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Comment Re:Tabs or bookmarks? (Score 2) 29

At this point it seems people are using tabs as if they were bookmarks. What is an "unloaded tab" if not a glorified bookmark, in the end?

I'm certainly guilty of this, though I also use bookmarks. For me, an unloaded tab is much more "in your face" than a bookmark hidden away in a menu. I tend to use my list of tabs (about 30) as a todo list and bookmarks as "this might be useful again in the future".

This may sound weird, but I think the biggest problem with bookmarks is finding them again. Whether you try to organize them into 1000 folders (IMO a lost cause) or use the Gmail approach of just search everything (also a lost cause, because not enough metadata is associated with the bookmark), even if you know you bookmarked something in the past, unless you remember the title of the page you probably aren't going to find it again.

I'd really like to see a better system for keeping track of pages. Personally, I set Firefox to never, ever, forget my browser history, so I can search it going back years. That's helped me dig up a lot of old stuff that I couldn't quite remember where I found something.

Comment Re:Data centers create almost no long-term jobs. (Score 1) 48

A data center is built by itinerant mechanical and electrical workers from out of the area. Once built, data centers create almost no local jobs.

Data Centers are no different than any other complex facility: once built, they have to be physically managed and maintained. There has to be some people there.

Comment Re:No, it isn't "stressing out the local community (Score 1) 48

It's stressing out the "Alliance for Affordable Energy" and a couple other activist groups, for whom 404 appears to be shilling instead of reporting.

More propaganda masquerading as news.

404 was created by a bunch of ex-Vice guys after Motherboard went Tits Up. It's a political advocacy group fronted by a blog. That doesn't necessarily mean that they can't write things that turn out to be valuable or insightful, but know up front that their agenda comes first, the same way agendas come first in any politically-centered enterprise (Jacobin Mag, National Review, the New Republic, etc etc). They are, without fail, always going to play their particular angle first and foremost.

Comment Re:"Linux is a Cancer" (Score 2) 67

I wonder if Bill Gates giving away his money has the same satisfaction as Linus Torvalds knowing he made the world a better place

History will show which one actually gets remembered as a good person and my bet is on Linus

Lesson I learnt... chasing money ends poorly.

JJ

"History" won't give a flying shit. Great men in history... and women... have rarely been "good". Steve Jobs will be remembered far more than Torvalds ever will, and he was absolute garbage as a person. Like it or not, history cares about winners. Genghis Khan will always be remembered more than, say, Mother Theresa.

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