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OriginalSyn

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    Comment #5054657

    I don't see how finding JavaScript programmers is going to be a problem in 10 years... even if they started now it would take, at least, that long to fully deprecate the language o…

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    Comment #5018410

    Well that link works but the filtering doesn't... If I search for "Javascript" W3Schools is top result despite the fact I blocked it.

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    Comment #5018403

    They filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which means they don't have to fully liquidate to their creditors and also means their debt is not absolved, merely that there is a trustee appoi…

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    Comment #5018352

    Is domain blocking working for you or are you using some other extension? Domain blocking mysteriously disappeared for me a while ago. It was a real buzzkill when the likes of Expe…

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    Comment #5010749

    BTW Angular supports prefixing your 'ng-' attributes with 'data-' if you want valid HTML.

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    Comment #5009784

    Generally speaking you don't need to own and test all devices, the emulator does just fine. There are a few quirks here and there but as cryptoz alludes to I've never had more head…

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    Comment #5007943

    Or only allow downloading in background when connected to a charger.

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    Comment #5002900

    The problem is if you're using 3rd party libs, especially if the 3rd party code is coming from developers with the philosophy that ASI is a good thing and intentionally leave out t…

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    Comment #4996928

    After having my account locked down because I didn't want to use my full name I closed my account, shortly after they turned into a more modern looking experts exchange and I wasn'…

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    Comment #4996619

    I would hazard a guess that we're roughly the same age because I grew up with the same mixture of units but I think it's less to do with growing up in a rural area than the fact th…

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    Comment #4952643

    Maybe you have friends, family or loved ones that use iphones that may be at your home that want to charge their phones? No. Then this product isn't for you. I personally am in lov…

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    Comment #4947934

    International ecommerce, including China, I can't speak to the exact numbers but the revenue from 6 and 7 is in the millions so we're not quite out of that maintenance cost to reve…

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    Comment #4947640

    The Humble Bundle may have allowed them to file Chapter 11, which means they don't plan to shutdown, instead of Chapter 7, which would have required total liquidation of the compan…

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    Comment #4945922

    The end user shouldn't care or know what version the browser for anything but troubleshooting anyways, to them it's just "Firefox" and "Chrome" no more of this stupid bullshit like…

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    Comment #4944934

    Should but from what I understand IE6/7 still account for fairly large portion of our revenue.

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    Comment #4927362

    I love foundation it really does straddle the difference between bootstrap and skeleton, light and flexible while being fairly full featured. Plus the grid system is the tits.

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    Comment #4910218

    I may have been thinking of a edge case in CoffeeScript when I wrote that, but you're right.

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    Comment #4909936

    In team environments you typically sacrifice convenience for maintainability and while you may not have a problem with optional parenthesis, it invites ambiguity and a more junior …

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    Comment #4904423

    Proof for the downvoter: http://www.amazon.com/Rovio-Mobile-Angry-Birds/dp/B004SBQGHS... and http://phandroid.com/2011/03/30/after-brief-amazon-exclusivi...

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    Comment #4902792

    That's because Amazon locked Rovio into an exclusive deal, you could only get the Ad free version from the Amazon App Store.

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    Comment #4901884

    I can't think of an instance that I've had an app that is ad supported that doesn't have a "pro" version that often does nothing more than removes the ads.

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    Comment #4856303

    I drink at about 8 8 oz cups of coffee a day during the week plus a couple cans of soda. I also poop once a day, withing 45 minutes of 4:30pm. I am scared of what the implications …

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    Comment #4845788

    No, I don't attribute it to being agile, I attribute it to dev being involved near the start of project planning and having input along the way. It just happened that when the comp…

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    Comment #4839707

    Exactly, I can't count the times I've butted heads with our marketing, design and business development teams over silly, annoying and outright ridiculous features they had charged …