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I for one welcome our new Microsoft upvoting cabal

"Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all." We can um and ah about what free and accessible means, but Mark Shuttleworth continues to push …

"Seriously, if you can't spel or have trouble with ALL CAPS, please ask a friend to proofread your email. Complete, grammatically correct sentences are a minimum requirement."

Phil! Is that Phil Phil or motion-capture salamander Phil?

Master plan for REVOLUTION: make an application that is double-paywalled. * You have to pay for the content (The Magazine). * You have to buy an expensive Apple product to access i…

Poor Dustin - he has such a hard life. Don't let the bastards get you down... ... about your taste in cutlery.

Awesome site. Just awesome. The page transitions and text reflow are brilliant. That big box on the right full of whatever that is (chat/twitter/whatever) is just a void that not o…

There are a lot of people who say 'hacked' in lieu of normal words for normal day-to-day tasks like 'did,' 'accomplished,' 'wrote a blog post,' 'watched,' 'logged in,' etc. We're a…

git is a homonym.

>> moving on without him. John Gruber wasn't moving at all

This seems like a strawman. You can't fairly compare a language to a book. A book isn't used universally to make other completely unrelated books.

Usability test failed, because what looks like a main menu is a bar of ads. That is just going anger anybody who feels they have been fooled into clicking an ad. I suggest removing…

Sure, but euphemism just doesn't fall under the umbrella of 'plainness,' in any way, shape or form. So you can't be euphemistic and tell the plain truth. It's just a bollocks state…

They "need" pulseaudio? Yikes. I was hoping people had stopped using it D:

No offence, but as far as I can see, this does nothing that can't be done in vim (or one of its forks) with pathogen/vundle and the extant plugin ecosystem. Also I doubt people wil…

That might just be the first time Steve Reich has been mentioned in relation to Gangnam Style! ps To the author/s (if you end up seeing this): was there a reason you didn't center …

>> But he considers himself the BDFL of Markdown Well he needs to be something other than a pathetic apple fanboy! :D

..but he used Microsoft products, 8 years ago! Doesn't that make him an expert on all things Microsoft?

This continued good-natured back-and-forth is nice to see. Kind of reminds me of something Stephen Potter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Potter ) would have done, had he b…

Depends on the criticism. Constructive criticism, sure. Blinkered, petty, negative criticism from someone who made up his mind years ago? Not so much.

Marco Arment enters a Microsoft store beady-eyed, looking for things to nitpick, sneering at everything, seeing the negative side of everything. Whodathunkit. The article by this f…

I think you might be right: "Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited. Hardware and Product Design projects can only offer rewards in single quantities or a sensible …