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I'm surprised this isn't already a perk at working at some of these companies, but then again I'm assuming they'd be subjected to a whole swarm of regulations regarding living cond…

I'm surprised the technology isn't "fast enough" yet. Most top end phones are quad core, output 1080p, have 2-4gb ram, etc. Specs like that easily meet the listed minimum requireme…

Just imagine all the tax dollars wasted ruining this guy's business.

Google has bothered me for a while with their lack of advertising ethics. I recently cleared and disabled my youtube history and they're still doing targeted advertising for videos…

Better yet, the browsers should easily be able to predict the dominant color of the page by parsing the CSS file and most of the DOM, and pick a complimentary scrollbar contrast ac…

I was honestly hoping they'd give up on the whole touchscreen + mouse/keyboard interface integration, this announcement pretty much confirms they're in it for the long haul. Both i…

This doesn't come off as much as a surprise, because there are better alternatives because google code stagnated and wasn't a priority. Google code still has very old looking inter…

Microsoft still lives and breathes with their old proprietary software licensing model. There would have to be some sort of major gain for them to port the browser outside of their…

This has pretty large implications for countries (namely china) with still a sizable IE6 userbase. IE6 doesn't support TLS by default, making https effectively completely unsupport…

I like this more for the fact that I get a better idea of what these companies are willing to say publicly about utilizing the data they have on you. TOSes are ultimately meaningle…

> My dream startup would be a Reddit-esque link aggregator, which favors the actual quality of submissions, instead of submissions which are lowest-common-denominator which are opt…

I understand the need to fight obvious spam and shadowbanning being a good tool for that, but shadowbanning regular users that are trying to contribute actual content is very disre…

I think you forget how bad it was with 2006 desktop. So many CSS hacks. We take our div layouts for granted but if you dared venture away from the standard table layouts of the ear…

I mentioned in another comment that when I think of IE6, I think of the hours spent fiddling with the HTML/CSS that works in FF/Chrome but not in IE6 because of browser bugs that w…

I guess it's a matter of perspective. My experience with IE6 was mostly being a teenage hobbyist webmaster way back when FF vs IE6 was in full spin - I remember being proud of codi…

> Looks like the webkit prefix tags are creating the new IE6. This bothers me. Webkit isn't some ancient browser that is has remained stagnant for years until google/apple decided …

I enjoyed Digg and Reddit when they were interesting and had an intelligent set of comments/articles. In both cases they changed for the worse when the websites got more popular an…

They've been trying for the last few years to copy apple's walled garden model when realistically their greatest strength was the fact that they weren't an overly restricted platfo…

Microsoft also disregarded the standard: http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#h2_determining Key to that notion of expression is that the signal sent MUST reflect the user's preferen…

I think the idea that the simplicity, lax compiler and readability of python will serve as a easier introduction to programming and keep more students from dropping out early. Java…

I do hope this privacy conscious software becomes a trend and a race to the top. The amount of data collection is scary and the worse thing is the encouragement of sharing this inf…

It's not like they had much of a reputation with the tech savvy crowd to begin with, with their frivolous patent litigation and business practices. The kind of crowd that uses a se…

It's a good idea, its just that not everyone is using a top of the line machine, mobile users will take longer than desktop users for example. They're definitely onto something tho…

That's impressive. Honestly modern browsers should just start ignoring off-domain :visted styles.

In addition if you already have adblock, you can add the privacy list to your subscriptions: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt Also addons like requestpoli…