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> > You should be (or have a strong desire to become) a HTML5 geek, JavaScript nerd and CSS wizard. Indeed, it seems that there is hardly any room left for mere programmers in this…

It will be fun to see someone lecturing JWZ on what he can do and what he cannot do on the web.

> If the citizens demand access to those services, or find it offensive that their privacy and security is being violated and circumvented, they will take action. Hah, right. They'…

Yeah, that's why that proportion is important. There are a lot of examples for that. XML, C++, PHP. The list goes ever on and on :-).

I stopped using mutt a while ago, but I just used separate config files for every mail account and a bash alias to launch mutt for each one. Unless you actually need to do things l…

To be fair, if you stick to the good parts, any language is good. It's the good parts : bad parts proportion that tends to ruin things.

When studying power consumption for this type of devices, it's extremely common to measure the current being drawn, rather than to put out values in watts. For one thing, it's the …

Netscape before 4 kicked ass. Netscape 4 was terrible. Netscape 6 was late.

The Pi foundation being good friends with Broadcom also helps.

It's a case of not really telling the truth, which is pretty much what lying means.

> how inportant was/is a switching supply Fairly important. Linear power supplies are pretty large and put out a lot of heat. It was commonplace back then for most appliances, incl…

It's more likely a bold overstatement made by a superficial onlooker. Wozniak describes the same power supply here: http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/35.html , in these terms:…

This is a pretty interesting article! I raised more than my fair share of eyebrows by telling people I'm not really surprised with this kind of complexity (note: I'm an EE by forma…

If you use an actual pdf reader instead of the JS-based in-browser crap, it's quite instantaneous.

Yep, what ics said :-). Basically, I think OpenBSD is a good operating system. It has a clean architecture, great code quality, and I am fond of its engineering principles. I don't…

Unfortunately, while this is true in the server/desktop world, this isn't true for embedded systems. Hardware that can reliably run OpenBSD tends to be in the more expensive space …

That's also true. Things weren't always like that when it comes to large organizations involved in FOSS development, but one would hope lessons are learned :-)

> Now, Canonical keeping to themselves has a very crucial advantage: they leave everyone else alone. They stay in their corner, they don't bother, they don't intervene I certainly …

I don't necessarily agree with how mjg59 chooses to resolve his issues, but it's hard not to get the impression that he's a little right about this. The problem is precisely this: …

> Then came the new GNOME 3 and the particular way that GNOME development works. It was not workable to offer to the users a stable and distinct user experience. So, Unity was crea…

> Why isn't OpenBSD more widely used? For many of the scenarios you listed, it really boils down to peer pressure. People who make decisions know that Linux is Good (TM). Convincin…

I hear this argument a lot. That situation is as unlikely as it gets. At least in my part of the world, torture is particularly discouraged as a means of gathering information duri…

> Returning to the point, it takes incredible mental gymnastics to argue that a false positive automatically degrades the status of a study from "scientific" to "unscientific" No o…

> not everyone agrees that use of torture 'cedes moral high ground' There probably are a few assholes who don't, but to take it seriously outside the realm of a purely philosophica…