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by zppx 16y ago
A real problem with various HN posts.
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by zppx 16y ago
The best way to get started is using one, pick one and use it, generally when I am learning a new tool I try to get the basics emulating my workflow, i.e. I edit, create, move, rename and remove a couple of text files in the case of a VCS,
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by zppx 16y ago
I'm a Mozilla user since before the Phoenix (later Firebird, later Firefox) came to existence, I began to use the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey) since 2001, and I do remember how the small Phoenix team produced feature after feature in quest
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by zppx 16y ago
Maybe this is just the ol' good MS trying to get more customers to its Microsoft Dynamics business solutions.
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by zppx 16y ago
Spain had the biggest number of players on last year best player in the world election, I'm brazilian but I think Spain or the Netherlands will win im Africa
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by zppx 16y ago
hardly, I do not see why google would prefer that a large chunk of the web users do not use its service, google still gets more money on adwords and adsense, I dare say google would pay MS to be the defalt engine on IE if this was possible,
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by zppx 16y ago
I really hate to not search directly on the service that I need, such as gamefaqs, jstor or arxiv
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by zppx 16y ago
thanks, but now I use Duck Duck Go and bangs for the same functionality, and I love it, I also use it as my main search engine
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by zppx 16y ago
cache size, something close to about:config would be nice
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by zppx 16y ago
Everyone that I know are using Chrome right now, except guys like me that like to tweak their browsers (something that Chrome fails miserably) and some extensions that sadly does not fit well into Chrome architecture. The other major proble
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by zppx 16y ago
> "In a perfect world Mozilla would adopt it as well, but I don't see that happening because they have too much invested in Gecko along with too many different projects using that particular engine. Maybe one day though." Hasn't occurre
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by zppx 16y ago
And our social habits are not structured in the same way that Facebook presents it to us, the unstructured "Open Web" is closer to real life.
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by zppx 16y ago
I did not looked deep enough, but there's a swf file called jssound.swf in the codebase. EDIT: Well, from the index.html: "It has been in the pipeline for a while, but JSNES can now play sound! There is no way of playing dynamically generat
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by zppx 16y ago
> "It's possible to think deeply while surfing the Net," Carr writes, "but that's not the type of thinking the technology encourages or rewards." I think Carr needs to read "On Bullshit"[1]. Nothing more to add. [1]: http://press.princ
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by zppx 16y ago
The Halo effect sadly is still the current state in which much people treats Apple, I would love to know who are the engineers that design and write the features of the operating system that I use everyday, suggest some new features to them
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by zppx 16y ago
Last time I checked much of the work in Ubuntu was done by the teams (Kernel team, Server team, several translation teams, etc), the majority of members of each team are not employed by Canonical, and this is a problem. As a matter of fact,
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by zppx 16y ago
T'so is one of the leading developers of the extended file system used by Linux.
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by zppx 16y ago
This was posted last night: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319865
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by zppx 16y ago
Yes, I know that they cannot move faster than the speed of the light, and that the universe was opaque to visible light before the decoupling of radiation. But there're a group of neutrinos that decoupled before the decoupling of radiation,
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by zppx 16y ago
Good answer, thanks.
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by zppx 16y ago
> "but releasing the source to something doesn't erase any potential patent liability" This line sounds fuzzy for me, then how does MPEG-LA can assert that H.264 is protected against a patent ambush by a third party that is not part of
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by zppx 16y ago
Whoa, I praise your deep knowledge of cosmology, anyway, to my question: > "So, however big the Universe actually is, it's bigger than the OU, which means that the stuff cosmologists are debating about is space that cannot, even in prin
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by zppx 16y ago
Well, no model of big bang cosmology says something about how energy came to exist in this space as well, and based on the principle of mass-energy equivalence we do not know how stuff came to exist. It is important to keep in mind that the
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by zppx 16y ago
General relativity remember? In which the spacetime is a simple manifold (okay, not so simple), if Einstein's theory is right or wrong in such a large scale (the entire universe) we must confirm or reject this with experiments, but I see Oc
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by zppx 16y ago
Thanks for the information, I'm Brazilian as well, I will study more about the legal situation, someone that worked in a large software industry here in Brazil (he is trustworthy), told me that it is illegal, I have to look further and not
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by zppx 16y ago
Okay, thanks for the clarification, I wrote my original commentary without much caution, the user just not followed the EULA, that what I wanted to say, which to my knowledge is illegal in my country.
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by zppx 16y ago
It is illegal to run OS X on a hardware not made by Apple, I guess it's fine to run it as a guest in a VM (the old Mac-on-Linux did that), although I can be wrong as well.
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by zppx 16y ago
I think part of that is because Apple is growing as a content distributor, as long as OS X remains awesome (and gets no app store) I see no problem with that.
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by zppx 16y ago
As I said it is completely off-topic. I'm not trying to justify the Iranian regime, my father have dual Brazilian/Israeli citizenship and I do have the majority of my relatives living in Israel right now, I do not have any sympathy for Iran
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by zppx 16y ago
Off-topic, I have the impression that the same applies to US policy on Iran, the majority of people appears to not understand the Iranian revolution, the Iranian regime that followed, the divergence about Iran in the Shi'a world and even wh

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