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Hope springs eternal!

The point people are making is that if it's the only thing on the shelf it's not easy to opt out.

Vote Trump, get a despot - have Americans live with the consequencies of locked down technology, surveillance.

Five year anniversary of the burning platform memo just passed, the world is a different place now. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/02/09/full-text-nokia-...

Just like someone reading playboy for the articles, I typically read news aggregator sites for the comments. Major news organisation provide a couple of paragraphs about the latest…

Addictions can be multiplied, cross addiction is common. Substance abuse and internet addiction can go hand in hand.

I have a hard time distinguishing someone's behaviour from their innate personality. Perhaps forgiveness is the key.

In no uncertain terms I absolutely detest the x230 keyboard. I am none too happy about the location of Insert on the x220. It is like using a cheap acer/toshiba laptop from Argos. …

The new lenovo thinkpads are nearly as bad. I'm an x series user, the last model with a good keyboard for programming was the x220. From the x230 onwards they have stupid chicklet …

Soundcloud & co require the content provider to upload the content too. If you want to share the content, provide the seed. If you don't want to share the content, don't upload to …

bandcamp and mixcloud

Disagree, torrents are a great solution for the most obscure stuff and very cheap. You just have to be the seed.

Theorizing is fine, to say: 'Maybe because of barriers to entry, only the stronger programmers survive, from that follows the higher acceptance rate'. It's just information but you…

> eZing is a messaging app that closes follows concepts of well-known messengers to achieve the same comfortable reading and writing of messages. closely

I'm not buying one unless it sends all my interactions to amazon http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...

I guess this can be a problem for cross platform code, yes?

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131565... It's really pretty damn easy. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131356... Win 7, 8 and 10 are do…

Wow! Want to do a full disclosure? Your papers were very valuable while doing my undergraduate study. Is Hoard neck and neck with jemalloc and lockless' allocator nowadays? http://…

Safer on laptop vs. forgetting the password for facebook. By making a technically inept strawman, it's reduced to an argument of which is more idiot proof. The problem with idiot p…

Both statements are correct. Remember that it was a personal computing 'revolution'. It would be a great step backwards to accede power to cloud service providers. Computing at the…

Am I wrong in thinking there's a fat chance that the US govt. is funneling money to tech startups? I doubt there are grants for this stuff in Silicon Valley. Maybe some sort of tri…

I'd love to do my computing outdoors. My optician offered an explanation that the elastic material in my eye's lens has probably hardened from prolonged engagement in 'near work'. …

I'm with everyone else here that says you need to forget about the trendy junk and get the job done. Think brutally effective rather than elegant or modern. The simplest most old f…

No true stereotype, not relevant. Only stereotypes believed true and relevant are unbearably accurate. A quick internet search reveals many think the stereotype is true to boot.

The most innocuous stereotype I can think of, is the 'typical' French stereotype of a man in beret and a black and white striped jumper cycling around with a baguette, an onion gar…