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Having read pg's book (ANSI Common Lisp) and all of his articles; I liked this question and the answers pg has given.

I agree with forgotusername's opinion about the luck plays a good part in life, but as long as the Viaweb's concerned, the luck had its minimal share because I still remember in one of pg's articles he was talking about how frequently they have written their code base in order to serve a user experience better than the competition. That's hardly got anything to do with luck.

And if you've ever read all his articles, you might have spotted sections talking about when and how the luck has been playing really impressive role; and there you got it: In the case of Bill Gate's Microsoft. How it suddenly became a multi billion dollar company almost overnight is plain luck.

Also when you consider for how much Viaweb was sold, which was about $50M, and compare it to other sales most of them as high as ~$1B, again there is no luck to be talked about.

Linux itself isn't totally ready for the ARM platform, so how can you just expect it to have a linux ready to program?

I have a Fujitsu LED monitor and a sony bravia LCD TV. RPi works flawlessly with them without requiring me to do any manual setting.

While trying to use RPi with various USB devices, let's not forget that RPi uses the least amount of energy and that means too little power will be allocated to the USB ports so in this case a USB hub will hardly work.

I use a GreenHeart certified ps of Sony Ericsson, no problems so far.

After Linux/Ubuntu 10.10 upgraded to 12.04 and I saw the default window manager/Desktop Environment has suddenly changed from A to Z! (From GNOME to Unity) That's something which never happens in FBSD, and this is one of the reasons I still use FBSD because I know by each release there will be various improvements but not any unwelcomed and frustrating surprises.

In my Firefox 14.0.1 it says " Sorry, WebGL is required Your browser doesn't support the technology we use to help you design superheros. Please consider upgrading to a better browser" linking to the Chrome. Are they paid advertisers of Chrome, or do they really think the only browser in the world which supports WebGL is only the Chrome?

They say the only requirement from physical network is IP connectivity. Technically it's straightforward to build a virtual machine on top of IP.

The real matter is to see that IP virtualization is the future of networking. However, I'm suspicious on the efficiency of that kind of virtualization as it might consume more CPU energy and maybe cause some lags between networks.

I'm a citizen of Turkey and in this lovely country the religion has often been used as a tool for achieving secular aims. That's just another example of it.

#nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 might be the most commonly used line of nmap. But it works best on V5.0 and not V5.x+

I haven't signed up on G+ and I never will, you know why? Because, AFAIK, you can only be signed up after G+ member invites you! This is to ensure everyone is real and everything's in order but it also keeps me stay away from G+.

It looks like a HOAX, the video doesn't show the vehicle in a test fly, or during a take off. 98% of the video either shows the vehicle going on the ground just like other non-flying cars or shows people discussing about a flying car.

No one's talked about its twitter/fb limitation. Are we born with twitter & fb?

for me the tablets, particularly the iPad is no match for a Laptop. You know, the iOS is restrictive in many ways even after you jailbroke it. Maybe, we need a good OS product for the tablets, only then may I count tablets as a nice alternative to Laptops.

ISPs charge money for static IP. And now we see it's being bought and sold. Isn't that a shame?

In Turkey, CV is used interchangeably with the turkish "özgeçmiş" Resumé is almost never used.

By the way, does anybody remember the CodersCV.com? It was a great site for displaying the CV but it no longer works. For a sample shot of that site, see http://img365.yukle.tc/images/2880Coders_CV_-_Resume.png

I agree. Actually I have avoided paying for any software on MAC OS X because I 've been able to find almost always its equivalent for free elsewhere, including the iWorks (which sells for around $70)

So, it might be the right time for Apple to lower its own MAC OS X software such as the iWorks, from around $70 to $7. Only then may I personally consider buying it from Mac App Store.

Ubuntu 10.10 is good, suprisingly good compared to its previous versions. Making it boot from any USB memory stick with persistent storage feature was so easy that I suddenly found myself using Ubuntu 10.10 right from the 4GB USB stick on my Laptop.

The overall experience feels different from the others (MAC OS X & Windows) so much so that you almost forget the existence of any App Centre, at least initially.

Yahoo could consider charging a basic fee. I might readily pay $5-10/Year for delicious. Actually I find delicious much more useful than FB or Twitter for my own needs, and it seems many more delicious users are like me.

It's $7.37 now. But it doesn't matter how much they charge because I will never be using their service, anyway.

Oracle wants $1.7B from SAP on copyright fringing. Good way to make money?

Could you tell us why the PHP is a terrible language?

It looks like he no longer sees a bright future, maybe.

I guess, laying down is by definiton a kind of waking inactivity, too. So it will have those adverse effects similar to the sitting with one exception (obvious): In laying down your back is under much smaller stress.

Once we had Microsoft imposing restrictions on how we could use their system and now we have Apple dictating how their system can be used. But Apple 's got one drawback; iPad's got very viable rivals such as WePad, ChromeOS, MobLin Microsoft had no really threatening rival at the time.

Apple 's attitude of power is therefore ridiculous, they seem to think that their tablet PC is something only they can develop and master, however it's not. Soon there will be millions of free and of equivalent quality Tablet PC's around and Apple 's iPad will only constitute a minority of them.

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What could the Free Software Foundation be thinking about this, I wonder. Particularly patenting the hand gestures sounds really absurd.

Doesn't Apple know that one cannot proceed by clinging on the patents and legal protections alone.

You miss something the author's talked about and it's the transition from GNU/Linux to BSD

I assume he/she wants to have a more understandable OS; and because the BSD's excel at that area, I guess she/he's referring to the BSD's.

Windows --> Great but I still cannot understand some of its peculiarities such as unexpected crashes, sudden explorer.exe restarts.

MAC OS --> Great but I still cannot understand just why its USB connection speeds are interestingly low or why it has such an inadequate Unicode support for different FileSystems like NTFS.

Linux --> All great, but I cannot figure out why there are so many different package managers out there?

As for BSD, because it's structure is so well-founded there's nothing which is not understandable. Everything's got its place where you'd expect them: Ports collection under /usr/ports, and package manager is just the pkg_add command. There are no window-manager or desktop-environments pre-loaded and configured, you just chose what to do. And the kernel structure is extremely simple: You can add extra functionality to kernel easily with the Loadable Kernel Module (KLM) concept. That's it, everthing's under control.

Agree. Apple's iTunes game will sooner or later be over. Having to keep mp3s the iTunes way is just funny and one of the greatest indicators of Apple seeing the user as a money machine. Solely the looks and good design of iPhone will no longer be able to hide this truth.

That's right: There will not be many benefits on the user experience side. But there will be a remarkable amount of benefit on the developer's side, I estimate. And it's not just the <video> I'm talking about. In the long run, the front-end as a whole will benefit greatly from the easy addibility of visual, audio and video elements into the web pages. It might offer competitive advantages to those who will make use of it efficiently. How many times have I heard that smart question: "hmm but can you make Flash apps?" Flash has been the only way to design the so called "rich Internet applications" and I've been rejecting to learn Flash for years with an expectation that something better would come up, and that thing has finally come up. JavaScript yes, ActionScript no, thanks.

I've just upgraded to FF3.5 and dailymotion.com was featured on the welcome page, I've checked the dailymotion.com and it was cool except one seemingly buggy video on the main gage (the one in which people are saying welcome to FF in their native languages) I must say,the results are very fine and promising, but I think the MOST important aspect of HTML 5 is not the end-results we see on web pages but the convenience it offers to the web app developers.

I firmly believe that HTML 5 is the only way to go for the web developers. It's like the declaration of independence from abuse-prone and CPU-eater Flash applications, finally.

In a satellite channel (broadcast in english by the Italian) I had once watched a program where it was reported that the chief cameraman in Italian parliament had a salary more than (or in a comparable level as) the Prime Minister! It was all demonstrated by the numbers and I was shocked. So when I heard the news that Italy wanted to put such an obstacle for the Internet, I'm not particularly surprised.

An anology to the Windows OS could be the case of using Win32 API to handle certain events which are not available in more modern API's such as MFC.