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That’s a pretty big claim. Got a source for it?

Judging from a lot of the serious analysis responses in the comments here, quite a few people.

Interestingly they've built two different versions of the typeface: Compact (for watchOS) and UI (for OS X/iOS). Compact is far closer to DIN or Roboto (with flattened vertical str…

Went to check this — seems that you can watch some HBO shows on instant video, but you have to pay extra for those. Kind of sucks.

The mechanic itself isn't actually that interesting. When they released the demo there was a discussion about how the mechanic works over on the destiny.bungie.org forum: http://de…

I think I can see the intent behind requiring comments be endorsed by ‘users with over 1000’ karma: this is a somewhat arbitrary way of saying ‘users who themselves are good contri…

Stopped reading Hacker News.

> what I determined is that there's a new definition of what "semantic" means in front-end architecture. Semantic doesn't just describe the content anymore, it describes the functi…

> I would have preferred you used the 90% of your words to give better examples of how to do things better than overstating how OOCSS and BEM are wrong This is definitely something…

If your CSS ‘impossibly simple’ then it sounds like you don't need it. Every tool has its place: writing HTML by hand is still worthwhile in certain situations. My article assumes …

> If I modify one of my building blocks, I know that every instance of it will now look like this. But that's based on your own system , which may be non-obvious to other developer…

> No, the primary reason is that IDs prevent reuse. Reuse of what, exactly? Selectors? Properties? My assertion is that if you need to re-use properties a lot then you should make …

> This is non-obvious behaviour that should be avoided. Generating selectors automatically obviously carries the risk of creating something excessively large that you don't want. B…

Transposition vs substitution; I'd say F*CK is more likely to suffer the ASA’s wrath than FCUK. But who knows, need more details to be sure of anything.

> TfL tried to ban it Why would TfL specifically get involved? It's more likely this is an issue for the ASA, on account of it appearing to use the word ‘FUCK’, which is hardly con…

Being open to abuse and being something that is commercially viable and desirable are totally different things. Yes, you can do all manner of nefarious things with native web techn…

This is true, but because of completely different toolchains it's very rarely the case that this happens. Flash, at its height, was being used with tools like Flex to build full ap…

> First of all, good old backwards compatibility. There's large codebases still written in Flash, or perhaps things that are in Flash that will never get updated ever again (browse…

There may not be any conceptual difference, but there is a very significant difference in how these things you describe are used. Flash, when used badly, becomes a self-contained s…

Why do we need this? The way that Flash has diminished in significance since high-quality browsers on smartphones and tablets emerged is a good thing. The web is better with Flash …

Nobody ‘decides’; it isn't subjective. If you're discriminating by giving an advantage to a minority when hiring in the interests of boosting the numbers of said minority, then tha…

> "bro culture" is bad, but female-friendly (like Minted.com[1]) is assumed to be good. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. You're confusing a non-d…

Why do people keep trying to abstract away the parts of web applications that have been carefully designed to solve that particular part of the problem as best they can with a ‘one…

I wholeheartedly disagree with several of the points you make here, and I think you're more or less ‘passing the buck’ on something which is most definitely your responsibility to …