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Comment Re:Mines a vodka and red bull... (Score 4, Funny) 398
The USA tried banning alcohol once, but it didn't work out too well.
At least we got cool bar names like "The 21st Amendment" out of it.
Comment Re:Necessary why? (Score 1) 224
Comment Re:Too Bad (Score 3, Insightful) 640
it's unlikely they'll ever release the death grip and let the world play with OS X.
The real question is: do they even need to in order to maintain their ridiculous profit margins?
Comment Re:I suppose this is Windows-only once again... (Score 1) 831
Comment Re:Xmarks, KeePass and Encrypted Zip combination (Score 1) 1007
Comment Re:bad design (Score 5, Insightful) 381
Ever heard of bloom filters? Sharding? Indexes? They are clearly not doing a table scan on 50gb of data every time you open your Facebook inbox.
You know, there's a certain point where people need to stop and actually think about the implimentation.
Um, they do. They regularly blog about their solutions to their problems and open source their solutions and contributions to existing projects. They come up with amazing solutions to their large scale problems. They're running over five million Erlang processes for their chat system!
http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1
Also, when was the last time you tried to visit Facebook and it was down? They're doing quite well for people who need to stop and actually think about their "implimentation".
Comment Re:Completly built from scratch? (Score 1) 66
Comment Re:NetBeans? Really? (Score 1) 151
Comment Re:Ubuntu (Score 1) 281
Comment Re:Another story that isnt a story (Score 1) 281
Comment Re:indeed (Score 1) 1231
The plural form of "anecdote" is not "data".
That said, the poll stating that less than 40% of people were successfully able to upgrade isn't totally accurate either. It's a self-selected sample.
Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 1231
Why?
Serious problems with the most widely-used Linux distribution isn't "news for nerds"?