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It's more that there a lot more factors than quality, like there being no competing projects or it being useful to a lot of people. Writing a quality project only gives it better o…

They'll be using chromium to some extend, that doesn't mean it's going to be a chromium browser that's exactly like Chrome, Yandex, Torch, SRWare and what have you. That is what yo…

You're right. Still I can compare doing web development using ruby on rails with doing it in php without a framework. I've done both, rails was much more pleasurable. See? I just c…

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The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers. What does a botnet cost?

There are bitcoin exchanges using various methods, for example by SEPA bank transfer. I think many people without credit cards can use Paypal but don't want to.

Whether or not you keep using a service, it's good to voice your opinion on bad policy, because every so often a company listens to its users. Besides marketshare, bad press has an…

I do interpret what you wrote as a slightly less sensitive version of "If you don't like it, then leave," type of comment. That type of comment is doesn't say anything, there's no …

I get loads of "opportunities", by HR people from employment agencies that never even had contact with the company they'll be presenting me to. By comparison, companies doing the s…

Pseudonymity for everyone helps the ones who do need it, because then they don't stand out. If you're not part of any minority or have no radical politics, yeah you might not need …

Don't go to work and abandon your family! That book won't write itself. Think positive!

According to that same TOS, users outside the US and Canada are giving their data to Facebook Europe in Ireland. So they have to follow Irish law, which they don't. Europe's Data D…

html5? how irrelevant. The only thing html5 about this is the doctype, a header and a footer tag. The maps are svg not canvas.

>"doesn't know what it wants to be" You could just as well say that about smartphones.

Yeah, that's the basic idea behind both permaculture and aquaponics: Build a tiny ecosystem that can sustain itself with as little input as possible (and like all agriculture, obvi…

Europe is doing it's best to weaken social security as well, they can't afford to take care of people who have no job. "flexicurity" is an eupheumism invented by the EU for the cen…

That's patent nonsense in Belgium as well, true some companies do care. But I've often seen the opposite, they don't care at all what degree you have. They care if you can pass _th…

There's no personality cult around any CEO like there was around the Steve.

>More troubling for American officials is their belief that these vessels could be used by terrorists to transport attackers or weapons, though they emphasize that no use of submer…

Tags in comments already exist, most common are probably TODO, FIXME and NOTE.

It's not theft, they just found it on the floor and used it.

Because clearly, they lie about what their products can do.

Those are two keys. Key codes are not character codes. Keycodes don't change if you switch to another keyboard layout. Key combinations don't have separate codes. In code you could…