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by tx 18y ago
... which I consider a major loophole in GPL. If google is using a single line of GPL'ed software in their "Big Table" implementation, I demand to see the source, even though it's not "distributed" to my computer. Matt, free software is the
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by tx 18y ago
Aim higher: at some point you may want to move a file in Finder or create an email attachment that can be opened by a PC user! Soon you may want to attempt to see photos online without distorted colors and reduced contrast! Those things are
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by tx 18y ago
Wow... Linux gained 18% - nice. The numbers still seem pretty low to me. A close examination of Austin coffee shops would suggest that macs have at least 70% market share and Linux is at least 10% while bookstores have 80/20 split of OSX/Li
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by tx 18y ago
Vim works allright, but getting the latest version with all your favorite plugins won't be as easy as "apt-get and fly". When Leopard came out I was left without gvim for some time.
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by tx 18y ago
Oh no! This post just taught me that Opera 9.5 still won't work with Google Groups... Dammit.
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by tx 18y ago
He could have just said "I only use stuff well-supported on OSX". This isn't about Lisp, really. He'll face this dilemma "X vs OSX" over and over and over again, where X can be anything, from latest vim goodies to some arbitrary libraries.
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by tx 18y ago
jrockway: you misunderstood my intentions. I don't code C nor Java, I was merely pointing out that it is way too early to declare C obsolete, since so much C-derived development is going on. In case you're familiar with gcj, what's the stat
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by tx 18y ago
How can "C++ still seems to be slower" if C (or C++) is essentially a macro-assembler, i.e. you're free to hand-optimize any particular bottleneck. Every time I hear someone say (or show a benchmark) where "C++ is slower than C" it always c
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by tx 18y ago
... meanwhile the entire Internet is powered by software written in C, including the very same browser you typed this message in. I've been hearing how obsolete C is ever since high school (1994) yet pieces of successful programs not writte
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by tx 18y ago
... yet another island of users who wouldn't have IE6 anyway. I'd be way more impressed with either Google/Yahoo/MSN dropping IE6 - THAT would be an awesome gift for all of us.
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by tx 18y ago
I wonder why Paul cares so much about people being collectively downmodded under the ground. Some of the stuff I said here scored way below -10 mark and I didn't care, why would PG? This is just a little game we're all playing: popularity i
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by tx 18y ago
I've been using Google's calendar to send out invitations. How are these sites different? I.e. what's the point?
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by tx 18y ago
Go vim! :) Nice to see that "we"'re #2. BTW I started with Ruby on Apatana and tried NetBeans, but they required too much mouse movements (the mouse kept puking and then quit).
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by tx 18y ago
I disagree. One of the reasons why Linux (and to a much lesser extent, OSX) rock so much is precisely because they aren't hugely popular. Everything-windows is so commercialized, that even googling for home networking issues will keep landi
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by tx 18y ago
We've had... I'd call it a moderate success with Ukraine and now things are getting better and better. The reason why it works for us is because we've pretty much trained those guys from the beginning to work a certain way: they didn't do o
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Roeschke Pornblocker Software (Gives the internet back to innocence)(coloribus.com)
3 points by tx 18y ago|1 comments
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StarWars theme on a PC floppy drive(youtube.com)
1 points by tx 18y ago|0 comments
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Truly rich web application: text editing online. (now - without a browser!)(blogs.sun.com)
4 points by tx 18y ago|2 comments
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by tx 18y ago
I am not picking on anybody, I don't code much for free either (should be apparent by looking at my profile). I am just wondering out loud how some guys afford to do that, while others (myself included) try to follow PG's advice of building
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by tx 18y ago
At my old job we used to play basketball once a week after work. I can't say either this article is true or not, but one thing for sure: guys with kids were much less eager to leave the court and go home. They were the last to leave and fir
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by tx 18y ago
I find it hard to believe that kick-ass Linux kernel developers (among many others) give away a whole operating system, worth billions in dev. costs, yet on the same planet someone is thinking about charging $10 for a time waster. There is
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by tx 18y ago
Anyone has the article he's talking about? Scribd won't let me to consume it.
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by tx 18y ago
I personally have found that most software is idiocy-bound, like creating a search thread for every key typed in "Quicksearch" box (Vista, with indexing disabled). Or loading an entire page via 12 AJAX-requests, instead of serving it all
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by tx 18y ago
Even though the "concept" is a matter of common sense understandable by any 3rd grader... These "business types" surely know how to blow an average paragraph of text into an article, then into a book, then into a site... It's almost like th
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by tx 18y ago
The fastest computing experience I had was somewhere around 2001-02 or so, I had PIII 1Gz with 256MB of RAM and 3MBit DSL connection. Everything was screaming: every piece of software I ran, every site I visited. I forgot how "Please wait..
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by tx 18y ago
Yep. An example of old, "non-cool" and "evil" technology (classic ASP) still at work, loading pages nearly instantly :-)
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by tx 18y ago
What's with the sarcasm? At least they shot at something not pathetically trivial, like sending "up to" 400 bytes of text to random people. Or selling a few percent of message board technology to the same restless company ran by an idiot fo
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by tx 18y ago
MS Office is crashing down? What world do you live in?
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by tx 18y ago
Agreed. I am sticking to my car forever: just because it never locks my doors when it wants and doesn't bitch when I need to cover a distance of 10 yards without seatbelts. Amazing, but it's a 2006 model, one of the last non-moronic vehicle
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by tx 18y ago
Easy: run several VMware instances on parallel desktops ("spaces" they call it). We do that for: a) Testing cross-browser compatibility, each version of IE needs its own VM, plus Opera/FF on Linux b) Have a copy of deployment environment ru

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