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My God this discussion reminds me of high school. I'm so happy I never got involved with this part of the industry.

There's a cutoff built into browsers in the form of a KeepAliveTimeout. A longer load time could have a valid reason, that's not for search engines to decide. Also your example of …

What's up with all the angry comments here? The article is about the influence of social media. People here take it as an assault on Trump supporters. Relax.

That's not propaganda. I thought HN would know better.

I expected better from HN. Don't know why really.

No thanks.

I remember this being discussed a decade ago. The irony was that in most cases it was abandoned because migrating cost more than the annual IT budget. And since no politician ever …

Cannes isn't forcing anyone to do anything. Relax. There is still an audience for theatre releases so Cannes will be fine and so will Netflix.

Cannes isn't forcing anyone to do anything. Relax. There is still an audience for theatre releases so Cannes will be fine and so will Netflix.

Politicians are our representatives, not corporations. If you want to shame people for not doing the right thing you would need to become a priest.

I'm trying to come up with a situation where loading a 199kb css file would make a difference. Maybe websites that target an audience that is expected to have a slow connection (ba…

He didn't say what they did was simple. He said it's a simple explanation for what they did. Google created a great search engine at the right place and time. Since then Google's p…

Hot topic in The Netherlands right now is the threat of a hostile takeover of Akzo Nobel, a chemical company with 50,000 employees, by a US company. The government is discussing pu…

Pretty funny isn't it. Seeing the cult of the CEO in an article about the cult of the CEO. Cultural changes always need time.

Pretty funny isn't it. Seeing the cult of the CEO in an article about the cult of the CEO. Cultural changes always need time.

>publishers don't exactly have a good track record of treating their user well That's an overly broad and vague statement to excuse entitlement. I'm fine with downloading content t…

>publishers don't exactly have a good track record of treating their user well That's an overly broad and vague statement to excuse entitlement. I'm fine with downloading content t…

That sounds more like you projecting.

I agree with icebraining that it's not necessarily dumb for a business to advertise on less known or even irrelevant websites. It's the same difference between an ad flashing on a …

It's funny they you're getting downvoted while above you are there are several anecdotes that apparently do prove the plight of the poor white man.

"I won't defend Monsanto's behavior, I'll just belittle their critics as anti-GMO crusaders." It's that attitude why I'm against GMO on ethical grounds no matter how much scientifi…