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I agree with you, but I think you just landed the elusive "half-Godwin."

I get the author's point, but I also strongly disagree that the economy was doing "incredibly well." I think it was fairly obvious even 5 years prior to 2007 that the wheels were c…

Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?

I'm mostly wondering how long these lunches were that they even rate mentioning, let alone mentioning BEFORE code quality?

Great examples. I think even the WebKit touch events version of Google Maps is broken, but, not being a Gmail user, I had no idea they were blowing it that badly. I use both Maps a…

This is something that the discussion hasnt touched yet, but I don't know that you can assume that devs are omitting the vendor-specific prefixed border radius out of laziness. I'm…

Admittedly this is just a guess, but might the Carson velodrome explain Orange County's dominance in this index? There's precious little overlap in the Venn diagram of people who r…

I work for a very large (Fortune 500) retailer whose customers are overwhelmingly Mac users. Safari users make up just shy of 50% of all of our traffic, with Chrome accounting for …

Gruber's assessment is more reasonable, but watching the video, I completely fail to see the controversy. In context, Schmidt's response seems almost humble, and he seems to be add…

I concede that I'm not being completely fair. I actually don't develop in Firefox and only have a few versions installed on VMs for testing, no bookmarks or extensions. And, as I s…

> Much like how a computer gets slow and needs to be reformatted, people who are browser power users need to clean out Firefox every few years. Maybe I'm asking to much, but this s…

> on several matters its in direct conflict on the w3c standards with other major players. Yeah, this is false. Gecko is still arguably the gold, um, standard for page rendering. T…

I can assure you that this was in the United States.

My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wi…

I'd argue that you can hand an iPad to your grandmother with severe arthritis or your toddler for the first time and they wouldn't have nearly as much trouble as the presenter in t…

The APNs token is unique to the install of iOS, not the hardware. So if a user moves to new hardware (with a different UDID), and they restore from a backup of their previous devic…

I agree. I do not like this idea that lots of zany shit = fun and comfort. Having worked in a number of different office cultures, the people with all the crazy junk all over their…

Maybe "web video" is too lazy of a term. What I'm talking about is video transferred via HTTP (or other protocol) from one computer to another. So, yes, that would be Netflix, iTun…

> We're talking about video that is embedded in web-pages. Are you watching those during your 6 hour flight? Increasingly, yes, I am watching those during my 6-hour flights. But I'…

You're right that MPEG-LA does not indemnify licensees of H.264, no. Licensing doesn't eliminate the risk of adoption. It substantially reduces that risk. (Largely because patent l…

>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode eve…

I've been trying to refrain from commenting, too, so that's one thing that we have... had in common. > ...of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Ch…

Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in the next five years fo…

Yours is clearly a case of being downvoted unfairly.

Clarification: Even if other companies can figure out how to make a decent tablet, still a pretty big if, who knows if tablets will be a "big thing" for the computer industry as a …