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Comment Re:Leftism + Lack of ROI (Score 4, Informative) 92

Clearly you didn't read the article. I'll share with you quote from it:

"As New America’s Kevin Carey has noted, the demographic cliff risks accelerating the “geographic consolidation that is already upending American politics” as college-educated Democrats congregate in cities and coastal areas in which campuses will thrive — while people in rural towns, less likely to have degrees, might bear the brunt of closures."

Comment Slackware was my first Linux (Score 1) 66

Trying to get Slackware to boot on a turnkey PC server that had arrived with a cracked SCSI drive controller was my very first foray into Linux. (After 12 hours of futile efforts me and my coworker could not)

I was an OS/2 kid at the time and knew next to nothing about Unix. Thanks to Linux now I do.

Comment I remember when it launched (Score 1) 100

I was running OS/2 on a PC hoping that the promise of Write Once Run Anywhere meant we didn't all have to run Windows 98 on our PCs. I remember Lotus wrote an entire Java version of their SmartSuite that had the potential to replace Microsoft Office. Too bad Java was so dogshit slow, launching the Java Lotus Word Pro took ages, hard drive thrashing like a blender until you forgot why you clicked on it and what you wanted to write.

The promises of those slim network clients that were Java workstations just never seemed to pan out. That's what I'll always remember Java as, something that was supposed to save us from Windows.

Instead we got a bunch of Web games that ran slower than Flash, then they went and named something JavaScript that wasn't even the same language and 20-odd years later it's something that runs pretty much on corporate Linux VMs for corporate stuff.

Comment Re:ITT (Score 1) 47

This site is so grumpy lol.

The link on this article demonstrates that this was a highly anticipated feature.

I know several people on my team who will be ecstatic to use this. Tabs and bookmarks are so poorly handled by many users, this will help.

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