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larsu

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    Comment #4181286

    The winners from here on out will the ones who make the Web functional and simple. On a site with lots of ads (including a popup ad), social media "sharing links", a sidebar with u…

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    Comment #4141611

    I doubt that foot / finger coordination is good enough to get the timing right without losing some keystrokes.

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    Comment #3822110

    What do you mean? I think it would probably be shorter in most languages given the right toolkit.

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    Comment #2239388

    To only display information about a specific command, you can also use help

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    Comment #1811250

    You're right. But something like this would be harder to fake: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/img/tignish/features/security-i...

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    Comment #1811217

    Bit Hack #6. Turn off the rightmost 1-bit. Now it finally gets more interesting!!! Bit hacks #1 - #5 were kind of boring to be honest. Does anybody know a practical use case for th…

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    Comment #1811159

    Firefox's html warnings in the browser's content window seem to make this particularly easy, though.

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    Comment #1810951

    They certainly would have leverage if they built a phone people really want. This is exactly how Apple gained that leverage. Alternatively, they could team up with the other manufa…

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    Comment #1810925

    Of course it is. Proof in the pudding: iOS has none of it. You missed my point, which was that the crippling is not Android's fault but that of the carriers and phone manufacturers…

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    Comment #1808844

    The amount of crippling done by the carriers is not Android's fault nor is it in any way advantaged by Android being open. The same crapware has been on Symbian and other (closed) …

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    Comment #1806824

    It's not about theoretical openness, but whether the manufacturer you bought your phone from passes Android's openness on to you, their customer. Most (all?) of the successful ones…

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    Comment #1790504

    Please don't. I once dealt with code like this and it becomes unreadable very quickly, especially if many different types are involved. However, if printk would be declared with __…