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Fester

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    Comment #3458491

    It seems that TBP just taken another step to push judge and jury's confusion during next trials even further. "Y'know, we're trying to shut down pirates' secret base that... doesn'…

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    Comment #2760665

    Just to clarify: your confidence in how dyslexic letter recognition works makes me think that you are a dyslexic, aren't you?

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    Comment #2754426

    Well, it is a nice solution to make someone's life easier when there are no signs of a cure coming. For example, this font could be set up as a system's default (or even it could b…

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    Comment #2607589

    Now Github became a real social network.

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    Comment #2601954

    As a matter of fact, they are still quite far from the progress made by portable devices in terms of power consumption.

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    Comment #2599545

    I really hope that somewhen soon someone will introduce next-gen quad core batteries to provide enough energy to power mobile beasts like this one.

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    Comment #2540276

    I wrote a chat server with Node.js/Socket.io + node-amqp. Message flow was dictated by business goals, and therefore was somewhat odd. Each client had his own queue and a single ex…

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    Comment #2458779

    Web development complexity mentioned here is just a reflection of a complexity of the outer world. Activities you perform throughout the day require you to make choises which in it…

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    Comment #2458689

    Awesome numbers. I wish I could participate in design/implementation of a system like that.

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    Comment #2453516

    I hope that IETF will be safe enough to not accept 'live streaming' as a standart. Streaming must be streamed, not mocked by winamp'ish playlists.

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    Comment #2446249

    Bullshit. Try reading something on the topic before writing. Even Wikipedia will do. DLNA specs groups devices in categories, including servers, renderers, and controllers. Using D…

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    Comment #2443540

    I can't really get how can you speak about UPnP being 'user friendly'? Have you ever tried to think about the same aspect of HTTP or TCP? Can you please explain what do you mean?

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    Comment #2443112

    At the moment I am using Minidlna to serve videos and it works like a charm, even with big resolutions. While trying to find a way to deliver stream to the TV from under Mediatomb,…

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    Comment #2443035

    My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a …

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    Comment #2437451

    Fix the language, then fix event processing approach, then spend 10 yeard maturing in the highly concurrent environments and end up being Erlang. w00t.

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    Comment #2419599

    How can you compare OpenGL with XML?

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    Comment #2419565

    Node.js is great because bash is ugly. Way to go indeed.

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    Comment #2416840

    I got exactly the same lesson in almost similar situation, but from a guy who was not even close to (someone who is close to) a Nobel's prize. He did a sum of a problem from the te…

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    Comment #2409153

    By any means I'll stand on a point that using pure XMPP from a JS point of view is a total over utilization. XMPP is perfect when you're able to make it fit your needs and (more im…

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    Comment #2406208

    Zed did an awesome job. If I'll have a chance, I will do my best to deliver this book to my university's CS faculty, where newcomers are still being taugh with Delphi (d'oh).

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    Comment #2380217

    This article should have been named 'Six Reasons Why Google Books Does Not Satisfy My Needs'. I beleive Books are a constant source of revenue for Google, and let's be honest, that…