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i guess microsoft has enough money to buy the best designers around. maybe they have an idea or two about perspective and also a couple of ideas about when to break those rules in …

i got a kindle for xmas. it is amazing. however i've grown up in a house where every wall is covered by a bookshelf full of books. i love owning them, i love the fact that my fathe…

i am generally regarded as an intelligent person, but i personally believe that intelligence is a highly overrated quality. speaking generally, being surrounded by intelligent peop…

hmmm... python had taught me that "battery included" means that out of the package i find a web server, drivers for at least one database server, graphics libraries... a compiler a…

did i just miss the roguelike part?

the fact that rails is not for beginners is true (and main developers say so), but suggesting for beginners a smaller framework that gives you less and hence requires you to do mor…

i have a new favourite website now. thanks

I'm writing a litte simulation. Without going very deep into its details, consider that many kind of identities are involved. They correspond to Object since I'm using a OOP langua…

i can summarize this pretty easily. competitors that see the argument like "apple is giving 1GB RAM for 500$, i'll give 2GB RAM for 500$!" are really missing the whole point. when …

as a programmer, i wish i ranked in the second position, but really i feel closer to the help desk :(

none of them works... a friend of mine said! @:)

no, the biggest problem is that i never got the extra keys (eject, volume mute...) of my dell to work under linux, nor the second earplug output, and it pissed me off because i act…

i don't think silverlight is going away in the nearest future, but if you're really "infuriating", the only reason i can assume is that you based your whole business in a proprieta…

> And the resulting way is far simpler and didn't require paying for anything. because, of course, time is free.

my joy of using linux gone away long ago when i realized that i was spending more time searching forums, hacking drivers, trying solutions, paying more for compatible hardware, not…

if you can afford a mac, i guess you can afford saving 0.80 dollars a month for buying a $30 OS update every 2 years.

wandering what they'll do with those who paid (recently) for mobile.me

while i like project euler, i find rosettacode to be more down-to-earth. in everyday life you're much more likely to have to solve rosettacode's tasks (eg download a page from the …

what are fun are the reactions of those "wtf, what now?!" microsoft fanboys. how can you get on without wcf? change your webservices with 10 liner restful json-based services.

i'm reading the manual right now ( http://opalang.org/public/book_opa.pdf ), it is a lengthy pdf that also features a wiki, advanced chat, web service client and server and a refer…

just found this: seems really promising

Gimp is one of the main reasons why I left Linux. After years of Windows I finally gave Linux a chance and immediately fell in love with it. Being a programmer it gave an incredibl…