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Did you see the "Retro Razr" mode image at the bottom of the article? Even better nostalgia factor!

How ironic that this article (which was actually written in the spring and goes to great lengths to explain why people are mistaking DST for standard time) was posted here in the f…

I will never understand actual real world software developers using Macs for anything.

How does it protect your data if your house burns down?

Ruby?! 2016 called and they want their criticism back.

Is it possible they are trying to sell for the same price but with wildly varying costs of each varietal of coffee? I.E. they want to sell a bag for 15 bucks across the board but s…

Hardest to read award of the month. Tiny white text on black, full width across, not gutters...ouch.

That line is critical because it means they will effectively be manufactured in China but some token amount of assembly will happen in the U.S. so that they appear to be seen to be…

If you care about avoiding cancer, in addition to Vit D you should be aware of this interesting study finding cancer fighting foods using machine learning: https://www.nature.com/a…

Yeah there are a lot of ivory tower developers here with little to no real world experience and have never done anything of any substance or complexity pushing their tiny limited e…

Wow; of course there are plenty of reasons why forms require javascript unless you've never coded anything of substance before then yes, in your limited experience no forms require…

No. It depends on the person entirely and if you start digging you will find about equal distribution of people who are calmed by a sativa and people who are calmed by an indica. I…

Point number 2 is utterly untrue as any experienced cannabis enthusiast could tell you. Even if people don't know the strain or what the effects are it's pretty reliable that it wi…

I think you're more right than people are giving credit for. They clearly haven't cared much about their hardware with any true innovation for a long time.

Jesus that's thin gruel to bring up..no? How about some actual innovation? Has anything truly innovative happened in smartphones for the last decade?

MBP was rarely the best option for most developers, just the coolest one or they were succumbing to peer pressure, any other explanation has always been inexplicable.

There is no country on the planet that pays more blind unthinking lip-service to the concept of freedom I'll give you that but if you think the average US citizen has more freedom …

I lol'd, Facebook has a terrible UI on every platform.

"Apple benefits from having higher average quality of developers in its ecosystem" What?! How on earth do you come to that conclusion?

This annoys me to no end; so is this intended to make sure no one does anything about a serious problem with this Whataboutism? Or is it intended to make us care less? What exactly…

That's 20th century thinking tied into the scourge of fundamental religion that blames every lack of success in any avenue of life on a moral failing despite every bit of evidence …

There should be a life rule, if the word "teen" or "child" appears in any headline about some new "invention" or "app" you should immediately ignore that article as it's going to b…

Why are we as developers giving this company any of our business when they've thumbed their noses at us for decades?

No the research is getting pretty definitive in this area, don't count it out and the article also specifically talks about another study not the mouse one where they had real worl…

The research cited in the article directly refutes what you are positing and shows that ASD symptoms are transferable via fecal transplant.