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Just curious, how do browser-only companies like Opera or Mozilla make money? I know Opera Mini used to be shipped with phones, but what other sources of revenue do they have?

Making a living out of doing what you love will only work if you're exceptionally good at it or if there's plenty of demand for it. For example, there's plenty of people who love t…

Most of these are very useful and definitely real-world examples. I agree it's not for total beginners, but the page never makes such a claim.

What's wrong with sticking to an older version of Ubuntu - 11.04 or earlier where you're not forced to use Unity? That's what I do. And I get a lot more work done without having to…

more potatoes than meat.

For an awesome panel like that, it was a pretty mediocre Q&A discussion.

Lenovo Thinkpad FTW

I go to plenty of used book sales at libraries and these guys are annoying as hell. They scan and hoard a lot of the books irrespective of the topic, and later spend time looking a…

I call bullshit. The very definition of close friends is that they are close, whether you spend less time with them or not. I've got friends across the country and we're very close…

Well, they're difficult books to read to begin with. Knuth himself would be surprised if someone has read and understood them all. At the same time, I find they're hyped up a bit (…

Falcon ( http://www.falconpl.org/ ) seems interesting too.

I've been using it for many years and still learn something new frequently. Don't worry about mastering it quickly. Subscribe to the vim mailing lists, read other peoples vimrcs, a…

http://appdb.winehq.org/ will tell you if your app is supported on Wine. Most of my Windows-only apps work, albeit with some minor glitches...sometimes.

Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Yes, not all times are going to be interesting, you may lose motivation, get tired or bored, have setbacks, and want to give up, but it is only…

On a related note, is it okay to pick up skills related to your side project at work? For example, if my side project is building a application in Clojure, is it okay to learn abou…

I'd think what Magnus says he does is more of the exception rather than the norm. Most chess grandmasters, like successful writers, are extremely disciplined, so I believe followin…

The author needed to beef up his argument.

Yeah, the ones I haven't heard of are all Mac OS specific. Not a surprise, since I prefer Ubuntu.

I'd say focus on the basics - learn more about algorithms, operating system internals, data structures, concurrency, human-computer interaction, general OO/Functional/Procedural pr…

I mostly second that. The only thing I learnt was that there is a programming language called Ur. Maybe if we had the audio, it would be different.

I wonder why Tibet similarly is not shown in dotted lines. Google hypocrisy? Or is it that they are so afraid of China?

Download link seems to be down :(

I don't know - it could backfire as well. Sometimes long lines in a new place could give the impression that place is better, especially for people not in line - people just drivin…

What's interesting is that not all "full view" books are available for download. I wish there were a filter for just downloadable books.

whatever happened to Palm?