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LarryMade

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    Comment #5146160

    Something similar has been in IDEs. Quanta+ had a good popup PHP reference... Aptana/Eclipse has PHPdocumentor in it, which lets you annotate your functions and such so information…

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    Comment #5143463

    When there's a chance of serious competition they will act. Years ago in our spot in rural California Sierra Nevada foothills we were patiently waiting for DSL... Every time we cal…

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    Comment #5120384

    Linux? Get one with an Intel or nVidia graphics chipset (if you want graphics speed, go nVidia) avoid ati/radeon - its support on Linux has been touchy, the drivers have a long his…

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    Comment #5117187

    Go southward and look for lodging in San Mateo or farther south. Make sure it's near a commute channel (bus or rail) the neighborhoods are nice and the fees are more down to earth.…

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    Comment #5088944

    while it may be a point that they may have to rewrite it down the road, the advantage is they retain the logic so they don't have to start again from square one with a new vendor t…

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    Comment #5087703

    I've done similar when working for a non-profit. Having the tech guys on campus helps drive the development you get access to the people who work with the data as well as updates o…

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    Comment #4979106

    Software center... never use it, in fact the way it had mixed the non-installed stuff with installed software really ticked me off (this is probably my biggest gripe with unity, wh…

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    Comment #4941425

    Might be related to that security update from Microsoft that disables OpenType fonts http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-w...

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    Comment #4916183

    Donate to your local library would be my suggestion.

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    Comment #4895235

    Radio shack had a good early start, the first personal computer I saw was a TRS-80 (model 1) looked nice and the software was cool (think I saw backgammon as the first program) the…

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    Comment #4874155

    I always thought tl;dr was some sort of utf 8 encoded symbol or something that didn't come across on my browser.

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    Comment #4856444

    If you were like me back in the 80s on a PET you did that and then moved up to more complex randomness with other graphic symbols like the four corner curves or bends. I think they…

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    Comment #4848951

    In the stock market there are no sanity checks, else the whole thing would grind to a halt. :-)

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    Comment #4815076

    More like Western Micro. I agree with the comments, $959 a month doesn't seem like "low income" rent to me either.

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    Comment #4813100

    Heh, my programmer view is CSS smells cause it's CSS. with aids you can work on fixing the syntax to be more logical, but it could have been done much better in the first place.

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    Comment #4762793

    Brilliant patent idea on how to effectively kill the market for a popular gaming device!

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    Comment #4743350

    Programmer? Uh.. no. I worked for 25 years in house techie/programmer for a child development agency. I had discovered that the best leaders are the ones who know how to lead, set …

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    Comment #4741268

    well not for the accurate "locate every board" 3D CAD, Sweet Home 3D ( http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp ) will work for quickly visualizing rooms and populating with furniture.…

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    Comment #4672301

    Printer drivers seem to be the main one for me, I have a canon network inkjet all-in-one and a xerox 8560. The Canon I finally located the Linux network print and scan drivers fina…

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    Comment #4672280

    Hmm, seems to be working fine for me, have two going right now.

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    Comment #4667265

    Really? Can you expand on that?

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    Comment #4632194

    Monsanto should be sued for polluting the natural bio-system and be forced to clean up their mess. Soon the fossil fuel companies will be suing hospitals from profiteering from the…

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    Comment #4591335

    There is assembly language, which is the root to all higher level languages... but I would not recommend anyone start there unless they are using a micro-controller or other tiny p…

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    Comment #4586881

    How about these companies told to start offering training programs? The US has no shortage of eager workers, some quite creative (which is good for such jobs). The crux of this is …

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    Comment #4571146

    I think it looks promising - it's not a panacea, there are things SQL works better for and there are things I can see Mongodb would really rock with. With anything there are gotcha…