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Is "responsiveness" the same as "responsive design"?

But if you construct the chest so no one can verify what's used to make it, what's the point? If Apple's products are quality all the way through, why can't I easily open up my iPo…

In some cases the 3d party stuff might be better than what Apple sells. Apple is a lost cause.

What you find ambiguous may not align with what others find ambiguous. You, as a nerd, know there are many options that "save" could entail. Does everyone else know that? What if a…

Sorry if I came across the wrong way. It's just that I find the "replace program x" idea to be counterproductive. It makes it far too easy to dismiss everything. Maybe the goal is …

It must be great to have such naive clients.

Thank you MS Research for a dose of sanity. "Big data" seems very potent as far as marketing buzzwords go. It plays on people's ignorance and the general sentiment of "too much inf…

I think icons can be arbitrary. That's because I've seen some that are so obviously idiosyncratic to the developer; they bear no relation to the function that I can decipher. Some …

fmt 1 i don't understand his first one though. i thought both linux and bsd greps had the -H option (show filename). here's some more: 1. sed t file instead of cat file 2. echo dir…

But a floppy disk is not a metaphor. The metaphor is a "file" as a description for a series of electromagetic charges on a floppy disk. It is indeed interesting that children may l…

Maybe he just meant from the user's perspective. If someone just wants to able to call their friends and family, they do not need 32 million users to switch over to anything. What …

Using a computer to do the things we normally do, e.g., sending bits to each other, requires that we adopt metaphors. Even something as basic as a "email" is a metaphor. How long d…

Asking users to participate in "two-factor authentication" seems like a great way to match people's personal information to particular devices. So maybe we have a double-edged swor…