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by quoderat 18y ago
No, I still use it because the extension model is so awesome. I have and actually use about 35 extensions, as well as doing many custom modifications to how Firefox renders pages that you just can't do in other browsers (that I know of). S
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by quoderat 18y ago
I just want a blank white page to appear when I open a new tab. And the awesome bar isn't awesome. It's just distracting. (Yes, I know how to disable it.) By throwing everything and the kitchen sink into Firefox, they are making it worse in
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by quoderat 18y ago
Something else I'll promptly be turning off/removing ASAP when I am forced to upgrade to a newer version of Firefox. Firefox was at its best in 1.5 -- hardly anything after that has been anything but developer flights of fancy.
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by quoderat 18y ago
If Firefox goes that direction, I will no longer be able to use it. No tabs == all the disorganization of IE6, with all the "new media" crap of iTunes. I don't mind change. But I want it to make me more productive, not less so. I don't want
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Should we still make things?(dissentmagazine.org)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
What I've always wondered about is if productivity truly is rising at such dizzying rates as the numbers imply, then where has all this productivity "gone?" It certainly hasn't seemed to have improved that many people's lives over what they
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by quoderat 18y ago
Agreed. In this safety-addled society, though, I would not be surprised if some of his worst ideas did not come to pass. When society prizes safety above all else, then creativity that would have in the end actually made society more sanely
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Crazy or not? Death of free internet is imminent.(wariscrime.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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Thinking biases are uncorrelated with IQ [pdf](web.mac.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Ubuntu 8.10 here with Firefox 3.06, got 238 on that benchmark: Score: 238 Richards: 211 DeltaBlue: 309 Crypto: 246 RayTrace: 203 EarleyBoyer: 309 RegExp: 180 My Firefox is not custom-compiled. However, I am running the profile in a temp fil
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When sites like Digg and Reddit revert to the mean -- is HN next?(michaelalanmiller.com)
24 points by quoderat 18y ago|55 comments
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Because the banks are insolvent, Obama's TARP will also fail(ft.com)
12 points by quoderat 18y ago|2 comments
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More firms challenging legitimate unemployment claims(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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Time for a revolution in economic thought(timesonline.co.uk)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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Keeping your home directory organized(splitbrain.org)
3 points by quoderat 18y ago|1 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Though I've never been able to find the results and complete study methodology online (can anyone?), Mayer is a CS grad from Stanford, as well as head of the UI team at Google. I'm guessing she and her group know what they are doing. I'd be
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Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic(glinden.blogspot.com)
106 points by quoderat 18y ago|41 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
I am not really looking forward to the day when neural marketing is perfected. If remote brain-scanning ever becomes possible, then we are doomed. (Said only a little tongue-in-cheek.) It means the tinfoil hats truly will be needed.
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by quoderat 18y ago
Probably Information Rights Management in Outlook (Office): http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx I have no inside knowledge, though, but I doubt they built their own system. And you can still take a screenshot with a
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by quoderat 18y ago
Yeah, I think every Linux user switches distros over the years to find one that suits them best. It's always interesting (to me) to hear what path others have trod along the way. I was lucky in that my girlfriend was much more deeply into L
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by quoderat 18y ago
Reminds me of something I'd see on Oprah. I'm sure it's useful to some people, but this kind of advice -- for want of a better word -- just doesn't do anything for me. Perhaps I am too old and jaded.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I use Ubuntu right now. It has the best support forums and frequent updates, and is the best distro I've used over the years despite some glaring bugs. The most common apps I use are Firefox, gedit, Audacious, the shell, Brasero, VMWare (fo
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Foreclosure helps homeowners and the economy(online.wsj.com)
14 points by quoderat 18y ago|13 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
And why don't we have that here in the US? How about the $200 billion rip-off: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026... And now there's going to be more and more bandwidth caps while people are ramping up usage. I e
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by quoderat 18y ago
As I'm probably overly fond of pointing out, Vista is what caused me to switch to Linux. I know the businesses I work with have no interest in Vista, and probably won't switch to Windows 7, either -- at least not anytime soon. I'm advising
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by quoderat 18y ago
I would, and did, call them equally-doomed. Barring global calamity, I can confidently predict that not a single one of these will exist in a decade.
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TARP artificially goosed GDP - would have been much worse(ritholtz.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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Tips for writing efficient Bash scripts(hacktux.com)
26 points by quoderat 18y ago|4 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Agreed. Even powershell is so slow. And needlessly complex.
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by quoderat 18y ago
Doubt it will standardize on the "mininotebook" name. It's long, not catchy, and "netbook" is already pretty entrenched. What Intel and Microsoft want to do is to give it a different appellation so that what they are attempting to sell does

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