justuk

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by justuk 11y ago
Developers spend their day building the foundations for other people's businesses. As a developer, you would have to be severely lacking in motivation to not want to do it yourself.
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by justuk 11y ago
It's appealing because Ubuntu is the distribution that people are most familiar with. These sorts of issues aren't seen as important outside of the legal niche. It's like when you install a copy of Debian and look for Firefox
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by justuk 11y ago
I don't think you understand because I was being too concise. There are standard feminists and I have no problem with them, in fact, many even bat for both sides, so they will help to promote equality issues that men face. On Twitter h
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by justuk 11y ago
Your comments are fine in my book. They reflect an uncomfortable reality that many don't want to accept. And yes, the link isn't the best of sources, their owner courts controversy and has made some terrible mistakes recently.
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by justuk 11y ago
To work in technology, especially programming, you have to put a heck of a lot of effort into the subject. If it's not some legacy technology then that also means learning constantly (on your own initiative). That's what I like ab
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by justuk 11y ago
It's a usability mindset thing. Apple's software is great if you can live within their vision. Microsoft aims at everyone from newbie to an elite power user. Linux, well, you can do anything you want but it's on your head if
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by justuk 11y ago
The great thing about advertising is it funds you no matter if you are famous or not. Bad thing is you have to live under their corporate censorship and all the baggage that goes with using third party sellers (privacy and inefficiency). To
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by justuk 11y ago
A lot of the big names are smaller competitors who were bought out. If I wanted to buy into a big name like that, I would make sure their founding headquarters were based nearby and that they are run by the same soft of people that started
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by justuk 11y ago
Our rail system is set up to be mediocre and expensive. Much of it was built privately long ago, then it was nationalised, cut down and improved. Then is was 'privatised' - I use quotes because the train operators don't reall
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by justuk 11y ago
I have heard several interviews with drivers. It reminds me of every other VC funded technology company that creates a platform. Those drivers do well as early adopters, but I suspect its downhill (for them) in the long term.
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by justuk 11y ago
Been reading about modern Amiga hardware recently like the upcoming X5000 with Amiga OS 4.1. Almost tempted to try it. I forced myself to use Windows, OS X and various Linux for years, but they never felt right.
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by justuk 11y ago
Amiga was well represented until the late 90s when the print magazines died off and that was the death knell. Both Amiga and Atari were in Computer Shopper too, albeit token pages.
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by justuk 11y ago
About a week ago I decide to look through all my friends' profiles and decide whether Facebook was worth keeping. It made me realise how much of their posts never made it to the wall (or whatever it's called) - bear in mind I only
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by justuk 11y ago
That's one of the reasons why I stopped using G+. I couldn't figure out how to make a public link on G+ to a YouTube video - without the comment appearing on YouTube. It got to a point where I would look on Vimeo etc to see if the
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by justuk 11y ago
It seems like a step backwards in sophistication all because these mobile devices were grouped into the same category as desktop. We go from tools that look like they were aimed at adults to simplistic toys. I see it all the time in user co
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by justuk 11y ago
It feels like desktop is taking a hit for the team because a less sophisticated member is tagging along. I watch all these websites convert over to responsive designs and very few of them are a step forward. It's like they've gone
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by justuk 11y ago
Click fraud is the opposite of impression based advertising. Click fraud is when the bad guys encourage people to sign up for services or click on links that offer a sales based bounty and are rewarded for their actions. Impression based br
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by justuk 11y ago
I dislike the way mobile has become the new lowest common denominator for web development. It used to be IE6 because it was antiquated but now it's anything with a touch screen - mainly thinking how hover has been relegated to visual e
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by justuk 11y ago
Same here. If I were to buy an Amiga today I would expect a modern computer with an Amiga feel. Something that's a bit like Linux but without the bloat and complexity. Come to think of it, OS X is the closest.
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by justuk 11y ago
PHP is perfect for newbies. It's flexible. Has lots of functions built in. Several mature frameworks available. It's in active development. Hugely popular so lots of people to ask. Easy to set up a dev environment. No need to le