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Why are you blathering about tea?

That depends on how selfish you are.

While I'm sure it's annoying, this post is not a good look and reads rather unhinged. I'm also not sure what it's meant to accomplish other than venting.

As if apple would have their services obey firewall restrictions.

The QuickDraw source code has been available for some time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285569 > Submitted several times to HN since then. Most recently: https://news.yco…

> Parsing HTML isn’t trivial: aside from bad/invalid HTML (think: missing opening/closing tags, quotes, etc), there’s also a lot of content that requires javascript to render in th…

Speaking of Atom/RSS: There's no reason to have a separate /archives resource and a /feed.xml (with or without content negotiation). You can just specify some external XSLT with an…

https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/#dialects

A bookmarklet is more or less just a JS expression that executes on command (the user's, that is). The execution model is approximately the same as for content-delivered scripts, a…

You don't need an extension to do that. You can get by with a bookmarklet, which would be wise, considering how much contempt browser makers have for extension authors.

They are approximately as big of a risk as any other third-party code you install from the Web onto your machine (e.g. tools from dev SDKs).

What is "OWF" here? Open Web Foundation? If so, that's such a weird choice to mention. It has approximately nothing to do with browser standards. It's not even as if it's a ceremon…

> This promising engine [Servo] was developed by Mozilla[...] Mozilla fired a quarter of their developers, which apparently included the whole Servo team. There have still been som…

> you can't just pick out the bits from the 1900's that you liked, and then abandon the bits you think you dont like, independently of each other Wait a second, sure you can. Why c…

As always, it needs to be said that selection bias is a thing; these surveys do not show people who . They measure Stack Overflow users who (... and then responded to a request to …

Everyone is quick to say something like, "You're not living by the same standards that were the norm 90 years ago." The response is wanting. Notably, it's not the same as saying, "…

So we agree that he didn't write it singlehandedly, then. jonah_hill_fuck_me_right?.jpg (We don't agree on the appropriateness of the description that he "was involved", however. T…

> GitHub themselves say [1] Irrelevant. You're quoting docs.github.com, which is neither authoritative (docs are written to GitHub's documentation standards, not by their legal tea…

Not true. It is an option by virtue of the fact that is a public repository. (If you fail to specify a license on a public repository, the terms that apply are not the default "all…

If you "don't have an issue" with JavaScript but you think the tools you're using are bad because of the "depth of hole you can quickly end up in though is not to be underestimated…

> no substantial modern application can possibly be built without them Check out Firefox.

Instead of whinging you could just write your own script, if for some reason you're not okay with running the same code as tons of other people?