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What? 100,000 people decided it was worthwhile paying for this product, but you feel guilty about taking their money, so now it's free? This is one of the most bizarre things I've read recently!
Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice on Saturday August 16, 2014 @07:38AM (#8185936)
The separate URL and search bars are the one reason I don't switch. Such a silly UI feature that feels years behind other browsers.

I know you can get rid of it, but then I have to fiddle around with about:config to get it working as I want it to out of the box. All very strange.

Re:Why Not Erlang? The Lack of Onramps on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:16AM (#7930488)
Is anyone else extremely bored of the "why you/I shouldn't use Language x" blog posts.

If people spent as much time contributing to their programming language of choice, rather than writing about why they don't use competing languages - well, that sounds like time better spent to me?

Re:Unix Recovery Legend (1986) on Saturday June 14, 2014 @07:20AM (#7892557)
Yep - nice animated piece with interviews here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_g0tyaIeE
Re:Amazon Prime Music on Thursday June 12, 2014 @02:57AM (#7882135)
err 5%