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Go back through the history of Apple's (and its many, many sycophantic fans) proclamations - such as apps on the phone, push notifications, multitasking - and there is a disturbing…

Ugh. Their.

Always with the mouse hover. You know that the DOM/HTML(5) includes mouse hover, right? I guess the web just doesn't work.

I makes total sense. Shall I reword it slightly for you? Were Apple and Adobe to work together, as we are with a number of other partners, we feel confident that we could provide a…

Are you kidding? There response was brilliant, and it is right on the money. Steve Jobs arguments are contradictory and largely asinine, and they aren't worth retort. Adobe has ess…

> would estimate Android has more ad-supported applications so I'm not surprised at all Always interesting when people refute metrics with hand waving. "I would estimate" is a good…

> Andriod will be the cheaper but less polished product sold to the masses, while the iPhone will be a more upscale, more expensive product for the people with discriminating taste…

There has been a lot of debate about the infamous changes to section 3.3.1, however it's interesting to ponder how the web fits in Steve Jobs' perception of reality. Will iPhone 5.…

Couldn't agree more. We need case studies and proposed solutions from both camps, putting them to real tests.

Does such an article exist? I actually prefer these debates because they don't pretend to be unbiased. They put their cards on the table. If someone seems unbiased it just means it…

Wow, did the article say somewhere that Google and Amazon don't know what they're doing? I don't believe it did. In fact I think it quite specifically questioned some performance c…

And you think this article started the holy war? I believe I just saw another article on his about how you should do SQL sorting in PHP until you graduate to MySQL, or so claims Di…

Did we read the same article? The one I read made ample disclaimers about it being nothing even remotely approximating a serious benchmark.

So while SO runs on a minimal amount of closet-room hardware efficiently and without incident, Digg has heroics and clusters and scale-outs and all sorts of drama to handle just 10…

>Digg did not release a benchmark, and trying to treat their findings as a repeatable benchmark is wrong. Yet they released record counts, schema, and then performance numbers, and…

The original Digg entry specifically makes the entire point that Digg is willing to sacrifice write performance to improve read performance (which they did to a massive degree with…

Digg couldn't do a rudimentary join. I'm sorry but if you can read their original entry and not picture an almost comical scene, that you are out of your league. Now the Joe Plump …

To be fair, if so many are so bad at relational databases, maybe it is best for the world that they just move away from it before they injure someone.