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by halo 17y ago
The likely rationale is that there's probably quite a few people who want the deployability of PHP without having to work around the problems with the language.
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by halo 17y ago
The context of this post has since disappeared - the original title was "A search engine for trademarks" which has changed since I made my comment.
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by halo 17y ago
A search engine for US trademarks.
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by halo 17y ago
Confusingly, the US system commonly referred as "English units" differs from the traditional English Imperial unit used before metrication in several key ways - the most notable difference being the US units of liquid volume being notably s
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by halo 17y ago
That article is a bit out of date. There are two new formats - one is a new format called WebOTF, which is a new binary format consisting of a raw font plus compressed XML metadata. The other is EOT Lite (which is likely to be renamed to so
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by halo 17y ago
Sure, there are exceptions, and I'm not saying it's impossible, but making a decentralised network popular is going to be an uphill struggle, especially in an already crowded space full of popular centralised competitors which are already f
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by halo 17y ago
I don't really get your point - that's an extremely helpful analogy. The web is based around HTTP, a deliberately decentralised protocol with no single host that could take the entire web down at once. If Twitter goes down, or even a promin
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by halo 17y ago
Problem with decentralisation is that it vastly increases complexity while not getting the investment, marketing and branding needed to make make a product go mainstream.
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by halo 17y ago
I have a problem with these sorts of posts, but I struggle to articulate it, so I'm going to quote an insightful Reddit comment ( http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9k3ss/mattel_sued_aqua_... ): They're a corporation, a large group of pe
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by halo 17y ago
Indeed. Just to reiterate: CodePlex (codeplex.com) is a site launched by Microsoft to host open-source projects under a variety of licenses. CodePlex Foundation (codeplex.org) is a foundation launched by Microsoft. The specifics are somewh
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by halo 17y ago
If you have to reboot Windows for anything other than updates you should be looking into problems with your hardware and drivers. The "Windows is unstable" meme should really be dead and buried by now. I can believe Ubuntu is faster than Wi
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by halo 17y ago
Word has had full proper support for styles for a couple of decades - its implementation isn't very difficult to use, it's just that most users tend not to know about them because they haven't been taught as they aren't worthwhile unless yo
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by halo 17y ago
I apologise. It's rather hard to get the exact terminology correct, let alone on an ad-hoc basis while trying to remain somewhat readable. As I was writing, my focus was on trying to avoid the loaded term "free". I'm also not exactly sure w
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by halo 17y ago
I don't buy it. I honestly don't believe that if you charged for OpenOffice.org, Inkscape or The Gimp then people would prefer them over their closed source equivalents. I think it's just trying to ignore the the obvious answer that they si
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by halo 17y ago
Perhaps Google already algorithmically detects and quietly penalises such link-farming, or has tweaked their algorithm to minimise its impact. From their quality guidelines ( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en... )
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by halo 17y ago
I'm often wary of those complaining about Google's policies because they're based on the idea that being listed on Google is a right and not a privilege. This, to me, is faulty logic. Unless they're deliberately taking part in anticompetiti
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by halo 17y ago
I'm honestly surprised so many people in this thread are sceptical or even resistant of the idea of education being transformed by the web, because I have been thinking about it for a while and I honestly think it could be a huge boon to so
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by halo 17y ago
I think this harks back to the war between the philosophies of idealists and theoreticians versus engineers and pragmatists which seems to constantly recur in the technology sector and is probably best known as "Worse Is Better".
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by halo 17y ago
Where are all the articles about when it's a bad time to start a startup?
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by halo 17y ago
This is a bit left-field, but I would love the ability to be able to edit tickets and comments for up to 10 minutes before they're made final and sent via e-mail.
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by halo 17y ago
It's not really a new idea, though. IBM developed NetRexx, a version of Rexx which compiles down to Java, in the mid-90s, for example. Kawa, a version of Scheme for the JVM, dates back to 1996 or so.
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by halo 17y ago
I'm not convinced this is a particularly useful exercise because most changes are the evolution of what came before. You're trying to create a neat package of discrete changes when the real world is continuous and evolutionary. Take "Intern
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by halo 17y ago
For some added context, the normal rand function in PHP uses an implementation based on libc. PHP provides a second, safer, function, mt_rand, which is based around an implementation of the Mersenne Twister.
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by halo 17y ago
All of those languages became popular before the web when widespread free implementations of languages became available and the norm.
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by halo 17y ago
>And he's right, if we look around we see lots of 3rd generation Frameworks and some of them are more cross platform than others. We all know about Java and .Net but Cocoa for MacOS X (Found on your Mac and your iPhone) Adobe Air, Micro
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by halo 17y ago
At the moment, Wikipedia relies on the press to verify the truth. How do you suggest Wikipedia verifies the truth without relying on the press and other scholarly sources?
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by halo 17y ago
Despite being rather simplistic, it's a damn good concept. I've never played an instrument before and can tap out a half-decent Jingle Bells in a few minutes, and it's quite good fun. I'm sure it would be even easier if it had more features
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by halo 17y ago
This isn't a free speech issue, and equating it to a free-speech issue is fallacious. People can say anything they like, even if they are standing centre-stage and making my blood boil, but that doesn't mean I'll want to buy something from
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by halo 17y ago
If they're sensible, IKEA will embrace this, even if they're losing a bit of money now. It's establishing their brand and turning it into an aspirational product which will pay dividends as China gets more developed and more of these custom
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by halo 17y ago
His blog is linked from the bottom of his post. I'm also a regular of the forum. To me, it passes the smell test. Why go to such elaborate lengths to create pages of fake legalese, imitating a real lawyer firm? If it's fake, why would The G

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