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By selling their services to others. Musicians can sell live performances. Authors can ghost write, edit, etc. This isn't a big leap of imagination.

I wasn't referring to desktop systems exclusively, but if I were then you'd have been right.

Being the defacto windowing system for the most popular operating system family is a great success. And if you believe Windows is the most popular OS family, then being the defacto…

The title mislead me. I thought he was going to argue that Google Wave is like X-Windows. He seems to be saying Google Wave can be used as the transport layer for a display service…

I'm not sure why they decided the display should be the server and the programs be the clients. It might be because the other way around is to have one client, the display, access …

When a company does something stupid, its competitors stand ready to benefit. I love this tweet: http://twitter.com/CJAhearn/status/2822810506

Oops. Too late to edit it now.

It seems to calculate the image's width to construct indentation. I think it would be easier to just enclose the comments with and the child trees with .

Why are images used to indent comments? Why not use lists to create the tree structure? Wouldn't lists make it easier, for those using screenreaders, to understand the conversation…

cut -d ' ' -f 2

casual vs ambitious? The first could always turn into the second.

Marry a native speaker. Failing that get friends who are willing to converse with you exclusively in that language. Since it's Spanish, that shouldn't be very hard.

At my university, Intro to Prog. is in C and C++ (yes, both), and the course that immediately follows is in Scheme, some made up language (we had to build an interpreter for that l…

This article is difficult to understand because it is written as a flamebait rather than an objective critique. Here is what I understand so far. His primary point is that for a FO…

pcof's point still stands. Freedom is about lowering barriers, barriers which cost money to otherwise bypass. FOSS provides off-the-shelf parts for software engineers. Even Microso…

http://or.ly has been taken. sniff

I am also a Linux user and have a few questions. > there is no sensitive data to steal What would I use this for? Is it simply a system to propagate programs to users? (Collaborati…

A slight inaccuracy, 4chan is moderated, even the "unmoderated" parts. Linky: http://www.4chan.org/rules

"Do not fuck with us." So that's why you guys are still virgins. ;) Flaming a legitimate question does not make you friends.

You echo Bruce Schneier's sentiments. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/md6.html

The word on the street is 4chan was being hit by a SYN attack. The ACKs were directed to various ISPs, one of whom was AT&T, who all blocked 4chan in response.

The full DSLReports thread is at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22769947 . In a later post apeface, an AT&T employee, wrote: "Well, I didn't see 207.126.64.182 or 207.126.6…