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Fair point. Perhaps "perpetual" is a better word.

As an engineer, I consider it my job to automate myself out of a job. It's a sisyphusian goal, but a healthy way to think about your duty to the company and leads to a good kind of…

I've really liked using this. I donated!

https://www.goubiquiti.com/

This is the perfect example to point people to when they ask why the company shouldn't just maintain an internal fork or write its own version of an open source project. Actually c…

Google has not shown that it is able to competently handle copyright complaints. YouTube copyright take down notices happen all the time for legitimate content, chances are a simil…

1. Microsoft is in the ad business. 2. With ad and analytics firms claiming its okay to ignore the DNT header from browsers that default it, I can't think of a better way to kill t…

True, it's another IE version, but an auto-updating, mostly-standards compliant version. IE 10 brings IE into the "modern browser" realm.

This is huge for webdevs. With MS making upgrades to Win8 (and therefore IE10) so cheap/easy, the death of OldIE is that much closer.

Looks a lot like Greplin — I mean Cue. :) https://www.cueup.com/

Anybody using this? How does it compare to others (e.g. Backbone?)

Argh!!! This is precisely the problem when you give developers a designers' problems. It is not possible to engineer your way around every problem. In this specific case, the font …

This is really just an example of lawmakers not understanding what they're legislating. "hacking tools" are also known as 'development tools'. This sort of proposal is only made wh…

They key part of this research is that newspapers failed to personalize advertising. That, more than anything is why their online ads aren't worth as much.

If there's a workable solution for supporting codecs in gecko via a system license, why not use the same method on the desktop? Why fragment the engine?

The elephant in the room is that this is exactly what Apple is doing with iCloud and Google is moving toward with the fabled gDrive. Dropbox is never going to have the integration …