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So the Google ecosystem was a bad idea after all. I knew it. First they lure you in with a slick web mail client and a couple of gigabytes of storage. Then they buy up a bunch of c…

I merely provided a rebuttal to the argument that PHP, or any other language, for that matter, is unreliable. I did not make the case that automated testing somehow makes PHP a pre…

>Have you tried automated testing on a large complex web application? It's an insanely monumental task. What's so insanely monumental about writing unit, functional (i.e. like thes…

> I use Python because it balances getting stuff done with having that stuff not fall over as soon as I turn my back. Uhh... Heard of automated testing? It makes absolutely no diff…

The smart thing to do would be to put a download link next to each video.

That makes sense then - I wasn't aware of the fact that Gnome Shell and Unity were distinct. Thanks for the memo!

>Interesting that you think desktop computing is an anomaly. I must have imagined the whole PC revolution thing then... I think he was referring to desktop computing being an anoma…

>Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it. This is news to me since my colleague, running Ubuntu 12.04 is using Gnome/Unity. Did I miss a memo?

>Yes, in principle they could learn that stuff; but they consider it to be a waste of their valuable time, for which they have other priorities. Yet they spend their valuable time …

The year of the Linux desktop?

>It should be pointed out, infairness, that the US Navy will also be using these drones to detect drug running in the Caribbean and I don't think anyone would object to that I'll o…

Are they also working with sub-par equipment? If so, put in a request together with them. Otherwise, put in the request yourself. If they turn it down, look for another job and put…

>Christ, you act like you're doing someone a favor running this tool that was built to help you save time. CPU time is super expensive where I live. >Let me guess, you're the guy w…

>I don't think we should view it a negative light though. You won't be saying that when your future girlfriend googles your name and sees all the My Little Pony videos you've been …

Yet companies act in exactly that way towards their employees. Late too many times? Ultimatum is issued where you get fired if it happens again. Too many sick days? Same result. Un…

Firefox 14.0.1, Arch Linux (it's a rolling release distro, fully up to date). Solving these kinds of problems and optimizing things makes me happy. I'll take a look at this when I …

Word of advice - if you know anything about the code that nobody else does, use it as leverage. Come in one day, call your boss into an office and tell him you're quitting. When he…

It's a democracy - cast your vote. Psyche! Learn to love your monopolist overlords.

Welcome to the wonderful world of corporations - where nothing makes sense, everything is late and the dumber you are, the higher you climb!

Congratulations, you have managed to provide a two second delay between clicking on, for example, the Firefox icon and the resulting sprite CSS being displayed on a brand spanking …

>I can't really offer any reasons to use Zsh over Fish. Bash script compatibility, bigger userbase and therefore more third party customizations.

Step 1: throw all your newspapers in the bin, cancel your subscriptions and point all of the major news sites' URL's to 127.0.0.1. Step 2: start reading scientific journals and oth…

People are running out of good ideas for products.

I don't know. The interesting thing is that, from: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070927/012604.shtml >A recent GAO study found this to be a worrisome trend, noting that fewer …

>Nobody is going to put up that kind of money unless there's profit in it, period. I don't know what kind of fantasy world you are living in but there are plenty of governments and…