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leon_

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About leon_

Visionary. Founder. Utopian.

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    Comment #25396320

    >I also think we need to build back the public's trust in institutions. And what is that magic dust that turns normal people (you don't trust) into trustworthy beings when they bec…

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    Comment #25392324

    Going to wait a few years to check for long term side effects.

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    Comment #25072987

    lack of ublock (or any other real adblocker) makes safari a non-starter for me. I've been using Safari from 2008 on up until they decided to kill addons. Then I moved to Firefox.

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    Comment #4123628

    great post!

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    Comment #4003674

    lol, ugly

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    Comment #3864561

    In the end: users/customers don't care.

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    Comment #3859842

    why trying get the minerals "back" to earth? just build more mining drones on location and expand the mining operation.

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    Comment #3852782

    tl;dr - don't use prototyping tools to build products.

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    Comment #3849383

    Yep, after they switched to a .NET version of VS it really got bad. I used VS6 as long as I could - and then bought a Mac :)

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    Comment #3849371

    > Visual Studio is the best IDE out there, beating Eclipse, XCode and TextMate hands down Well, that's a pretty bold statement. From my experience VS will beat the rest for .NET st…

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    Comment #3843529

    fr08 was their best work to me. I remember that summer - bought a new graphics card only to watch fr08 :)

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    Comment #3821159

    javascript/node.js are for casual programmers

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    Comment #3815038

    Yes, Amiga OS.

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    Comment #3811962

    hmm ... I don't think he's a gifted programmer: if (smthg.contains(x)) return true else return false

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    Comment #3810307

    > On the other hand, adding object orientation to C requires the programming chops of Bjarne Stroustrup. I don't know but Objective C is a pretty simple extension to C.

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    Comment #3809059

    Cases like this confirm my opinion that SOPA/PIPA would actually be a good thing helping creatives protect their work. We must not forget that the most vocal anti-SOPA/PIPA evangel…

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    Comment #3806282

    yeah, if there wasn't ARM ...

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    Comment #3804475

    That's the risk of putting all your eggs into one basket (no pun intended here). Back in the days when I was still creating websites and monetizing them I learned the hard way: Goo…

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    Comment #3794179

    Well - you need to watch the traffic quality. The 20 uniques from some blog comment might be non converting users. You don't want just traffic - you want high quality traffic.

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    Comment #3785197

    1) for what do they offer twitter sign in/up if you still have to enter an email/password? 2) node.js as a client dependency ... yeah right ... I can't wait to start a node.js inst…

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    Comment #3781924

    > hardcore hacke > node.js oh please, come on.

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    Comment #3777072

    Javascript makes networking CPU bound ...