ps2000

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by ps2000 14y ago
Did you forget who developed git? So in this case it's fine ;) But honestly, I also have a hard time finding a use case for this. The question I ask my self over and over again: why not mount an FTP share and point your origin to it? In f
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by ps2000 14y ago
Ha, what about history.stackexchange.com. IT History at its best...
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by ps2000 14y ago
I doubt it, probably I'll check at skeptics.stackexchange.com.
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by ps2000 14y ago
During this time I still went to school and half of my friends had self-build computers. The other half had computer from very small shops. And this was also a time when none-Linux Unixes were still still popular, so I would expect some sha
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by ps2000 14y ago
If I didn't overlook something it only states something about hardware market shares. Which are much easier to measure than software market share. (Although even in the hw market shares there might be a significant uncertainty due to DYI
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by ps2000 14y ago
98%? Even if you assume this only counts desktop OSs, I think that is an exaggeration...
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by ps2000 14y ago
Only one thing sucks more than pagination: a very long article, you accidentally scroll and forget which section you are reading. Pagination is better than no navigation, this is why Google Image Search is weird to navigate. The absence of
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by ps2000 14y ago
Yeah agree, they know how to market their stuff. (Maybe Alpha is a marketing instrument after all? ;)) However I think for this problem, and many others, mastering a general purpose programming language is much more efficient. After all y
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by ps2000 14y ago
Yeah, the reality is that most game vendors ruined open desktop platforms. There was a time when Windows and PCs were still big and mobile gadgets were only used by business people. During that time the biggest hurdle for many people that
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by ps2000 14y ago
This is genius, announcing registrations on Facebook. I have never seen such a thing.
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by ps2000 14y ago
After all there aren't many high quality opensource RDBMS GUIs available. The only one I know is pgAdmin and even pgAdmin has some serious bugs. (GUI freezes easily when you have many windows open and/or do large queries; import/export bare
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by ps2000 14y ago
Mirah? Anyone?
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by ps2000 14y ago
I remember myself creating cron jobs to free wasted /tmp space
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by ps2000 14y ago
Rare use case... I remember CD burning softwares and torrent clients asking for special temp directories to be used for that. Allowing every day applications to create GBs of tmp files would mean you would need to worry once your partition
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by ps2000 14y ago
I think you mean Debian. I know lots of people who successfully installed Ubuntu that don't know what a boot sector is but are still happy with it. (After all most people use web apps anyway.)
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by ps2000 14y ago
Linux on the desktop suffered from weak developer and industry support. It was until some years ago, Linux sound system latency was as powerful as Windows 3.1's. Using proprietary drivers for X or even worse for the Kernel is a mess. So obv
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by ps2000 14y ago
"While C itself is a relatively rigid language"
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by ps2000 14y ago
99th percentile of people who either don't care or are not able to care about privacy
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by ps2000 15y ago
I guess it's also a matter of taste. In any case, my taste is this: RESTful APIs usually represent CRUD operations, each of these letter can be beautifully mapped to request types: - CREATE -> POST - READ -> GET - UPDATE -> PUT