motters

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1171.
by motters 17y ago
It would be interesting to find out who performed this crack, and who was the paymaster.
1172.
by motters 17y ago
It's not at all clear to me that when Torvalds started Linux he was necessarily trying to advance world peace. His motivations seem to have been much more practical and somewhat self motivated (scratching a personal itch). If they're hand
1173.
by motters 17y ago
Even if you are a climate change skeptic, apply typical journalistic investigation here. Perhaps the apparent damning statements are taken out of context. Science is not about certainty, and there is always debate about what the data real
1174.
by motters 17y ago
This is nice, but it's a very conservative estimate of the near future. Many of these things already exist to some extent, or seem likely to happen within five years or so.
1175.
by motters 17y ago
The photo uploader on facebook has always been lame, taking ages to load and often crashing. It's a classic case of over-engineering. I've always ended up using the simplified uploader, which is much more straightforward.
1176.
by motters 17y ago
I stopped worrying about Internet Explorer in 2004.
1177.
by motters 17y ago
I thought this article was a rather silly cliche. Nerd cave? Often so-called "nerds" are just smart people working on projects which are too advanced or too abstract for most people to grok. And no, it's not always about computers either.
1178.
by motters 17y ago
Sounds like channel 4 are getting pretty desperate for viewers.
1179.
by motters 17y ago
As soon as I see a paywall, either on a news site or an academic site, I just go elsewhere. Murdoch might enjoy a short term boost in profit if he forces readers to a paywall, but longer term he's just making his content irrelevant to most
1180.
by motters 17y ago
"you won't notice any performance degradation at all" O RLY?? I beg to differ. I've seen the PCs of friends and relations reduced to a pitiful level of performance by well known so-called "security" software.
1181.
by motters 17y ago
Good article, but also guard against excessive egotism. People who think they're big shots because they started an open source project, have a blog have some followers on Twitter are not always that great.
1182.
by motters 17y ago
From my own observations, unemployment amongst software engineers seems to be high.
1183.
by motters 17y ago
Warning: unscalable databases and spaghetti code can make your startup fail.
1184.
by motters 17y ago
This might be ok for some types of business, but for software development it would make very tedious viewing. There would be long boring periods where I'm not typing or appearing to be doing anything at all, then brief periods of furious t
1185.
by motters 17y ago
Am I the only person who uses Ad-Art?
1186.
by motters 17y ago
Them's fightin' words!
1187.
by motters 17y ago
CEO of the century? CEO of the anthropocene? CEO of the universe?
1188.
by motters 17y ago
I havn't had any problems at all with the Karmic version. The past two or three Ubuntu releases have installed similarly without fuss (and I've installed on multiple PCs and laptops of varying ages). I don't care about Samba, and I don't
1189.
by motters 17y ago
Wolfram seems to reference himself a lot.
1190.
by motters 17y ago
Yes. I've never bothered to obfuscate my email for exactly that reason, rather than for reasons of user convenience. If I were writing a program to crawl web pages for email addresses it would be extremely easy to include most of the comm
1191.
by motters 17y ago
I moderate a few small google groups, and have been having similar spam problems.
1192.
by motters 17y ago
He doesn't sound all that brilliant to me. Anyone who gives up just because someone tells them that their ambition is worthless is certainly not a true visionary. People who really are brilliant are usually knocked back many times before
1193.
by motters 17y ago
IE + CSS = DO NOT WANT
1194.
by motters 17y ago
As far as I can tell from direct personal observations there is very little correlation between academic success and success in business/industry.
1195.
by motters 17y ago
Probably eventually the Pareto principle will apply.
1196.
by motters 17y ago
There's something to be said for a simple Google-esque user interface, but I can't think of any time when a user has contaced me and said something like: "I think the software you've written is perfect - it doesn't need any more changes and