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Care to elaborate ? Why did it ruin their lives ?

I've used CTE's in DB2 for hierarchical data using recursive SQL (8 ? years ago) and the performace was much better than using subselects.

I don't know much about Postgres, but for some things CTEs are a good tool.

are you the three.js "maintainer" ? My code breaks every time I update three.js I would be fine with that if the release notes would point that out directly. It's really a nice library but it would be great if he handled the project a little bit more "enterprisey"

Sorry - I had to vent.

There are some players who are not necessarily the best athletes on the team, but can excel with better instincts or a better way to analyze the game.

But in the NFL the level of athleticism is so high - obviously there aren't any bad athletes in there.

If you know exactly where to run beats running (a little) faster.

I've started playing flag football after playing football 10 years ago. I've stopped playing football because I tore my ACL in both of my knees.

Beeing a defensive end / outside linebacker I can say that the bigger positions don't really translate to flag football. You can't really block other people without real contact. We are playing 5 on 5 - but I can't imagine how contact less football would work 11 on 11.

I enjoy playing some flag football, because it's a nice workout and some of the aspects of football are in (different coverages, beating routes...)

I have a friend with pretty big health problems (gout and other problems). I don't know if it is because of gout or any other disease, but he says he shouldn't drink acidic drinks. He cut Coca Cola and is drinking now Red Bull Cola.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Cola

I don't like Red Bull Cola and think it is a pretty poor substitute - but he enjoys it.

Thank you - I always looked down to Foobar2000 (it looked to basic for). But now I've downloaded it and it looks great !

Thank you for the tip. The facet plugin is great - exactly what I wanted.

But if they were professionals didn't they use SAN (or at least NAS) for this ?

Don't get USB hard disks old pretty quick ? (and the performance with GByte LAN is much bigger). So it's just a single LAN cable ?

I am testing a Samsung 700t (pretty much the same form factor) and it's horrible. The keyboard is nice, but the big problem is that it's very unstable. It's always dropping back. Especially if you are trying to use the touch screen. I had to tape the pen into it's closure otherwise it fell off the whole time.

When I've tried to update the device to Windows 8.1 the WLAN driver refused to work and I had to update it from another computer.

Using it as a tablet is okay, but it's very heavy and big.

I hope the Surface Pro is better - but the Samsung is really underwhelming. I'd rather buy a small desktop or a tablet.

That's strange the only browser I got problems with downloading files is Chrome. Sometimes it takes a long time between clicking the download and seeing any visual clue from chrome that it started the download.

I wonder how accurate this chart is. The last time we really wanted to port something from .net to mono (3 - 4 years ago) windows forms was supported, but it was a mess. It worked 90% - but the 10% never got fixed. Problems popped up in the strangest places (rounding of numbers). Impressive as a proof of concept, but we've stopped trying to support mono and never looked back.

Gnome3 is a major update of Gnome2. They've replaced many aging libraries with their new counterparts. It includes 3d graphics (tasteful in my opinion), have dynamic workspaces and I really like the function when you're pushing the super key (windows key). The most important function is that it hardly gets in my way and I had to install less things to get the functions I really like (super - start typing to start an application, transparency...). I had to install GnomeDo and configure Compiz Fusion to get this in Gnome2 (and I still couldn't use super alone for this function). With GNOME3 I hardly every click with the mouse to start an application. I can't say anything about web (their browser) - cause I'm still using Firefox.

I think it is always hard, but sometimes open source projects have to make a cut to take a step in the right direction (and yes - some of the configuration stuff is hidden in Gnome3 and this really sucks). There are rough edges - but I think it's bold and good that they've made this step.

I don't know - the longer GNOME 3 is around, the more people like it.

Sure they've lost some people ("I can't install compiz fusion any more") - but in the last 6 month I'm reading lots of "it's fine - first it was a big change, but now I really like it".

I like GNOME3 and would never want back to GNOME2. But everyone his own's.

I think this is one of the few perks not beeing a English native speaker: I do understand lyrics if I concentrate but otherwise I hear the voice just as another instrument.

So I can listen to nearly any music for progrmaming. One of my favourites is Origin - Antithesis. But really everything works.

sorry if I am barking up the wrong tree.. but do you think it will be beautiful with all the breakout cables ?

For me this whole thing looks like a blast from the past - my trusty C64 with everything outside the box (and there were some articles in the 64er magazine [german magazine] which showed how to build everything into a single case for the neat, "integrated" look)

I'm using Chrome on Windows and it looks fine. Has to be some other setting he messed up.

I think there is no advantage over what you're doing. It is just easier accessible for people new to Openbox

Funny - I thought this was a really interesting article - but I couldn't stand all these annotations. And when I was selecting text (what i do mindlessly when I am reading an article) all the hell broke loose and it tried to load something.

Very annoying when I want to concentrate on the technical details. So we'll see once again - everyone's different.

If Mark Zuckerberg invented Twitter you couldn't read tweets if you didn't log in.

I am just lurking around on Twitter and Facebook (no user for both of them). Twitter works fine for me (e.g. when Peter King has written Monday Morning Quarterback the link is up on Twitter), but Facebook is very hard if you are not a user and want to know how a band sounds like. I've used Myspace for this before, but the new player and the fact, that most of the bands are nearly on Facebook exclusively, makes me use Facebook for this. Facebook really sucks for me.

Yes I hope so.

That's exactly what I didn't like. Maybe I had the worst possible time to "experiment" with OS X (it was the moment they changed from their power mac CPUs to the Intel CPUs) and it sucked. Three years later no new software ran on the Mac. I would have to update to OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and the performance sucked.

This made me really prefer the Microsoft way of doing business. But this seems to change now.

I really wished they didn't try to copy the bad parts of Apple too. My only hope is that they try to cater a little bit more to business customers who prefer stability.

Hopefully they bounce back from the way their headed with Windows 8, where it looks like they completely forgot their business customers.

this could really bite you in the back.

I know of two people who did something like that and it went wrong. If you are not lucky you get the "wrong" immigration officer and then you won't get into the US anytime soon.

I once read a book about MFC (Microsoft foundation classes) programming in Windows. This book had some web programming chapters, and one of them was DTHML (dynamic HTML) how it was called then. The author even said "Silly HTML" to it (it makes more sense in German, because silly starts with a "d" in German) and said that this is absolutely worthless, cause it will never work in more than one browser.

These were the days. Funny how some things change and "silly ideas" are all the rage.

can you elaborate on the PCBs ? Just wondering what "Japanese layout style" means. Too many layers ? Not crowded enought ?

When installing GNOME3 I had a little chicken-and-egg-problem. Without installing additional drivers GNOME3 wouldn't work, so the fallback mode was handy to search the internet for the correct drivers for my chipset and install them.

But as long as they have some solution for this problem (and I think it is pretty common, because debian always installs with generic drivers for your hardware), I think it is no problem to remove the fallback mode.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think it looks really ridiculous with it's hump. But you don't see the hump on the normal Apple pictures.

I think Mozilla used something similar in Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM

Other than that I don't know any other companies who did something like COM.

I have got the "NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook" and it is really nice. Well it has many solutions and best practices. The print is not top notch - but the content is great.

The big advantage of Myspace (for me) is that I can access the songs of bands much easier without logging in.

I still don't have a Facebook user - and myspace worked for me all the time without a user, but Facebook didn't work. It's the - "hey there is a show with some bands I don't know, let's go on Myspace and check them quickly out" - that Myspace excelled in. No login, just listening to some of their songs, maybe watch some pics, check out their tour dates and that's it.

But they have lost their edge - now everyone is on FB. But most of the bands still have a (mostly) unused Myspace profile.

I think Ubuntu moved away from "polish for Linux distributions" some versions ago. This was the time they've started making their own user interface with Unity, they're own shop with I-don't-know-what-it's-called (App center ?) and their own online storage with Ubuntu one.

They make decisions you may like or may not like (moving the window controls to the left..) - but at least for me it was time to go - and I don't look back.