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by simula67 11y ago
To cause Osborne Effect, it is sufficient for people to think it would get abandoned.
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by simula67 11y ago
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, they could be trying to avoid an osborne effect.
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by simula67 11y ago
Didn't the Microsoft NT project start off as a micro kernel and then changed course to a hybrid model ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel
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by simula67 11y ago
Stallman may be the only serious computer user who hasn't paid for a Windows license
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by simula67 11y ago
Still no men in the top 100 ? There must be something deep to learn about the difference in sexes there, I am just not sure what it is.
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by simula67 11y ago
> Why place something on a shelf, behind an agent that demands a learning curve, when it could also be available to a browser? wget <filename> git clone <repo url> What is the difference in learning curve ? > With a single
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by simula67 11y ago
Last I heard, Internet.org is not the "Internet". It was only a program to grant access to a limited set of sites like Facebook for free. It has since been re branded to 'Free Basics' but IMO that is still misleading.
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by simula67 11y ago
Please note that the quoted statement does not give any specifics about how the feedback was given.
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by simula67 11y ago
Agreed, being tactful is a good thing. But what is implied in that statement is that asking pointed questions and making accurate observations ( which could be damaging to your beliefs ) equates to being an asshole.
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by simula67 11y ago
"Page was known as a tough manager inside the search giant, peppering his team with pointed questions and cutting (though usually accurate) observations. “He could come off as very harsh,” said one person who has had many encounters wi
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by simula67 11y ago
Anyone has good experiences to share about any open source mentorship programs for professionals ?
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by simula67 11y ago
OK. Thanks for your response regarding this.
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by simula67 11y ago
This is old news. But Wengers still relies a lot on the 'eye' http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/30/arsene-wenge...
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by simula67 11y ago
Maybe I should go more into detail. The problem we had was that some charts and graphs in our application was not showing up only on Firefox ESR 38.3. Examination of the problem revealed that rickshaw was not loaded. The console had thrown
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by simula67 11y ago
Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.
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by simula67 11y ago
It is already present in Mozilla bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044522
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by simula67 11y ago
One very important point against SPAs is URLs. URLs are central to the design of the web. Lets say I want to talk about a particular commit on github. I can just pick the URL for that commit and email it to someone else. They can click on t
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by simula67 11y ago
>The little magnifier glass icon that shows you which CSS class/selector in what CSS file that ultimately decides the styling for a specific element and CSS property. FML. I hope this is a recent feature, I have wasted so much time
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by simula67 11y ago
Not from perspective of design, but from open source software development. 1. Positive PR 2. External targeted contributions. For example, most people submitting patches to open source software are facing some issue as a user. If they are e
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by simula67 11y ago
About a year back I was tasked with porting an installer for a proprietary product to work on Linux. I wanted to show the log files to the user in the graphical installer and I ended up using xdg-open, which as it turns out opens text files
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by simula67 11y ago
That article very specifically says that we still do not know whether Microsoft stopped the practice.
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by simula67 11y ago
Why do companies like Cisco carry out this type of work ? Do they do this out of the goodness of their hearts ?
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by simula67 11y ago
Been using https://www.gitignore.io/ with a lot of success
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by simula67 11y ago
We can use existing REST methodology to serve coffee from coffee pots. Send a POST request to the coffee pot with parameters for the required type of coffee. The server on the coffee pot responds with 200 OK if it can process the request an
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by simula67 11y ago
Sorry for asking a potentially dumb question : but is it possible for me to set up a domain name thecitibank.com and ask letsencrypt to issue me a certificate ? I can then create a login page to steal IPINs. Isn't that why we have huma
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by simula67 11y ago
The author does not pose the most important question. Do we need the brightest minds in India doing foreign affairs ? Or should they be entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers and politicians ?
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by simula67 11y ago
Why not put each allocated pointer to a linked list and on cleanup pick each element and call free() ? Same approach can be used for files also.
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by simula67 11y ago
Sure, but this problem already exists with representative democracy. This system can dampen other problems like Election Cycle Effect, high barriers of entry for becoming a candidate, voters focusing on superficial aspects of the candidate
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by simula67 11y ago
Story about the Black Team : http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html
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by simula67 11y ago
This is a suspicious article. > nearly half of U.S. jobs would be vulnerable to automation within 20 years. But “computers aren’t good at simulating human interaction,” Deming said. That means a job as a manager or consultant is harder t

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