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Re:MacBook Air Stickers on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:46AM (#8068928)
Agreed. Ubuntu people are just as crazy as Mac zealots.
Re:MacBook Air Stickers on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:44AM (#8068918)
I have one "sticker" on my Mac. A piece of gaffer's tape over the glowing logo.
Re:MacBook Air Stickers on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:43AM (#8068914)
They're not childish--they're a signal of membership in a cult.
Re:IPv4 Address Report on Sunday June 15, 2014 @05:53PM (#7896464)
I don't believe it. It's just like those "peak oil" people. We just need to drill more; we can find more IP addresses.
Re:Postfix has no public version control on Sunday June 15, 2014 @01:15AM (#7894482)
He uses source control; he just doesn't have a _public_ one. So what?
Re:Runnable – jsfiddle for everything on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:37PM (#7835022)
Thanks! It would be nice to see support for real languages.
Re:Oxford Electric Bell on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:11AM (#7833241)
Re:Runnable – jsfiddle for everything on Monday June 02, 2014 @08:51AM (#7833170)
"Everything"? Where's Erlang? Where's Lua?
Re:Understanding web pages better on Friday May 23, 2014 @01:59PM (#7790471)
So I wonder if we can trick Googlebot into doing computations for us? Maybye mine bitcoins! :-)
Re:Erlang and code style on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @06:52PM (#7775689)
Another great Erlang essay by jlouis.

The Erlang practice of letting things fail is also SOP for experienced implementors of any large SOA system. You just let things fail. If some process getting messages from a queue can't talk to the Database, don't retry; just exit and let the supervisor deal with it.

Erlang is great for writing robust software because this type of error handling is a first-class feature of the language and runtime.

Re:Dragdis – Drag and drop anything anywhere on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:15PM (#7443111)
I watched the video and still have No Idea. Is it an app? Is it a browser plugin? Where does it store the data? Does it sync between machines?