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by donaq 16y ago
In March I declared the end to the Wintel (Windows-Intel) hegemony when asking... About five years ago, when blogging as an analyst, I asserted that computing and informational relevance had started shifting from the Windows desktop to c
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by donaq 16y ago
It's a self-calibrating means of criticism. Those for whom the shoe fits will wear it and kick back.
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by donaq 16y ago
He sets an unrealistically high standard that others can fall short of but still be somewhere good. Not everyone can be a superhero (to borrow Steve Yegge's description of RMS), but just knowing that they exist can inspire ordinary people t
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by donaq 16y ago
My favourite: Megamoth. Stands for MEGA MOnolithic meTHod. Often contained inside a God Object, and usually stretches over two screens in height. Megamoths of greater size than 2k LOC have been sighted. Beware of the MEGAMOTH!
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by donaq 16y ago
The most important for programmers . I'm thinking the ratio of web programmers to that of system programmers is overwhelmingly large. C rocks, though. :)
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by donaq 16y ago
Lift your right foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise direction. While you’re doing this, use a finger your right index finger to draw a number 6 in the air. Your foot will turn in an anticlockwise direc
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by donaq 16y ago
That is just wrong on so many levels. Firstly, Microsoft marketed the hell out of IE. The bundling of IE with Windows was their way of getting people to use IE instead of Netscape Navigator. Since their stand (in court, no less!) was that
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by donaq 16y ago
If many people start using git, we can start expecting things from git. Why? The author of a piece of software is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of its incidental users, especially if he's not selling it to them.
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by donaq 16y ago
Linus didn't write git for you. He wrote it for himself. Git works exactly the way Linus (and his merry band of kernel hackers (and others, who thought DVCS was a cool idea when they heard about it and were prepared to relearn SCM to use it
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by donaq 16y ago
We could really use a great open source Twitter client Nitpicking a little, but he probably doesn't mean "client" here. And I think the need for an open source, distributed Facebook is greater than for Twitter, considering the relative am
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by donaq 16y ago
True, true. The response falls somewhere between ignoring him and telling him to run "del . " in C: in terms of cruelty.
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by donaq 16y ago
That's just cruel. Very clever, though.
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by donaq 16y ago
I second that. Using Flash to simply play video on Linux/Firefox drives my CPU up to 100%. No matter what benchmarks or graphs you contrive to show me, I can HEAR my box's fans getting loud.
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by donaq 16y ago
I've done it a couple of times when launching my previous startup. Just in case anything went wrong. All the founders went to the mattresses. Man, those were fun times.
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by donaq 16y ago
My prediction is this: ebooks will kill the mass market paperback distribution channel. Hmm. I usually prefer to read paperback novels than their ebook counterparts, the main reason being that there's a barrier to reading something I don'
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by donaq 16y ago
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" didn't produce a very good diagram. :(
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by donaq 16y ago
Huh, how does comparing the current imperfect situation with an even worse situation make the current situation better? One might just as well say stuff like "You're LUCKY to have [insert contemporary OS]! Back in the day we used MS-DOS and
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by donaq 16y ago
I bought a keychain from them when RMS visited KL. :)
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by donaq 16y ago
I stopped looking at notifications long ago.
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by donaq 16y ago
I just wasted 20 minutes looking at that, chuckling, tweeting the link, emailing it to everyone on my contact list and then having short "that was funny, ROTFL" conversations with the people who responded. Thanks a lot, pal.
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by donaq 16y ago
If a mobile platform running Clojure-flavored HaskellLisp is the Silver Bullet, can you show us an example of its unique value? Of course he can't, because it hasn't been invented yet. But that's the point. Apple is trying to make sure no
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by donaq 16y ago
Those are some very interesting quotes. Now, the question is, which definition of hypocrisy applies to Jobs?
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by donaq 16y ago
That was an interesting read. I think Zed has very nicely anticipated many questions a novice programmer might ask while avoiding the trap of trying to spare them the grunt work required to understand the basic concepts a programmer require
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by donaq 16y ago
Well, there's no chance that Iron Man could defeat Superman in a head-to-head unless he uses kryptonite. OTOH, Superman vs Hyperion...
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by donaq 16y ago
Oh, he's changed it to 2 columns, which doesn't actually help much for this post, since you still have to scroll up and down.
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by donaq 16y ago
I just gave it a spin and here are some my thoughts. I know some flaws are to be expected in an alpha build. - I needed to scroll right to get at the preferences, which is not what I would normally expect for Android. - Pressing the phone's
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by donaq 16y ago
Ok, so are there any Bad Things?
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by donaq 16y ago
Ironically, your 3-column blog design is not very friendly, IMO. I had to scroll up and down to read that post.
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by donaq 16y ago
Regardless, we don't really use them for computation on desktops, right? [Edit] Besides graphics computing, that is.
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by donaq 16y ago
When I read #2 I went "THANK YOU".

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