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The most interesting part of this article is how entirely openly it's indicating that a default setting that can easily be changed in a web browser will be left by virtually all us…

Thanks for this post, I sometimes feel as if this is the world's least well made distinction. So many people seem to have constructed the idea that dictionaries instruct the use of…

Google pumping and dumping. Seems kind of shitty to me. E: I do realise it's a very long term pump. But it has that feel.

Seriously, thank you. Plus there was literally nothing about college. Which I am at.

But they didn't. Noone ever just called it ogg. It was always Ogg Vorbis, sometimes Ogg/Vorbis. Some file types just get an easy ride, like jpeg/jpg. Imagine if it was actually rou…

Yahoo Answers. Amazing. Have you recently visited their Programming & Design section? How does that community survive?

I'll say it. It might sound incredibly trivial, but the name. It's an insanely intimidating name.

I feel like there was a time when gender politics wasn't so abrasive in computing. It wasn't healthy, but it didn't make you constantly feel mired in some swamp of unsolvable probl…

DHH is so mouthy it actually is really beginning to give the impression of massive insincerity.

This should shove the internet into a more sophisticated mode of advertising (if more clandestine in many ways, shills ahoy). It's unprecendentedly pathetic to see companies worryi…

Extreme levels of correct, I myself am incredibly bitter/jealous/you-name-it. However, I get a tugging sensation that it's almost all PR-minded.

A counter.

I really fanatically hope this doesn't happen and the opposite happens i.e. a fuller version of iOS is used on iPhone/iPad. The revolutionary step would be to open up iOS more whil…

Because of my own myopic, self-interestedness I actually do think some programmers are smarter than most lawyers. But this article is not evidence or argument of that. Knowledge wi…

The XKCD comic is about herpetology and ornithology. The revised one is about the difference between wordpress users and developers. Where on earth does either mention the intellig…

Works great for a company that risks generating a lot of noise to consumers (i.e. producing and marketing physical products). But for Google it's pervasiveness and breadth of servi…

For god's sake. I literally just started using it for W3Schools about two months ago. It costs google practically nothing to do that, and now they suggest adding another extension …

They should not be talking about it publicly (internally it would be obvious who these people are). They should not be describing them in equally offensive terms, an idiot from a s…

Dungeon's and Dragons. Who wants that for their child? Plus this has all the gloss of pushy pushy parents.

A company that makes a product that users care substantially about? Yeah, what a shit use of effort that would be.

My impression of google from age ~15 was of a company who had balanced profitability with genuine altruistic intent. They had so many products, tools, services, libraries... everyt…

Thank you so much for this system. I sincerely hope that this gets more traction than OpenID. This is the most essential feature the entire web has never had.

Boy, I can't wait to have two years worth of notes 'No longer supported'! Sign me up!

Very good call. This is becoming a serious problem on hn/reddit.