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marklindhout
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About marklindhout
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Comment #4569960
Riding? Yes. Poor attempt at philosophy? No. This merely describes the daily situation here, and I find myself agreeing with most all of what he says. He is very well-spoken, and I…
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Comment #4569923
If this guy isn't Dutch, I'm the pope. These are quite literally exactly the reasons why I'm emigrating.
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Comment #4569382
Myspace. Now does EVERYTHING.
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Comment #4569233
>> OSS is very good at innovation and infrastructure, but is very, very, VERY poor at user experience. I agree with you here. As a designer, I have helped out FLOSS projects with U…
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Comment #4469942
Then until this app is ready, I would like to reccommend to you: http://thenounproject.com/
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Comment #4449433
Does anybody else see why such patents are curbing innovation? I mean, the whole difference is a moot point.
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Comment #4151988
Free software allows for freedom. Most (if not all) frustration in tech comes from the lack of it.
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Comment #4087797
I believe it has value because it puts a question to the nature of the Internet as we now use it. As it is being more and more regulated, where do we draw the line on who we can ex…
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Comment #3945619
Love this comment: “Or they blew all their money on bitches and dope, and now need to extort money from a band that actually mattered in the course of history.” Still... What sad s…
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Comment #3945596
This blog post is misleading. The non-support was specifically aimed at older versions of IE. And besides, IE has not proven the most reliable of partners, I totally get their move…
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Comment #3945582
Your health and your life are infinitely more important than any job in the universe.
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Comment #3945571
Try naught, get naught.
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Comment #3945560
Pfew... 230 megabytes for a running browser. Not long ago that was all my workstation had!
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Comment #3945550
True that. Losing money hurts, and will always be connected psychologically to that 'failure'. Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com ) in his book “The Black Sw…
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Comment #3945532
Agreed. It seems the usernames are quite random as well. So far, not much lost then :)
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Comment #3945527
I feel this needs to be stressed again: FastCGI implementations are NOT vulnerable to this bug. I myself run LigHTTPD and PHP through FastCGI, and this was worrying me a lot, until…
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Comment #3927452
Absolutely not. Lighttpd and Nginx both use it, and have recently picked up a lot of popularity because of it. It maybe an old mechanism, but it is fast, which is worth something t…
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Comment #3925367
God dammit, this is so stupid. Fuck Apple. Fuck closed source know-it-all fascist companies. RAAAAAGH!
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Comment #3924103
His wording is quite accurate if you ask me. At least, I can completely agree with it. Life is about living, not about working, after all.
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Comment #3905586
All the glory of closed source development back in action!
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Comment #3801895
> "But it works" No it does not. It fails on the following points: 1. Readability: Both headings and excertp text have the same colour. This creates uncertainty about what is what.…
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Comment #3801744
Email encryption is too much of a hassle, yet has enormous potential. I sure hope you succeed! Then I can finally send encrypted emails to my mom. Yay!
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Comment #3787298
SEEKING WORK - Remote or The Netherlands, Randstad area. Senior Front-end developer: Responsive design, mobile sites, HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery, PHP, Linux admin, Bash, Lighttpd, Apa…
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Comment #3660140
>Smarter people than you have thought about this. That is very rude.
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Comment #3654359
So, how do we get in touch with you?