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zachshallbetteron Show HN: Improve Your Writing – Grammar and Writing for Creators

This book was written by one of my favorite programmer bloggers. His blog javascriptissexy.com is sincerly a consistant reference for me. Don't knock it until you've read it.

zachshallbetteron Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

>WebKit is a giant open source project that is relied upon by many many different companies...Google takes their ball and goes home and only works on their own platforms.

Blink is open source, it's simply a fork of WebKit. That's why Opera is intending to use it instead of WebKit2. It's like Google wanted to take their ball to another court and still let everyone play.

zachshallbetteron Norway is building thorium reactor

no way!

zachshallbetteron Microsoft has draped a beginner's user interface (Metro) over the existing GUI

Ugh, someone should have a discussion with him about design aesthetics.

zachshallbetteron Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking and my consent

You will not be able to install multiple versions of Firefox side by side. You'll need to use Firefox Portable Edition if you intend to have multiple instances.

zachshallbetteron Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking and my consent

Fortunately you can use firefox portable to test older versions if needed.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/local...

zachshallbetteron What do you think Valve is doing?

Or they're preparing to move into the console market through the Apple TV.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/apple-meets-with-valve/

zachshallbetteron IPad share of tablet OS market falls below 50%

Nice list of sources on this article, yeesh.

zachshallbetteron Craigslist totally blacked out

Not totally blacked out, there's a timer at the bottom that allows you to access it.

zachshallbetteron Poll: As a freelancer, how much do you bill per hour?

My rates and procedures are the same. Although, when clients expect me to rush design/build their work I bill 1.5 or double depending on the time frame.

zachshallbetteron Smart CSS Coders use CSS Pre-Processors, so should you.

Extremely tough to read.

zachshallbetteron [dead]

I love the answers to this question.

If you need to build a quick site and add functionality rapidly, WordPress and the proper plugins are an excellent solution. Alternatively, if your goal is to build a complex site that's geared toward a single purpose. It's probably not the right tool.

The decision should be based on the application not ego.

zachshallbetteron Apple enters the console gaming business this October

Wow, talk about speculation. Yeesh

zachshallbetteron Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code

Dunno, I didn't write it. I actually refreshed once because I thought there was an error. I then realized it was my fault after looking at the previous question.

zachshallbetteron Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code

It was looking for var myFullName = "First Last";

zachshallbetteron WordPress, Git-ified

I have a feeling that WordPress will begin to pull (even more) heavily skilled developers if they move to a structured SVN system like this.