lenni

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by lenni 16y ago
Sure, I understand that. What I meant is: How could he be the face of IE when its politics obviously stink?
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by lenni 16y ago
I dream of the day I'm allowed to use Linux as my main OS. Maybe time to move jobs.
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by lenni 16y ago
I once watched a panel discussion with him and a representative from Opera and Mozilla. I never understood how someone who is as likeable as him could come up with something as evil as Internet Explorer 6-8.
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by lenni 16y ago
Is this a cleanroom implementation? Also, I'm certain MS holds some form of IP on the DirectX line of products. Have they made any threatening noises?
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by lenni 16y ago
But what about files that you haven't already opened?
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by lenni 16y ago
Could you please share how exactly you do the "jump to file foo.bar" functionality? That is the only part of vim I still find a bit laborious, probably because I haven't found a good workflow for it.
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by lenni 16y ago
From the comments: "Has hell frozen over?"
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by lenni 16y ago
I was just about to write a blog post complaining about this very same problem. My 2.1 update was 6 month late and I can't root my phone, which was exactly why I wanted an Android. I will buy an iPhone next time. If I have the choice of ben
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by lenni 16y ago
That's my point.
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by lenni 16y ago
I'm the first to admit that I have a bit of computer nerd hubris: I constantly and secretly think to myself that I do the most complicated work in the company and this quote supports this self-aggrandising, vain and stupid thought. I need t
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by lenni 16y ago
To be honest, I thought it would look much worse. I would say it is even acceptable if you design for a website with a tech-savvy audience.
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by lenni 16y ago
I'm interested in the apeshit protective bit. Have you got something to read on it?
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by lenni 16y ago
I agree, my little theory about why women don't want to work in IT or study CompSci is that they don't want to hang around with the nerdy types. Medicine and Law has more prestige.
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by lenni 16y ago
As someone who only knows the Roman alphabet, I too think that learning thousands upon thousands of glyphs just to read a newspaper is insane. However, I do think that you underestimate the power of "we've always done it that way" and "it h
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by lenni 16y ago
2.2% economic growth in the last quarter; higher than anything since reunification. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/13/german-econom...
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by lenni 16y ago
Maybe not so much in this specific instance, but Germany's economic and political structure (decentralisation of power and money) was a direct result of the occupation by the Allies, who wanted to avoid a strong central government. America
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by lenni 16y ago
Hmm, I enjoy hearing all the praise heap onto us (Germany) latetly. There was a time when Germany was called the sick, fat old man of Europe, too inflexible and and stubborn to able to adjust to a changing environment. I'm sure once the gro
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by lenni 16y ago
I am a front end dev and do exactly the sort of stuff he's mentioned. I just find it very dissatifying work. Everybody from marketing and their dog has an opinion about how the website should behave and look, which leads to endless discussi
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by lenni 16y ago
I like 'C.S.S' and 'Javascripts'.
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by lenni 16y ago
He probably has a point about preserving your knowledge but I find his fascination with this 'Fortune 100 lawyer' a little odd. Those are the guys that battle out stuff like Microsoft/SCO vs. IBM or the hypothetical "MPEG-LA patent trolls G
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by lenni 16y ago
What is Oracle doing that is enraging the top engineers so much? Bray, Gosling and now him are all saying that they don't want to work for Oracle. I thought if you're that far up the ladder you have a lot of freedom.
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Thoughts about Rails from a Django guy(lenni.info)
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by lenni 16y ago
This article is a great insight about what was hot 12 years ago - a little time capsule, if you will. The web (or browser to be precise) is mentioned only in passing; the author could to not have seen that it would be the platform which m
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by lenni 16y ago
The question is, will a restaurant owner who was being sold a crappy Flash site know that it is important or at least desirable to be on the mobile web?
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by lenni 16y ago
It is indeed a massive shame. After having been fucked around by tmobile Germany I promised myself to never buy a phone from a carrier again. Looks like it is going to be an iPhone now. Say what you want about Apple, they won't let anyone m
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by lenni 16y ago
Is this the official AWS blog? Nothing wrong with typepad but I would have expected them to have something like aws.amazon.com/blog.
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by lenni 16y ago
That's what he looks like? I don't know why I imagined PG to look a lot more like a bearded Unix-type ...?
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by lenni 16y ago
Yeah, it does have the Java Swing Look. Which is to say it almost gets it right, but there are quite a handful of things that look alien. Us Mac people are nitpicky.
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by lenni 16y ago
Not quite as evil, but T-Mobile Germany is preventing me from flashing my HTC Hero and at the same time delay official updates by months. Suffice to say, I won't ever buy a phone from a mobile phone company again - they suck at software!
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by lenni 16y ago
Can you explaint to me what all these little DSLs are useful for? I have heard this being presented as an advantage for Ruby before, but can't really think of many use cases for DSLs (apart from business rules).

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