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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
People tend to think of Microsoft as much more backward than they actually are. Yes, Microsoft isn't the brighest when it comes to open-source, but they do at least try. And yes, if you're going to live in the Enterprise world, things are a
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
I think the other thing that they will say (if they have any guts) is that this is a beta , and that the point of a beta is to get technical feedback and respond to it. Therefore, it is entirely unnecessary to take such a strongly negative
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
They call her "Toxie" (Planet Money Podcast - http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289 )
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
The VMS are a big part of it. I can just go nuts on stuff because I can roll-back and/or fork entire operating systems easily. Of course, there's also things like compile time and flow interruption - but really, the VMs just let me experime
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
Actually, you will have a more accurate effect because most web servers are VMs. Also, the ability to do snapshots/rollbacks/clones should not be underestimated. Upgrading from a dell E630 (T8100 2GB) to an E6410 (i7 8GB) and buying a tec
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
While the points made are valid, I think this article misses out on the broader contextual change that has happened. It's not just kids looking through YouTube for how-to videos; my parents and my grandparents use it too. The availability o
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
Oh, man, this was horrible. The music was good (love Arcade Fire), but the video was neither artistically entertaining nor technologically impressive. More to the point, I absolutely despise the fact that an application asking for personal
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
Breaking News: Unnecessarily hyperbolic and speculative tech news sites are dead!
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
... But the people with real insight very rarely share it. All you get from these sorts of networking tools is a mishmash of mediocre gibberish.
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
Why buy a new machine? http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ http://virtualbox.org
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
We aren't talking about selling cars. People buy MP3 players based on their car's MP3 player hookup...
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
Apple actually annexed the open podcasting community with the podcast section of its iTunes store. They also managed to become a near-monopoly in the MP3 player market.
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
Oh man... This one bugs me too, but I see a lot of potential for things like the iPad here...
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by dingle_thunk 16y ago
On a mac, you can press command + shift + 8 to invert the colours of your display. This can be done on Windows 7 by pressing ctrl + + and modifying the magnifier settings, or on linux UIs by setting a key binding in the keyboard settings.