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> It passes boredom So does cutting your toenails > It maintains friendships, > It resurrects old friendships, > It sparks new friendships No, people do those things. It's a medium…

tl;dr = "Turns out people who've been doing this longer than us actually know what they're talking about"

> "Because FF and Chrome are cross-platform, I and my fellow developers can test on our OS of choice." Speaking from experience, you can't always. Having done a lot of browser-test…

Graceful Degradation - look it up. The baseline compatibility should be "functional but not necessarily beautiful". Not wasting time getting pixel-perfection in IE is wise. Blockin…

I would say this list is a bit shocking, but I own a Kindle, and I've never highlighted a flippin thing. I don't see myself ever getting in the habit either. Looks like the data se…

It might. It might also suggest that he hasn't developed any embarassment about thinking out loud and openly contemplating various aspects of our lives. That's not a bad thing if y…

Aye, he's a lot more deriviative than he lets on.

I quite Like Jon Blow's creative activity, but my god the author of that article must never play any game that costs less than €50. Blockbuster games have as much intellectual requ…

You have a good point. All the skills listed are good things to have, but you wouldn't look for half of them in my current job, a lot of it would be useless. And an understanding o…

As someone who works with Linux and Windows, I agree with what you're saying here. I hate Putty though. I use Aptana for writing my code, and quite like the built-in terminal in th…

Aye, I'd agree that the things shouldn't be too net-dependent. It should be a simple matter to pre-load the things with a full curriculum of textbooks, in electronic form. I don't …

I had one class that taught anything about computers in my teenage years (the laughable ECDL course), and I got kicked out on the first day. Nothing I knew about computers manifest…

The abstract of the actual research: "Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its ef…

Yep. What makes this apology convincing, compared to some others, is that they were improving their system, rather than fucking with people's data without their consent.

I regard them as instructions to be processed by something which can actually evaluate those instructions, like a browser. Writing css and html is no more programming than writing …

Mozilla Developer Network already is the replacement for W3Schools. Even for experts, it's a great reference. https://developer.mozilla.org/ You'd have to be very green to find w3s…

I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it. It's not for me, but it's still nice. I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who hav…

Honestly, I got as far as hovering the link, saw it was a .pdf by the status bar, and was instantly alienated. What decade was this fictional start-up created in? 1870?

Yeah, if I installed Windows 8, I'd probably take the time the time to learn how the new things work. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it's bad. What I don't like is how…

Etsy wins.

Argument which apparently led to the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082965 I love how oslic describes a dev who maintains their right to say how their work is used as a…

That one really bewildered me too. Suddenly there's no motive for having a unique element on a page, and styling it's children accordingly? Nonsense.

Don't consumer operating systems always offer a virtual tour of how to use them?

The "teeth itch" thing: It feels too much like over-ornamentation. It just wouldn't suit my style of work. I find it much faster to scan css when everything is vertically aligned. …

Some nice ideas, but not many new ones. And the new ones don't always make sense: "For each level of markup nesting, try and indent your CSS to match" "Also write vendor prefixed C…