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You're assuming that the average user on their site = the average user on the internet.

Not that old, but I always found it interesting that we learned C/C++ in highschool using a version of Borland from 1993, which made the program as old as myself.

Wasn't PAE available for pretty much all versions starting from XP? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

Tried a downhill curve and I got yahoo.com http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:IwiF_9hYU...

I do agree with your arguments, yet they do have a patent on "Slide to unlock"

What other games do this? I didn't know there are others that have interactive maps.

Who would do that to GitHub?

Not $30/month, but 50 euros is in the same ballpark I guess -- http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4

Tip: you can prepend a space at the beginning of the command and it won't be saved in the history (though I agree that letting the command prompt for a password is better)

I do this too, like everyone else, but when I notice there are too many tabs opened, I just bite the bullet and close everything except for the currently opened tab (and sometimes close that too). Manual garbage collector.

python

I managed to learn the language _while_ doing a side project, and it was just as quick as doing it in a language I knew.

> Go is not a language focused around individual productivity in any capacity or scope.

I don't know the motivation behind the people developing Go, but I found it very easy and convenient to work with it, almost as easy as with Python sometimes, which is mind-blowing IMO given the static, compiled, strict, etc. nature of Go. So again, don't know whether the guys behind the language were motivated by personal productivity, but they have definitely achieved it.

Though I didn't really try Lisp other than quick tutorials, so I can't make a comparison with that.

Maybe; but that's the way towards progress

> The keyword 'terra' introduces a new Terra function.

Why would anyone do this? What's wrong with func, function, def, etc. ?

My guess is that a small percentage of users refresh the page after a while (if the traffic is small, maybe you're weighing in on that yourself)

> If the people requesting the feature care enough, they should go through the hoops necessary to (edit: learn how to code and) become part of the core team.

Why? so they can argue will fellow core devs?

> For this _particular_ feature, it's a "rampant layering violation" -- translucent windows have been available in compositing window managers (Compiz, and whatever that thing that KDE uses) for at least three or four years.

NOPE. Setting the transparency by compiz would make the whole window transparent, including the text, which makes the transparency useless. You need the background to be (semi) transparent, and the text to be fully opaque. This is a non-solution.

Might be the case for some, but I don't have such problems.

I don't get your point. I use zsh+oh-my-zsh, and I don't know what Plan 9 is, don't code in D, never used LuaTeX (esp. not in Emacs), and I don't happen to wear a monocle.

In fact I find zsh much easier for beginners and people who don't master the arcane intricacies of *nix.

Electric cars?

Thanks for your insight, you make good points; it seems to me you don't really like S3, can you elaborate why?

Shameless plug, but HTML5 + CORS + S3 can enable resumable file uploads. I've written a library that uploads to S3, and can resume uploads (think internet going down for a while, force-closing the tab, etc.): https://github.com/cinely/mule-uploader . There's a demo available, I suggest you test it with bigger files (>100MB)

in my experience, Yahoo is terrible at catching spam. Maybe half of it is caught, with some legitimate email marked as spam too.

I think it is a hard requirement; nobody keeps tight track of $1 coins because it's hard to trade a few million dollars using just that. A cryptographic currency wouldn't have this issue.

How is finding the digits of 2^57,885,161 - 1 useful?

Works great in my chromium ("Version 24.0.1312.56 Built on Ubuntu 12.04, running on elementary OS 0.2 (24.0.1312.56-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)")

Is it just me, or is her statement _not saying anything at all_ ?

I've tried using fonts that are not monospace for programming, and it was ok for ~1h, then I started really hating it and switched back. It feel unnatural.. Maybe my eyes aren't trained for reading code with such fonts though.

Facebook:

    "[your friend] likes Salitos!"
    "[the same friend] likes Salitos!"
    ... a week later "[your friend] likes Salitos!"

"Man, I guess he really likes Salitos!". I've asked him about it, and it seems he barely remembered liking their page. So yea, IMO it's time for a new facebook

"I don't like X about Ubuntu" -- Response from Ubuntu user: "It's easy; all you have to do is apt-get ..."

"I don't like Amazon lens about Ubuntu" -- Response from fellow Ubuntu user: "Yea, this sucks, I think I'm not going to use Ubuntu anymore"

I don't like Amazon lens either (there isn't even an Amazon.ro so it's mostly unusable for me), but they have to make money somehow.