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no, because people usually fence in their yards, from one, or both sides.

dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already has.

dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already is.

the real goal of free Google Analytics is to get people to place the javascript tracking snippet on their webpages so they can collect data for Ads and now paying customers.

If we project even further chrome will have 200% market share, imagine the results of that!

I doubt many sites are going to bother with all the complexity of implementing and utilizing SPDY when only chrome supports it. To see significant advantage with SPDY vs something …

just because you know somebody's name, doesn't make them honest either, if it did politics would be a whole different ballgame.

well perhaps somewhat understandable, why should i be happy with an inferior interface because of it? This falls very squarely in the category of "not my problem, but you just made…

"These concerns aren't real, not because Facebook isn't collecting information but because everyone is collecting information" So Facebook isn't acting counter to your interests be…

whats humorous is that Strunk and White use the passive voice in their recommendation to not use it!

>BSD is losing its ground against Linux (and Windows). why is that important? why do the BSDs have to be gaining on Linux to be a viable, useful system. If your entire goal becomes…

this technology is very cool, and has a lot of future promise for treating illness and detecting disorders before they manifest themselves. One thing i an extremely concerned about…

Slightly OT, but this is a perfect reason to regard javascript crypto as dangerous. If one of the most heavily scrutinized cryptographic protocols can have what is in retrospect, a…

Forced arbitration clauses, with an arbiter of the companies choosing, are in no way "holding them accountable". They are pretty much the definition of an unjust kangaroo court.

yes, it is heavily patched to support things like IPv6 (which the Apache foundation claimed was "impossible"). However, the code-base is getting a bit long in the tooth, a more mod…

when something is specifically promoted as protection against oppressive laws/regulations, and then caves at the first opportunity to do so, that's problematic. The service clearly…

I meant it both ways, however the second interpretation is really only true under US law. A lot of parties would want a lot of money to license things, how would they pay?

The gaming industry and the politics that surround it are some of the most toxic relationships I've ever seen. I dont think its a stretch to draw comparison between the relationshi…

if ffmpeg worried about patents and licensing, they would have stopped development a long time ago.

to paraphrase a certain Google executive "if you don't want somebody to know where you parked, maybe you shouldn't be parking your car"

I never said profit was their only motivation, but it is the reason they are a corporation, and not a charity. I refer you to the comment above by jey What Google "wants" as an ent…

the first motivation of any for profit corporation, especially one as large and successful as Google, is profit. That is their entire reason for existence, don't fool yourself into…

My post was not arguing against the specific relevance investors had on food prices, but rather the attitude that just because something is legal/allowed that any parties partaking…

There is a common mantra here of "don't hate the player, hate the game", but people have to understand that large institutions like investment banks don't play by the same rules as…

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