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DF (and other people)'s shout-outs are worse IMO. They are always so shiny and positive, there's rarely any sign of neutality. There is no illusion or pretending at neutrality: Tho…

people like this comment writer will not be representative of the majority of your website's readers Elsewhere you talked up the benefits of affiliate links, so I find your whole p…

This argument is and has always been specious, yet it's always the fallback. If the income is so low and irrelevant, why are the links there in the first place . Why even put a que…

People have generally stopped visiting blogs. Even stand-alone web sites are starting to suffer. I recently re-enabled my Facebook account for dev purposes, and while there liked t…

These are the worst . Marco Arment periodically does reviews of various things (coffee makers, headphones, etc), and he absolutely packs them full of Amazon affiliate links. I unde…

The context was about speed of responding to messages -- that the service, unsurprisingly, is speedier at responding than her boyfriend. What boyfriend would be put off by that?

Apps don't even exist. Right now they're just collecting email addresses, gaining buzz, and I highly doubt they have any capacity to actually fulfill any of it.

There is very little in this field that can be described as objective, beyond the rawest of performance metrics, or lines of code. Most statements about code quality are just compl…

in terms of having a small display and a really slow CPU One of those $100 Intel-powered Android tablets with the Z3745 processors has a processor that, core for core, equals a Pen…