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by huxley 13y ago
If you've lived near farms, pulp-n-paper mills or fish processing plants, you will often be told that the stink is the smell of money and you should stop complaining. I expect it was something similar.
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by huxley 13y ago
Back in 2009, Jesse Noller wrote about his experiences with PEP-370 and seems to have felt that it is an improvement on the status-quo and a complement to virtualenv but not a replacement: http://jessenoller.com/blog/20
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by huxley 13y ago
I'd be interested to see if this has changed much in the almost 7 years since that study was done.
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by huxley 13y ago
You can find many of Microsoft's codenames here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames#Win... My favourite codename sniping had to do with Windows NT (codename Cairo) and NeXT. When announcing N
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by huxley 13y ago
Xenix wasn't created by SCO, it was developed by Microsoft (initially for the PDP-11) and was based on licensed AT&T Bell Labs code (and some BSD). SCO ported Xenix to a few processors for Microsoft starting with 8086/8088. It
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by huxley 13y ago
Sinclair QDOS which ran on the Sinclair QL did preemptive multitasking on a 128KB machine (buggy as heck when it came out but it did precede the Amiga by almost a year and half).
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by huxley 13y ago
There's also a version for Bootstrap 2.x: http://geedmo.github.io/yamm/
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by huxley 13y ago
Me too, I've been an Audible subscriber since 2002. Lately I've been grabbing a couple of the Great Courses (or Modern Scholar) series a month. Between 15-22 hours of classes per audiobook at $11 a piece is pretty good deal.
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by huxley 13y ago
Google is an advertising company that owns and develops a spectacular search engine and a few other great products as loss leaders. Mozilla is a non-profit foundation that sells its search box to fund a corporation that develops a free web
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by huxley 13y ago
Not sure what you mean by high demand, it has certainly has had strategic value, but the grand total of companies that would be interested in the search box are Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. I wouldn't be looking forward to the next set
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by huxley 13y ago
What if 90% of a politician's campaign funds came from one source? It doesn't have to be overt, I doubt Mozilla makes many decisions by asking themselves, "will this make Google happy or unhappy?" But consider that Mozil
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by huxley 13y ago
The contrast between Mozilla and Apple is that one needs the money and the other one doesn't, and that makes all the difference. Apple can pick and choose their deals. If Apple decided to give Microsoft the search box for free to spite
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by huxley 13y ago
Microsoft wasn't interested in paying anything near that much, nor was Yahoo, that's why talks collapsed during the negotiations. Google does consider the search engine placement valuable but it is probably also funding Mozilla as
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by huxley 13y ago
Except for how Apple doesn't get in excess of 90% of their income from Google.
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by huxley 13y ago
The article cited disputes Gould's particular allegations about Morton's measurement bias. The authors however did not dispute his "ideological" position which does have a sound scientific and historical grounding: &quot
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by huxley 13y ago
On the bright side, at least it isn't keeping up with Moore's Law.
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by huxley 13y ago
People who are really interested in programming will find a way, they always have. Did you think typing source code from a magazine (which they didn't carry in your home town because nobody else was interested) wasn't a roadblock
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by huxley 13y ago
I hope at the very least that you're at least doing it for the specific email fields rather than messing with password copy-and-paste. Here's a discussion of disabling paste on passwords and usernames: http://stackoverf
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by huxley 13y ago
Like Mahn said, MS fell asleep. The problem wasn't IE6 per se, it's that IE6 didn't get upgraded significantly over a 6 year period. Market dominance and stagnation really damaged the web for many many years. I'm happy t
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by huxley 13y ago
It's not Google: http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/p/about-google-operating-sys...
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by huxley 13y ago
Man, I remember thinking how good it would be when I could stop supporting IE6 ... I think it was last week.
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by huxley 13y ago
For proper '98 cred, they should have added an animated "Under Construction" gif. I wonder if the reason for the removal was because of an expired licensing agreement?
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by huxley 13y ago
I will grant that are likely no monopolies that have developed out of open-air markets in 3rd world economies.
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by huxley 13y ago
> Try to find a monopoly that has arisen in an open market, free from government 'intervention' (either regulation OR corruption). How about you cite an example of an open market that is free from government intervention?
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by huxley 13y ago
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." -- Richard P. Feynman Your hypothesis doesn't take into account the c
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by huxley 13y ago
The 128-bit export restriction ended 13 years ago, so the use of the home-grown encryption standard has been a choice made by the Korean government and corporations. Yes, the export restrictions were stupid, but there has been plenty of tim
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by huxley 13y ago
You could use Prefixfree.js to provide support for older "modern" browsers: http://leaverou.github.io/prefixfree/
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by huxley 13y ago
Sadly while the chart has significant problems and is misleading in some of the relationships, it is more accurate than the article it appears in, if you zoom in you can see some annotations in the article that give partial context to some
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by huxley 13y ago
"... the future doesn’t look so bright for Apple, who are currently sitting on an enormous amount of unsold stock" What unsold stock are they referring to?
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by huxley 13y ago
Someone named Joseph Campbell doing myth-busting is actually kinda funny ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

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