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Congrats on launching! How will you differentiate yourselves from Stripe when they launch in India?

That's cool; what are the repercussions of getting such a card, though? Do you get on TSA's no-fly lists? Are you automatically exempt from holding jobs in the Government? Something else that I'm missing, perhaps?

Thanks; I just purchased the book+video; is there a recommended way to print out a paper copy for my own use beyond just hammering my own (or work) printer?

Because there are system binaries currently in use by the system being replaced.

One key thing to note is that Canadian Citizenship Law does not require the applicant to be present physically on Canadian soil while the application is being processed, nor does it require "proof of intent to live in Canada" for award of Citizenship.

What this means is that in theory, someone could land as a PR one Day 1, file the application exactly 3 years and 1 day later, and then leave Canada and go sit in a hut in Guatemala while the application is being processed. [1] After it is ready for the test/oath in 2-3 years, applicant flies back, declares a desire to live and die in Guatemala, and still gets his Canadian citizenship, a shiny new Canadian passport, and leaves the country. And all this is 100% legal, at least as per Canadian Citizenship Law as of 2013.

[1] Unfortunately, C&IC will only correspond to Canadian addresses, so the applicant does need a reliable mailing address in Canada

(Disclaimer: I worked on IE from 2007-2013)

Yes, the current IE team is extremely strong, and has only gotten smarter & stronger during the time I worked there. There's tons of meetings I've walked out of where we made a decision to do X rather than Y because "the standard says to do X" and it was the guiding principle for decision-making.

The only correct and 100% reliable way to identify IE should a web dev need to, is to look for the 'Trident' token in the UA String.

Very cool, thanks for sharing the source, too! What's future plans with this app, if at all any?

That is correct, 2007 was the first year this whole mess started, and resulted in the creation of a lottery system. It was the year I got my H1B, and I didn't know until late June - early July if I made it or not ...

I'm not sure what you're referring to, and am not aware of system settings being trumped vis-a-vis Cleartype ... do you have more info so I can investigate deeper? Please reply here, or email me that is more convenient; I'm at ravi.rao@microsoft.com

It's coming. You don't have to take my word for it, the official word says exactly that:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/29/html5-for-appl...

I hope you like IE10; It's been a lot of work for a lot of people to make it happen. If you don't, please do not fail to voice your concerns. Thanks, and enjoy!

And here's a Microsoft-adapted version of the same document: http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/humor/MentalHealthHumor...

I wonder which one came first.

Are the older editions archived? Is there a public link? Thx

Nope, I just used NHNY4XA3EYPY - thanks to the OP, BTW!

Is there an iOS application for patients? It would be awesome for me to walk into my doctor's office and be able to pull up an app. to have a data-driven discussion ...

So now that the WakeMate has been out for some time ... does this thing actually give you better sleep/rest, in practice?

IE9 does indeed have software fallback. You can toggle the setting from inetcpl.cpl -> advanced to disable hardware acceleration if you wish.

If someone has a TLDR version of this article, sharing that is much appreciated. I tried reading this twice, but I am failing to understand the author's point(s) ... What exactly are the problems with IE9?

Yes, dedicated tab row was one of the #1 feature requests, and indeed, was fixed for the IE9 Release Candidate.

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/15/user-experienc...

You get rewarded in the USA for past performance (and to a limited extent, future potential). Nobody is giving you raises purely on what you promise to deliver in the future. Therefore, you should have no guilt in accepting promotions/raises and then moving out to other projects elsewhere.

That's a fascinating conspiracy theory, but having looked at the code myself, I'd have to say someone must be nuts to have gone to extra efforts to create a new engine that specifically won't run on XP.

Actually, no. The good reason that IE9 does not run on Windows XP has been publicly stated for at least an year, if not actually longer. The FAQ on ietestdrive.com [1] answers this question. The short answer is that the Graphics stack that IE9 uses is not available on Windows XP.

[1] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/FrequentlyAskedQuesti...

The Channel 9 video is at: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/IE9-RTW-Due-Date-A-Bi...

Perhaps. But it sure as hell won't be including any immigrant folk in it, which is quite against the spirit of free software. Any immigrant in Montreal who is even remotely into that sorta stuff that I personally know have moved onto more welcoming lands such as the US (me, and some others) or Ontario/British Columbia (several others). In my opinion, Montreal is still very much a preferred destination for francophone immigrants from impoverished nations who aren't functional in a non-francophone environment, but the English speaking folk (South Asia/China/Rest of the World, if you prefer) are usually better off elsewhere. Really pains me to say this, I gotta say ...

$10/year? Where does a .ly domain cost that much? Everywhere I've seen, those sell for $150/year

Why is this relevant? Not every site I read is in English either, but that doesn't make the OP's point invalid.

From an Engineering + Compatibility point of view, we just can't take the hit. There are way too many third party apps that host Trident, and having multiple copies puts those apps out of wack. It's simply impossible to have multiple copies of mshtml.dll on your box and have all of the IEs and all of the third party apps out there behave nicely. Even if we broke a measly 0.1% of our users, we're still talking a really huge number ... we don't have some solutions rolled out because it breaks a bunch of users, and that is not acceptable.

Disclaimer: Even though I work for Microsoft/IE, this isn't an "official" response. It's just my own opinion :)

IE9 RC has a ton of bugfixes and improvements over Beta. Compatibility rates are higher. If you liked Beta, you're gonna love the RC! And we did take in feedback and refactored a bunch of our dialogs & notification system for RC too ...

That sucks, I'm sorry to hear. I wasn't there back in the "good 'ol days", so I can't comment on the past. What I can tell you is that the team we have working on IE8 and IE9 is really serious about shipping the best product out there, and we're really serious about standards-compliance. We truly are making an effort to capture feedback too ... I see it walking down the hallways, the efforts each guy is making to ship the best thing out there ... sure, we're not perfect, but we're trying really damn hard, believe me. Unfortunately, try as I might, there really isn't much for me to do to help if your argument for why IE9 sucks is that the previous IEs sucked :(