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I am always suspicious when anyone tells me their reason for using something is cause "it works" and they don't have to mess with it anymore. This almost always translates into "I don't know why it works and I don't care".

IE and Edge have the advantage of being advertised on nearly every PC in the universe.

I don't remember any such thing and I started using Chrome from day one.

I said "all current, major browsers" in my original post. IE is not Microsoft's current browser. In addition, not all web sites are serving via http/2 and that web sites aren't using http/2 is no fault of the browser or the user.

Which statement? All major browsers can work with it. Apache and nginx, at least can also work with it (encompassing 85% of all internet servers).

That users aren't connecting to http/2 web sites is no indicator that http/2 is not available.

I am not aware of any current major browser that does not support http/2. http://caniuse.com/#search=http%2F2

Wasn't the announcement, yesterday, that webkit/Safari had complete implementation?

Until http/2 comes around? I've been using it for a couple of months on all our client sites and the standard was finalized last year. It's now available in all current, major browsers.

From 2011:

Adobe ends mobile Flash development, will focus on HTML5

Adobe will no longer update its Flash plugin for mobile browsers, though it will continue to issue security updates and bug fixes. The company issued a statement to developers conceding that "HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively," adding "that makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms."

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2549196/adobe-flash-androi...

Adobe has dumped Flash on mobile. A sure sign that Flash will be dropped on the desktop, too, as developers aren't going to want to have to maintain two workflows.

To support Flash means you are supporting a proprietary software tool and the company behind it, selling development tools.

The tools and implementations might not be up to par with Flash but that's today. The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow .....

Computer science isn't a contest. There isn't any reason for a push. Among scientists and good engineers, the more intelligent tech rises to the top. Everyone else uses PHP.

There are practical limitations. If everyone else is using C, it will be more difficult to introduce LISP.

Of course, making a push for Lisp usage would gain users and, therefore, tutorials and make it more practical but probably only among those same scientists and engineers due to the nature of Lisp itself and how you think when using it.

If it's for web developers, why does it only run (for now) on Windows? What developer, who works on the web, uses Windows?

I don't think they say this device is controlled by Windows but it must be. Why professional software and instruments even consider using Windows is beyond me.

Dramatic TV shows, movies and books are about entertainment, not telling the truth as it really happened. Almost all such things carry the disclaimer "based on" and anything can be changed and be different.

>aimed at helping defense attorneys question the credibility of police officers in court.

Note the purpose of this. To help defense attorneys find kinks in the armor in order to serve their client. Like "He's a great guy but sasses his mother" sort of stuff. If a lawyer can use it, he will.

This is not another HN-likeable article looking for bad cops.

There are misgivings none-the-less. A new system being "refreshing" is not a reason to use it. "Useful" is hardly a ringing endorsement.

What disturbs me the most is that systemd takes Linux farther away from being a Unix-like system. Linux is now "Linux" and incompatible with anything else.

>I still have serious misgivings

I guess that kinda tells us more than anything else he said.

And Microsoft loves Linux, too.

This is a fact that I first learned in high school 45 years ago.

Reddit did no such thing, or did no such thing first, as outlined anywhere else. http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve...

I had never heard of that but did notice the effect.

At one time, I thought Medium carried articles of importance and repute. I no longer think that about most of them.

Medium is just a place where anyone can throw anything up there and have a potential of get linked to.

I cower in fear every day cause my grandparents were born in a foreign country.

For months, I've been making like a sniper, going to and from work by crawling through dense foliage wearing camo. I crawl slowly, making only about a couple of hundred yards a day but, once I get there, I am completely unknown. No one knows I'm there and no one knows I've left.

I encrypt everything and carry it all with me when I leave so no one knows what I've done. I make sure I muss up the trail behind me so I can't be tracked. If I get really spooked, I have a few drop off points where I can store material along with a change of clothes (though I probably shouldn't have said that here).

It's hard work but I know it's all worth it. I haven't seen, heard of, or had any problems since I started this. Not that I had any problems before. I just know that the only issue now is I haven't received my paycheck in months. I'm worried I may have slipped up somewhere and my funding is being re-directed elsewhere in an effort to find me.

But that will never happen.

The only developers who make sites that work just in Chrome or Safari are rank amateurs. No professional would do such a thing. Professionals understand that a web site must work for all visitors and I have never heard of any web site that would do otherwise. To me, this is only an internet rumor and not based in reality.

The only exception would be when one particular feature is needed to display one specific, unique element. Off the top of my head, I can't think of what that would be.

You are right. The vendor prefixes are there to introduce new properties that they hope will be implemented in the standard. All those prefixes can change or disappear altogether and without notice.

However, this is a way for a browser vendor to test their code in real life. If it fails, they can change the prefix and try again till they get it right. You can't do that once it's standardized. In fact, there are a number of properties that have been implemented incorrectly and still exist today but were eventually fixed in the non-prefixed property.

But a developer is to then remove the prefixed property. Not complain about it and blame others for their decision to use it in the first place.

HTTP/2 has been available for a while now. iirc, SSLv3 has also been disabled for a while.

Backwards compatibility doesn't apply here because, by definition, prefixed properties are supposed to go away and the intention of them is to go away. Only dumb developers continue to use such things once a standard property is available so it's their own fault if they don't do that.

Yeah. No other country in the world does this. None whatsoever.