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  1. Re:Firefox is to blame on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 1

    I was having trouble with very high memory usage in FF and was upset at having to restart it every day. The problem stopped cold with the last update of Firebug. Turns out it was the culprit. If you are using an old version of FB, I highly recommend you update.

  2. Re:Oh my! All those sweaty geeks in one place. on Inside the World's Largest LAN Party · · Score: 1

    It should be pretty easy to end the sweat immediately during a swedish winter... open the door.

  3. Re:Portland-Seattle-Vancouver would make more sens on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Build that too. I'd love to go from Vancouver to TJ by train.

    The rest is untrue. I take the Metro Red Line (Subway) to work every day, and its expansion to the Westside will be finished before this will. Add the flyaway bus to LAX, Rapid Busses, and taxis and there's no reason you couldn't arrive in LA without a car with less hassle than from the airport.

    It's defeatist attitudes like this one that will help Europe and China to leapfrog America in standard of living and infrastructure.

  4. Actually I love the iOS and Metro phone and tablet interfaces... I don't mind them trying out new ideas for netbooks in netbook editions. But keep them THE FUCK OFF MY WORKSTATION.

  5. Catch up on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    And with that Windows catches up with the late 70's. :P

  6. Re:Not on YouTube on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 1

    The full version I've linked to has been censored though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

    This is a disgusting development.

  7. Re:Perfectly sound legal arguments on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    True in general, however AMZN has lots of presence in CA... A9, kindle lab, AWS Datacenters, etc.

  8. Re:It's Obvious on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    Mais oui ... an MP3 folder would be highly apropos as well.

  9. Re:It's Obvious on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    Mais oui ... an MP3 folder would be apropos as well.

  10. Yes on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    Some background on what to expect at as you scale:
            http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidden-costs.html

    I don't recommend Windows for a web startup, but if it is what you know, then it is what you know. I'd say the answer to your question is yes. As a one man show, you won't have time for much IT work. It is a poor allocation of your limited time.

    Here is a simplest solution, but as always there are cheaper competitors:
          http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

  11. Re:problem is, Unity is a disaster on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 2

    No need to move, just pick Classic from the menu at login time.

  12. Re:Time for a reboot? on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Nice to hear. Of course the first thing y'all should work on is a way to deallocate memory when tabs and windows are closed. I'm tired of having to restart the browser every other day (for the last 10 years) because it doesn't happen.

  13. Re:Firefox was nice while it lasted... on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    FF4 runs so much better than 3.6 I wouldn't recommend this. Some of the UI changes are problematic but thankfully most of them can be reversed. The only one that bugs me is the removal of the status bar, but I believe there is an extension to alleviate it. One of these days I'll investigate it.

  14. Re:There's nothing wrong with development on the M on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    ... or ssh to a staging host.

  15. Re:Despite the haterade on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 1

    It does if you'd like to eliminate false readings. I've learned over the years that eliminating as many variables as possible when testing something is the most efficient way.

    Also, didn't mean to imply it would be the only test or that this day is a bad idea. Just that they should do it first separately, find the easy bugs, then roll it out in small layers, solving the solvable as they go. Just general problem solving skills I'm writing about.

  16. Despite the haterade on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 2

    Yahoo still has a lot of good stuff. Mail and calendar work well, there is useful news and finance pages as well. I was playing around with their YUI stuff yesterday, and it is pretty cool and open source.

    Sites should probably serve ipv6 from a separate colo to a separate domain name to work the kinks out first, e.g. yahoov6.com. After a testing period they could start moving the support over, assuming the results were good.

  17. Re:Life is not fair on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    This has been my experience as well. Life is what you make it, so when it gives you lemons, make lemonade. Now put an egg in your shoe ... and get outta here!

  18. Re:Transparency? What could possibly go wrong? on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 1

    A shame, I came in to post that subject line. ;)

  19. Re:The easy way out on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    A tough-guy, eh? ;)

  20. Re:Ripping CDs... on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 1

    I wrote an article a few months back on how to mitigate the problem of too many services necessary in support of an application. Might be useful to you.

  21. Re:The Wrong Way on Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't get too far ahead of yourself, the only ones dead so far are SCO and HURD.

  22. Re:HTML5 Canvas not supported on this browser. (IE on Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 · · Score: 1

    jQuery or not this is beautifully done. I hope to see more music notation on the web. IE, meanwhile should be taken out back and shot.

  23. Obligatory on Supermassive Black Hole Is Thrown Out of Galaxy · · Score: 2, Funny
  24. Re:More To Viewership Losses on CBS and CNN Could Be Making News Together · · Score: 1

    Wonder why they took it down? Would make a great source on an article I'm writing on media misinformation.

    Wikipedia says they are a non-profit lefty mag, so obvious corporate meddling isn't an obvious motive.

  25. Re:Missed out on Python on Learning Python, 4th Edition · · Score: 1

    Maybe, maybe not.

    The difference between the two is that many times to do a particular task in perl you will typically use various strings of punctuation characters, while in python you will use .replace() or other similar English names.

    The perl version may be shorter and more clever perhaps. But in a year, if you or the next guy don't have those punctuation combinations committed to high speed memory you'll be looking them up in a book or googling for them.

    Meanwhile the python script maintainer will recognize the operation immediately because they are mostly English rather than hieroglyphics.

    There are other levels of readability of course, but this one makes a difference.