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Keeps the idiots away, though

Anyone remembers VA Linux around here?

" Forcing a maximum tick rate of 60hz (was 120), dropping memory use and performance (tick rate goes to 2hz when hidden on a separate tab, or out of the screen);" Wow! Those are SE…

"""Here in India, Microsoft is famous only because the pirated version is freely available from anywhere, thorough anyone at anytime. That's the only reason why everybody uses it a…

" Windows was never originally designed to work as a Server side operating system at the first place." Linux wasn't designed to work as a Server side operating system "at the first…

"if it's an iOS app, rewrite it for Android and sell it there." Yes, that will work great...

Yes. And, talking about wild hypotheses, your argument could also be a lot more relevant or even have some point. The fact that 3.x is not on phones doesn't make an iota of differe…

"If you roam around any of the cities in India, you see nothing but a third world nation, with rampant poverty and horrific infrastructure." Yes, I've done just that. Hollandale, Y…

That's like saying: "it's not the shooter that killed you, it's the hole produced by the bullet". Fannie and Freddie facilitated the risky "private sector loans" big time. In fact,…

"For most businesses this is the case. If you manufacture something or provide a service then you are adding to the overall wealth of the nation. " Actually not always. As companie…

Looks like Omnigraffle's output. "Given that llvm is mostly sponsored by Apple, I could imagine a lot of the devs are running OS X. " Well, in most developer conferences I've been …

"they were an effective hype machine for startups" That's how I define crap!

Because it was crap to begin with?

Probably the first. A lot of excellent texts I've come upon are not immediately capturing one's attention. In fact their intro text could be utterly lame and/or boring.

People in general, might. I do read, top to bottom, a lot. And the scrolling js thing might tell even more than if they "scrolled to the bottom of the page", if it incorporated tim…

You could use a WP plugin that stores them on Amazon S3. It's not free, but it's like < $1 month for normal blog needs.

No, but you can pay someone $100 to install it for you and more or less forget it afterwards (since even WP version updates are mostly automatic from the admin UI --and even themes…

Well, the main hurdle isn't technology, it's always politics. Tor might have fixed the block, but an Iranian using the system could still be imprisoned by the government for using …

No, please don't.

"It's always choppy over WiFi in London from experience as there's so much interference from the amount of WiFi networks around and contention from the overcrowding." Something tha…

> "The more I use graphical interfaces (or anything that does not operate on text streams - commandline curses programs included), the more I am struck by how profound the loss of …

Mankind might --"free-market" neo-liberals and Ayn Rand fans, though, never.