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Comment Re:If you still want to chat securely over Skype (Score 2) 150

If you're going to used Pidgin and custom plugins, what's stopping you from using XMPP instead of Skype?
You're missing the point here, the problem with Skype is that it's perceived as easy to use and it was the first popular one on the market, so it's crazily widespread. I use Jabber with my family, employees and other people whose computers I can control. I use Jabber with some technical people whose computers I do not control. But I gotta use Skype with non-technical people I can't influence about software they use.

Comment Hand coding with a framework (Score 1) 342

Twitter Bootstrap and the likes are the way to go IMO. Even though initial creation time might be a tad faster with WYSIWYG tools, it's a pain to AJAXify, optimize for speed and size, request count and maintain in the longer period of time. It is also almost impossible to use diff tools and source version control software on machine-generated code. And, everyone that would like to modify the page needs an expensive piece of software.

Comment Re:Safe trip? (Score 1) 251

People do not want to admit that death==nonexistence so they make-up imaginary "trips" to some other place (heaven, hell, Elysian Fields, space, whatever). In reality Sally Ride's personality dissolved into nothingness at the moment her brain's neurons broke connection with one another when they were deprived of oxygen.

+1 Uncomfortably True, but...
Is this really a place and time to write something like that? I guess if someone close to you dies, that's too all you're gonna have to say?

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