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They tried making it scarier. They even tried adding a timer so you couldn't just blindly click the install button.

For the same reason Facebook puts a big loud warning in the developer console. People will follow any instructions they're given. "Press ctrl+shift+I and paste this in the box and …

> Mozilla was in the best position to pursue FFOS in the purest possible manner Well, maybe philosophically, but they didn't have enough influence, money, or manpower to actually m…

Do GG accusations actually matter anymore? Does anyone still care besides the people actually making the accusations?

This was my immediate reaction. A few small plants aren't going to "clean up" a canal.

This is excellent, honestly. We recently moved a few billion requests each month behind CloudFlare and our metrics show that our median user (in terms of load time) had their asset…

I think you're forgetting how good the web was ten years ago.

"Immune to viruses in spreadsheet files." I find this claim dubious.

Nah. https://twitter.com/robots.txt They blocked robots on their marketing pages.

I really love this. When I was young, I was really excited to learn to play the piano. The biggest problem I had was being able to read the sheet music. It was incredibly difficult…

Alright kids, hug it out

1. They don't want you to talk to other people 2. Good exercise 3. Mastery of efficiency is praised 4. Stable job Seriously, where does the line start?

Unfortunately, yes. Every mom-and-pop PHP-based website that was done by a teenager in the last 15 years probably still does this at some level. There are also plenty of old web se…

There's a CSRF token in the form, but deleting it doesn't seem to cause the search to fail.

1. He's complaining about bugs in IE7 that "weren't fixed until IE8" Seriously? It's 2013, the modern web runs on IE9 and up. If you're still building for IE7 support, then you hav…

My project is waiting for your pull requests! https://github.com/mattbasta/areweequalyet

The only thing that turns me off to a product more than a poor website is poor English in the documentation. If English isn't your primary language, PLEASE get someone that speaks …