theclay

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by theclay 16y ago
Apples and Oranges. Open heart surgery is not most--notice I say most--programming jobs. Nor do most software bugs carry the same sorts of penalties as screw-ups in major surgery. This is why programmers aren't sued and surgeons are. Ther
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by theclay 16y ago
It seems to me that Linux usage is growing nicely, just not in the traditional setting. Everyone assumed that for Linux to catch on, it would have to hit the desktop first, but that view now seems backwards. Linux is now on the phones that
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by theclay 16y ago
How is the periodic table not in there?
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by theclay 16y ago
<i>You could very well say he's the raison d'être of Apple as we know it.</i> No. That has to be Jobs. Even back in the days of Apple I and Apple II, it seems like Jobs made Apple the company, even if it was Woz spearheadin
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by theclay 16y ago
How do we distinguish Dépaysement from alienated?
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by theclay 16y ago
Gemütlichkeit sounds a lot like fellowship to me.
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by theclay 16y ago
Sounds to me like the "spam" you are complaining about is a communications service for your friends. No lawsuit there, unless every email you get from your friends but didn't ask for is also considered spam. Would an invite to gmail by a f
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by theclay 16y ago
Finally! The Chrome team seems to be making every good decision out there. PDF's are everywhere, but browser support--especially in Chrome--has been crap.
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by theclay 16y ago
There are light-weight versions of ubuntu available. And if that doesn't work, you can go to even lighter linux distros like Puppy Linux that load everything to ram and run like lightning. Bottom line: you're good to go
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by theclay 16y ago
God! I can hardly stand to read the digitizor website from all the crap they have jacked up and hyperlinked for advertising. I'm on Chrome. Is there a feature that lets you get control of that mess? Edit: I apologize for the off-topic pos
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by theclay 16y ago
Most people could care less about more applications... Virtually all of the computer users that I know limit their use to an office application and a web browser on top of Windows. That's it. The web browser gives them everything they rea
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by theclay 16y ago
And just as important--Apple's customers have demonstrated time and again that they will follow wherever Apple leads.
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by theclay 16y ago
One of the article's contentions is that the vast majority of users are satisfied with Windows and Microsoft programs as they are right now. Most of those programs are 32-bit. By extension, if they are satisfied with 32-bit programs and do
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by theclay 16y ago
I've always wondered about this quote. What, exactly, accounts for the differences here? What is it about that architecture that was so much better than modern architectures?
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by theclay 16y ago
It all depends on when you start counting. Python 3 was released December of 2008. That's brand new.