kprobst

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by kprobst 14y ago
> Which means nothing. It means that the OPs implied assertion that I fit his (probable) stereotype of the ignorant gringo is obviously incorrect. > the viewpoint of the MAJORITY of population of said countries Not sure how you get
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by kprobst 14y ago
> You should live outside USA for a while That's amusing, considering I was born in Mexico. Keep trying to 'school' me though, you're doing great.
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by kprobst 14y ago
To paraphrase Jamie Zawinski, all online conversations about geopolitics expand until the United States is at fault.
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by kprobst 14y ago
Even in Visual Studio that's not true, at least not for me. Just move the cursor to the symbol in question, hit the menu key and select the 'Go to definition' or whatever menu item. Or better yet, map it to something like Ctrl+] which I usu
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by kprobst 14y ago
You seem to come across as petulant rather than someone who is challenging an entrenched competitor with innovation or whatever. Less talking, more doing. Just a thought.
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by kprobst 14y ago
That was a shame. I'm still using Winamp 2.81 (from 2002, 10 years ago). As long as it continues to work on Windows, I'll never let it go. Never could get used to the later versions.
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by kprobst 14y ago
Go troll somewhere else.
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by kprobst 14y ago
You can say the same about just any other politician. They all made (and make) mistakes and stumble. The key is how history judges them. In the case of Reagan I think history is pretty clear about what he accomplished and what he didn't. No
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by kprobst 14y ago
Conspiracy theories aside, WebGL is more a threat to the Adobe Flash monopoly than anything else. > you will see WebGL games starting to take down PC games sales More like Angry Birds and whatnot... we're a long way from running somethi
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by kprobst 14y ago
They'll simply report they haven't been able to implement the report, someone will get a slightly lower evaluation score and life.gov will go on as usual.
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Generally, how does a computer catch an exception?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by kprobst 14y ago|0 comments
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by kprobst 14y ago
Strictly speaking, I would leave for two monitors rather than a big one. Productivity-wise I find that makes all the difference. But the point about the engineering culture is certainly valid.
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by kprobst 14y ago
That's a lot of jobs, even accounting for the fact that companies of that size often announce X number of positions eliminated to make investors happy but a lot of attrition ends up being "internal displacements" and accelerated retiremen
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by kprobst 14y ago
I typed "semen", "goat cheese" and "monkey wrench" expecting a serious answer. Not disappointed.
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by kprobst 14y ago
Good luck hitting a whitetail at 400 yards with one of those.
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by kprobst 14y ago
Actually prior to the dark ages most programming answers (for me at least) were to be found on the Deja USENET archives.
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by kprobst 14y ago
I'm not implying that nothing has changed with Linux, just with its situation in the desktop.
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by kprobst 14y ago
I stand corrected, thank you. I thought it was far higher.
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by kprobst 14y ago
> To apple's credit, they've provided a web standards based browser If Microsoft did that with IE, would you then be OK with it? Or why give Apple a pass based on that?
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by kprobst 14y ago
> What monopoly do they have? Do they not have what is essentially a monopoly on the tablet space? I'm not up to date on Android tablet market share, but it seems to me that there isn't so much a market for tablets as there is one for i
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by kprobst 14y ago
Surely you must realize that this is the same argument people have been making for close to 15 years, and not much has changed. So that should answer your question about the OPs point.
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by kprobst 14y ago
"HackerNews isn't Reddit", until it is.
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by kprobst 14y ago
One of these days it's going to be for real and I wonder how many of his fans will be enraged when someone says something like "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone".
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by kprobst 14y ago
Just out of curiosity, how is that different than, say, Rob Weir's (IBM employee) opinion taken pretty much as fact by everyone on the ODF/OOXML conflict, or for that matter why do we accept Pamela Jones' analysis and opinions if she is so
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by kprobst 14y ago
I believe he cashed out quickly (before the stock tanked during the crash) unlike ESR who just wrote articles about how awesome it felt to be a millionaire and then watched his money disappear. I remember at the time on Slashdot the comment
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by kprobst 14y ago
Don't forget the eponymous "Under construction" animated gif. The halcyon days of web design.
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by kprobst 14y ago
The one I love is when I create a playlist, verify it has songs in it (on iTunes), sync my iPod and the playlist is empty. Completely empty. Then the duplicate playlists that appear out of nowhere for whatever reason. But they're only dupli
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by kprobst 14y ago
A few months ago I was about to buy a 80s compilation album in MP3 format from Amazon based on nothing more than the names of the songs, when I noticed one of the reviews (not even the top one) was complaining about how these were not the o
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by kprobst 14y ago
Not sure this is a valid analogy at all; PHP is a tool, not a type of problem (insert joke here), so rather it would be a choice between brands or types of screwdrivers.
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AT&T sells YellowPages properties and brands for almost $1 billion(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by kprobst 14y ago|0 comments

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