GrandMasterBirt

my wife laughed. This one passes.

Fuck, I can't upvote more than 10 times. Deserves lots more. The intro text pwns any "awesome intro text" I've ever seen.

Gotta have fun somewhere in life, why not a job ad?

One word: Swype. I find less typos than standard auto-correct and faster anyways.

Its obvious that this particular guy is retarded. No problem. In any case I wonder what they would say about the Ukraine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lesser_Coat_of_Arms_of_Ukr...

I have to say, that is some damn good code analysis. The function executes, nothing external happens in the function, nothing is returned from the function: the function is dead code, don't run it.

So yes, while IE9 is technically slower than chrome, it does good stuff with code analysis which chrome should too. Impressive by the way. :)

In the end the benchmark should be augmented to force the function to run.

This is complete and utter crap when it comes to statistics.

Does most number of bugs reported mean anything? No. I can NOT report the bugs because I don't have the IE source code. I can report 2 bugs a year, and never have them resolved, so I'm secure I guess, yet I'm actually worse off. How fast from report to release does a bug take on average to be fixed? How much of chrome's reported vulnerabilities reside inside the sandbox vs leaking outside the sandbox (this is a big one, if the answer is none then chrome is still insanely secure)? What about the fact that many security problems in chrome likely are problems in Safari except without the niceties of the sandbox?

This is all crap.

From a purist/non purist perspective:

There is something inherently wrong with CSS tables for layout. There are also technological hurdles.

When using RAW CSS WITH NO FRAMEWORK laying shit out is hard at best. Which is why you should use one of a multitude of frameworks which give you css grid layouts. There are also frameworks which apply css 2 table cell properties to layout your page using tables without tables.

When using HTML Tables, you are guaranteeing that your site will NEVER scale gracefully with lower resolutions and mobile devices without CSS (dying). While sometimes you do want to say "Vertical" or "Horrizontal" box, on some devices neither helps. You need wrapping, text area resizing (and i dont mean textarea tags) etc.

So in the end of the day: Don't do Table-based layouts. BUT ALSO DON'T REINVENT THE WHEEL. I think it is an equal sin to hack up a new layout css for every page/project as it is to hack up a new webserver for every little 2-page static html server.

From a technological perspective, tables don't make for good layout containers. They don't respect their width/height properties like you hope they would. You need to account for the dreaded cellpadding and cellspacing defaults, child borders/margins, etc. Avoid it. Trust me, a bigger headache in the long run.

Currently on linux. Can't play most silverlight content. Sorry homie.

1000% eh? So you hire 9 slaves to approve alongside you? Interesting. Are they on your contacts? Hmmmm?

Much much much more wiery when people give out their email password to any other service period. Plus why would you care if you can't get the info out of facebook? You already have it in gmail. I dunno, I feel like I dodged so many bullets by not using facebook.

Yea every time I look at MS's site, they compare apples to rotting discarded oranges. "Look, our apples are quite superior!"

The charts are showing only the tests IE9 excel at, which is a fraction of the picture.

The tests also compare IE9 vs current stable releases. I want to see that comparison against beta releases.

Oh wait lets also write down what operating systems IE9 is compatible with:

Google Chrome: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX, Linux

Firefox: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX, *nix

Opera: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX, Linux

IE9: Windows Vista, Windows 7

Oh look IE9 runs on only the latest MS operating system. They don't even support their own older OSes.

Lets not even get into the security aspects.

Funny indeed. I mean look, IE9 is definitely a BIG and most excellent step in the right direction. If only it was supported on Win XP. If we can get rid of IE8 and have the few top-notch browsers start going head-to-head with features and getting updated regularly, it would be a good day indeed.

I hope Google wins. I don't care if the government uses Google or not, but this unreasonable entrenchment of Microsoft is ridiculous.

Lets see.

1 job I had, the company could not realize that monitors are important for developers.

The next job all managers from every department pointed fingers at other managers until the entire company went bankrupt. They had the best product on the market and the only reason why it would not sell insanely would have to be due to the sales team. They instead did not dogfood and paid a heavy price, when they tried to dogfood they realized too late that everyone is incompetent.

And now I have a very high-up manager shooting himself in the foot with a shotgun.

Cute. Does give a nice picture. Move decimal 13 places one way, you get a galaxy, another way you get an atom.

I lost at the game.

+1. Same problem. I created a dummy fb account for these sites, but don't want to actually get on FB ever.

I was an insane introvert until I met my (later to be) wife. She pushed me into many different social events and clubs that even though I was around people like me, I just wanted to have fun and wound up being quite social. At my first job it was hard to gather a group for lunch, I tried every day though, second job was not hard but nobody with common interests. Third job nobody ate together so I made sure to always invite people to lunch until it became the culture (nobody gives me credit but I don't care). Being around people all the time helps a lot. Also helps if you have witty people to make fun of you and force you to develop wit.

In the end, social skills are like math, they are not spectator sports.

I am still an introvert, but I tend to be social, and enjoy being around other people. Often I like to be left alone, but now it is by choice. The line REALLY blurred within the last 3-5 years or so. The main point to take away is: Is being an introvert making you unhappy? Change it. Otherwise be what you are and be proud of it.

I think the first statement is the most valid one. DRM protects no content from pirates. Period. I can download any movie I want in high def with no hindrance. However legitimate users have a hard time transforming content and thus pay for it many ways. There are many problems, too many to post in a response, but the end result is the same.

I have to defend jobs here. The PR department of Apple does not exist to assist students get their grades. Yes, a person can walk into a grocery store and ask to see the ledgers for a school project, when the clerk says "no" he can complain about not serving the customers, I've been coming here for years, etc. In the end of it all, the store is still dedicated to making money, their customer relations does not need or should not include their customer's school or personal wants from the company.

If, however, the customer walked in and said "please let me see your department of health inspection information," it would be a completely different issue, as that directly relates to the business.

This is ridiculous. There have been less "alleged" cases with vaccine caused autism than there are deaths by swimming pool accidents in kids. The greater good must be served, EVEN IF IT DID CAUSE AUTISM in a super ultra rare instance.

Vaccinations are important. End of story.

Amen brother. I found instant to be uncomfortable. Sometimes DDG results were not as good as google's, but pretty good. Gabriel is also incredibly responsive and tries to solve problems quickly, every problem I've asked about has been solved or had a serious effort to try to solve. Its so "personal" that I just feel like its a search engine that cares about me, vs me being just another face in a crowd.

In any case, I still love gmail, everything else has been crap.

Also try replacing google EVERYWHERE on an android device, quite well embedded and hard to change in 100 places and still browsers use google as the search engine.

Sorry, big duck duck go user so I haven't even seen the new feature in action.

Complaining does not work. Competition does. Apple finally has some so they are making developers happy before they all leave for android. Android is getting damn well polished.

Is Thorium really a viable fuel source? Can it be used to create large-scale reactors?

The problem I have with google is their collection of data. The government needs to control this.

See when it comes to Facebook/twitter only what I WANT to become public, is public. I mean I only post on facebook/twitter what I want the world to see. Lets assume everything is public. While with google I am betting they can know where I live without any sort of geolocation gps or any other technology, because they will know what I search for, where I go (directions on google maps), when I go where I go, where I work, etc. I am betting they can recite my life better than I remember it.

That I have a problem with. And pretty much everything I do online feeds google. And this applies to many online companies, google just does it better.

The days of "lets not be evil, lets be awesome" are easily replaced by "lets make money!"

A simple point. DMCA notices may be good, but you got to show that your services are worth the effort. Large companies don't need you, small companies might not care whatsoever.

And defense spending is where billions are lost on side-projects which if made in the public sector, would lead to tons of innovation, but in the defense sector only lead to innovations on killing, which never helps the economy.

Heres my take there are only three possibilities here:

1) The Mosque is of anti-american Muslims. That should be stopped.

2) The more likely scenario is that these are just Muslims wanting to build a Mosque in their neighborhood.

3) Maybe (2) but to show that Muslims care for the victims just as anyone do.

For (1) I say take the same action as you would with a confederate flag in a black neighborhood. If the people beat the shit out of them, great.

For (2) it should be allowed, period. It is their constitutional right to practice their religion and it is bigotry to blame all Muslims for the actions of the few.

For (3) more power to them, hope they succeed.

Edit: Since it seems to be point (1) then we should stop it. I don't feel property rights ever play into the argument though. The only argument I have is, if it is their property, they should have the right to build a religious establishment for the purposes of the community. If that is not the goal, they should be denied the right to build there.

I feel this poem has not been upvoted enough. If this does not reach 1000 upvotes in the next few days you are a disgrace to the interwebs!