throwaway_87

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by throwaway_87 14y ago
Everyone commenting about open source in this thread, who is not a Chromium developer, has built Chromium from source? It's really easy, right? And it works just the same as Chrome, right? Mozilla is open source but the complexity and volu
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
That's how nerds get controversial things accomplished without pushback. They do it while the rest of the world, which is busy with other things, isn't looking.
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
Yes.
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
I agree. However I think this is only possible because of how well the company is doing. I could be very wrong on this. Indeed I hope I am wrong.
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
I don't think there's any question Chrome is going to win the Second Broswer War. The question is only when we all agree it's over. The monopoly issue seems even more troublesome this time, as compared with when Microsoft was trying to tie
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
So what we have to do is always find the original sources of thenextweb articles and post those instead. There is certainly no loss in skipping over thenextweb. This is just my opinion. But in my experience they have proven themselves to be
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
Best of luck with tarsnap. I would expect it will continue to grow. Is that the only startup you worked on? Unrelated question: What do you use for communicating with EC2? Are you satifisfied with using their Java solution and the larg
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
It's because you're not in Asia. And what you're seeing is probably a page geared toward B2B not B2C. Alibaba has been around a long time. They are most definitely a legit company. And a successful one.
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by throwaway_87 14y ago
I was enjoying the Facebook dissenter's comment until I reached the last word. It sort of defeated whatever persuasive import he had gained up to that point. What's interesting is the blogger feels the need to engage such a comment. And h