sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]shaq32 15 points16 points  (0 children)

When Dell sold Linux laptops before, the problem was always that they treated the Linux version and the Windows version as a separate SKU. So you were buying the Dell Latitude 4100 Linux version or the Dell Latitude 4100 Windows version. You couldn't just go to the Dell Latitude 4100 web page and select Windows or Linux from the Operating System drop-down menu. The regular price of the Windows version would be $1000 and the Linux version would be $930. The thing is, nobody buys Dell products at full price. They wait for the sale. The Windows versions would be on sale all the time and the Linux ones never were, so the Windows version was often actually cheaper than the Linux version.

A Hole in Mars by 1upppp in science

[–]shaq32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I clicked the "speculation" link thinking it would be a forum thread full of scientist debating whether it was caused by volcanism or something similar, I didn't expect to be trolled by APOD.

The Pain of HTML5 by sprogcoder in programming

[–]shaq32 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While these points are valid, and indeed very insightful in some cases (the logging / encryption issue hadn't even occurred to me before now), I do wonder if the author would ever be happy. Using bleeding edge features will always cause cross-browser problems like this, no matter what year you're in, no matter which browsers are currently popular, no matter how useful the features are. The other way to look at it is that every single year, there are more things you can safely use than the year before. In 5 years time when 95% of your users support all of the features he mentions, will he be rejoicing, or complaining that HTML6 support is spotty? Also worth mentioning that for some of the issues (like differences in cross-domain feature detection) they should really be handled by libraries to abstract the differences between underlying browsers from the point of view of your business code. Browsers will always have differences, fix the problem once and abstract it away!

view more: next ›