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by ralfn 14y ago
>and that the only viable weapon at the moment for human on human spamming (this is where real humans are working for 5 cents a page to write web pages that draw hits) is human judgement. You are aware that Google hires thousands of sea
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by ralfn 14y ago
Wow. All the conspiracy theories. Im an outsider; i live in Holland. I dont think you americans realize just how paranoid you guys come accross, at times like these. From both sides. If you had any distance, you would realize this is the wo
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by ralfn 14y ago
I was not claiming the problem exist with the user. Im claiming there is lots of overlap in functionality. The differences are in the default behavior and the UI elements. In the end, it should all be one big directed graph. I would rather
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by ralfn 14y ago
The WebGl demo video is impressive though. Not just the execution, but the fact that this isnt made specificlly for webgl. Its c++ code compiled to Javascript. This seems to suggest PS2/Wii era games can easily be ported to fully native ful
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by ralfn 14y ago
This was fixed for extension-free firefox. Today this is fixed, for extensions as well. What was happening was that extensions had references to dom-nodes of a page, that prevented the page from being unloaded when you close the tab. Unless
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by ralfn 14y ago
Ill bet he just opens every link in a new tab and uses tabs as readme-later list and navigation history. Both usecases are better served differently. In general there is lots of overlap between tabs/tabgroups/bookmarks/history/readmelater/s
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by ralfn 14y ago
I agree that time will tell if they were able to clean the ship succesfully. But all the complaining about how radical the changes are for powerusers at least suggest they are honestly trying for once. I like the curve analogy. It seems to
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by ralfn 14y ago
If you would browse 1-100, then 100-200, changes are you are going to see the same links twice, and miss other links, just because the result set had changed in between the two requests. And caching a snapshot per user seems a bit expensive
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by ralfn 14y ago
This seems a more common trend. Windows really was the exception, where they aimed to please neither professionals, nor "average consumers", but this mythical "poweruser". They didnt exist, Microsoft created them. And that was not a good th
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by ralfn 14y ago
Im with you. The jury has spoken and found Samsung guilty, but the actual legal details seem random and should not be anybody's property. People often compare it to the Tv market or the car market. Yes, all TVs look alike. They are all ugly
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by ralfn 14y ago
That may be a fair assement.
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by ralfn 14y ago
This just isnt true. Esspecially not for new releases of windows. I dont think you ever build a system. Getting decent drivers is hard, and the support on components is as bad for windows as it is for linux. And lets not even deal with the
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by ralfn 14y ago
You only need a fallback for IE if your audience uses IE
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by ralfn 14y ago
Didnt notice it on my iPad either.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Microsoft Office is inherently collaboration unfriendly. It adds platform incompatibilities on top of inertia (which is likely the biggest obstacle).
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by ralfn 14y ago
You hit most points. Lets add one of my personal biggest gripes: - Java reperesents a way of thinking where all languages issues are fixed in the IDE. A thinking which enables the language itself to grow in all the wrong directions. Its not
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by ralfn 14y ago
Just because people don't act rationally, that doesn't mean that their emotions are not consistent, or can not be understood. Emotions are not intentional, nor do they lead to rational behavior. (by definition). The translation of an emotio
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by ralfn 14y ago
>Haskell and Lisp developers have more in common with each other than with "best practices" Java developers. Like in actual politics the emotion and the response, do not always match up rationally. That's why its called an emotion. For
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by ralfn 14y ago
Ubuntu patches the kernel, and glibc. They are not binary compatible. Ubuntu's stuff is synced from debian unstable, which is a moving target. So, for a dynamically linked application, you need to build specifically for Ubuntu. With a stati
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by ralfn 14y ago
There is no such thing as 'mint-specific' packages. It's just the Ubuntu repository, with a different default installation and some 'out-of-repository' settings, script and GUI applications. Mint is not a build target in any way shape or fo
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by ralfn 14y ago
They sure do have a loyal following. Even here. I noticed the downvotes on my comment. In general it seems that both the PS3 and the 360 have a very loyal following, yet hate each others system. There seems to be a culture war there. This s
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by ralfn 14y ago
How exactly is the xbox an exception? Im not a console guy, my favorite desktop OS is Linux. But i like to play games, so i had a windows dual boot, and a Wii. But Windows requires way too much maintainace. And dual booting is annoying: i a
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by ralfn 14y ago
It looks like it. Building houses from wood is not very common here in Holland, but i was told that many places with the right climat and soil build using wood. I even heard that you can kick through walls in many places in the states. Blow
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by ralfn 14y ago
This would singlehandedly kill 10-20% of Google's profits. Microsoft is playing a smart game, now that they have accepted that they cant beat Google in search/web-ads.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Most people just want a facebook machiene. Linux, classic windows and osx are all going to share the niche called. "desktop os". I actually think, the whole metro + clasical desktop (why choose) will at least make win8 somewhat relevant in
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by ralfn 14y ago
People are rightfully worried about the chicken-egg problem. Will 3rd parties support it? Well, does it have users? Will it have users? Well, is there third party support? Either the customers or the 3rd party developpers have to make the f
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by ralfn 14y ago
>Is this an improvement? Yes. Without the strict checks by your bank, none of their customers would be secure. With their checks in place, some, including you, are now secure.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Security is a two way street: both the user, as well as the company have a responsibility. When i claimed certain high target technological companies have a zero incident grade, im talking about the fact the companies were never themselves
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by ralfn 14y ago
Besides: banks videotape their customers. We would have the culprit on video.
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by ralfn 14y ago
If you dont put anything of value in iCloud, you dont care enough about a reset: you could just setup a new account. Having every underpaid store clerk being able to reset the account of every customer, is just dangerously stupid. Just not

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