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Reason #358 why I hate Flash
I use four PCs on a regular basis (two work PCs, plus a laptop and desktop at home), and all three run Windows — one Windows Server 2003, one Server 2008, and two Windows 7. All of these boxes are either on 24×7 or hibernated between uses, so the only time I reboot them is [...]
The bug “event horizon”
Black holes are fearsome astronomical phenomenon that are so dense and have a gravity well so deep that their infinitely-large mass is compressed into an infinitely small space. Anything that approaches these monsters is almost certain to be sucked into the hole, and there is a region surrounding each of them where escape is impossible, [...]
CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond!
Here’s a great way for you to get to Redmond this fall for one of the most popular conferences of the season. CodeBetter.Com is giving away one conference pass to Visual Studio Live! in Redmond (October 17th – 21st, 2011), plus $500 toward travel / hotel costs. To enter, go visit CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to [...]
Saving Microsoft
The last few years have been trying times for Microsoft. Late to jump on the web bandwagon, they’ve never owned that platform the way they owned the desktop. Internet Explorer remains a decidedly un-sexy choice for web browsing, and Microsoft might never recover from the black eye that was Vista. Office now faces some really [...]
Dangerous Generalizations
I read an article a couple weeks ago on ReadWriteWeb pondering, Are Indian Developers More Skilled Than Americans?, and I just couldn’t help cringing the entire time I was reading the article. This article was ridiculous on so many levels it’s hard to count, but the two biggest problems I saw were (1) lumping all “American” and [...]
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