DjDarkman

In my opinion all office apps will suck until they agree on something. Even different versions of the same office suite cannot work together,

There is no scientific reasoning here just some experiments. So many factors could be in play here like: air pollution, global warming, cellular networks etc.

Just great, it just seemed like we will have something this decade, but sadly that will not be the case.

I have read the comments in Mozilla's thread http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-... they clearly don't give a damn about what the users want.

They should have just agreed on a simple subset of SQL instead of going NoSQL, but apparently that wasn't good enough for them, waiting a decade more for something to store data in is probably better.

I personally love the concept of NoSQL, it's just that IndexedDB needs a few more years, which means it will probably even miss IE10.

I find XML to be too heavy and complicated for an interchange format.

Quote: "any damn fool could write a better data interchange format than XML"

You can't make a scalable layout with tables.

You can't easily change complex table-based layouts, because you get lost in the td-s and tr-s.

You can make forms even easier with some clever CSS.

If the kernel hackers wanted a garbage collector so badly they could have written one, the reason they probably didn't is because it's not precise. LINQ is not a life saving feature in kernel space.

Overall I think kernels should not be written in high level languages because high level languages hide memory and hardware, the two components that need to be managed by the kernel in the first place.

The GMail exporter is not broken, it just warns you.

Now Facebook will have no excuse not to allow exporting of friends email address... well they will probably think of something else.

I doubt they could kill GMail, if there is one thing Google is good at is, fast and efficient interfaces, it may not be pretty, but who cares, it's an email client.

YUI2 was the first JavaScript library I started with, then I got into a project where I found jQuery code. At first I thought that jQuery's selector-centric method is weird, but I quickly found out that I was wrong. The thing that I love in jQuery is that it feels like HTML and JavaScript. YUI2 is an OO framework and a good one, but to me jQuery feels more like the web.

I seen little YUI3 but as I seen it's kind of shifted into a more functional style than YUI2.

Take a look at Coffee Script.

Still HTML5 could give browser makers the chance to optimize, even for platforms Adobe could care less about.

Dear TSA, why not just ban airplanes altogether?

They just ban things, to make it look like they are in control, I think this is a sign of weakness.

So it's right to export your 4000 contacts from GMail and mass mail them, but it's wrong to do the same with Facebook.

With GMail I can export everything and import it to an E-Mail client of my choosing, with Facebook this is impossible, if I join a new social network I have to do everything manually.

It's basically Chromium with a double sidebar extension system, I wouldn't call it a whole new browser. Most of the video shows how cool web apps are... The chat system is nice though, with dragging and dropping.

Opera Mini is a HTML/Image viewer, not a real browser, it's too crippled to be called a web browser.

Comparing Opera's cache to Google's cache is not a good idea, they work differently.

> Please, let's not ever tell the TSA about timers. Or altimeters.

I think this sums it all up.

The problem is that not all browsers support CSS3.

The thing about the software industry is that we tend to support a lot of legacy stuff here, even after we have found something better. The problem here is that it's easy to learn, but it's very hard to unlearn, that's why sometimes we need generations to pass.

The system is a little bit flawed, because you can't survive with algorithms alone, sorry, that's just not happening, you can't win a job interview with a sorting algorithm.

The reality is that the industry needs developers that are good at one thing, they rarely need general algorithmic guys.

CS in it's current form is a major waste of time(says me who has a CS degree), it's basically: a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but let's avoid proper knowledge in any of them.

Education doesn't reflect the needs of the industry, the industry needs: server admins, front end developers, web developers, <insert your language here> developers. It's impossible to teach all these in an all in one CS solution. In my opinion CS should be broken up into professions.

What I just said, may not be the case everywhere in the world, it's certainly the case where I live.

If I would want to spy on my <wife, child, whatever> I would simply write a GPS logger application and plant in on his/her Android/iPhone/whatever, I think that would be more practical and cost effective, still I can't take photos with that, so I guess this would be nice too.

Got 5 kills :)

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Well this is both pointless and dangerous.

Also using underscores is pointless, because those variables are in a closure, you don't even have to tell people that it supposed to be "private".

I hate Java it has the following reasons:

- it turns programming into a typefest

- it assumes that a project has an architect and that architect can plan everything right from the start

- it's slow

- it's highly inconsistent, int v.s. Integer

- it pretends to be strongly typed, still you get a bundle of runtime errors, that it can't protect you from, also you have the Object....

I hate C# because, it's: Java + bloat.

Facebook plays dirty and now they got a little dirt thrown back at them, and I think they deserve it, because they are giving Microsoft the advantage by integrating with Bing. I'm happy that there is search engine competition, but not letting Google do the same is simply unfair.

My Phone(HTC Tattoo) still has 1.6, and it may never get an official update.

I really wonder 5 years from now what will be the impact of all this. It seems that Oracle's strategy is to squeeze out every bit of penny from the assets acquired from Sun, which is fine I guess, but I think they are taking it too far.

I am starting not to trust Java,MySQL and all other products, they really give me the impression that these will all be commercial-only.

> It hurts and is potentially embarrassing and SCARY, because it is a prelude to rape,

Agreed. It is also highly unprofessional.

> which in turn is a prelude to death and/or babies

I think this is a little bit over the top, there are short-term birth control pills and most rapist do not kill their victim, and this is no longer the case:

> Fathers have killed daughters for getting raped, husbands have killed or abandoned their wives for getting raped.

Accusing someone with rape has been used as a weapon for a long time now, I don't think it's that surprising, that a lot of people are skeptic.

If you create a site's CSS from scratch you will never need !important. Basically the only good use for !important is when you are dealing with a buggy CSS that you can't quickly replace.

Using mostly CSS classes helps you avoid the need for !important.

Why not just Bookmark pages you want to read later? By the way, I keep a lot of tabs open and I had never such problem with Chrome. And I don't think it's fair to blame Chrome(you meant Chromium) for Flash's bus.

It would be refreshing.... the US is far too restrictive with it's Visas.