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This appears to be a defensive maneuver in Apple's litigation with Lodesys. You obviously didn't read the article so I'll quote part of it here: "The idea is, in general, very simi…

I'm pretty sure the blur is radiation interference from the monitor.

I bought one of these machines around that time for a design company I was interning at. It's an Intergraph, obviously I have no idea which model. These machines were built to orde…

Did you actually play with the url? It pulls in the dependencies in one file, in any order. The genius part is that it's creating cached custom dependencies for each page that coul…

Screw the layout, whoever came up with the dependency manager is a friggin' genius.

So yahoo.com is using jQuery now? There's like 10 references to YUI and zero for jQuery in the source... interesting algorithm.

For me FB is better for prototypin code. You have the expanded console that allows me to write code quickly on pages that I may not have direct access to (like production pages). I…

They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of u…

I also agree with every single one of the author's points. I've had an Android device since the day the G1 launched. Today I have the G2. First off, for both devices I needed to ru…

I think the new version has an updated section for the rails 3.1 assets engine... ...Oops, I thought this was Learn Ruby the Easy Way with an introduction by DHH and Ryan Bigg. Sor…

My brother, who is a novice programmer, picked up the rails basics in a couple weeks (with some help, of course). He was able to create the app he set out to, going from zero exper…

I agree strongly with the Author's issues with presenting history in this manner. History is a living document of clues that are merely interpreted by us- very little is fact. I've…

Thanks zizzler, now I don't need to buy the book ;-)

I've been having a ton of issues with Apple myself. I've had account issues where I keep getting denied access to many downloads in the dev center despite having paid the $99. Thei…

Professional is not a word I would use for Zed. Someone that's professional would not be as confrontational and antagonistic as Zed is. He seems to be that way, often to his own de…

I guess I was most amazed that in 1991 Apple's profits were greater than Microsoft's. I was playing Ultima 6 and King's Quest V back then... I didn't know anything existed but the …

At 55 seconds he says the Toll Booth "has the time our son was born". This man achieved a work of art that is far from sad. It's very obvious that this has tons of sentimental valu…

What makes dropbox special is that I can access it on my home iMac, my work macbook, my linux netbook, my android phone, my iPad and the web interface when I feel so inclined. On t…

I've been using rubular since it's inception. There are lots of sites/apps for building regex's, but rubular has always been my goto guy. To the developer, thanks for an awesome si…

"She has this thing where she makes us do reviews that are about 10 questions and then she calls us up to the board to answer each question putting us on the spot." My 10th grade g…

I guess I'm just amazed that they (rails core) haven't learned from the RJS mistake. These 'fads' to get around JS syntax are terrible as standards. What is so wrong with writing i…

I've actually been reading this book over the past few months. I just stumbled across it while looking for info on neural networks in Ruby. The book takes a very clinical approach,…

So what caused the massive Slashdot dropoff? I generally gravitate to where the most intellectual conversations are (and hacker news is that place), but Slashdot has been consisten…

Not only that, but the guy continues to use the same install of windows after discovering the issue. He then has more issues with the laptop and returns it for ANOTHER Samsung. Fir…

So are we now encouraging mobile developers to try and develop many crap applications, the sum of which will give an impressive financial return? What happened to concept of develo…