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Those analytics bear very little resemblance to our actual traffic both in terms of volume and overall trend.

The discussion is happening over in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4346941

Works fine on Mountain Lion for me :)

Your comment about controllers made me wonder about the possibility of using iPhones, iPods, and iPads as the controllers for games on ATV. People already play plenty of games using those devices anyway, so why couldn't they be used to control games on something bigger?

I don't see how using selectors like:

    '#id .className': do ->

is preferable to:

    #id .className {

Also, the fact that this looks like CoffeeScript could really confuse people who see this code in a project and assume it compiles to JS.

IMHO If you're after more from your CSS, just use Sass (or LESS if you don't want the Ruby dependancy).

This is actually one of the better password generators I've come across, although it would be great if you could also adjust the relative frequency of things like symbols, numbers, and eliminate repeated digits and so forth.

In case it gets updated, here's a screenshot: http://cl.ly/GsAx

> You’ll probably notice this site isn’t a responsive site.

Actually, the default Wordpress theme this article's author is using is a responsive theme, and, in my opinion a well-designed one—an opinion which is further backed up by a later comment by the author:

> My iPhone does an okay job at scaling down this site without responsive wankery...

Responsive design is at it's finest when you don't even notice :)

I think they're still yet to update the Ubuntu homepage (which still shows "12.04 LTS is in final beta now").

You're right, I did zero in on a few lines there, but I also don't like the idea of anybody using my content to promote their services or to develop new services based on what I upload. Operating their services? No problem there.

Just to clarify: I'm sure that from a legal point of view the terms of both applications are similar. As a legal layman though, it's the apparent intent that makes me feel better about using Dropbox.

Totally agree. It sucks how all the Google docs format files can't be previewed (i.e. with OSX's quick look) or opened using desktop applications.

Like I said, I'm no lawyer—so I'm sure that the Dropbox TOS is probably quite similar from a legal point of view, however it's the apparent intent that they go to the trouble of attempting to convey that makes the difference to me.

The author says that doing something simple:

"takes several clicks on parts of the screen that are nowhere near each other and are not immediately obvious the first time you see them".

... and that this process requires the user to:

"click the “Ubuntu” button in the top left, then click the little white icon on the bottom center that is, I assume, representative of “a comb, a pencil and a building with pacman on it”. Then you expand the “Installed” section by clicking on the left/center of the screen. Then you click on “Filter Results” in the top right."

Doesn't like like a great thing to use at all to me.

When I read this article, I was open to hearing how this could be the case, but then I read:

"Working with Ubuntu 12.04 is quite simple and elegant… until you want to sit down and see what applications are available on your system."

Which sounds like it really doesn't blow anything out of the water. Then I also read:

"click the “Ubuntu” button in the top left, then click the little white icon on the bottom center that is, I assume, representative of “a comb, a pencil and a building with pacman on it”. Then you expand the “Installed” section by clicking on the left/center of the screen. Then you click on “Filter Results” in the top right."

WAT? That's the complete opposite of a well-thought-out experience for the user.

So why is it that this GUI environment is superior again?

For what it's worth, the article actually says the magnitude was 8.7 (at a depth of 33 kilometers), not 8.9 as in the title here—not that it matters much.

I hope it doesn't cause as much damage as the one in 2004!

The prime screen real estate doesn't tell me what you do. As a first-time visitor all I see is words in the form of Adthis or Adthat, and none of them mean anything to me. If I scroll down I see headings and paragraphs that are equally vague. Jargon like 'technology', 'solutions' and so forth doesn't really cut it.

Tell me, in simple terms, what problem you solve for me.

Then there's the additional problem of people still choosing WEP encryption despite WPA/WPA2 being available on their router. I mean WEP is better than nothing, but still a security risk.

Yes, the trend you're referring to (Chrome becoming dominant) is clear, but it's the other pattern (the weekly cycles of troughs for IE, and the coinciding peaks for all other browsers) that I was referring to.

Which text editor did you use before you switched?

It's great to see (from the peaks in usage of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera on weekends) that people are choosing more progressive browsers over IE for home use. It'd also be neat to see the breakdown of IE versions in this data too.

Microsoft sure do have their work cut out for them!

Whoever has made this RDP server publicly accessible (if that's what this is) sure is brave—I'll bet that it's ridden with viruses, popups, and other nastiness in no time.

Also, I get IE9, not IE6.

A number of things feel off about this article:

1. Using Camel Case For Every Single Word Makes It Feel Like An Seo Marketing Ploy.

2. At the bottom: "This Article Originally Came From The Internet".

WAT?

I can't actually find the tweet in her stream anywhere (date in your screenshot is 15 March, looked around that date on both sides). Can you please post the permalink to the tweet here?

This would be a PR nightmare for Twitter if it got out into mainstream media … and rightly so.

Well, they could always use some of that cash to buy the anti-competition watch dogs too ;)

Completely wild, uninformed, and ignorant guess: They'll buy Twitter or Intel.

Do you really think discouraging enthusiastic designers and developers from building innovative things that push the boundaries of what's possible with browsers is the way forward?

... for the sake of preserving the status quo of default scrollbars, no less?

Come on.

It's a real shame, but what I think is really lame is they get upvoted so much that the worthwhile, interesting, and constructive comments get relegated to second and third position.

I've taken to deliberately going to the second and third comments in a thread before I decide to continue reading or not. I'd read much less if I didn't.

Exactly. If I read a review of an Apple product there, I know I'm going to be reading a positive one, but it's the clear details he goes into, the fact that they're reasonably well-written, and the interesting and relevant observations he makes along the way that I enjoy reading (and that I believe is noticeably lacking in many other sources of writing online, especially relating to technology).