DavidAbrams

But now that people are more gullible, it seems like a fine idea.

Companies are STILL pulling moronic moves like that. Cooke, a cinema-camera-lens company, decided to call their electronically coupled lens technology "/i". Yes a slash with an "i" after it. Try searching on THAT.

"I thought you might be starting a GitHub competitor service."

That's exactly what I expected to find.

"I suspected that the site may be a guy who wrote a book on git and this is his personal site."

Exactly my reaction after seeing the book also.

I saw that there was a new version of Git, decided not to install it yet, and went about my business.

This isn't a slam on the site; I thought it looked fine. I was struck by the similarity in these reactions to my own, however.

A couple years ago some friends that I considered reasonably polite and well raised were shocked that you men aren't supposed to wear hats indoors.

I thought they were kidding. They swore they'd never heard that, and we're talking about guys in their 40s.

It was more fun thinking of three-letter "I" words.

Which means don't be self-sufficient. Sell out. Don't go into an enterprise with the necessary resources yourself.

Thanks, but I'll just forego their "coverage" instead.

Ink? Ire? Ide? Irk? Ill? Imp? Ion? Ilk?

The attack on attributes was my favorite parts. Attributes are indeed a moronic mess.

Too bad he neglected to similarly attack namespaces.

He didn't say he was tired of talking. He said he was tired of REPEATING.

If one is too tired to read, one should be too tired to comment on the reading material.

"I think the worst of it was Naggum's utter conviction of his own moral superiority... at the same time he was gleefully dumping shit on others."

You act as though he named people and dumped shit on them. He didn't. And data formats are not a "moral" issue.

The people who feel offended by this guy are clearly insecure as hell.

How is XML any more immune to schema changes?

How is he acting like an asshole or being rude? Torvalds is WAY ruder than this guy.

I don't know what you're projecting onto this essay to find it assholey or rude, but it's bunk.

Frankly, I'm disappointed that he failed to condemn namespaces.

A great many of Apple UIs fail those tests.

The main problem with this one is discoverability, but since most gestures are essentially undiscoverable, that hardly impugns it.

I think this is an excellent idea.

Facebook is still trying to use E-mail addresses as user IDs. Amateur hour, just like Apple.

YouTube comments (aside from being a cavalcade of human stupidity) don't even work right. Threads don't work, with replies appearing in random locations rather than indented under the originals (but sometimes they do inexplicably appear correctly). Page breaks are totally wrong, with the same comments appearing on the next page but many of them missing. Really, why even bother. YouTube is a failure of basic design and Google, with all their resources, hasn't been able to field a competent layout. That's pathetic.

"In the beginning people complained that Google has like a dozen different "Like" buttons on the Reader, Youtube and so on"

No, they didn't. Who in hell would complain about that? Who cares?

Google Video didn't take off because of branding failure. Google is not something that people contribute to; it aggregates things that are already out there. Google Video was perceived as a search engine for video, not as a user-content site.

So instead of simply correcting that failure, Google paid $1.6 billion for something it already had.

And pathetic. But that's the norm when you're dealing with apologists for bad behavior and bad design. Instead of learning something, they continue to childishly defend the discredited entity.

Nobody should work this hard to get around offensive policies, or work this hard to excuse them.

There's a big difference between being "logged into" YouTube and signing up for Google+.

This just completes Googles utter failure with Google Video and YouTube. They never understood why Google Video failed, and YouTube remains a steaming pile of shit under Google's ownership. And it's getting worse.

"built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript."

Why is that good? Eclipse is built in Java, and it's janky.

And also that the bubble is back, big time.

Way TOO far. T, O, O.

Spine's hard-coding of "id" is unacceptable, especially when what they're really referring to is an ID.

Could cost you your hearing, though:

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100301/Regular-use-of-asp...

I don't know about bleeding, but what about the hearing loss that's associated with regular aspirin and other NSAID use?

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100301/Regular-use-of-asp...

California rips companies off and begs for this kind of behavior.

Ask anyone who has started a small business in California. For example, your business can make zero dollars (or even lose money), and you will still owe California $800. EVERY YEAR.

Fuck you, California.

Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it.

Apologists for the crippled user experience act as though a file system is some kind of arcane "nerdy" or "geeky" facility. It isn't. It's how people organize information. That's why we have file cabinets and recipe boxes. It's also how multiple applications can act on the same files.

In iOS we have mobile, handheld Unix computers that are ironically cut off from the outside world on purpose. On those computers we have applications that can't interact with each other or each other's data. This is not progress.

No, that's the point: That's what it is NOT. No straightforward way to get files or information on or off the device. That's not a suitable computer.

It's a design dictated by Apple's fear and refusal to learn from the failure of DRM. More hypocrisy.

"Similar, familiar, comfortable look and feel across platforms."

Then you'd better get rid of the keyboard on the computer.