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Comment · 11 years ago
Wow, this is brilliant if it works well. If anyone from Unchecky reads this, you should repeat this experiment with your software installed and post it on your blog.
Comment · 12 years ago
Firefox differs from Chrome in that it will enable Flash for a whole page, rather than per-element. This means you still need an extension for blocking Flash ads on Flash video sites.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
http://www.wolfram.com/programming-cloud

I think the relevant part is "Start coding and deploying now–for free." Whereas before you had to spend at least a few hundred dollars on Mathematica.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
From your first link:

"There is no explicit “Enable/Disable” button any more. We would like to promote the use of searching and feel that Baloo should never get in the users way. However, we are smart about it and IF you add your HOME directory to the list of “excluded folders”, Baloo will switch itself off since it no longer has anything to index."

This philosophy is why I stopped using GNOME and now prefer Xfce. I'm looking forward to trying LXQt when it's more stable.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
> Violating all expectations and trends, new Java users on GitHub even grew as a percentage of overall new users, while everything else went downhill. This further supports the assertion that GitHub is reaching the enterprise.

This is more likely to be due to the rise of Android since 2009.

Comment · 12 years ago
You'd need a spotter because your risk of choking would increase by a lot.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
I can recommend the Pi to someone who has never used Linux before because there are so many resources available that are Pi-specific. It's the same reason I recommend Ubuntu for newbies even though I prefer other distros for myself.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm pretty sure it's based on the most commonly searched phrases with phrases containing words on a blacklist deleted. Add in some magic to throw off the spammers and competition.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago

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