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I use Debian/Ubuntu because OS X lack apt. The package managers I tried on OS X just gave me more trouble. But sure, I can't run Photoshop. Anyway, the point is -- for my work stat…

HTML existed before Mosaic.

JavaScript still only has floating point, I think... So no.

I'm hellbanned (too easily trollable) so you probably won't see this, but I recommend an article by Krugman which changed my world view: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_…

yummyfajitas' point about noSQL DBs was -- the old guy saw DBs before SQL was created and understand the trade offs.

I always found the eugenics arguments to be irrelevant, because parents will probably do design babies before accumulation of mutations can have a big impact. There is 20-35 years/…

Reality checks are valuable. It is better to get the depressing stuff from a good writer. But sure, there is some spin. You might note about e.g. the Netscape browser example that …

>> I assume that these days MS is mostly pitching Azure which pretty happily runs Linux VMs. ... for now. :-( (Remember that people's problems with MS is that they are infamous for…

I quite like MongoDB, it is worth learning. The main Mongo problem imho, is when you have feature creep -- if you find out later that you must have joins. Relational databases are …

rms is probably a bit on the autist spectrum and can be less than sensitive to others' viewpoint, but so am (probably) I and many other computer guys. Stallman have made the world …

You have a point. But the other side of the coin is that if you document what you do and make a point of helping others that are stuck, you'll have an easier time getting the next …

Interesting link, thanks.

I am a day late (and I might be Hell banned?), but Blindsight by Watts ought to be mentioned. It was a total kick. It might be space opera, but with little of faked science. People…

>> the blase assertion that a nuclear Iran is any worse than the existing nuclear powers Iran has one of the worst dictatorships around, it exports weapons and ammunition everywher…

What surprise me about these recruitments is -- how do you convince people that it really is NSA/CIA/whatever that are asking them to be patriotic? E.g. a Chinese spy in Silicon Va…

Well, one day after. I don't think I'll see any good motivation that you were making reasoned arguments, without double standards for the different sides? :-) (And these were your …

Some people tell you this is before the fall of Rome because they have seen it before, after year 2000. (And those of us with grey in the hair can tell you of even older ones.) The…

It is documented that Hamas shot from civilian areas. If the return fire kills civilians, it isn't the Israelis that broke the war laws. Also, note the sex distribution: 671 dead m…

>>The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank attributed the abductions to the Qawasameh clan [...] AGAIN: See my link. Hamas already admitted their cell were responsible. It was bi…

>> I would have expected Israel to have reserved killing human shields for some later escalation. More of your "facts". :-( The Israelis talked a lot and made videos about "knocks …

You really handpicked the references about the teenagers. Hamas has admitted it was their cell, it has been discussed in other comments. Sigh... At least be honest about well known…

Afaik, the borders were open and people commuted to work from the West Bank/Gaza and there were purchasing trips between the areas. That ended with the second Intifada, to protect …

... and the Palestinian allies in the wars kicked almost all of their Jews out, in total more people than the Palestinians fleeing 1948, not in a burning civil war but in cold bloo…

On this website it ought to be more Linux users than Windows users? Last time I went to the Ubuntu hardware compatibility chart. (Or is OpenBSD the popular choice and I'm behind th…

>> if you actually knew how to spell the name The commenter spelled correctly in the GP of the comment where it was wrongly spelled. But you probably knew that... I tried to not re…