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by lamby 17y ago
I'm not sure it's valid to infer that their entire service is poor from these series of rather niche blog posts. (Although saying that, I wonder if this series of theirs is to attract press attention? If so, then it would be nice to see som
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by lamby 17y ago
> it has allowed people like Ulrich Drepper to dig out his private little Hell with glibc and torment anyone who begs a moment of his time. It isn't patronage system that's the problem, it's the people. Anyway, just fork his work (eg.
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by lamby 17y ago
> The fact they've acknowledged and responded to jwz's post at all is a good sign. Really? Seems far more of a neutral sign considering how much attention his post got.
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by lamby 17y ago
I think he's actually agreeing with Joel, but he's just decided to ignore blatant conditionals in the original article. For example, claiming that "misapplying duct tape solutions in serious software development [ends up] creating unnecessa
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by lamby 17y ago
Am I understanding the story correctly - did the refresh button actually do anything?
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by lamby 17y ago
Out of interest, does anybody else think conferring celebrity status like this is damaging?
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by lamby 17y ago
We need more guys like that. "We don't have refresh buttons in the user interface, because that would just be horrible."
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by lamby 17y ago
Surely the content is the best indicator of context, class, and quality? If you feel lost, perhaps you were relying too much on others to judge an opinion for yourself?
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by lamby 17y ago
With luck, the site will check their Referers and see this popular comment complaining about the use of images instead of text.
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by lamby 17y ago
.. And if 1% of China bought my product.. !
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by lamby 17y ago
Sure, like-for-like Cambridge is more expensive, particular when you factor location in.
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by lamby 17y ago
This is misleading. Webkit, the core component of Chrome, has been worked on for far more than 2 years.
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by lamby 17y ago
Aw, your argument was good until you referred to digg-bait walkthroughs. :] Ideological and/or legal disabling aside, these seem to be implicit drawbacks of using a binary distribution. If you link some app against libfoo, you will almost c
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by lamby 17y ago
"a major complication is Debian's obnoxious segregation of headers into separate packages" What's so obnoxious about this? The -dev packages will depend on libfooSONAME (and have far more stable names) so it's hardly more effort to keep the
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by lamby 17y ago
Needs more tornado. Or, err, twisted.web.
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by lamby 17y ago
In Debian Live we went a step further, booting Linux from your Gmail account via FUSE & gmailfs.
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by lamby 17y ago
The only difference being that your analogy doesn't use a condition that the majority of its readers would self-identify with and thus validate themselves.
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by lamby 17y ago
It also guarantees sanctions and other nice things.
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by lamby 17y ago
No, not really.
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by lamby 17y ago
A refreshing change to the general level of hubris today. Thanks.
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by lamby 17y ago
Through a "dedicated" RSS reader, Liferea.
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by lamby 17y ago
That's why you should insert ads into the RSS! ¬_¬
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by lamby 17y ago
You should remember that bandwidth is sold wholesale using bit/s in chunks of (eg.) 5Mbit; limiting users by some arbitrary number of bytes is an invention of hosting companies. Thus for "serious" levels of traffic, you should look at the a
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by lamby 17y ago
On the other hand, Chromium under GNU/Linux distributions is nowhere near there, probably due to the excess embedded code copies.
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by lamby 17y ago
A good UK take on this is in "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre, which tries to explain why the media is so bad at covering science. He also claims that they've already won.
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by lamby 17y ago
I was primarily talking about labels, not qualifications, but I do feel they are connected. There are plenty of people who call themselves "tree doctors" yet medical doctors have no problem with that (and certainly don't go all tribal and T
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by lamby 17y ago
I've always been curious why people get so upset when people adopt this word outside of its, uhhh, less than traditional context. When did titles suddenly become important around here?
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by lamby 17y ago
> business owners (especially sole proprietors) like to think of their company and needs as bigger than they actually are Do you think that's an aspirational viewpoint, or that they are actually poor at judging their needs?
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by lamby 17y ago
It might be a harsh stereotype, but it has been said that the Apache project is an exercise in bureaucrats doing open source. Alternatively, it's an ideal outlet for bikeshedding.
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by lamby 17y ago
Or a guy. Whatever floats your boat.

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