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by mpk 17y ago
"Safari's available for Windows and the Mac. That means that 99% of computer users can use Safari." Firefox is available for Linux, OSX and Windows. It's open-source to boot and is available in different builds and brands for different sys
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by mpk 17y ago
Verbal communication is just inherently different from communication through the written word. We've all encountered teachers who lecture "as though they are reading from the textbook". It's the same information, so why should it matter? I
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by mpk 17y ago
I really enjoyed reading Fake Steve way back in the day (which was, what? 1 year or so ago?) - but once he started blogging as other Jerry Yang, Schmidt, etc it the whole thing went down hill rapidly. Revealing his real identity and effecti
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by mpk 17y ago
Read the article and I just have to say - oh, wow, religiously branded Operating Systems. Am I the only one here who thinks this is taking stupid to a completely new level?
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by mpk 17y ago
This is a terrible idea. HTML5 (and friends) is a standard for markup, presentation and logic. It is certainly not a system that should contain value judgments. Put this into a standard and you'll end up with a giant crazy mess. I can just
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by mpk 17y ago
How do they test this technology? Where do they get the people to test on? How large was the test group? How about group diversity? (Children, elderly, pregnant women, people suffering from epilepsy, heart disease, etc)? Have the test resul
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by mpk 17y ago
Time to invoke Sturgeon's law and mangle it a bit. 90% of all projects are junk.
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by mpk 17y ago
So is potion, _why's project du jour (though it doesn't have any relevance to Ruby). On a side note - is anyone here following potion's development?
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by mpk 17y ago
I personally think that IP protection paranoia with (for example) NDAs is overrated. Ideas are hard to protect because they're generally easy to come up with. (I'm talking about web products here, scenarios will differ if you're doing somet
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by mpk 17y ago
Well, that's high time.
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by mpk 17y ago
Given the state of the code when it was released, I can't really say I blame the developers for thinking 'screw this'. Check out the comments they had to delete before releasing the code : http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html .
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by mpk 17y ago
This is a system administration HOWTO, not news.
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by mpk 17y ago
> I couldn't help but genuinely feel depressed that I wasn't born 500 years from now. The thing is - we have no way of knowing what life in the future will be like. There might not be anything we recognize as human life there in the fir
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by mpk 17y ago
And a quick shout-out to JSLisp : http://joeganley.com/code/jslisp.html . That was an educational piece of JS for me.
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by mpk 17y ago
> It's linux without the hassle - a paradise for hackers. Oh please, just because you enjoy the pain of maintaining a second userland on your system doesn't mean we all suffer from that particular affliction. For me it's OSX that's agon
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by mpk 17y ago
It's not just server-side or client side these days. Using Rhino I'm using JS for compressing JS files for production and generating documentation for said JS files.
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by mpk 17y ago
.. and I am sad. A great man has passed.
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Fravia died on Sunday, 3rd May 2009(fravia.com)
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by mpk 17y ago
Oh boy, that's an embarrassing newbie mistake to make.
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by mpk 17y ago
So what happens to a TLD when its corresponding country is gone? I, personally, have no idea - mostly because this seems to be without precedent. Whatever happens, it's bound to be interesting and have an impact. Bring on the changes.
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by mpk 17y ago
We've already had this discussion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579401
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by mpk 17y ago
Putting gratuitous pornography into a presentation that targets members outside your direct social circle is unprofessional and bad form. I don't see what's wrong with people pointing that out.
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by mpk 17y ago
I'm perfectly fine with this appearing on HN because I don't pay that much attention to regular media outlets anymore and I might actually pick up something relevant, useful or just interesting in the comments here.
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by mpk 17y ago
Linux and OSX have had a number of ways to pull this off for ages. I don't really consider the idea the MS is doing this on their own stack a big surprise. What still surprises me is that it took the Open Source community to provide full DO
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by mpk 17y ago
Considering the size of the codebase and the amount of developers that have contributed to it over time, I find the comments to be very mild. Every commercial codebase has hacks and special cases. Limited developer resources, deadlines and
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by mpk 17y ago
The idea of the project is that it's supposed to be crack-able. So a OTP is probably out. Otherwise K4 is just random noise and not an obscure puzzle.
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by mpk 17y ago
Simply put, if you require vast amounts of processing power, it's probably cheaper to just run your own data center because otherwise you end up paying for a cloud-based data center with all the third-party service overhead. If, on the othe
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by mpk 17y ago
Waking up every morning and looking forward to the challenges instead of wishing you didn't have to go to work. Oh, and lots of money. That'll take the edge off of horrible work any day of the week.
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by mpk 18y ago
YouTube never made sense. It was geared to be bought out from the start. I like watching videos on youtube as much as the next person, but according to the numbers ... youtube is in the red (never mind that Google will keep pumping money in
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by mpk 18y ago
Well, you know what they say - on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. ( http://randomknowledge.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/on-the-inter... ). A part of the problem is that on the net you're usually not held to account for your comments,

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