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What's up with this massive chip in your shoulder? For fucks sake, why don't we get rid of those anti-Apple (slowpoke) and anti-Google (chugger) types? This is getting ridiculous..…

> I believe you're pretty offended though. And so are you, it seems... ;) EDIT: Since you cherry-picked my points and completely ignored what I tried to say in order to attack me, …

Nope, I didn't. Actually the issue was getting the correct packages from apt-get. DLL hell all over again. In the end I simply formatted the machine with a non-stable version and t…

Ever heard of "blame the game, not the player"? Trying to put all the blame on Steve Jobs' shoulder, right after his death, is horrendous. Steve Jobs wasn't the enemy of freedom RM…

Hey, NH, I'm not the poster, but why is this being down voted? Linux being easier to use and easier to maintain isn't something we all could benefit from? And for fucks sake, don't…

Way to split hairs and miss the point, huh? But that sorta proves his point. Linux isn't good to normal people today just because it's full of geeky magic dust. It is good today be…

> You occasionally drop a few hundred lines of code on github and then think you are a contributor to Free Software? Yes I do. Github being is so successful these days is proof tha…

I believe smcfancontrol installs its kext by demand from inside the Cocoa App. I don't know how it's done (I only do UNIX stuff on my Mac =/) but I believe it changes the .kext own…

Why do we care so much about genius scientists but dismiss genius dilletantes? Also, why do we have to dillute our opinion on people and reduce them to the stereotypes? Is it somet…

No, it doesn't. This is impacting news for our industry. Also, it's NH's way of saying goodbye. Please, don't try to ruin this. Don't worry, it will all go away in a few hours. Jus…

I know how you feel. Last time my manager asked me to come up with a simple test for interviews I added a question with code and asked what it was: a bubble sort in C#. No one got …

> Like pay them a lot of money Highly unlikely, considering Apple's complete lack of interest in licensing or having a clone market.

I'd say that the sum is bigger than the parts when it comes to copying products. One or two things would be perfectly okay, everyone does that, in every market, but the accusations…

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of those complaints related mostly to the SQL generation rather than the "mapping" part? I find that the problem when discussing O…

Judging from the advertisements in local phone stores here, I'd say that Samsung and Motorola appeal much more to the young folks, while HTC is more of a premium brand for executiv…

C'mon let's be fair here... What Gruber said was that "the right way to do things" depends on whether the person is writing for Apple or for Microsoft, and he (as punctuated by the…

I'm sorry, where do you get that? I never had a problem with iPhones, nor know anyone who ever did, except for a cracked screen or another. No antenna-gate here either. C'mon... On…

Isn't it too early for that? Given the number of developers working with Microsoft's ecosystem, I don't think it will be long until they have a market as big as Apple's or Google's…

Looks like it. Seems like it's a war where everybody wins. EDIT: But yeah, I don't think they're giving up completely on Flash, considering we'll still need it for some things unti…

"Hackers gonna hack!" :D

I love the whole tone of the article and how Brendan Eich is painted as the hero. Because he is. He managed to make a language that, despite its simplicity, is still in its peak af…

Yep, you're right! "The concept behind the XMLHttpRequest object was originally created by the developers of Outlook Web Access (by Microsoft) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000." …

Ridiculous indeed. People think that Apple did a lot of things on the iPad, but all they did was removing the pen, removing some useless physical buttons, using a tailored touch-or…