whositis

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by whositis 10y ago
> That said, they're no longer the only player in town. They never were. Before github everything was on sourceforge.
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by whositis 10y ago
They have been doing this for a while. Look at the "safe browsing" stuff... Google will blacklist your website if it doesn't like the ads you're showing. That blacklist is used by firefox, chrome, safari. Your website wi
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by whositis 10y ago
You don't think maybe some Canadians would be against that idea?
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by whositis 10y ago
> The EU is not "a single country" That's certainly the endgame. What couldn't be achieved by world wars, is being achieved by the EU project. > US and Canada... very similar countries I'm going to assume you&
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by whositis 10y ago
> I don't think we realize exactly how improbable uniting Europe around a common destiny and a shared set of values is. And that's precisely why it is failing, and will continue to fail. Imagine combining Canada and the USA in
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by whositis 10y ago
The Dell XPS laptop ships with Ubuntu, and all the hardware works flawlessly.
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by whositis 10y ago
I use Ubuntu. Can't comment on Windows. The Dell XPS+Ubuntu is staggeringly fast. Massive battery life, and no loud annoying fan etc. For the same money as a mbp, you're getting more memory, faster CPU, better battery life, etc et
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by whositis 10y ago
There has been a definite move. People are buying things like Dell XPS laptops instead of macbooks - you get far faster hardware, and a better development environment. I moved at the end of last year. I sometimes have to hop back on my macb
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by whositis 10y ago
Why? It's just another way of saying "I realise fully that this is not a popular opinion amongst most users of this website"
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by whositis 10y ago
> everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person... That is a demonstrably false statement, as you admit. No one is loved by everyone . No one is hated by everyone. No one is "evil", and no one is
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by whositis 10y ago
That assumes people downvote only when a comment is not good or relevant. They don't. The majority of people will downvote the comment because they disagree with it. There is no way to disagree with the groupthink, without expecting to
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by whositis 10y ago
> everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person... You're rewriting history. Read up a bit about Reddit early days etc He's raised up to demi-god status because he checks some boxes in the same way T