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While a mobile app can certainly deliver a rich user experience, the availability of a standard, universally supported platform (read: a browser) is a more sustainable approach to …

That doesn't invalidate my point. Supporting SSL is certainly more costly when you're serving content on the scale of FB. The costs must be weighed against the benefits. Calling FB…

Perhaps supporting ssl and/or tls across their infrastructure isn't a priority. Why is that a "fail", as you so succinctly put it? In addition, I'd like to ask the entire world to …

I'd hire her!

Thanks for the Rush reference in the example (I'm not talking about the name of the framework either).

Take it from a 38 year old with a mortgage and two kids: take time off from your current job/venture and see the world. I travelled a bit, but not enough. My wife tried to convince…

I generally agree with the weak points that the OP pointed out regarding cron. That being said, throwing out cron, or any other built-in system tool, isn't always a great idea. Whe…

I like it, but my site didn't come out correctly (www.convertyourcds.com). Perhaps my html is screwed up?

It's not hard to generate a certificate request. While Firefox and IE may use different routines to do a local key generation, it's certainly not difficult. The scary warnings you'…

The Atlantic It's a very good magazine.

It's extremely long? Maybe I'm a bit older than most readers here (I'm 38), but has the average readers attention span shrunk that much? Nuance cannot always come in bite-sized chu…

Garmin and TomTom are hallowed brands? This article was written ten years ago, about Microsoft. At that time, the hallowed brands were the likes of Borland and Corel. Sure, Google …