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    > website helps define a companies image Let me say this as a designer by trade: yes, we learned this thing with the image. But why is images important? Because the classical agenc…

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    Comment #4023520

    Yes. It would be a regexp nightmare to sort ls output if you got it one way and then wanted to format it a certain way.

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    Comment #3584390

    the list is ordered by last usage, not launch.

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    Comment #3567593

    Dreamweaver still requires non-technical people to understand what a is or a ftp. That is not in the realm of possibilities.

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    Comment #3546861

    The problem with the "scratching your own itch" approach to product development is that this gives me exactly 2 possible products: a web browser and online banking. Maybe an ebook …

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    Comment #3471772

    Nice set-up, but does it work with proper quotation and international chars like them umläuts? What about correct hyphenation? Is it supported? Does all that work in conjunction wi…

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    Comment #3427441

    I am a writer and I like many of them. Satre wasn't he more of a philosopher?

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    Comment #3402998

    The benefit of this program lies not in it's function but in it's interface. It's about how you use it, not what it does. Compare to like e.g. Twitter clients for mobiles. Why not …

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    Comment #3364631

    It depends on the overall tonality you want the site to be written in. For instance Flikr is written in a different tonality than Picasa. The right tonality is part of what makes a…

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    Comment #3362218

    Masturbating or looking at women for ths sole purpose to get sexually arosed may be as old as mankind, porn hardly is (and isn't needed to fullfill the need).

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    Comment #3343355

    Indeed, these OSS / free content advocates come off to me as people staing the obvious. So, you doing work and making it available for free to the community will result in greater …

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    Comment #3282389

    About the meaning of the word "Plankalkuel". Taken verbatim it means something like plan calculus in the sense that you 'plan the calculation'; 'plan the computation'. But it also …

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    Comment #3257737

    Was it MicroEmacs for the Amiga?

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    Comment #3206358

    Than contribute code! The moment there is a truly, truly, truly awesome vi mode for Emacs available, the editor-war is over for good.

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    Comment #3171592

    Steve Pavlina got rich by developing and selling shareware games. Only then he went on to become a "writer".

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    Comment #3131074

    re cultural connotation: a Krake is also a type of a monster, that is somebody who intents evil.

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    Comment #3033002

    > Why not just use the plain English equivalent? Because french is the language of the artiste. It's a tradition, a convention.

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    Comment #3001269

    Can't you do a Greasemonkey for that? Maybe guessing at the site structure via knowing what different types of CMS tend to do and learning from browsing history?

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    Comment #2997523

    The logo doesn't look 'crisp', 'smart', 'pleasant' maybe 'enthusiastic' but more in a 'the butcher ate candy today' way.

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    Comment #2956194

    I always thought it had patriotic meaning, because the ruby is the red stone, like the red of the Japanese flag.

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    Comment #2941618

    > The only reason it was dropped was because... (1) the NeXT team won the culture wars and the file browser was introduced on NextStep.

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    Comment #2916246

    1. Your home-folder is your nerd-journal. Not only some parts of it, everything. 2. Use sensible file-names, don't overthink this but refrain from beeing stupid. Clear house often …