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Don't know why others are giving you sensible answers, but you using the words 'Brendan Eich baby' shows your level of trolling. If you want a _good_ discussion, stop doing that.

The buttons looks a little pale, but I loved the overall design!

Apple had a point, that they were cooler. They were saying, "hey, we are different". How does what Microsoft's saying about Google not apply to it? MS doesn't care about your priva…

Wow, didn't expect they were selling merchandise. This is a new low even for Microsoft. Microsoft were never considered to be a company which puts ethics over money, and this just …

Dash, sometimes, is horribly slow. Rest of Unity has gotten usable, but Dash is a pain even now. Canonical should really focus on it's performance since it's the most important par…

I like having them separate too, you can use the Omnibar add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ to have Chrome-like functionality.

Been using this on the UX branch for a while now, loving it. Been very stable, excited to see this is finally merged.

I am using pdf.js with Firefox 27 Nightly on Ubuntu, and its rendering fine for me.

My parents are both 50+. My Dad's a Sales guy and my mom is a high school teacher in a primarily non-English, government school. They use Ubuntu for all their tasks. Mostly include…

I recently stumbled on this document called 'Deconstructing Deferred' ( http://goo.gl/RSg5ja ) by Guido. This seems like a commentary on ideas he learnt from Twisted's Deferred. I …

> I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat. I was helping out a cousin install Oracle on Oracle Linux, and I fou…

I use the Nightlies, and am really digging the new stuff that's coming in. What I want the most is, a DevTools-level universal shortcut to focus onto the Web Console prompt. I know…

Yes, they do. These laptops are not different from their Windows counter-parts. They were manufactured/assembled with Windows as the target OS, but in a country like India, where f…

Yes. At the least,all the ones I've seen come with 12.04.

Several retail outlets in India sell Dell laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu. It is considered equivalent to DOS, in that, choosing an Ubuntu laptop will save you a few thousand rup…

Adding to what others said, someone I know is planning to use this as a starting point for understanding version control systems. The reason stated was it's simplicity.

Is there a mass CoffeeScript-answers-to-JS-Questions taking place on SO? Without even pointing to some instances of CoffeeScript-ers arrogance/mischief, ranting like that is not a …

I think you should first explore Computer Science in general. You should start with a good programming language, a high-level, beginner-friendly, very web-favored one. Pick Ruby or…

This is a totally bullshit way of managing a FOSS project. You should never remove working code from a FOSS project if someone is already maintaining it and that someone represents…

> People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death Why so many negative votes? What was wrong about me being offende…

Yes, I got that. Here's my take on it, which might contradict most of the stories out there. I don't think the many number of such recent cases is a new occurrence. It's just that …

> People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death That was very, very offensive. Are you an Indian? or at the least…

I think the rush to make everything 'web' is primarily because we finally are building an open, free, accessible, write-once-run-everywhere platform. That's the most exciting part …

The product description indeed is a bit vague, though you get the gist of what they are trying to accomplish. You might want to ask more specific questions instead of just ridiculi…

permalink to the comment: http://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/26404040 Comment quoted here for ease: Although Ubuntu is a variant of the GNU operating system that I…