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fletcher

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About fletcher

A modest programmer writing code for a living. Father of two. Cairo, Egypt.

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    Comment #3098574

    I don't trust this model, since when building a company that's based on open source software you have just two business models available: 1) make money from services. 2) make money…

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    Comment #3094224

    In theory the iPad could be the perfect device to build an app for learning children to write simple programs, however apparently the Apple policy does not allow running an interpr…

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    Comment #3088325

    It seems like you check for SYN packets, so there is no way to just see the connection currently active . This in my opinion limits the usefulness of the application, it would be c…

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    Comment #3087479

    What Stallman said is just, analytically speaking: 1) I don't like when people die. 2) But this happened to Steve Jobs, unfortunately. 3) However from my point of view he was doing…

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    Comment #3084494

    "Io" sounds like "the next SELF". I'll try it out for sure.

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    Comment #3083293

    Your prediction that Apple will not switch to a smaller screen size is illuminating... The problem as I see it is that for marketing pressure they could switch to 4 inches displays…

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    Comment #3077498

    It is so nice to be addicted to the coolest abstractions of programming languages, considering PHP undeniable lack of elegance and orthogonality just a mess, but I think when there…