DaNmarner

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There's a difference between "blaming IE" and "stopping innovation". We blame IE because we don't want to get into the same situation again, not because we don't innovate.

The author doesn't seem to understand this distinction. Therefore he contradicts himself as in:

'It’s not actually old browsers that are holding back the web...“old browsers”, just represent constraints to the problems that we have to solve. '

Yes, constraints can inspire innovation, but removing them inspires even more!

Instead of encouraging folks write to their congressmen, let's write write to the constituents living in his district (Texas's 21st congressional district). Or better, let's crowd fund a campaign against him there. Congress needs a good example of what happens if the internet gets crossed.

I'm just an idea guy.

Exactly, "collecting", not "having".

Amazon is in a much superior position than Google in this competition. They didn't gain significance because of better tablet product or ad monetization; they are significant because of all the credit card information in their database before they entered the digital content delivery business. The friction from buying content on Kindle Fire is minimal, which is a deterministic advantage Amazon and Apple have over every other digital content provider in the mobile device market.

"Twitter’s applications programming interface (API), the source code that allows the developers to have access to user account information and Tweets."

"Until Favstar came along in 2009, the Twitter star was a little-used and largely ignored feature."

Am I the only one that feels the author has some research to do?

The Author seems legit, here's a list of his open-source-related writings prior to 2010:

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Author/146235,nebojsa-novakovi...

This is the Python equivalence of phantom.js, which provides a programming interface for testing rendered web pages without the overhead of actually opening up a browser (a la Selenium).

Maybe you should consider that a Ubuntu problem...I use Arch and only one additional package is required.

Their tag line is Linux Laptop that "just works". What does that imply about Linux? What's even sadder is that the implication is not even true. Linux these days not only "just works", but has more functionality out of the box than a stock Windows machine.

I want Game of Thrones on airplane trips.

I bet this has something to do with some mighty Oracle DBA.

In this specific case, the character is the last name of the former President of China and chairman of the Communist Party, Jiang Zemin(江泽民, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin)

Now available on Arch Linux via AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59624

To me this seems very tea-leaf-reading-ish. Specifically, some people tried to boil down the popularity of each programming language with a number (the tea leaf). Then the OP simply looks at those numbers, points at some related events and say "Aha, that is how those numbers came to be!" (the reading). Neither the "leaves" nor the "reading" provide much value, IMO.

Jeffery Zeldman gave Dan an interview on the latest episode of his show (#70, http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/70 ), coincidence?

The strength of PhoneGap & Co is the ease of rapid prototype-production cycling and the flexibility in UI construction empowered by CSS3/HTML5. This guy clearly took it as "a way to avoid native framework".

Interesting how one can make the right choice without of knowing what he truly wants and/or the right tool for his intent.

I sincerely hope Oracle win this one. Then the world will have no more excuse to continue using Java.

Why the dependency for Python?

Too little, too late.

So, instead of looking into the matter emperically, you argue that so and so said it and you believe in those people and therefore anyone with opposite opinion must be wrong, regardless of what they say?

Trolls do what trolls do.

ps. I agree with Krugman that Bitcoin is more likely to be treated as commodity and, as a result, causes the hoarding problem. But whether the hoarding could kill Bitcoin due to lack of activity in the bitcoin economy remains an uncertainty. Especially now that the exchange rate is down.

I don't know much about PHP, what's wrong with it regarding templating?

I stared using Ubuntu as primary desktop system from 7.04 and switched to Arch+KDE when Unity came out as the default UI.

I don't have any issue with a distro refining the user experience, trying to appeal to a more general market. However, the initial Unity was such a half-assed, buggy release that my confidence in the maker of Ubuntu was destroyed.

Pissing off base/sophisticated users in attempt to attract doesn't look like a good omen for future success.