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I created this account after a couple of years. My main account is 1000+ days old.

Seriously. This summer has been depressing to watch HN go down the pan.

Just don't do 'login' type work at public wifi :/ is that so hard? Do people not know this already? Did some people ever think it was safe to use public wifi for anything other than general browsing?

Please HN: Stop getting outraged by stuff that doesn't really matter. You're turning into Reddit, and just like them, you will have forgotten all about this by next week, and be on to the next topic you need to be outraged about. It's depressing. Angelgate? No one cares any more. No one should have cared in the first place.

Either you'll do a great job getting people out of debt, or you'll be profitable. You can't do both.

> " No web developer in their right mind would drop support for IE - no one would hire them - and yet they seem to be fine taking that approach on mobile."

No consumer in their right mind would use IE on a mobile :/

FWIW my webapp is 20% Chrome, 55% Firefox, 19% IE (All mainly desktop users). So dropping support for IE isn't that insane.

shrug pretty much. The issue is that framework docs are often better than js docs. So instead of people sitting down with a decent js book and learning the right way to do something, they just use a framework.

The fact that pretty much all js frameworks periodically announce speedups of 50%+ should ring alarm bells.

Don't believe the notion that making 100 websites that earn $1 a day is easier than making 1 website that makes $100 a day. It's not.

Create value, make users want to stick around, iterate, grow.

They probably realize that linux/osx devs will look at their stuff and laugh out loud at its lameness.

2k = 95% of what you'll ever need.

FWIW browser differences are always vastly overplayed by 'framework' developers.

When exactly did he say "women should not run a startup."?

> "I write in a gender independent style (unlike your comment!)."

That seems fairly silly considering 95%+ of founders are men. Women founders are an edge case. Whether that's how things should be or not is a question for another day IMHO (Ask women why they don't want to be founders), but acknowledging the fact that 95% of founders are men, isn't being sexist.

I think his point is completely valid - if you have a supportive spouse, you can be 50% involved in baby, or you can be 1% involved in baby. If it's 1% then it won't really impact your success in a startup (Although you'll most likely live to regret it).

wow you have been able to do this on linode for years :/

USB keyboard. Many people use the wii to browse.

How about the baby who died because through unknown causes in its own room, that could have been saved if it was in your own bed?

everything carries a risk. Do what seems natural and right for you.

I agree with you - I wouldn't use a webbrowser on a games console. But the population disagrees - they do :/

FWIW, I disagree.

When MS announced support for facebook on the xBox, I thought "hmm why not just give users a browser". Then they announced twitter integration... "Umm how about just stuff a browser on there".

It's farcical. But OTOH, it fits right with MS's plan - they detest the www. It's open. It's free. It's not a walled garden they can monetize.

Last time I heard the web division at MS still makes a huge loss. Which leads me to believe they're not in it to make money. They're in it to mess it up, stifle progress, and keep people buying their installable software. They did an absolutely fantastic job of that for 5 years or so.

You don't find it absolutely bizarre that it doesn't even have a web browser? Even when a tiny DSi has a very capable browser, smart phones have browsers. And a big gaming console from a supposed software company doesn't even have a web browser?

Digg is just a couple of years ahead.

Lets see where Twitter is in 2 years.

Same as Digg. Betting they'll be acquired.

Agree. The fact the xBox gaming console has the power of a supercomputer, as evident from its fans and overheating problems, but doesn't even have a simple webbrowser is all the evidence we need.

MS has never understood or indeed wanted the www to happen.

They were able to hold back www development for 5 years+ with their IE6 shenanigans, but the cats out of the bag now.

Put a macbook on top of it for 10 minutes.

> "They also developed the Blu-Ray format; possibly they get licensing fees for that?"

The Blu-Ray format sums up what is wrong with Sony. It's a dead end format which probably won't even recoup the money it took to develop.

It's a great movie. Also really funny and surprising just how little time/mind share/effort they seemed to spend on the actual product and users of it. Of course that could have been in the editing.

Every chatroom looks the same. It's like moaning that email clients steal UI from each other. Of course they do.

Try Mibbit. It also does desktop notifications now (In Chrome).

Pepsi Max

Religion doesn't belong here.

You still seem to be missing the point that the impact velocity is like <1mph if you do it properly.

If it looks like it's not going to work, you just speed up again...

Any 'desktop' style keyboard with big fat keys that travel down more than a few mm.

I want as little key travel as possible. Typing on a desktop keyboard is slow and tiring.

Come on. The risk was very low.

  1. Drive infront
  2. Match the speed
  3. Slowly reduce speed so that the car behind knocks
     into your back bumper at a relative speed of like
     1 mph. Maybe you feel a tiny bump.
  4. Apply brakes

Yes it's impressive, but I'd be willing to bet it's not that dangerous at all. The very very worst case scenario is that you don't match the speed very well and get rear ended, which is pretty much the best type of crash you can have.

I don't think that's the case. As an 80s home computing revolution kid, quite a lot of kids were into BASIC etc. To a certain extent we've lost that now.

We grew up in a time where you could buy a computer and you pretty much had to learn how to program it. Now, you can get away without needing to learn.

I've never seen anything but praise for them. My mac keyboard is the best keyboard I've ever typed on. The current crop of macbooks also have extremely good keyboards.