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Are you going to let Microsoft finish falling?

Nerds were excluded by the System, then severely bullied, then Microsoft came, then made a revolution, then nerds became geeks, then geeks stopped being severely bullied, then stopped being excluded.Microsoft is falling. Are hackers going to let Microsoft finish falling?

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People are creating fewer sites

Creating sites is hard. You have to know: programming language, database, server, os and framework.Creating sites is forbidden. You visit an alternative search engine or an educational site. Soon, it becomes an ad site. Creating sites is for start-ups, not for firefox add-on authors.That's what you get. People are creating fewer sites.

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The programming language that is fastest to implement features

Slashdot said that programming has a political axis with conservative and liberal programmers. Liberal programmers worry about how fast you take to implement a feature. Liberal programmers need the answer to this question. (1)Paul Graham said that his company could implement features faster than his competitors, because his company programmed in Common Lisp and Common Lisp makes you twice more...

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I have FUD about patent trolls

I have fear, uncertainty and doubts about patent trolls. What should I do if the patent trolls ask me for too much money and I run out of money? What do you do when you are sued?

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Type other commands than browse and search in the url bar

Use the Community-Maintained Ubiquity instead of the Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity, then Ubiquity in Awesomebar will work. Go to https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads/tip.xpi for the Community-Maintained Ubiquity, then go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ubiquity-in-awesomebar/ for Ubiquity in Awesomebar.

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