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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 127

Sprint is far from the best phone company, especially in term of customer support, but their prices are amazing. I'm not sure how you ended up paying 2-3x more for your wife's plan. Our family has 5 people on unlimited accounts with Sprint and we pay $109 per month. The best I could do anywhere else was like $160-180.

Comment Re:Doesn't hold water (Score 5, Interesting) 84

Very interesting results -- thanks for pointing them out.

It's notable that the 200M cell group performed at best the same, but usually worse than placebo on almost every test at every time frame. I'd have to disagree with you about dose response, though. Every medicine is going to have a bell curve of efficacy, and it looks like they just guessed too high on higher dose.

Also, you imply that the 100M cell group only improved on the 6 minute walk test. In fact, that group had statistically significant improvement on 3 out of 4 tests.

Comment Re:Sigh. (Score 2) 152

The only other path to browser extensions is profit, but theres no money in it because the market share is so low that it is essentially unmonetizable. Its the same basic problem that Microsoft had in mobile. The products are just fine, it's the company people don't trust. The only people who still like/trust Microsoft are those that are still ignorant of the real alternatives.

It's actually a money-losing proposition. You have to pay Microsoft to be an official developer and publish your free Edge browser extension, not unlike Apple and Safari. To me, that's offensive -- so I only publish my browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, even though they would run fine on Safari and Edge.

Comment Re:The same Reason Many of us Greybeards use MACs (Score 2) 284

I know some people can run mysql under MacOSX but is it easy to install? With Windows I have visual studio community edition for free. Is the XCode free?

Here's where you went off the rails. Using MAMP, Mysql is trivially easy to install on MacOS -- easier than on any other platform, I'd say. And yes, XCode is free and always has been.

The fact that those 2 things were your main supporting arguments against using Macs tells us a lot about your MacOS "expertise".

Comment Still a faithful Firefox user (Score 3, Insightful) 276

I agree with pretty much everybody else on here that if Mozilla wants Firefox to succeed, they should stop trying to give us more doodads in the browser. Hello! We want LESS. That was the whole reason for the existence of Firefox, if you remember. Strip out all that stuff that nobody uses and concentrate on making it lean and extensible.

I honestly don't see much performance difference between Firefox and Chrome these days. Firefox's lone remaining advantage is that Chrome is butt ugly. As a UI guy, I find the Chrome UI to be jagged, clumsy, and just atrocious. I want a menu bar. I want an app that looks like it was designed and not just thrown together by coders with zero design sensibility.

Comment Re:Or I could just have a real Linux installation (Score 2) 163

In my personal experience, WSL is about an order or magnitude faster than Cygwin. If it weren't for 2 important things, we'd use WSL for everything that we used to use Cygwin for. Those 2 things are:
1. Pathing. Cygwin still handles pathing better (e.g. WSL can't handle translating Windows path in commands like "cd c:\" and also can't handle native Windows apps using the WSL filesystem mounted at /mnt). This is pretty much a dealbreaker for us, since we need bash to script native Windows apps.
2 GUI. WSL has no GUI support. This is no a big deal for us, but might be for some.

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