kprobst

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1. 91.▲
   by kprobst 15y ago

   PHP + MySQL ended up being the VB+Access of the FOSS ecosystem.
2. 92.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   Win2K was probably one of the best versions of Windows, if not the best.
3. 93.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   > TL;DR But then you'd miss this: "Non-paid blogger system"? Please. We may be whores, but we are not sluts. Genius.
4. 94.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   > techrights.org rofl. You know that's boycottnovell, right? They just changed the branding.
5. 95.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   I was expecting something much better for 40 points and the front page.
6. 96.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   I've used NAnt to build/deploy happily for years. I suppose it depends on each project or application's particular context. I will say this: If there's some kind of requirement where Dev1 will overwrite Dev2's changes on the target server
7. 97.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   I use Cropper ( http://cropper.codeplex.com/ ). Works great, and both Notes and Outlook take the Ctrl+V just fine. Cropper can also be used to intercept PtrnScrn commands.
8. 98.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   You search for "Comic Sans", the results display in the Comic Sans font. Sounds less funny when you explain it :)
9. 99.▲
   by kprobst 16y ago

   Anyone check the source? /*I liked Google better*/ *{font-family:comic sans ms!important} /*before the fonts changed.*/
10. 100.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    Business as usual in Washington. Anyone really surprised? Every time it looks like something good will come out of there, the politicians manage to screw it up with amazing precision and panache.
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    IEET: Key [Technology] Trends of the Next 25 Years(ieet.org)

    1 points by kprobst 16y ago|0 comments
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    Lessons from the Trenches: Entrepreneurship Panel at Penn(ideasandform.com)

    1 points by kprobst 16y ago|0 comments
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    Crowdmapping radiation in Japan(kk.org)

    1 points by kprobst 16y ago|0 comments
14. 104.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    I guess it's possible I might be missing something here, but I can't for the life of me understand how this is so complicated and expensive. Is there a technical explanation somewhere? Are they adapting a non-adaptable proprietary CMS or so
15. 105.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    Wow, someone needs a big hug.
16. 106.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    Or the combination on his luggage.
17. 107.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    The database in this case has to share some of the blame. For years MySQL did not support parametrized queries or stored procedures (or did not promote them), and many of the people coding against it consistently claimed that they didn't
18. 108.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    I disagree that it's difficult to secure. Rather, it's that it's too easy to compromise manually.
19. 109.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    "The Asocial Network"
20. 110.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    Hardly surprising, but it's an interesting situation. The only company in the world that wants and needs Windows XP to disappear is Microsoft; for everyone else XP is an enormously bountiful source of users and revenue. It would be suicidal
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    by kprobst 16y ago

    I think in our lizard brains we prefer to have an imaginary measure of control over how we go. So we'd rather have a 20-foot wall of water bearing down on us at 80mph than to be exposed to invisible radiation. We imagine that we have a ch
22. 112.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    There are vast numbers of young people out there that either don't have $5 or have no way to pay for something online even if they had the money. The potential pool of software developers isn't (and shouldn't be) limited to the US and Europ
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    by kprobst 16y ago

    I think it might be too much for Microsoft to say "you have to get rid of this browser" and then "but you have to upgrade your operating system". For the same reason they're not going to promote FF or Chrome, since those run on XP just fine
24. 114.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    At work I have no choice but to use XP.. that doesn't mean I don't use Firefox and Chrome.
25. 115.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    There are Java projects that use Oracle as the back end. Since Java is Free Software (technically at least) and Oracle is not, would you consider that to be a failure for Free Software? Do you use a binary blob NVidia driver on your Linux c
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    by kprobst 16y ago

    I'm going to guess it's just a result of just using the best tools for the job. His developers know the MS stack, so it makes sense to build the application on top of that. Things like Redis and HAProxy are traditionally better left to run
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    by kprobst 16y ago

    > VirtualDub http://www.advogato.org/article/101.html A far cry, I think, from a patent troll takedown.
28. 118.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    My copy of Visual Basic 1.0 (released in 1991) runs perfectly well on Windows 7 Ultimate.
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    by kprobst 16y ago

    > Whether other sites, like Google, can do this too, is immaterial. It's material if the FSF isn't putting up a "Google is evil" page on their website and handing out "Don't google me, bro" buttons, like they are doing with Facebook. Th
30. 120.▲
    by kprobst 16y ago

    I remember being at the MS Redmond campus for an MVP summit shortly before .NET was released (ca. 2000). Some of the devs in the VB.Net team would amble in to participate in discussions and whatnot (it was very informal). Most of them had l