gnurant

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by gnurant 17y ago
Aware that I have just started to moan. An OS in so intrinsic to using a computer, I wish they'd get the basics sorted. A bit of competition is good, but the Microsoft stranglehold on the OS hasn't been healthy. I fear the whole thirst for
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by gnurant 17y ago
Agree ACLs great idea; in practice - buggy as hell; but I left windows, so they might have changed things. What I was getting at was, that despite the added features to each incarnation; the average Joe might not notice that much has chan
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by gnurant 17y ago
No ref to apache hece, but might be of interest: http://www.planeterlang.org/en/planet/article/Nginx_vs_Yaws_...
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by gnurant 17y ago
Have a little dig about on the web. There are benchmarks galore.
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by gnurant 17y ago
That line was pretty sick. But the article did remind me of something that happened when using google yesterday - not gmail I should add. I was searching for a news site from another country. Soon after Google was hitting me with ads about
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by gnurant 17y ago
Why down vote this! Great point. It's a fine balance!
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by gnurant 17y ago
Contributing a good part to a whole might be better and easier. Teamwork FTW.
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by gnurant 17y ago
Why the whole stack? There is some perl adage about a good programmer being a lazy programmer. Learn the shortcuts. I think python is a pretty good one, so might be emacs. I think you generate code. Programming and implementing are probably
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by gnurant 17y ago
What I meant was that my friends pc still does everything he needs and has no compulsion to upgrade to windows 7. Stability aside (which I think is a good thing) all that I can see that is different in windows is a bit of eye candy. Big wow
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by gnurant 17y ago
That is simply not true. Not everyone has a laptop and a smartphone. The ipad is far more compelling than a smartphone for me, maybe not for you. I can think of a dozen innowative usas for it. If it lives up to the promise of 10 hrs battery
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by gnurant 17y ago
The apple tax is not ;)
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by gnurant 17y ago
Nonsense. Perhaps the codebase is more stable. But why would a friend of mine still run windovs 98? He has no compulsion to change. You have to think end user.
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by gnurant 17y ago
Why then would dvorak put s there if it were difficult? Sensibly most English punctuation is on the left hand along with the vowels on dvorak; which is easy to remember. Dvorak is very well considered. The combos: qu, th, wh, ph feel really
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by gnurant 17y ago
Some of us choose to see the web the way we like it. For me I mostly abandon all the author's style's and apply my own. So the most important thing for me is a big fat h1 and ideally having the main content first. So his post was very reada
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by gnurant 17y ago
The semi-colon is on the home row on qwerty.
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by gnurant 17y ago
It's very sad but true. I have become embarrassingly dreadful recently - I've been reading everything and anything. My last day job; I refused to doss about on the web. And as a webdev never suffered - if we had connectivity issues. Other's
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by gnurant 17y ago
He expands on the blog post that gives just the street name example. The combination of methods are different to arrive at the desired outcome. Reminds me of programming and problem solving. Sometimes it helps to rethink the problem. There
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by gnurant 17y ago
Think you are right there. The competition somehow get it soo wrong - they need to up their game.
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by gnurant 17y ago
You still need to guess the login name.
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by gnurant 17y ago
He was just p'eed off and rightly so. He tried civility. And aired a bug in the system. That's all.
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by gnurant 17y ago
Totally agree. The os should deal with codecs. A ubiquitous open format being preferable. And easy to install free codec bundles.
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by gnurant 17y ago
It's probably for speed and battery life. Whatever works for you.
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by gnurant 17y ago
I don't see any evidence that he is crazy.