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gbromios
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Comment #44325971
I wish that it did actually break the web so I didn't have to see this same dumbass article every two weeks
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Comment #41710328
"revenge fork" lol this is an excellent term for describing this sort of thing
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Comment #39885996
the irony of pontificating on UI with a bunch of random mouse pointers jiggling all over the article I'm trying to read...
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Comment #35840883
I am personally a rabid descriptivist, but I still find myself somehow sympathetic to this editor's cause. Much like "literally", losing the "official" meaning of "comprise" would …
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Comment #35580529
what a bizarre reading...
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Comment #35569008
I deeply, un-ironically respect their ethos and their hideous, distracting color scheme
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Comment #30288104
this is great, but what sticks out to me is how quickly this seems to have been rolled out. Unless I'm misreading something, this went from first public draft [1] to full support […
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Comment #30260064
I really want to avoid invoking any cliches to the effect of "youth is wasted on the young" here, but even though that's an unfair generalization, there's still a grain of truth to…
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Comment #29433480
Fuck yeah, I love svgs. I'm not a designer so this isn't really for me, but the potential here is huge. Nice work.
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Comment #27984141
Damn, that is beautiful, but feels too condensed for a terminal/text editor. Maybe I'll give it a try anyway...
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Comment #27435839
Are you suggesting that ff traffic would be substantially higher if I were to account for users that were obfuscating their user agent header?
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Comment #27435302
What a deeply ignorant perspective. Too infuriating to ignore. Firefox users constitute my webrtc-based video conference app doesn't currently support ff and never will unless comp…
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Comment #27381211
> I think becomes difficult to argue and render this question invalid if we fail to quantify a problem. It is difficult. It's probably the central difficulty of UIs on the web. How…
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Comment #27380771
As with most things UI, it's subjective and difficult to quantify, but in the context of a website, it could mean a few things. If you, as a user, feel that the site is sluggish, u…
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Comment #14553762
I have no idea. Like I said, I was only a casual observer of the rally against systemd. I get the feeling that the opposition was more about ethos than any irrefutable technical ar…
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Comment #14552909
>I get the impression that OP seems to just be abandoning systemd to build another... systemd. So it seems like not-invented-here syndrome. well, he does say: >There may be a bit o…
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Comment #14552807
>prototype chicken nugget for some reason, this phrase resonates deeply with me.
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Comment #14122123
If BotW is the only game that ever comes out for the Switch, I'd still be satisfied with the purchase.
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Comment #14055750
If by "the political motives of YouTube" you mean "the brand identities of their advertisers", then yes. If Old Spice or whoever doesn't want their deodorant sold by alt-right vlog…
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Comment #13763519
This was a typical Richard Feynman explanation. On the one hand, it infuriated the experts who had worked on the problem because it neglected to even mention all of the clever prob…
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Comment #13763475
>Not that it would have spared him from fizzbuzz on the interview these days.. I'd hope an interviewer would view an applicant's fizzbuzz as a pleasant surprise if it came with a b…
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Comment #7599018
Dreamweaver 2.0