ConradHex

I think your answer is right there: he's a kid. Teenagers don't have a real well-developed sense of risk and danger.

I prefer products from Target over Walmart because they tend to be better designed and higher quality. Walmart is great when you want something really cheap, though, and quality isn't really a concern.

There is a compelling long-term reason to colonize the moon: to solve the issues we need to solve to expand to other solar systems.

If we don't, it seems totally possible that at some point a large-scale disaster on Earth could wipe out all human life.

I would still be using godaddy if they didn't try so hard to sell all sorts of useless extra features. It feels really scummy using their site.

In other words, I don't think they have quite the customer-service focus he says they do.

Doesn't seem to have stopped Javascript from becoming popular...

The writer is from Ireland. What does someone from Ireland think someone from California sounds like? I suspect they think a "California accent" is pretty close to the "non-regional dialect" that U.S. newscasters use.

>The only "contest" that is regulated by law is legally called a "Sweepstake".

What about, for example, poker tournaments?

Did you notice that the cereal contests have a bunch of legal text? Void where prohibited, etc? Also, those are not "contests of skill".

They may have a strong built-in bias, but what about the point they're making? Seems like there's something to it.

The first that popped into my head was that the title could be truncated to "Everything About CSS is Wrong".

Badly. :|

It's hard to say if it was marketing or what, though. Plenty of budget games did well (not sure any more), but people don't usually buy budget games based on reviews. They buy it because they see it at Wal-mart for $20 and it looks fun based on the box.

Someone ported it to an arcade platform, though, and I still see it at most Chuck-e-cheese's, which is the coolest thing in the world. Way cooler than seeing it on the shelf at the store.

Several years ago I co-founded a small game company. We busted our butt working 80 hours a week for months on end to get stuff done. We had one game that we shipped and were proud of; it was a budget game, but it was superior to many other games at that price point ($20).

Anyway, one reviewer wrote: "I would prefer the soothing comfort of a spork being gouged in my eye rather than playing a few more minutes of this game." Still makes me laugh, actually.

I suspect if you have to ask them, the answer is a big-time "no".

To the extent that the recession is to blame, I think the cause is that tech books are largely a luxury item. So much really good information and support is available online, and often your $60 investment gets you flawed or out-of-date information. Plus you can't search or copy+paste from dead trees.

I love programming books, but I can do without buying them, for the most part, without a significant impact.

The article is interesting, even if the headline is totally irrelevant.

I wonder if "afternoon" is banned, too...

I use itunes and don't own an ipod. I burn CDs with it to use in my car.

That isn't an option with kindle.

The fact that he's taking a significant leave of absence makes me think maybe his doctors said "you have a one in X chance of beating this thing". Again, I really want to be wrong.

>Realty check: People get sick and they rest and then they get better.

Pretty often, actually, people get sick and then die. Especially people who've had cancer. :(

Reading between the lines here, I suspect his health is in really bad shape. I hope I'm wrong, though.

>"...and I've been reading trumped up news reports that make me scared so i'll just not have my kid vaccinated!"

That's a fairly biased representation of those parents' viewpoint, isn't it?

If I'm understanding the article, the point is that Noah said, essentially, "here's one way you can convert all those eyeballs into cash", and then actually went and did it. That's pretty significant.

I'm always surprised how many articles sound like that. Especially when people are complaining about taxes or city ordinances, or a lack of police officers.

This could be useful in the case of a mass emergency where 911 can't respond to everyone in a timely way. Also, when you don't have a cell signal. Or after the zombie apocalypse.

I'm so used to seeing bad news, I was trying to figure this one out. "So, this is a big step backwards for us, then, right? Oh, wait."

I'd say it could be described as "malicious" to redirect a site's traffic to another site, especially an adult one. It's not "good, clean fun", that's for sure. It has consequences for people.

Just to be clear, not all the SF staff were laid off.

Outlook has this sort of thing, but the receiver sees the notification and has to accept it. Which is always a clear sign to me that someone sent something out and then thought better of it, so I always look extra-closely at the email in question.

Anyway, if people didn't accidentally send stuff like this, cnn.com and other mainstream media couldn't write an article about it every 6 months.

Or, my favorite, "there were some zeros and ones mixed up."

Freescale gives away this source for free. It's driver source for some of their hardware.

I couldn't read it all, it was too infuriating.