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webjunkie··on How the death of BitTorrent helped take the edge off broadband growth
How is something dead when you just compare percentages?

I guess 60% 10 years ago was in absolute numbers tiny compared to 10% of today.

webjunkie··on Git Cheatsheet
SourceTree is the best. Without it, it is easy to get lost with Git.
webjunkie··on Introducing WhiteHat Aviator – A Safer Web Browser
Oh yeah, really long text and then an inviting "click here" at the end. That is neither the best usability nor SEO-friendly in any way.
webjunkie··on Health Insurance Marketplace, Affordable Care Act Live
Why oh why does the big green button open a new tab... who thought that is a good idea?
webjunkie··on My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me
Haha, yeah, that was the way.

“find three important and powerful quotes from the section with 1–2 sentence analyses of its [sic] significance.”

What to do: hastily read the pages, write down anything that might qualify as a quote and write "It's important because blah blah". Done.

webjunkie··on Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
So and do you drive a rental car because, you know, you don't do any maintenance on your own?
webjunkie··on The Old Reader RSS app closes registration after months of 'hell'
Maybe they are too exhausted for even that. Set up a payment system when you're sleep deprived? No thanks.
webjunkie··on Dear Europe, please help Bulgaria
Uh, and while your at it, help Hungary, Romania, Ukraine,...
webjunkie··on Trust upholds complaint about BBC homepage clock
uh, no. Applying DST or not does not change the time zone I am in.
webjunkie··on Trust upholds complaint about BBC homepage clock
It's only for UK time. And nowhere it says it has to be included in the HTML itself. Ever heard of JavaScript?
webjunkie··on Trust upholds complaint about BBC homepage clock
" timezone issues, daylight saving, latency, etc"

Didn't it say "time in the UK"?

webjunkie··on “Accounts merged and now my files are gone”
Or always use an incognito window at least.
webjunkie··on The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth
Life will find a way.
webjunkie··on Why I have left Samsung
What do you think most silicon valley tech entrepreneurs are? Senior developers with years of experience?
webjunkie··on Effective Django
You have no flow control in CBVs. Why code some methods and stuff when you can put it in a simple function?
webjunkie··on How I develop Django projects
Please add how you manage and install dependencies (including stuff from github that is not on pypi)
webjunkie··on How I hired a great web developer on oDesk for $12/hr
Who accepts the job for $12 when there's written $12 to $17?
webjunkie··on How did my Google Reader logo become the "default"?
I thought you cannot just change an already given Creative Commons license just when you want?
webjunkie··on Thanks you Google for closing Reader
Thanks for not actually linking the word Feedly to Feedly.
webjunkie··on Python.org Redesign Preview
Okay who else hates flyout menus like these?
webjunkie··on SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All
Sure it's fun in the beginning. But please report back if you still find the game challenging and rewarding after a week.
webjunkie··on Nginx vs. Apache in AWS
Optimized for what? For which circumstances? What software fits all?
webjunkie··on Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
You don't control a whole country, you have on city (or now "region"). Any it's made so that Sims only move to your city if you provide everything. They wouldn't move to a new city where there is nothing, no schools, no fire department. I think that's close to the real world. If there is a new town or new part of a town to be build, no one would move there unless some people in charge decide to provide basic services.
webjunkie··on Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
Two GTX570? And you are surprised that it works well? :D
webjunkie··on Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
What video card are you using? Mine was apparently too old, so I'm looking for a new one.
webjunkie··on How Your Money Loses Value and How to Stop It
Why is there not a single link to Dwolla?
webjunkie··on The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical
I would imagine you wouldn't notice first, but when the scene changes half through the movie you would say "hey, somethings different now"
webjunkie··on The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical
Maybe it's somehow like uncanny valley? It gets too realistic, but is not real, so it's disturbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

webjunkie··on 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world
So? That is the opposite of "has had nothing to do with [it]".
webjunkie··on 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world
"because we all know the Chinese government has had nothing to do with the economic boom they have undergone in the past decade."

No I do not know that. Please provide a reference.

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