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by sid0 17y ago
> Nonsense. Which part is nonsense? > But why would a friend of mine still run windovs 98? How would I know? How is one anecdote relevant in the face of facts and hard data? > You have to think end user. I am thinking of the end
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by sid0 17y ago
> The security model might be theoretically better but since most applications force you to run as administrator anyway I don't think it's currently buying you that much. 1. The security model isn't just theoretically better -- OS X st
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by sid0 17y ago
> I don't think Windows has made any such leaps since 1995. Mild improvements, but also a lot of backsliding (Vista). You'd be 100% wrong then. There have been two huge leaps, from the 9x codebase to the vastly more stable and secure NT
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by sid0 17y ago
OK, but I don't see why the player needs to be tailored to the codec. Why wouldn't this player work for Theora as well?
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by sid0 17y ago
Sane mouse wheel scrolling, by the looks of it.
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by sid0 17y ago
Selecting multiple blocks of text. Scrolling with the mouse wheel. / for quick find (and ' for links). edit: I wonder if this is similar to the difference between Windows and Mac. Windows might be inconsistent in the small things (e.g. butt
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by sid0 17y ago
What does the codec have to do with the player?
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by sid0 17y ago
You asked > However, would you not agree that the general atmosphere, such as the hostel life, the exam pressure, going out for ice cream to check out the girls, their conversations about the future, and all this is pretty much the real
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by sid0 17y ago
At least the "one tool for one job" part has been pronounced dead by Rob Pike himself. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/18/11532... question 8
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by sid0 17y ago
> hostel life Eh, a bit, but not really. > exam pressure Again, a bit, but a lot of people are quite unconcerned about their exams. > going out for ice cream to check out the girls I don't know anyone who has ever done that here
641.
by sid0 17y ago
I really like having two 80-char wide Emacs buffers side by side.
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by sid0 17y ago
SpiderMonkey in Firefox 3.5 and above.
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by sid0 17y ago
I've spent two and a half years at an IIT (planning to spend two and a half more), and it really isn't.
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by sid0 17y ago
> I am a web developer and over the years I have suffered a lot and wasted a lot of time just because the different IE releases did not conform to the existing web standards. But the linked paper has absolutely nothing to do with standa
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by sid0 17y ago
Do you actually have a counter-claim against the paper or are you simply resorting to ad hominem? Your argument, as it currently stands, is a DH1. edit: full disclosure, I'll be interning at MSR (different group) in the summer.
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by sid0 17y ago
How so? Microsoft Research is pretty independent of the product divisions, so much so that I think it should be looked at as a separate company.
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by sid0 17y ago
That's pretty much how I use Linux on my Windows 7 notebook, except I only need to use it once a week or so. I really don't have the time to bother with all the hardware issues I remember facing back in the day, when I did have time to tink
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by sid0 17y ago
> Server 2003 Do you mean Server 2008? I agree that the fact that it's only supported on Vista and later is a problem, but XP will hopefully slide into irrelevancy in the next year or so. > It only works on local drives. Are the thi
649.
by sid0 17y ago
For what it's worth, Windows can do any arbitrary sequence of file operations atomically, using transactional NTFS.
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by sid0 17y ago
> Anything but 'managed' -- while conceptually it covers things quite nicely, in practice it's used almost exclusively to mean "runs on the CLR" Evidence? I know at least one Mozilla dev who calls JavaScript "managed". I call such langu
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by sid0 17y ago
And money? Lots of people get paid to work on open source (including me).
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by sid0 17y ago
I use it everyday, so it clearly isn't "unusable" -- and no, I don't enjoy poor performance. I don't see Firefox performing poorly at all.
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by sid0 17y ago
> Really? I'd think that most people in software have the opinion that there should be no software patents at all. Do you have any evidence for this? I know very intelligent people (both software developers and CS researchers) who think
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by sid0 17y ago
I'm amazed there isn't a single mention of Jetpack in the article. Neither does it mention how ultimately gimped Chrome extensions are. UI modifications like vertical tabs, for instance, would be impossible in the Chrome model. Ultimately
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by sid0 17y ago
Interestingly, I find Gmail's client an absolute pain to work with. It's the best browser-based client, but that really isn't saying much.
656.
by sid0 17y ago
You can make the user enter a master password.
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by sid0 17y ago
I just use Firefox (currently 3.6b4) with a few addons, and don't do anything special at all. Memory usage tends to be 600-700 MB, which isn't enough for me to care. I'm not sure what you mean by "lag" -- I don't use any web apps, so there'
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by sid0 17y ago
I completely agree.
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by sid0 17y ago
I've looked at them and tried to use them before, but the problem with any bookmarking technology is that I always get the feeling that bookmarks are permanent. (When was the last time you deleted a bookmark?) I really don't want most of th
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by sid0 17y ago
I'm just in the habit of opening tabs and forgetting about them for a few days, then coming back to them when I have time, so I guess it's more like a queue. I'm not saying it's desirable or optimal for everyone -- it's just how I work, and

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