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Re:Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? on Saturday October 17, 2009 @10:39AM (#886966)
>the C# designers are constrained by the need to market their language to Java developers

that was true only up to about C# 2.0; Java is way, way behind nowadays.

Re:First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp on Saturday October 10, 2009 @09:53AM (#873322)
you want a _recent_ videcard, not an _another_ one. most, if not all, $100 gfx cards have two outputs, and the newest AMD offerings ($300 range) have - you might want to sit down - six.
Re:Vim is a great text editor - try it on Friday October 02, 2009 @12:19PM (#857349)
i use a file that looks like this:

    " session.vim
    tabe file1
    tabe file2
    tabe file3
    ...
when i start work, i do gvim -S session.vim and i'm all set.
Re:Twisted Python's lead hacker discusses Tornado on Sunday September 13, 2009 @06:55AM (#820014)
more importantly, why should it roll it's own given a plethora of more mature alternatives?
Re:_why is no more on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @03:53PM (#773620)
mean-spirited? he gave the internet a challenge and somebody took it up, that's all.

oh, and it doesn't have to be his real name, too.

Re:X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7 on Sunday August 16, 2009 @10:48AM (#766154)
i don't get what the eff windows has to do with X server crashes taking down X apps? "Windows does it too" IS NOT an acceptable solution.
exactly why i don't like Lisp: every Lisp hacker makes his own object or whatever system, making it hard for other people to understand his work.
Q looks too much like 0. otherwise cool.
Re:Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community on Monday July 20, 2009 @03:00PM (#714919)
yes, but the issue at hand is the fact that MS, the M$, released code under GPL. it's huge no matter how you look at it.
Re:Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997 on Thursday July 16, 2009 @05:11PM (#708779)
i _love_ ncat. been using nc for a while, but is shows its age. now i can ncat away over ssl. awesome.
max is useless in benchmarking; there's no upper limit on how long any computation can take.
Re:Twenty questions about the GPL on Monday July 13, 2009 @04:24PM (#702405)
i imagine your questions would be great for a hypothetical final exam at an established law school...
Re:60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7 on Monday July 13, 2009 @09:34AM (#701643)
isn't this much higher than vista?