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The original ending is reflective of how England was changed by the war and how the innocence was taken away. It goes along with how Frodo was permanently affected by his "war inju…

"At some point, the cheerleaders—and yes, amazingly, they’re out there—are going to have to face reality: Windows 8 is selling slowly." Paul Thurrott is one of those cheerleaders. …

The ends justify the means?

Well, look at one of my examples: RPL_NAMREPLY, which returns a list of nicknames in the channel, prefixed by channel privilege. One privilege is returned at a time according to th…

Having also written a client, I have to disagree that the protocol is simple. The lack of standardized text encoding, the 512 message limit, the desync issue of RPL_NAMREPLY, the h…

It simplifies the parser and can resolve syntax ambiguities.

Does your IDE not word wrap?

Nearly every interesting and popular question on StackExchange gets closed for not following rules. When I see a posted link to a question, I assume it will be closed, and it is.

> This is wrong. How the hell did we learn "pinch to zoom" on the iPhone/iPad was a thing? We were shown! Pinch-to-zoom is intuitive functionality common to almost all scroll views…

It's not "utter nonsense". If your interface is so confusing that you need to bombard users with a startup tutorial, your interface sucks. Standing next to someone and showing them…

> - Write and distribute apps easily. If something's missing from your console, just go ahead and write it. Hopefully they follow Google's model here - low registration fee, no rev…

A console for emulators and old SNES ports. This thing won't have a large enough market.

The argument I've seen is that this is very the kind of politically-driven privacy invasion that gun owners have feared about gun registration laws.

Clearly an original design: http://i.imgur.com/d9gmK.png http://i.imgur.com/3gXcG.jpg

The site has been continuously updated since. Time to drop the Slashdot lingo.

> Why must there always be a pessimistic view towards China on matters like this? Historical reasons.

It's all subjective, but that comment could be expanded to, for example, explain where the XML is assumed to be coming from or what kind of XML is expected. If the code makes no as…

My brain automatically disregards snarky "TL;DR" comments. I can't help it.

When people have experiences like yours, where the Nexus 7 looks so much like an iPad that it is confused for one by the general public, it becomes clearer why Apple is so protecti…

"Every Apple user" didn't downplay 7-inch Android devices. You already didn't like Apple and needed a justification to complain about Apple and their fans, like some tablet platfor…

Lisp code can be hard to maintain because programmers use it to create their own little worlds.

UNIX community opposition to presentation methods other than text mode.

"Most people"? That's a large assumption to make.

Google has historically used relatively loose metrics to declare Google+ a success, as well as pushed usage of Google+ in controversial ways, and that has made people cynical.