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by puller 13y ago
Part of this is confirmation bias. There's no shortage of private web sites which were costly, look like shit, work like shit and are easy to hack. We just don't take any notice. We see a strikingly bad government site, it makes u
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by puller 13y ago
The difference between established federal contractors and startups disappears if startups get federal contracts. I know a lot of startups would like a better shot at that cash, but if the problem is in the incentives then it's no help
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by puller 13y ago
and you have Yahoo 'reading your mail'. So?
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by puller 13y ago
When you say it is quantifiable - can you actually quantify it for us, or is this just hyperbole?
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by puller 13y ago
Because browser support is inconsistent, SVGs are often larger than equivalent than even lightly optimized PNGs, and it's a lot easier to find or create raster images than to obtain high-quality vector art. Also, you actually often wan
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by puller 13y ago
By all means use hard tabs to your taste, but if it would help anything to use spaces, why not configure the editor to handle that for you and forget about whether you are emitting ASCII 9?
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by puller 13y ago
The usual problem with this kind of visualization is that, as you add more data, you get what is basically just a population density map. What would be interesting is to see where there are more Github users than you would expect by pure de
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by puller 13y ago
Maybe this is great for PHP, where DBGP is the standard, but... I tried this for Python and was greatly put off by the need to download an obscure debugger tarball from ActiveState with some weird license on it, then (according to the vdebu
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by puller 13y ago
As a long-time Linux user on many distributions and a sometime BSD user: I find many of BSD's differences not particularly relevant, let alone endearing. It's just another platform. Although there is a street meme about BSD being
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by puller 13y ago
That's debatable. Fedora is great, but it is not very stable and skews toward the power users (documentation for solving common problems has a tendency to exercise Linux power user skills, for example).
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by puller 13y ago
Is there some reason why the open source desktop is a worse idea in the US? I don't think so...
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by puller 13y ago
The Libreoffice experience in Linux leaves something to be desired - particularly some parts like the pitifully slow spreadsheet app (Calc) and its charting facilities, or the desktop database app (Base) and its bizarre interface. So even i