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Comment #6434346
Laptops.
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Comment #6431782
Honestly it is probably because there is some annoyance or another which comes down to the philosophy of whichever distro you are using. Here are my slight annoyances: ArchLinux: g…
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Comment #6427395
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_M...
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Comment #6425263
I'm a bit older than you (6 years) and had a cell phone since I was in (I think) middle school. My phone was primarily for staying in contact with my mother because I was out of th…
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Comment #6393484
I don't think you can compare a software shop to one of the most used websites globally that has become recognized by major media. I don't know why they need 900+ employees though,…
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Comment #6381376
I had a differing high school experience where I had more male teachers than female and all of those male teachers were over 40 save 1 new teacher. It was a public school but perha…
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Comment #6346750
What about a recommendation for a secure and private vpn for usage on public networks. No illegal (torrenting) services needed. Bonus that it also works well with mobile (android 4…
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Comment #6346545
I think it might be a pretty small group of people that know about bootstrap but don't/can't figure out how to use it, and will pay $59-79 dollars for an ebook. $25 is a reasonable…
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Comment #6334558
How long ago did you switch back, because recently this seems to happen less and less. If you're smart and pick a laptop which has proven linux compatibility it really doesn't happ…
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Comment #6331928
Any modern website should hopefully look decent/good at that resolution considering the ipad is 1024 width in wide mode (or the ones that show up in my GA are). Media Queries are k…
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Comment #6323474
That was kind of my point about the rough start, you won't get emacs to do the real work without putting time into figuring out how to get it to go. The tutorial is more of a get y…
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Comment #6321820
The starter packages like prelude and emacs-starter-kit are more like a learning to walk with a crutch when you have perfectly working legs. They offer an easy way to start but onc…
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Comment #6321328
Maybe the author hasn't seen or interacted with a Windows Phone (or hasn't done so long enough to be familiar with it). I know the only time I've ever seen one is on the commercial…
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Comment #6317380
Remember that OSX makes fonts a lot thicker so this font looks insanely thin on other OSs. I'm on linux with ubuntu font rendering which is somewhat thicker than windows and it loo…
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Comment #6304944
There are modern calculators: Mathematica, Matlab, and the most used: Excel For tasks that need to be done away from a computer sure a calculator is handy but that has rather dwind…