sneakums

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by sneakums 17y ago
Well, if this isn't a perfect vortex of inconsequentiality then I don't know what is.
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by sneakums 17y ago
"A cocoa rewrite means much better performance and extensibility." Only if they bother to make it fast and extensible.
33.
by sneakums 17y ago
It sets up the punch line nicely.
34.
by sneakums 17y ago
False dichotomy. And how it dishonest to avail of a welfare system one has contributed to in the past and/or will contribute to in the future?
35.
by sneakums 17y ago
You know they paid even less for their architecture.
36.
by sneakums 17y ago
I figured it was because nobody's hiring right now.
37.
by sneakums 17y ago
Could backfire, though... "So, you're thinking about leaving?" "Not consciously, but now that you mention it, I do kind of hate it here. Thanks!"
38.
by sneakums 17y ago
I love Ars Technica for articles like this. I just wish they'd stop the front-page crapflooding they've been doing since the acquisition, since it makes the gems so much harder to pick out.
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by sneakums 17y ago
Here's a couple of interesting posts Linus wrote a few years ago summarizing some aspects of Git's history and design. http://mid.gmane.org/Pine.LNX.4.64.0605050944200.3622@g5.osd... http://mid.gmane.org/Pine.LNX.4.64.0610191258290.3962@
40.
by sneakums 17y ago
I'd use a subdomain, because I like flexibility and because I don't give a shit about the SEO tricks du jour.
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by sneakums 17y ago
Parent was talking as if Microsoft didn't support[1] it at all, which is clearly not the case. ETA footnote: 1: Having finally managed to gain access to the article, I can see I was using the word "support" as in "technical capability", rat
42.
by sneakums 17y ago
Surely the question is "Why does anyone care who uses Twitter?".
43.
by sneakums 17y ago
Haven't read the article, because the author seems to have run out of bandwidth, but I can tell you that Microsoft does indeed support PAE: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAE...
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by sneakums 17y ago
Nothing I have said contradicts this.
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by sneakums 17y ago
Yeah, if I were Oracle I'd definitely throw away a native Linux filesystem in the late stages of development and start porting some goofy jock-ware from an alien kernel. But I'm not Oracle and so they're foolishly carrying on with their i
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by sneakums 17y ago
> What I worry about is the safety of my data. When the day comes when I can't use a desktop client to download email from GMail, or when I won't be able to open a .doc file without M. Office, then I'll be worried. But then it will be t