wantab

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by wantab 11y ago
Where are the protests? The marches? Were any buildings burned down?
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by wantab 11y ago
Your examples presume there was something better than CGI at the time and the other products are better than something else. For one, I wouldn't be caught dead using any of the products you mentioned. You claim IIS by using a ZDNet art
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by wantab 11y ago
The web was built, and runs on, *nix/BSD. Windows is an outlier. Windows can't even get the slashes going the right way. There's a reason 80% of internet traffic does not use Windows.
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by wantab 11y ago
There will always be someone greater or lesser than yourself. Don't worry about it. You hear about the successes but not how they got there. Half the time it was a lucky break; being in the right place at the right time. Other times th
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by wantab 11y ago
I can't agree with you more and you gave an excellent analogy.
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by wantab 11y ago
You're being off topic. Straw man comes to mind. Whether you agree or not with how they got to prison has nothing to do with how a prison should operate. The point is prison's do what they do with people incarcerated and no one sh
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by wantab 11y ago
So, we should let everybody go? You're complaining as if jails should be abolished and, seemingly, all laws, too. While innocent people do go to jail, most people in jail are not innocent. You only hear about the innocent ones cause it
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by wantab 11y ago
Apparently you don't understand what a prison is for or how those people got there. Your point a) implies you think prisoners are not bad people which stands out to me. You are in prison to be punished for what you did AND pay back you
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by wantab 11y ago
iow, you were treated like a prisoner. Imagine that.
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by wantab 11y ago
It makes sense today and isn't cryptic at all. Perhaps to outsiders it is but we're not outsiders. We know it stands for something and "stream editor" should make sense. Looking it up is a matter of "man sed" o
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by wantab 11y ago
Nope. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-st...
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by wantab 11y ago
In most cases, it's not cryptic or strange at all and makes perfect sense. This article ignores history. Back then, names were shortened to save every available byte cause ram and disk usage was so limited. It was also easier to type w
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by wantab 11y ago
Your complaint is about people who don't know what XML is and how to use it and broken tools, not XML. XML does not cause any of the examples you show.
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by wantab 11y ago
So it does everything you want, with ease, in every language, better than everything else, but you won't promote it?
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by wantab 11y ago
XML has never been a medium for transmitting anything and never will, especially not structured data other than text.
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by wantab 11y ago
You can find more detail and technical info in Stevens' book "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"; the best book for maybe 25 years and helped me do the same thing about 10 years ago.
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by wantab 11y ago
And you would be wrong. There are plenty of open source projects that are not free. That Microsoft wants to name some of their projects "shared source" doesn't change that. And I'd bet we will see you in court should you
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by wantab 11y ago
I think this is positively maybe almost definitely possible. We've heard these vaporware statements from Microsoft in the past. I'm used to them. I guess they're starting them up again. As a reminder, "open source"
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by wantab 11y ago
Nowhere in the article does it say that. It DOES say Spartan couldn't match IE11's score.
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by wantab 11y ago
On another board, people are all excited about this but I said they need to take a wait and see and "I'm from Missouri, show me" attitude. Microsoft has not shown they can produce a standards compliant browser on par with the
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by wantab 11y ago
I'm working on integrating Braintree payments into a client of mine. Braintree is a perfect example of this and is a wolf in sheep's clothing, meaning, their docs look great at first glance until you need to get all the way throug
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by wantab 12y ago
What's funny is I don't know what I was downvoted for. Was it because someone thought I thought such postings were worthwhile or do others think it's worthwhile and didn't like my chiding. In either case, the absurdity s
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by wantab 12y ago
This is what I come to Hacker News for!!!
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by wantab 12y ago
While some are saying it's only optional and up to the hardware vendors, isn't Microsoft giving Windows7 users a free upgrade? Is this the reason? A potential lock in?
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by wantab 12y ago
This doesn't give any idea about the quality of any of these hosts. Many of these are already well known so it's not much help.
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by wantab 12y ago
ATT was just kicked off the Dow Jones Industrials so, as a sagging, old company, they gotta make money somehow.
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by wantab 12y ago
Too many new people creating web pages these days ignore the science behind it all.
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by wantab 12y ago
No, NT is not far more advanced.
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by wantab 12y ago
Such as not supporting XHTML until IE9.
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by wantab 12y ago
Chrome and Chromium are not Blink. Blink is the rendering engine alone. Opera uses Blink.

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