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It's more that there a lot more factors than quality, like there being no competing projects or it being useful to a lot of people. Writing a quality project only gives it better odds than if the same thing was written shoddily.

They'll be using chromium to some extend, that doesn't mean it's going to be a chromium browser that's exactly like Chrome, Yandex, Torch, SRWare and what have you. That is what you seem to imply.

As you probably know "some stuff on top of that" is rather broad in Opera's case, assuming they keep current functionality. If they have business sense they'll also want to keep their 300 million users, I doubt they'll do that by killing their product and making an Opera branded Chromium instead.

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...

It states that for the user, it's going to be the same browser. It also states Opera extensions will keep working, so at the very least we know they'll be making something not as chrome as the other chromium browsers.

You're right. Still I can compare doing web development using ruby on rails with doing it in php without a framework.

I've done both, rails was much more pleasurable. See? I just compared the overall experience of a language with that of a framework.

You can't skim over audio recordings

The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers.

What does a botnet cost?

There are bitcoin exchanges using various methods, for example by SEPA bank transfer. I think many people without credit cards can use Paypal but don't want to.

Whether or not you keep using a service, it's good to voice your opinion on bad policy, because every so often a company listens to its users.

Besides marketshare, bad press has an impact as well. Leaving a service is NOT the only way of protest.

I do interpret what you wrote as a slightly less sensitive version of "If you don't like it, then leave," type of comment.

That type of comment is doesn't say anything, there's no real argument in it. It's simply dismissing criticism. You can dismiss any criticism whatsoever using it.

The sweeping "if you don't like it leave" doesn't really work. There's good reasons to use a platform despite deficiencies, no platform is exactly how I'd do it. Perhaps Google+ is technologically better, or the audience on Google+ is better for what I have to say. Maybe I want to keep in touch with real life acquaintances and they are on Google+. Do I have to convince every contact I have to switch to a platform that is worse in different ways?

Even if I vehemently disagree with their stance on publishing your true identity; there's reasons to use a platform despite it and keep complaining about their bad policies.

I get loads of "opportunities", by HR people from employment agencies that never even had contact with the company they'll be presenting me to. By comparison, companies doing the same thing isn't that bad.

Pseudonymity for everyone helps the ones who do need it, because then they don't stand out.

If you're not part of any minority or have no radical politics, yeah you might not need it. But even then, you would want the comfort of the advertising industry and your future employer not being able to disrespect your privacy. (Public data and privacy? Yes.)

Why then is it good to kick people out for using pseudonyms? Why does it have to be a requirement? Do the benefits of real names even compare to the benefits of pseudonymity? I don't think they do.

Don't go to work and abandon your family! That book won't write itself. Think positive!

According to that same TOS, users outside the US and Canada are giving their data to Facebook Europe in Ireland. So they have to follow Irish law, which they don't.

Europe's Data Directive applies to all users outside of the US and Canada. The data directive gives me the right to ask them all data they have on me, and the right to have them remove it.

As a European they have given me that right by setting up a company in Ireland.

html5? how irrelevant.

The only thing html5 about this is the doctype, a header and a footer tag. The maps are svg not canvas.

>"doesn't know what it wants to be"

You could just as well say that about smartphones.

Yeah, that's the basic idea behind both permaculture and aquaponics: Build a tiny ecosystem that can sustain itself with as little input as possible (and like all agriculture, obviously with useful output like food as well).

Europe is doing it's best to weaken social security as well, they can't afford to take care of people who have no job.

"flexicurity" is an eupheumism invented by the EU for the central neoliberal tenet "you are now a product". It's not only making it easier to fire someone, it also reduces employees to the subjective opinion of the manager; whether or not you do your job properly is no longer the main issue, your personality is.

The idea is that since you can get fired at whim, you'll be able to get a job faster and you'll be more productive, which is great because the economy is the only thing that matters in today's politics.

That's patent nonsense in Belgium as well, true some companies do care. But I've often seen the opposite, they don't care at all what degree you have. They care if you can pass _their_ test. Because obviously they're better at testing people than colleges are.

There's no personality cult around any CEO like there was around the Steve.

>More troubling for American officials is their belief that these vessels could be used by terrorists to transport attackers or weapons, though they emphasize that no use of submersibles by militants has been detected.

When in doubt, terrorists.

Tags in comments already exist, most common are probably TODO, FIXME and NOTE.

It's not theft, they just found it on the floor and used it.

Because clearly, they lie about what their products can do.

Those are two keys. Key codes are not character codes. Keycodes don't change if you switch to another keyboard layout.

Key combinations don't have separate codes.

In code you could listen for keydown on the code for shift, and then for the code for the other key.

Really? I found it rather easy to use compared to say, GIS.

Creating tests usually feels like a waste of time as well.

When there's obviously no neonazi intentions there's nothing wrong with swastikas. Red black and white are pretty basic colours, you can't suggest that either.

There's something wrong with the people who'd make such conclusion, and not self-censoring will help get rid of connotations.

Also .aq and a few islands that are part of bigger countries.

Those little exceptions don't invalidate the rule, and the request won't get accepted.

Aren't two letter domains reserved for countries?