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by halo 15y ago
Wikimedia is a not-for-profit. As long as they use the income to achieve their goals, I don't see why it's a problem. People don't seem to have any objection to commercialisation of open source software. The great things they could do with
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by halo 15y ago
But how do you know Google isn't doing the same thing for its advertisers?
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by halo 15y ago
I completely agree. I've long thought that Wikipedia should sell ads or have commercial partnerships. Another idea is partnering with a search engine. Add "Search for X on Google/Bing" to their search drop-downs and add a tasteful "Search
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by halo 15y ago
HTML is a structured document format, with CSS for styling and presentation. The web became so popular that developers want HTML to be an unstructured data format with a separate fully-fledged layout language.[1] Neither idea is wrong,
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by halo 15y ago
Shift-click (via http://twitter.com/#!/DmitryBaranovsk/status/120131811857797... ).
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by halo 15y ago
You're right, I'm an idiot.
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by halo 15y ago
Number of open bugs is a poor measurement of software quality. Anyone who has seen the bug-tracker of a large project will testify to that fact. If anything, a large number of open bugs is an indicator of a large, popular and mature product
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by halo 15y ago
I'd argue that the key difference in Firefox was the UI. It was slimmed down and tidied up, with all the unnecessary clutter removed. Firefox also shamelessly copied and polished up the best features from Opera (i.e. tabs and integrated sea
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by halo 15y ago
I've often wondered why Amazon doesn't partner with coffee shops. Amazon delivers a small library of free books to coffee shops, and partners with publishers to provide free promotional copies of their books. Win/win/win.
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by halo 15y ago
Very insightful blog post, which is very much in tune with my opinion on Opera. It's rare for someone who worked at a company to have such good perspective. It's definitely true that the main reason why Opera has struggled on the desktop is
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by halo 15y ago
Fundamentally, Facebook is an identity directory. The ability to easily transfer real world identities and relationships into the digital world is the big problem Facebook solves. It's one of those fundamental problems left unresolved by In
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by halo 15y ago
It's interesting to note the difference between the Windows 8 dialog has compared to the GNOME one. You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. On Windows 8, the dialog shows both where the files are coming from and where they're going to. By de
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by halo 15y ago
I wish people would read the article before commenting. This precise example is discussed in the article.
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by halo 15y ago
Even Vista had 200 million users after two years. If Microsoft make the same mistakes as Vista (which is unlikely) and it fizzles, Windows sales figures remain mind-blowingly huge. Why haven't Windows 7-only applications caught on? A major
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by halo 15y ago
Windows 7 sold 300 million copies in less than 2 years. There's no reason to think that Windows 8 won't match it. That's a huge potential market. Apple proved that you don't need the largest installed user base to become a success. You just
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by halo 15y ago
Sure, for current Windows software. But all signs are pointing to Microsoft cooking up a new 'native' software framework for Windows 8 that is much closer to what WP7 is today. The specifics won't be revealed until BUILD next month, but tha
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by halo 15y ago
Yeah, I might have accelerated the timeline a bit. Even so, I think it's clear that they're going in the direction of merging code-bases, and I'm certain that touch-screen Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps will be cross-platform and be bas
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by halo 15y ago
From what I believe, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will be the same OS which runs the exact same apps, only with different UIs for different screen sizes/aspect ratios. Branding then becomes irrelevant: they are literally the exact same OS.
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by halo 15y ago
You can bet that Microsoft's plan is to merge Windows Phone and Windows into a single codebase.
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by halo 15y ago
I often end up defending Microsoft (and, on occasion, RIM) simply because they often get a bad rap from people with an agenda and a lack of perspective. Microsoft are a hugely successful company with some great products, but you wouldn't re
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When Did The U.S. Last Default On Treasury Bonds?(npr.org)
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by halo 15y ago
Or a word processor and calling it Word?
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by halo 15y ago
Or a Samsung handset, which allows you to take screenshots using menu and home.
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by halo 15y ago
Should it? Why?
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by halo 15y ago
Sadly, it's not a great solution. It's not very user-friendly. Having stand-alone applications and double-clicking them is nice, having to extract and add your own shortcut to the executable isn't. Distributing directories over the web suck
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by halo 15y ago
The root causes of Linux's problems are very hard to fix. It needs to aim to attract commercial developers by adding cohesive APIs and stable ABIs. That's going to be a real struggle. Linux is too fragmented, there's too much opposition to
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by halo 15y ago
I'm not sure this should be posted here where most won't understand the context. In the UK (bar Scotland), if you plan to go to University, you do A Levels in 3-4 subjects between the ages of 16 and 18. This means you need to make key choic
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by halo 15y ago
>It "officially dies", then in a matter of a year or two, a sequel is whipped up by another studio using the inherited rights to the name. That doesn't seem to have been the case. The game seems to have been mostly complete in 2009 when
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by halo 15y ago
>The joke was that no one actually reads TAOCP. While true, what surprised me is that Knuth's books are much more readable than you might expect from their reputation. TAOCP is a far cry from dry terse impenetrable tomes like Rudin.
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by halo 15y ago
On the other hand, in the year 2000 Amazon made a net loss of $1.4 billion(!) on revenues of $2.7 billion.

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