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    Comment #12372141

    There is a whole page for FreeBSD support on nVidia's site. I use FreeBSD 10.3 right now with nVidia cards, multi-monitor support.

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    Comment #12195596

    What if you don't use Photoshop, Illustrator or Quark? I don't and I've used it for my workstation for 12 years.

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    Comment #12195591

    FreeBSD is a professional operating system for professionals. It bothers me none if a 15-year old redditor can't handle getting his games to work on it.

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    Comment #12195587

    Linux is not Unix. Never has been and moving further away from it. (Ignoring the very recent version in January which got certified somehow)

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    Comment #12195579

    I know a few people who have contributed and none of them are rich or famous. Your own personal experience at a small company apparently is not representative of the world at large…

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    Comment #12195565

    It's up for me. Why is it that, whenever a major site has a glitch for a few minutes (less than an hour here), someone runs to the 'net to post about when, by the time most people …

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    Comment #12186350

    Less than 2% of all web users have javascript turned off. Some say it's less than 1% and it's mostly people who understand the consequences of doing so. Turning off the native comp…

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    Comment #12184875

    I don't think anyone ever called it a Microsoft bailout. And the people who lost their jobs, both at Microsoft and Nokia back then, wouldn't consider this such a rewarding, positiv…

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    Comment #12149275

    There are just so many posts on tech sites to things like this where one wouldn't have a clue what it is or does. You would think the organization pointed to would have some motiva…

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    Comment #12136383

    In 1992, a friend got a job in the valley and I visited him when I was out there visiting the HQ for my company. He asked me to go with him to check out a condo he was thinking of …

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    Comment #12136227

    >what’s more revealing is how Chinese firms have taken the best tech and adapted it. Only felt like skimming the article but it seems that quote is at its base. There's a differenc…

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    Comment #12126397

    As mentioned in the article, and I recall from when I was more heavily invested in the stock market, Bing cost Microsoft billions of dollars every year in lost revenue. We all knew…

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    Comment #12123437

    I was going to post the same. I was lucky enough to get a few answers from Fielding himself when I first started learning this.

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    Comment #12121563

    So are you going with them, Geoffrey?

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    Comment #12121237

    I know things can go downhill quickly when I read things like this: >There is one irritating thing about C as a viable programming language. Given its history, I don't see where th…

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    Comment #12115926

    It's very popular in countries and continents like India, Asia and Africa. Specifically on small, cheap phones.

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    Comment #12085773

    >Tesla allows minutes of hands-off time; one customer reports driving 50 miles without touching the wheel. >They tried to blame the driver. In this incident, the driver was using a…

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    Comment #12070499

    Totally agree with this. Braintree will save you a little money but their documentation is horrible; some of the worst I've ever seen. Their email tech support can be responsive an…