I don't get why people can't use Google. I mean, it's practically THE portal to the internet, and yet you couldn't figure out how to find out about HTML. Its "big selling point" is not that it's a freaking magic developer tool, it's that it allows for a standardized way of structuring documents and including meta data. Everything you seem to think HTML is, is most likely something else. Without a browser, HTML is the same structured document. If that document renders differently on different user agents (of which browsers are only one subset), then that is their business, and it is expected behavior. Sure, trying to force rendering to be identical across all the different platforms and browsers is hard, if not impossible. But that has fcuk all to do with the point of HTML. Perhaps you meant "web development". Note that HTML is not the same thing.

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I am using both, and I have to say if I could find the geniuses at Ubuntu who decided to knowingly break the UI, I would force them to debug Microsoft Clippy as penance. In 10.10 it was fine. In 11.04 they broke it, but gave you an option of using the "classic" UI which fixed it. In 11.10, they removed the classic option so it would stay the frak broke. They even defended breaking it by saying having the ability to add shortcuts where ever you wanted would "confuse" end users. Idiots. Apparently 2010 was the Year of Ubuntu after all, and we just didn't realize how good we had it.

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Right, because they would not work for a nerd.

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This is going to be controversial to some, but they are wrong so don't worry. A troll is someone who wants to start a big fight in a given forum. He is not someone who wants to be IN a fight, he doesn't actually care about any side of the argument, and all the sweet talking and reasoning in the world will do nothing to appease him. His goal is to make everybody angry so he can laugh at them. A bad troll will respond to everyone, a good troll will only comment enough to keep the ball rolling or enhance the drama. A bad troll is pathetically obvious, a good troll looks just like somebody who is passionate about a subject, a superb troll does that while still leaving subtle cues for others to recognize what he is doing. True trolling is as rare as accusations of trolling are common: they are probably inversely proportional. The people I am upsetting with my definition are the kind of simpleminded or overly-emotional sort who think anyone that disagrees with them is "a troll", and these people are not concerned about precision, accuracy, or even logic. To them, the fact that they have been opposed is a crime against nature and the perpetrator must be some sort of social deviant. These idiots will probably call me a troll, but they are wrong. Sounds like you did not encounter a troll at all, just a moron with a dumb opinion. He's probably a C# fan.

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Why would you be reading a Windows message if you are running a different OS? The point is that if someone tries to steal your password by displaying a fake login screen, the Ctrl+Alt+Del combo will defeat that trick. It is reasonable to hate on Windows for a whole host of things, but this is not one of them.

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Sounds like your source got the reason backwards. DST only screws up farmers since they work by real time, not clock time. The cows don't magically start mooing an hour earlier once a year. From Wikipedia:

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Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (German: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime.

What's most amusing about this is that supporters of Daylight Saving Time (no s) think it is impossible to get businesses to simply adjust their work schedules, but they think it's no problem at all to convince literally everyone that clocks change by an hour twice a year. Overseas communication gets very difficult when you deal with more sensible countries.

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Keep in mind that GIT will require a slight change in the way you think about source code control systems. One biggie is that every local repository... is a first class repository. It can be made to track a remote one, but all your commits go local and you need to push your local to the tracked remote. I used TortoiseGIT for a while until I got used to the command line, and now I only go back to the GUI when I absolutely have to. (And I never used command line for Subversion because I usually prefer GUIs.)

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For Java development, IntelliJ includes a feature like this. Pretty nifty for that specific niche, but not for general use. Then there is some open source software called Squiggle[^] and another called IntraMessenger[^]. But definitely check out the Wikipedia entry Comparison of LAN messengers[^].

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Not to mention the negative impact on the ergonomics of his keyboard and mouse due to hairy palms.

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He codes backwards.

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Mensa Shmensa, Part 2

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If anything, that is an even more retarded differently-abled variant of Allman. You have my sympathies. Hopefully, you are functional enough to be allowed to live a [mostly] normal adult life.

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idiots people who like stupid space-wasting, conceptually-disorganized styles like Allman. But I guess the use of inferior editors that are incapable of brace matching, as well as dysfunctional eyes that cannot scan up-/downward to matching indents, are all factors in why they would give up as real developers need to use such a style. That, or they just really, really, really love Microsoft. 1TBS or GTFO

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I've been mistaken for a dog and had my leg humped. Bad Fido, no treat!

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Perhaps the coder's name is Dot Stop Period.

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<br /> is correct and is required for XHTML. For other HTML versions, there is no closing marker. In other words, there is never a </br> tag, since the BR element cannot contain anything. And if you are using something called "Microsoft HTML", then get off my Internet! :-)

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Like a phone number for AllUsCoders?

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I'm a bit interested in the implication that you can update it twice.

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Funny, but I haven't seen any other Windows users complain about this. Try tiling your windows when Chrome is open. Note how it is completely outside the resizing calculations. And when I am minimizing a bunch of applications one after another (because I don't want to "Show Desktop", okay?), I position my mouse where the minimize button is and start clicking. Then BAM! Chrome's screwed up positioning causes it to do something different.

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Additionally, LOOSE does not sound like LOSE. It looks like it, but sounds very different. Unless you have a broken dialect, of course.

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