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When God makes an appearance.

caniuse.com already lists Edge for standards support and, just like IE, it falls short in many areas despite what Microsoft claims and in far more areas of compliance than any othe…

OS: FreeBSD Hardware: Desktop (custom build) Tools: The usual Unix-tools

I'm surprised that, so far, HN hasn't raked the college over the coals for this as they typically do. I'm sure that, if anyone was wearing a badge at the time, it would be held as …

All I read was "We're too small to keep up with the software changes and our game can't compete with everyone else in the field." None of that is Apple's fault.

No. Not at all. Substitute all the words "black" with "white" and see all the "You're a racist!" comments come out if I had written it.

I came to say the same thing. This is another, "Poor black me" article where he's offended by everything he construes to be against him. As if Atlanta is better.

Where are the protests? The marches? Were any buildings burned down?

Your examples presume there was something better than CGI at the time and the other products are better than something else. For one, I wouldn't be caught dead using any of the pro…

The web was built, and runs on, *nix/BSD. Windows is an outlier. Windows can't even get the slashes going the right way. There's a reason 80% of internet traffic does not use Windo…

There will always be someone greater or lesser than yourself. Don't worry about it. You hear about the successes but not how they got there. Half the time it was a lucky break; bei…

I can't agree with you more and you gave an excellent analogy.

You're being off topic. Straw man comes to mind. Whether you agree or not with how they got to prison has nothing to do with how a prison should operate. The point is prison's do w…

So, we should let everybody go? You're complaining as if jails should be abolished and, seemingly, all laws, too. While innocent people do go to jail, most people in jail are not i…

Apparently you don't understand what a prison is for or how those people got there. Your point a) implies you think prisoners are not bad people which stands out to me. You are in …

iow, you were treated like a prisoner. Imagine that.

It makes sense today and isn't cryptic at all. Perhaps to outsiders it is but we're not outsiders. We know it stands for something and "stream editor" should make sense. Looking it…

Nope. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-st...

In most cases, it's not cryptic or strange at all and makes perfect sense. This article ignores history. Back then, names were shortened to save every available byte cause ram and …

Your complaint is about people who don't know what XML is and how to use it and broken tools, not XML. XML does not cause any of the examples you show.

So it does everything you want, with ease, in every language, better than everything else, but you won't promote it?

XML has never been a medium for transmitting anything and never will, especially not structured data other than text.

You can find more detail and technical info in Stevens' book "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"; the best book for maybe 25 years and helped me do the same thing about …

And you would be wrong. There are plenty of open source projects that are not free. That Microsoft wants to name some of their projects "shared source" doesn't change that. And I'd…

I think this is positively maybe almost definitely possible. We've heard these vaporware statements from Microsoft in the past. I'm used to them. I guess they're starting them up a…