jleard · HackerTrans

You're employing a logical fallacy (argumentum ad metum).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_fear

Please save these types of comments for Reddit.

The problem with Apple's position is that they provide no easy method for the user to download applications outside of their delivery channel.

jleard

15년 전discuss

I remember this too. Jeff Atwood made the comment in the stackoverflow blog back in 2008:

"We rely heavily on full-text search on stackoverflow.com, which worked amazingly well for us under SQL Server 2005. Looks like that’s no longer the case for SQL Server 2008, unfortunately."

Here's the entry: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/sql-2008-full-text-sea...

jleard

16년 전discuss

I have always found the discussion of Groklaw posts on Slashdot to be interesting. It's curious that this article has not yet been posted there yet.

jleard

16년 전discuss

Turtles all the way down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

Fields arranged by purity: http://xkcd.com/435/

jleard

16년 전discuss

I use a variant of this when running Windows: Ubuntu in VirtualBox is always running.

jleard

16년 전discuss

And that was 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCW-axRJV8#t=4m40s