| 2010/8/8-9/7 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:53914 Activity:nil | 8/8 Trying to make a list of interesting features languages have
touted as this whole PL field comes around, trying to see if they
have basis in the culture of the time: feel free to add some/dispute
1970 C, "portability"
1980 C++, classes, oop, iterators, streams, functors, templates
expert systems
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| 2009/7/21-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:53168 Activity:moderate | 7/20 For those who care btw, it looks like eclipse is now A Standard Tool
at UCB ugrad cs, probably replaced emacs. Furthermore, people get
angry at seeing Makefiles, (since eclispe takes care of that). I
guess it's just a sign of the times.
\_ The more people at my work use eclipse the less the code is
managable in emacs. I'm not sure which application's fault
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| 2008/9/22-24 [Science/Electric, Computer/Companies/Google, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:51263 Activity:kinda low | 9/22 Gmail's "conversation feature" drives me nuts! Is there a way to
disable that and make Gmail act like every other e-mail client on the
planet? WTF thought this was a nice thing to have on by default?
\_ Umm, why don't you just use another email service then...
\_ Umm, I do, which is how I have something to compare to. I get
mail in at least 4 places only one of which is Gmail. I
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| 2008/3/4-7 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:49325 Activity:kinda low | 3/4 Hi, what's the best free anti-virus software for XP? What about
anti-spyware? Currently I'm using Active Virus Shield and Spybot.
Thanks.
\_ I've used: avg, spybot s&d, adaware, trend micro's housecall.
\_ Does Spybot S&D protect Firefox? It soulds like the injection
feature only supports IE.
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| 2008/3/5-7 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49346 Activity:kinda low | 3/5 How does Google Map widget work? Is it a flash program or a
pure Javascript program? When you include a Google Map on your
home page, how does it talk to the <DEAD>maps.google.com<DEAD> server?
I thought cross domain is not possible.
\_ Pure JavaScript. It uses an <iframe> to avoid cross-domain issues.
\_ You mean the thing that scrolls/moves around is an
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| 2008/2/7-11 [Computer/SW/Languages] UID:49084 Activity:low | 2/7 Hi I'd like to learn Flash. I have no UI experience but I just want to
learn for the sake for curiosity. I just want to create something that
is interactive and fun, and don't care about scalability/extensibility/
reliability/efficiency/blah-blah. What language is Flash most similar
to and how easy/difficult is it to get started (e.g. "hello world")?
-kchang
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| 2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49657 Activity:low | 4/3 Google to lay off 1/4 of its DoubleClick employees. Still
holding on Google from $600-700? Bahahahaha -short G guy
\_ Why are you still happy? GOOG has stopped dropping in the past
couple of weeks and I'm not happy.
\_ How's that short at 100/200/300/400 working out?
\- stock prices usually go up in the short term after
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| 2008/4/3-9 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:49659 Activity:low | 4/3 So, hates google guy, which search engine do you use?
\_ Google for search, Yahoo for news/maps/weather/subject-lookup/mail/
etc. -- one of the hate-google guys
\_ Google for non-news search, Yahoo for news, news search, maps,
weather, subject lookup, mail, etc. -- sour grape guy
\_ I am similar, although I usually try Yahoo! first before
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| 2008/3/13-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49451 Activity:moderate | 3/13 Firefox 3 Beta 4: Fast, cleans up memory good on minimize, stable,
can install alongside FireFox 2.x
Cons: Extensions don't work and need to install beta versions, rich
urlbar is nasty but as of today you can install oldbar extension
Ah-nold would say: Fuckin' fan-tah-stik!
\_ Does it use less memory than 2.x when not minimized? Long ago Fx
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| 2007/4/13-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46291 Activity:nil | 4/13 I use IE7 to browse a web site, and the server says the UserAgent
string is
"UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"
Is MS bowing to the Mozilla community?
\_ What are you talking about? IE has always reported its UserAgent
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| 2005/9/1-2 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:39417 Activity:nil | 9/1 I hate Yahoo. After being pushed persistently by their GUI to
upgrade to YM7, and answering questions that ask me if I'm SURE
that I don't want to install their tool bar and use their site
as the default search engine, YM7 installer still installed a
stupid Yahoo toolbar. Yahoo is getting more and more annoying
like AOL and Netscape used to be. I hate Yahoo, I'll never
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| 2005/8/31 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39387 Activity:nil | 8/31 Do any legitimate user-agents make HTTP requests without
an HTTP Host: header these days?
\_ Not since Netscape 1.1. -tom
\_ What about search engine spiders?
\_ They don't if they want to index correctly.
\_ Thanks. When GoogleBot makes requests with HTTP/1.0
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| 2005/4/30-5/3 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:37434 Activity:moderate | 4/30 In Outlook Express I get an error message everytime I check my
CSUA account, although I still get my mail. I am using POP port 995
with SSL. Is there a way I can prevent this message, it's annoying:
"The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that
could not be verified. A certificate chain processed, but terminated
in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider. Do
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