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Why don't they just block access to those new gTLDs? Problem solved.
And surely they're not thinking that the internet is currently free of booze, pr0n and profanity?
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If the saudis are against it, I am for it.
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Since when do the Saudis tell everyone what to do? Oh yes, they have the oil.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Saudi is not the only one that will object to some. There are many in the US that will object to many of the new gTLDs (catholics, the tea party, the religious right in general), and especially .gay . Probably not find many against .wine thou.
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The creator of the JavaScript jQuery library has been working on a complete computer science program for Khan No, they won't do your homework either
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KHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Australian Naval officer Tim Oscar called the massive chunk of volcanic rock pictured up top "the weirdest thing [he'd] seen in 18 years at sea." Now, NASA satellite images have revealed the source of the floating raft. "In his house in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
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The late Apple co-founder's home was burglarized by an alleged thief who didn't even seem to know whose home he was robbing. $60,000 in computers? They probably only cleared one room.
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In November of last year, Adobe made a surprising about-face on its popular Flash plugin, announcing that it would stop development of Flash for mobile devices. Tomorrow, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android, effectively cutting it off from the future of the mobile web — despite the company's historical assertion that Flash would enable the "full web experience" on mobile devices. Instead, Adobe surrendered the major mobile battlegrounds and pledged allegiance to HTML5. Both people using it mourn the loss
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It’s long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them. By reading this news item, you promise to pay me...
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Improvements include a redesign of its Web interface and the release of an application for Android devices Now with more Metro... uhm, "Windows 8" interface
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After working hard to build a business and achieve millionaire status, a Florida entrepreneur is selling it all on eBay. This includes his successful video game stores, two beachside condos, several expensive cars and three kayaks. All for the small price of $3.5 million. For those who don't have a life
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Cloud-based, on-premise application lifecycle management servers respectively add capabilities for kanban board, Git repositories Keeping up with the buzzword Joneses
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What’s the quickest way to startup success? One is to think of a great innovation. Another is to copy someone else’s great innovation. That's a lot easier than coming up with your own. And it’s often a shorter, surer path to your first million - or billion. Copy/Paste for fun and profit
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Little problem: in the business world with high entry cost it takes a legion of lawyers to deal with imitation. In the internet world when you are dealing with pop&mom garage operation simple $200 legalese letter (or even simpler complain to the ISP) to seize and desist usually is enough to squash the competition. Until the patent laws are redone it's 'seller be ware'
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Thinking about the freelance life? There are many ways to earn your bread as a freelancer. Fields like copywriting or website design may quickly bring clear pictures to mind. But you may have a hard time visualizing yourself as a “freelance consultant.” Repeat after me, "It depends"
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Fortune 500 executives are using their business e-mail addresses to access a wide range of prominent social media web sites, leaving a potentially troublesome trail of clues for sophisticated hackers and cyber criminals, a security researcher has discovered. [ITworld]
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The GNOME Project is coming away from its annual GUADEC conference with a new goal for itself: creating a new operating system on which to develop apps. [ITworld]
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Good read... it'd be interesting if GNOME puts out some sort of response as to the reasoning behind their OS idea.
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some web site guy wrote: Our APIs are a constantly shifting target, and application distribution is slow and fragmented. It is also very difficult for application authors to maintain their brands or to generate revenue streams from their work,”
I don't see how a new OS or distro - even just as development environment - is going to help with that.
It simplifies setting up your devenv, which could be a separate install or package or whatever those linuxy guys fancy.
At worst, it also makes distribution GNOME-based software more of a user problem: "Works on my machine".
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peterchen wrote: At worst, it also makes distribution GNOME-based software more of a user problem: "Works on my machine".
I think they're almost admitting that's a problem already. I have noticed that things don't work exactly the same on all distros already, even things that should work the same, only way to know for sure is to test on all of your supported distributions unfortunately.
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Software development’s not quite the lawless and anarchic wild frontier people make it out to be. Developers today have seven decades of
practical experience of writing software under commercial pressures to draw on, and there are many insights that have been built up over that time that an aspiring young programmer needs to know. Check out this free ebook. You might learn something.
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Generally the cowboy programmers have been weeded out since code cannot be maintained.
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These are many of the basic principles I wish many of the people I've come across during my professional career would have understood.
At my last company, we were so bogged down with maintaining a failure of a code base that we didn't have the opportunity to change. It may have been too expensive to start from scratch, and the constant fixes prevented any real innovation. Basically, we had a losing product and there was no customer willing to pay what it would cost to fix the situation.
I have had coworkers with no desire or willingness to change. Here I am, exploring the latest technologies and innovating, and I am left unable to violate their turf, and so parts of the product remain in the stone age. They weren't only holding me back; they were holding the company back.
As far as learning while developing goes, I've not yet worked for a place that allowed for rapid learning to take place (I refer here to learning from mistakes, not learning new tech). Without the ability to test locally and without an environment that allows for all the pieces to be tested together, it can delay learning and both cause frustration and cost time/money.
And do I ever have some stories to share regarding communicating with other developers through code. Most developers I have worked with write code that the computer can understand (if the computer is very forgiving), but that was obviously built with no intention of having the code be understood by another developer. How easy is it to write a comment? To format your code? Most can't seem to manage these most basic tasks. Maybe it's hopeless to think they'll ever be able to write code that is simple, effective, and that can tolerate change well.
There are solutions to all of these problems, but far too few places implement them or even recognize the problems. And if you bring up the problem and even provide a solution, people are often so used to their comfort zone that they won't even let you fix the problem for them. I'm sure there must be places that have figured out the solutions; I suppose it's the luck of the draw whether or not you happen to end up at one of them (and probably also initiative to seek them out).
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Finding a needle in a haystack is easy. When it comes down to it, needles are not hay. Finding one book lost among a million other books? That’s hard. The only reason such a thing as a library is possible is that it is a gigantic, life-sized, walk-in data structure, tuned for fast lookup. This post is about searching and sorting, two fundamental aspects of data processing, and what the library has to teach us about them. You could look it up.
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