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Comment · 13 years ago
A) It's still in alpha.

B) It's not Vim.

C) The questionnaire asks "which other editors do you use" and uses radio buttons.

Comment · 13 years ago
Things in parts of NYC are extremely expensive. Doubly so if you're in an upscale club.

It's not that the beer is more expensive, it's that the cost of the labor involved in serving it to you and the real estate you're consuming it in cost more.

Comment · 13 years ago
Transparency and background images are great for making screenshots to show off your customized desktop. For actual daily use, they're absurd.
Comment · 13 years ago
Expressions of our tribal nature through consumer goods. XBox/Playstation. Mac/PC. Coke/Pepsi. Ford/Chevy.

People like picking sides & hate being wrong.

Comment · 13 years ago
If you actually have the infrastructure and ops to withstand a freak DDOS, you've got a leg to stand on. Taking advantage of a freak shitstorm to steal clients is dishonest because you have just been lucky enough to avoid a shitstorm. In all reality, the people that just went through the DDOS will be better prepared to stand up to one in the future than a system/team that hasn't recovered from one.
Comment · 13 years ago
If they were cheap, people would still buy them because they are incredibly pretty stones. The social aspect of diamond engagement rings would fall apart but they wouldn't go away.

Come on - even if you're against the industry and everything they stand for, a large, well cut, diamond under the extreme lighting of a jewelry store counter is a beautiful thing.

Comment · 13 years ago
Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than responding to browser width.

I really don't like trying to read 1400px long lines of text.

Comment · 13 years ago
Thank you for ruining my page rendering.
Comment · 13 years ago
Currently, Steam is only distributed for Ubuntu.
Comment · 13 years ago
Working for free is almost always a bad idea. If you don't value your time & skills, nobody else is going to.
Comment · 13 years ago
Looks like a simple triage to me. I don't see an issue unless they're making it publicly visible to your coworkers.
Comment · 13 years ago
That Intel thing is nothing new - IBM was doing that on mainframes 30 years ago.
Comment · 13 years ago
You're building up a great big chain of complicated requirements. You're quickly approaching the point where it's easier to steal the machine.
Comment · 13 years ago
Staring at an empty bank account, a pile of bills & wondering how you're paying rent next month does a remarkable job at distracting you from the emotional aspect of getting fired as well.
Comment · 13 years ago
A limited templating language forces you to behave. More importantly, it also forces other people to behave. It stops people from creating ugly hacks in the middle of templates that become impossible to track bugs. It stops Joe Random Designer from being able to break your database when he works on a new header design.

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