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by dexen 17y ago
Goes to prove Google has a very strong position on the market. My guess is, a lot of people would choose Google as a provider of any internet- or computer-related service or goods from among of several vendors. And would trust Google with t
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by dexen 17y ago
For many people out there Windows and IE were the first and the only. Those were the symbols of a computer and internet. It's hard to give up on a symbol, right? Also, while FF was gaining traction among SOHO users, the large corporation de
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by dexen 17y ago
Off the top of my head, several well known successful startup entrepreneurs ended up having serious relationship once they achieved some considerable level of success or even semi-retired. On one hand, you can't readily tell with that littl
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by dexen 17y ago
In spite of all its rudeness, roughness and overboardness, the comment goes to a damn good point. The author apparently got tired of all that gender blabber as done by RMS, Lefty and several concerned responders, all the easy attention grab
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by dexen 17y ago
This is why projects with large teams contributing to one system or application make it exceptionally hard to pick and reward good programmers. Their contributions just wont stand out functionally in the mass of mediocre performing system.
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by dexen 17y ago
Lisp, in Pico Lisp flavor.
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by dexen 17y ago
Accessing pic.php with argument s=1 or greater gives much better picture resolution than the original. Is that intentional? The amount of interaction available without registration is sadly very small, not compelling to me. Before I invest
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by dexen 17y ago
I strongly disagree with the #1. In my practice, volunteering allows you to secure a rewarding, easy-to-finish-on-schedule task preemptively, while mundane, troublesome and underappreciated tasks are subsequently assigned to other co-worker
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by dexen 17y ago
If you are an open-source developer, you could write in license or documentation, `This software does whatever its source code states it does'. Joe the Average User don't need to to read through code himself; there are enough geeks on his f
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by dexen 18y ago
Being a browser integrated with desktop and other programs, and able to pull more tasks than just web browsing gives Konqueror an advantage. WebKit is a fork of KHTML, the teams still exchange changesets; take it as sign of maturity of Konq
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by dexen 18y ago
First a GUI Desktop, then Network, then Open Source Software. What is the next big thing in popular computing? Because it may high time start learning the next big thing, now that OSS became mainstream.
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by dexen 18y ago
Study finds `most people who are likely to buy music want to download it quickly, too' or perhaps `people who don't know how to download music aren't likely to do anything with the music at all' The set of people buying music often, and p
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by dexen 18y ago
For those who like to compare copyright infringement to theft, here goes my take: Suppose a neighbor of buys that new awesome European car, great style, full option . The car is instant hit among neighbors, since they all suffer form produc
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by dexen 18y ago
A computer display with at least 200DPI, and about 19...21 inches diagonal. I'd consider only 1:1 and 4:3 sized ones. Honestly, several times I've been searching for high resolution displays, and aside of old, expensive and slow T221 (or cr
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by dexen 18y ago
I wish I could access the site with Konqueror. But it redirects the browser forcibly to `please upgrade your browser to' page. You could at least give some way to ACK the message and go ahead anyway, without fiddling with user agent setting