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by quink 14y ago
Isn't this what Goodreads is for? http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1039487 (not all of these are from 2012, that's just when I added most)
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by quink 14y ago
> What would u advice i do? Use better spelling? > Right now I am split between getting a retina MacBook pro or a MacBook pro. I'll say it: Get a Lenovo Thinkpad. Do you have a reason for Apple other than some facetious argument inv
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> But when did people really start using more than the 16bit unicode chars? 1996. China even made it a legal requirement for computer systems in 2000, through mandating GB 18030. There's the Private Use Area if nothing else. There is NO
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by quink 14y ago
> there were less than 64K Unicode characters. Then Unicode/UTF-8 was redefined out from under them. Unicode 2.0 introduced multiple planes, i.e. more than 65536 characters. That was in 1996. If that was the case, then MySQL has had mor
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by quink 14y ago
That's probably one percent of the total lawyering costs. Maybe get into that :P
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by quink 14y ago
I know that Hacker News has that 'go, fix it before I care' mentality, i.e. usually someone submits an article they have written or a product they have on Hacker News. But this is reddit, so feel free to submit whatever you have in mind, an
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by quink 14y ago
I'm in Australia. I use Skype to chat and Facebook. If Google or Motorola ever do me as wrong - even indirectly - as Apple has, I'll start /r/boycottgoogle. But they haven't. Not even close.
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> I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and the
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by quink 14y ago
Just started http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ It's about time.
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> I disagree with (A). Since you quite clearly have no idea what function we're even talking about or what it's supposed to do, I will just point you to the documentation rather than more explicitly explain on how many levels you are wr
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> i really believed at that time that SVG (at that time only working (in a sane way) via an Adobe Plugin (yeah, you read right)) would be the future. Adobe SVG Viewer 6.0 preview 1 was released in July '03 and not updated since.
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by quink 14y ago
A) The new behaviour makes more sense. B) The change was discovered as a difference in behaviour in two major releases that were three years apart. C) Rasmus Lerdorf can change PHP however he wants. It is precisely because of this that PHP
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by quink 14y ago
Still hasn't. It's a horrid browser add on. I dare you to install it and look at the list of popular searches without retching.
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Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yahoo is going to dethrone the world's newly most popular browser. By putting in what are effectively iGoogle, Chrome Sync and Google Instant/Suggest in a new Webkit fork? Good luck with that project. Never mind t
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> If that were the case, TaoBao would already be here. eBay didn't even try to go into wholesale, because Alibaba already has that market, in the US, locked up tight. Like someone else said. Half the stuff in your house was brokered thr
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> Has anybody here actually bought anything from them? You don't really buy from Alibaba, you buy through Alibaba. The amount of money we've spent to the Alibaba owned TaoBao is getting very scary indeed. It's like eBay and Amazon combi
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by quink 14y ago
> Saying that the modern SPD is leftwing In the NRW elections, between the Linke (which are a lot more popular in the eastern part of Germany), the Pirates and the Greens there's 21.6% that's arguably further left than the SPD which, gi
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by quink 14y ago
> Linus Linus' ultimate plan for Linux. Replace brain with Linux. Circle complete. Spleen still uses binary blob for driver. Open-source attempt to recreate it called Splouveau.
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And they have for 2.5 years. That's how long that page has been around.
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by quink 14y ago
I want to punch you in the face. ORF's IPTV stuff has been 100% unusable until the Mediathek came along. I could further elaborate on the reasons why this matters to me, but I'm just relieved that it works OK now.
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by quink 14y ago
> Grooveshark One - YouTube. Has almost everything that's on Grooveshark and hundreds times more. > Hacker News Two - Pick reddit instead. Much of what's on Hacker News is on /r/programming and other reddits, and the bits that aren'
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by quink 14y ago
> I'm never buying an Adobe product again. So, you pirate it instead. Adobe will still win out, since you'll still keep using Photoshop and are still bound to their toolkit. You'll put it on your resume, you'll be employed by a company
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by quink 14y ago
They're not lazy. If you've ever used Fireworks in the Macromedia days and compare it to the massive behemoths of slowness they've added to each subsequent CS version, I can only conclude that they're not lazy. An effort this concerted to m
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by quink 14y ago
They should have just incremented the last letter of COM to create the new version CON. Explorer->Right click->New folder->CON... Oh.
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by quink 14y ago
More like postmaturely... it was released on April 1st, and the roadmap has last been changed nine days ago.
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Coming from the Python ecosystem, I am utterly horrified by those results. In fact, I thought the graphs were broken until I got to IE10.
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by quink 14y ago
You may not believe this, but Family First's Steve Fielding proposed some time close to the last election that a free university be established that would provide its services over the NBN. As kind of a justification of it. http://www.c
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by quink 15y ago
I can't think of a more usable productive language from the 60s that still survives. It's got a lower barrier of entry than C, and it's miles better than BASIC. It's more friendly than BASIC in fact, while still being faster, and is way mor
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by quink 15y ago
MUMPS was left out. Like usual :P w "Hello World",!

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