yborg

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1201.
by yborg 11y ago
I think this may have had a lot to do with the guy they picked to run it. Vic Gundotra brought his Microsoft mentality with him, and proceeded to use it on Google.
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by yborg 11y ago
Even if it was intended #irony, the random hashtag inserts eventually made the whole piece come off as clickbaity to me and I actually stopped reading it. I mean, I got that you are totally hip to the ecosystem in the first paragraph, you d
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by yborg 11y ago
By your reasoning, mafia dons should never have been prosecuted, since by design in these organizations it is very rare that they personally direct the commission of crimes. This is why RICO was created, and given conspiracies like the LIBO
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by yborg 11y ago
This. I am a SW tester and regularly use all the major browsers. I frankly do not see any lack in the current non-multiprocess FF in terms of the majority of browsing scenarios. If you really want the browser to be the operating system mult
1205.
by yborg 11y ago
Then maybe we're irony-impaired. The head of this chain was making a point ironically. It in fact took me a moment to fully appreciate the fact.
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by yborg 12y ago
so, probably uncool to not be an Apple-basher now, but I am on 10.010.3 and run 100% WiFi and Bt at home from my 2012 Mini to an Apple Airport 802.11ac base as well as a 2012 MBP and do not see this level of TOXICITY . We have approx. 15 M
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by yborg 12y ago
Every air force in the world wants these expensive beasts, it's the entire identity of the service - TOP GUN knights of old jousting for supremacy. The command structure of most air forces comes from the fighter pilots, it's a com
1208.
by yborg 12y ago
You're describing the same thing as leasing a car. Eventually the car is out of warranty and then at some point wears out and becomes undriveable. People don't typically lease vehicles for the physical life of the hardware.
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by yborg 12y ago
Comcast is by far the biggest offender. More than half the xfinitywifi APs I connected to had no usable connectivity. Ended up removing the network completely and never connecting to any of them. As expected of Comcast, the Preventer of Inf
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by yborg 12y ago
I leave my laptop on the charger as much as possible to avoid cycles on the batteries. And even if the charger is connected for 5 minutes the possibility of it getting yanked out is present. The lighter the attached platform is the worse th
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by yborg 12y ago
Most channel bots log, and most channels have bots to provide application services (like history searching). I have 5 continuous years of history for some of the channel bots I run. There used to be a bot that would try and join every publi
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by yborg 12y ago
>Having to restart after installing an extension is another Because it's part of your everyday workflow to install extensions one after another, right?
1213.
by yborg 12y ago
You know the answer - inertia and lack of a better alternative. The concept is very convenient and its core incarnation: transparent sync, mobile platform suppoert, presentation (wysiwig text formatting), textual data management (notebooks,
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by yborg 12y ago
Maybe, but we're talking about Internet service here. Most of these competitors have fully amortized plant already in the ground. The major fixed costs most of them have is their own bureaucracy. Not a week goes by that I don't ge
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by yborg 12y ago
>MacPorts feels opaque and isolated in comparison What does this even mean? If it means "uncool" then, yeah, I get it. If you are comfortable with Ruby, then it is easier to build packages for Homebrew, and since it isn't
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by yborg 12y ago
As with Gödel's proofs, proving that it is impossible to come up with an experimentally verifiable demonstration that the multiverse theory is correct would be a major achievement. And Gödel didn't end mathematics with his theorem
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by yborg 12y ago
Born and raised and lifelong devourer of Chicago deep-dish with the waistline to prove it. You are the tourist.
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by yborg 12y ago
Think he may have stolen this from Winston Churchill. "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democr