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by sker 17y ago
I was a Consolas guy until I discovered Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. I find it more readable, you might want to check it out.
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by sker 17y ago
I only know developers using Windows. Does that cancels your argument?
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by sker 17y ago
I like the picture too. Now I have a longer list of places I want to visit. On the other hand, I switched to Bing since day one and I was a happy user for the first week or so, but lately I find myself going back to Google too often. Does a
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by sker 17y ago
This is almost funny. IE8 is the only one of the major browsers that I haven't installed yet. So I'm wondering, what if it's true? What if it's really better than the others? Has anyone here actually given it a try to confirm how good/bad i
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by sker 17y ago
I think the most important point here is not the speedup itself, but the fact that Google is officially backing Python. That'd give Big Corps confidence when adopting the technology.
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by sker 17y ago
Count me in. Sometimes I go to dzone for my fix of programming news but they have pretty much zero discussion, which is essential in order to debunk the crappy articles.
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by sker 17y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I was having a hard time choosing between name.lastname and namelastname .
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by sker 17y ago
Mono has such a bad reputation. If they want to get market, they will probably have to pull a Bing, i.e. rebrand it. Unfortunately, they don't have $100m to pour into marketing.
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by sker 17y ago
You have a point there. Also, what would happen if they show them both lists with results from Google? They would probably get similar results. Same for Bing, same for Yahoo. From the test site that compared results from G, B and Y a few da
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by sker 17y ago
People get so excited about Apple that and Apple this, that functional alternatives like the G-1 and Blackberry go unnoticed They don't go unnoticed. It's only in geek-apple-loving communities like HN where they make it seem like the iPho
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by sker 17y ago
What about Engadget? Or are only web 2.0 sites considered tech anymore? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com+mashable.com...
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by sker 17y ago
This has been brought up before and I happen to agree with you, but inevitably some of the purists will get mad at you for posting a meta-post and they will tell you to use the feature request section (at the bottom of the page) for this ki
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by sker 17y ago
Well, a startup is doing this. Powerset is supposedly behind Bing. Do you honestly think an unknown startup can take a bite out of Google and not get acquired in the process?
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by sker 17y ago
I wonder what decision is driving them to screw their chances in other countries. Because that's what they're doing. Anyone who gives it a try outside of the US is probably never going to look back. One of the reasons for the rebranding was
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by sker 17y ago
Just out of curiosity, why is E Ink the important thing here? I'm located outside of the US and I don't know who either company is, so they both hold equal importance to me. Actually if I was from Taiwan, PVI would be the important thing t
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by sker 17y ago
After using it for a few hours, I second that. 1. Similar quality of results. 2. Superior image search. Actually, I think Google's image search is a result of them being on top for so long, it's been the same for years with little improveme
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by sker 17y ago
I don't know, I like it. Results are very on par with Google's. Interface is cleaner, now that Google has a rating system and a lot of other info/links per result. Only thing I don't like is that I can only set 50 results per page, whereas
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by sker 17y ago
Is this similar for all the dialects of Lisp? Because if it is, I might start learning one tonight.
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Microsoft Kumo (Live Search) to be Renamed "Bing"(dailytech.com)
1 points by sker 17y ago|0 comments
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by sker 17y ago
"We Can't Afford to Sell the Pre to the Wrong Customers." @ page 11 Was this really leaked? If so, it goes to show that they really have a focus on their customers. Otherwise, it might just be part of their marketing strategy.
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by sker 17y ago
How much do they pay for that? It's like they owned the NYT. Also, you know you're doing something right when people click replay to rewatch your ad.
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by sker 17y ago
I'm gonna recommend .NET here, mainly because that's what I use and like, but my top reason would be flexibility. You don't have to use only one language, use many. If you already know C# you can start with that. If you get tired of it you
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by sker 17y ago
Silverlight doesn't have desktop apps as far as I know, so it doesn't compete in this realm.
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by sker 17y ago
I don't know if there's a common term for anti-FUD (hype doesn't quite cover it) Some people have a name for this particular case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
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by sker 17y ago
This is a good time to admit that Apple fanboyism knows no bounds.
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by sker 17y ago
Yeah, well, found them with Google. Here's a link for those interested: http://www.ziddu.com/download/1693606/UII_Icons.zip.html
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by sker 17y ago
He's probably referring to the UserInterfaceIcons. If someone can provide a direct download link, please do. I want to use them but you will have to kill me before I install Zango.
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by sker 17y ago
Anybody else started with mIRC Scripting? I did. It was cool to be able to do all sort of things, specially if you were IRCop. Now that I think about it, every "big" program should come with an embedded scripting language. It will bring a l
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by sker 18y ago
I always have this opened in a tab: http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Category:Microsoft_SQL... It's not exactly a beginner's tutorial but I like it because it covers a lot of use cases. Also, it's short and to the point. I hope you f
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by sker 18y ago
And nobody has mentioned it but PoF is written in .NET. I don't normally see startups using ASP.NET around here so I thought it was worth mentioning.

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