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by docgnome 17y ago
Grrr. Wikipedia protocols for notability are just terrible for FOSS projects, which is rather ironic. I'm still kinna peeved about the deletion of the StumpWM article.
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by docgnome 17y ago
I was pretty much turned off by "At the very least it needs a de-facto standard way of doing object-oriented programming, having the choice between classical, prototypal, or, sure, why not lazy inheritance is not doing it for me." Javascrip
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by docgnome 17y ago
It was actually originally named after a beer. There has been discussion of changing the name but not much interest as most communication about it is in text where the name isn't confusing. Or is at least less so.
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by docgnome 17y ago
There is actually another plan to build a QT version built on top of WebKit. It hasn't started yet though s they are waiting on more mature QT bindings. http://minno.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi
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by docgnome 17y ago
5-7-5 is a meter that comes from Japanese where the 5-7-5 is onji ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onji ) not English syllables. Insisting on a 5-7-5 standard for English haiku is generally considered to be something that is only taught by hi
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Conkeror, Emacs-style Xulrunner based web browser(conkeror.org)
15 points by docgnome 17y ago|7 comments
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by docgnome 17y ago
I think the real mistake the author made here was looking at the technology of the time instead of the potential of that technology. That would be like looking at Project Mercury and saying "Man couldn't possibly land on the moon with that.
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by docgnome 17y ago
"I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two." Anyone else wanna puke after reading that?
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by docgnome 17y ago
Sorta looks to me to confirm something we already knew, V8 blows everything else away.
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by docgnome 17y ago
I think this is my favorite thread of all time.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Seriously, couldn't someone from the Barbie team wandered over to IT for more than 30 seconds? ... Stupid question. Of course they couldn't, you only talk to IT when your magic typing box doesn't work. -_-
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by docgnome 17y ago
And just because you don't watch the violent protest video doesn't mean you are unaware of what's going on. I can read about how violent the protests are with out having to watch some guy getting his head bashed in.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Seriously? Do we really need to post sensationalist headlines? What is this? Reddit? "An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage." They are not t
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by docgnome 17y ago
So you argument is that because say... the git devs can't charge for git through apt that it's not as good as say... BitKeeper?
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by docgnome 17y ago
Am I the only one who could hear Stephen Fry in my head the whole time I was reading it? How does he do that?!
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by docgnome 17y ago
Strange, I just read the first two chapters of Catcher in the Rye at the local coffee shop... It was gonna be next on my list when I finish On the Road.
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by docgnome 17y ago
I completely agree. Whoever their target is, it's certainly not me.
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by docgnome 17y ago
TBH, the only thing I can see this being more useful for than a netbook is reading ebooks, as I don't watch movies on my computer. And given that all it has is a standard, all be it nice, display I wouldn't buy one. E-ink is far superior fo
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by docgnome 17y ago
It's just straight up evil to run an indexing service that ignores robots.txt and to run more than one of these things that when they don't talk to each other. Even if the latter was stupidity, the former is just plain evil. It's not like t
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by docgnome 17y ago
"I would argue vendor lock-in even leads to better products, since the developer don't have to worry about interoperability. Monopolies are the real problem." Aren't monopolies the logical conclusion of vendor lock-in that is allowed to flo
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by docgnome 17y ago
I've heard Joel Spolsky say that. https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29083
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by docgnome 17y ago
That... is actually a good point. That's the only reasonable rebuttal I've ever heard to my "who cares" argument. :-)
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by docgnome 17y ago
What I really meant by Freedom is the ability to do whatever I want with the products I use but especially those I have to pay money for. If I buy a product, what right does the company that built the product have to dictate how I can use i
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by docgnome 17y ago
While I understand (and agree with) the change to try and standardize PHP behavior, I think that in this case the parent comment is the crux of the issue. Seems like returning NULL violates the principle of least surprise to me.
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by docgnome 17y ago
The problem is most of the broken behavior in PHP is never going to be fixed because it would break compatibility.
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by docgnome 17y ago
True enough, but just because I get a better user experience in exchange for Freedom doesn't mean it's a good trade.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Seriously, why does anyone care? Do you want to use Linux on the desktop? Great! Use it! Why spend a bunch of time trying to convince Windows and OS X users to use something they don't want to. I really don't understand Linux users obsessio
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by docgnome 17y ago
Some of us don't cut Apple any more slack. I am rather tired of the free pass they seem to get from others. They are probably worse than MS in terms of vendor lock-in but just don't have a large enough market share to bully people around.
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by docgnome 17y ago
That is pretty awesome.