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by freetard 17y ago
And why should we care about most users? Gnu/Linux is a great platform for free software, why make it something it isn't? If you want a great proprietary platform, go for windows. Windows won the proprietary war 20 years ago, foss can't bea
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by freetard 17y ago
As a free software guy, I'm glad proprietary apps are not being ported to gnu/linux. If I wanted proprietary apps, I probably would have stayed with windows.
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by freetard 17y ago
Wow, another nomination for Al Gore, impressive.
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by freetard 17y ago
Rails is as upload and go as php with apache or nginx + mod_rails.
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by freetard 17y ago
I tried installing spree the other day, a rails shopping app, and I gave up after entering gem dependency hell and the no local file policy. Went faster on my own server with nginx+passenger.
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by freetard 17y ago
Here's why: 1) they don't have the money to develop for both the iPhone and Android. 2) announcing they won't develop for Android will bring them some needed publicity as it did for that gaming company who did last time. 3) if they don't ha
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by freetard 17y ago
Looking at this graph, it looks like Google is still rising too while yahoo is not. So Bing is taking market mostly from yahoo.
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by freetard 17y ago
Respect for Jonathan, the guy who successfully got Steve Jobs to shut up and back up.
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by freetard 17y ago
These days I just use Google Doc. Nothing beats it for what I need it for. Fast, collaborative, no need to send it to emails 50 times, versioning. Perfect for me.
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by freetard 17y ago
The custom software just parses this https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal tools and sends the selected keywords by mail to his writer. Nothing exceptional.
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by freetard 17y ago
Google checkout only work in a few countries.
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by freetard 17y ago
> iTunes and Zune make it much easier for the average consumer to manage a library of music. Tell that to my dad and sister who deleted their whole collection of mp3s thanks to "iTunes making it much easier".
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by freetard 17y ago
Except it did use VP6 and VP7.
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by freetard 17y ago
It looks like every day that passes, Apple is trying to really demonstrate they're the new Microsoft.
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by freetard 17y ago
99% of their market doesn't even know about this trial, or even what software patents are. Only the one 1% that is bothered about this knows about and understands the issue. In the end it will be a big loss of money for Apple and its shareh
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by freetard 17y ago
It does indeed.
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by freetard 17y ago
I use Linux as my main desktop and I'm a professional worker. Works just fine, I do hate the Windows and Mac UIs though, so I can understand people have different tastes. I try not to make general statements about other UIs, just different
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by freetard 17y ago
Theora is VP3+few well documented modifications. Youtube for years and still today used on2 codecs (through flash) which are all based on VP3 with optimization. If Theora and therefore VP3 were patent encumbered so would be all the codecs u
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by freetard 17y ago
Except for postgresql.
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by freetard 17y ago
Steve Jobs: > "innovating is stealing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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by freetard 17y ago
I guess that makes Steve Jobs a hypocrite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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by freetard 17y ago
They did let it stand alone. And what's wrong with attaching it to a google account anyway?
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by freetard 17y ago
Don't forget Chrome Frame.
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by freetard 17y ago
Here it goes: http://wpparty.com/tag/lucky-this-time/ Not only the soil was different but the depth and location of the epicenter were not comparable: "Saturday’s quake was centered offshore an estimated 21 miles (34 kilometers) undergrou
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by freetard 17y ago
Firebug to log in?
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by freetard 17y ago
> A more apt example would be twitter providing a list of people who have been recently followed by people that you are following, with the option of clicking the news item to also follow this new person. How would that be more apt? In
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by freetard 17y ago
I said git local operations are way faster, google them.
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by freetard 17y ago
This sounds very much like it can apply to twitter. @foobar said cool. <reply button> <retweet button> That's an activity that can be public or only be viewed by your friends. People can participate by doing the same activit
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by freetard 17y ago
Big entities are still good on the web, see wikipedia, openstreetmap and yes, even youtube, liveleak or twitter/identi.ca (iran, scandals etc). This case could also help many torrent sites to survive http://torrentfreak.com/can-google-secu
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by freetard 17y ago
Where does it say that HG http is faster than git://? And second git local operations are way faster than hg's. But google only care about http obviously. Note that android and chromium both use git on google's servers and they employed som

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