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morkboton Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

WP started to get some traction recently, nothing earth-shattering but still... http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/11/04/report-windows-phon...

morkboton Only a few countries are teaching children how to think

Apparently this is about PISA rating and Poland's "swift rise" in it - so:

1) it's verifiable

2) it's probably more about having good average than having some students be super-smart

3) it says more about PISA than Poland

morkboton BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology

Except that in the case of non-US companies NSA has to do the actual hacking. In case of US ones they simply need to "ask" a company to, say, handle them their master keys - much easier.

morkboton Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

On one hand true, on the other - it isn't that those fixes are some magic, extra smart hackery (at least on the idea level, dunno about the implementation). Don't load an image that user don't see, remove an image that user saw but don't see anymore - those seem as rather obvious solutions.

morkboton Tessel: The end of web development as we know it

Sorry to nit pick, but (for example) variables being global by default it's not exactly an epitome of elegance.

morkboton FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

Yes, but from what I understand their plan is to bring back most of the features in the future (I remember them mentioning specifically bookmarks, opera link and tab thumbnails), until then: Opera 12.

On the other side Chrome based Opera is also starting to look pretty good in it's own rights: it's fast and snappy, mouse gestures are there if I'm not mistaken, page stack (or whatever the name is) is cool. If I would to choose between Chrome and Opera 16 now I would go with the latter (also because Chrome really pushes too much Google on the user).

morkboton Medium Editor

And another one http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/hallo-editor/ (integrates nicely with Aloha editor, http://aloha-editor.org/)

morkboton Abandoning PHP for Python

"When was the last time you looked at a PHP project and saw a list of all the third-party libraries and respective version numbers being used written in a single file?"

Huh? Any serious, modern PHP project uses Composer (http://getcomposer.org/).

morkboton Nokia acquired by Microsoft

Firefox OS might grow up into something serious in a year or two (but that's more of a hope than any prediction).

morkboton An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js

Try Typekit, it makes JS much, much better and it more or less is what JS will become in the future (it follows latest ECMAScript proposals)

morkboton Blink tag removed from Firefox

Also worth noting: "New feature in toolbox: Network Monitor".

The lack of it was the last thing that was keeping me using Firebug.