once before but I wasn't particularly enamored with it (though it's probably been 12 years since I first and last heard it). I'll have to give it another shot, I'm a big f
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by chops 17y ago
It's not terribly relevant to HTML5, but I wracked my brain over trying to figure out what song plays in the video and how I know it. After listening to a bunch of tracks and going through my music collection, I found it. It's a re-orchest
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by chops 17y ago
I guess I'm dense (or uninformed), but I never picked up on that in Hero .
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by chops 17y ago
Never. Vim is all I use for editing.
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by chops 17y ago
Maybe he just counted syllables.
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by chops 17y ago
The only winner here is the scalper though. The customer Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are put in a lose/lose position. The customer has a choice on whether or not it's worth the purchase. To the customer who values the item (Wii/Sporting
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by chops 17y ago
This really made me laugh. That he would take the time to make pie charts and a logo describing why he won't make pie charts and a logo for him is very amusing.
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by chops 17y ago
Consumers view these guarantees as conducive to lower prices. But in fact offering a price-matching guarantee should make it less likely that competitors will slash prices, since they know that any cuts they make will immediately be matche
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by chops 17y ago
Google Cache, since the site isn't responding for me: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:7rjRSf4HfywJ:www.ribbonf...
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by chops 17y ago
Atlas Shrugged and Masters of Doom : The story of Carmack, Romero, and id Software
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by chops 17y ago
Beach volleyball (doubles) was my obsession this summer. I spent 10-15 hours per week at the beach. It helped me to be more social (I made a lot of new friends), got in better shape, got a tan (that's something new to me), and everyone I
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by chops 17y ago
Thank you for that link. I'd never heard of that term before, but that's a pretty fascinating mechanism.

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