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litewulf
18y ago
Everyone I know there uses Vista (unless they're using something EVEN NEWER WAHAHA) But really, Vista-hate? Does Vista really get in the way of you opening MS Visual Studio (which seems to be the IDE of the day there)?
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18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ie=UTF-8&q=knol The top ad is knol.google, but wikipedia is the first result. (Unless you count that google finance graph). Crap Google search is so cluttered.
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18y ago
Thought: If Nielson made any attempt to make it pretty, people would be complaining how everything violates this or that for the next couple of years. By making things deliberately ugly, everyone is left only with "but its ugly!" A clever m
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18y ago
I'm pretty sure Google ISN'T boosting knol, because a search for knol yields... Wikipedia!
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18y ago
To be clear, it is important to learn how to install Ruby on Rails (or really any package) on a Linux system. deprec and friends are great... until you want some crazy extension that they can't provide for you.
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18y ago
I think it'd be nice if wikipedia made it more obvious when something had been last updated, or some sort of micro-info-graphic representing freshness. Or something.
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18y ago
I had a rather amusing conversation with my coworker today about this. I think that companies should not collect that kind of data, despite the benefit in terms of improved products (personalized search, ads that don't suck, whatever), wher
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18y ago
I was being facetious. I meant to say what my sibling comment wrote. Confirmation bias.
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18y ago
(well if they are struggling wouldn't you not consider them smart)
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18y ago
I assume "having an article" and the notability requirements are to keep the site from being overrun by fanboys.
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18y ago
I'm actually curious if Wikipedia is more deletionist or if its an artifact of everyone having made/contributed to a page they care about, so when they delete, you actually notice. (That being said, I too think its lame.)
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18y ago
I had assumed this is by design.
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18y ago
(This article is a year and a half old now. "News"?)