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“What is important for us is that the brain of the car, the operating system, is not iOS or Android or someone else but it’s our brain,” Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Daim…

Your point? That is also too bad.

But who is going to buy a Windows Phone 7 device now? Nokia's already poor device sales is going to fall off a cliff.

A huge blunder or a yet-to-be tweaked nuance of the Webkit engine? Seems to me that a huge blunder would entail a very difficult to address issue. I'll chalk this up as a minor blu…

Providing a commercially supported, UNIX-like platform. I got nothing..

C#/.NET Engineers - Milwaukee, USA My company is in the Milwaukee area and we have a significant need for strong C# .NET engineers. Telecommuting is not currently an option, but we…

Not for long ;)

The market for experienced Java & .NET engineers in the Milwaukee area hasn't been this hot in many years. Finding top talent is proving to be a challenge and is affecting growth.

> People are getting tired of fart apps. Sir! Bite your tongue! This truly unique genere of iPhone apps has incalculable (by you, at least) amounts of potential. I'm certain that y…

The case that I've bumped up against several times is when trying to get the class of the generic object. Something like: T obj; obj = getObjFromSomewhere(); log(T.class); This typ…

This reads a bit like fan fiction. Anyone know its authenticity?

Actually, Apple ended up going with the standard lithium ion batteries instead of the thermonuclear reactor for the iPad. Pretty weak if you ask me. Any money that the HP Slate wil…

"What in the world makes webmasters think it's okay to fail to maintain their mappings between URLs and live content?" "I have trouble believing any CMS author could fail to suppor…

This is a gigantic step... sideways. Big clunky fonts and an excessive amount of blank space. It's like the American car of UIs.

And poorly done humor is just uncomfortable. If first impressions are of any value, you better be sure your material is top notch.

Who deems what is benefical to society?

I think it was more a response to this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001317.html

What an entitled attitude.