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macspoofing
15y ago
Really? Microsoft seems kinda humble these days.
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15y ago
>Making all of us blindly insert 5 or 6 duplicate declarations in every CSS rule is not a solution No, it's not, but it isn't going away. Designers and Web Developers want to do more than current standards (and browser implementations)
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macspoofing
15y ago
Great job guys. I love the simplicity. How are you guys streaming the images down? Any interesting technologies or methods used?
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15y ago
>scamming a trusting, patriotic 60's public on TV or landing a human being on a foreign planet Not only 60's public but also the public of every subsequent year (and by "public" you have to include scientists, engineers and otherwise in
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15y ago
Labels don't want a service like Grooveshark to exist, which gives away their product for nothing. If they wanted it, they could easily build it themselves.
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15y ago
>How can Skyrim be so unoptimized? Time. Bugs and features coupled with (tight) deadlines will push aggressive optimizations "for later". This is especially true if the product is performing adequately and nobody really wants to mess wi
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15y ago
>So it's your desire to consign the Indian would-be immigrant to a life of poverty just to make sure your wage stays above $150k/year The reality is that the government will make policies that favour citizens over foreigners. So yes, it
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15y ago
>No system is going to be perfect, how can "high-skill" immigrants be evaluated with absolute certainty that they are Why do you need "absolute certainty"
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15y ago
>Google has been Firefox’ sugar daddy as the Mountain View company battles Microsoft’s Internet Explorer quasi-monopoly. Wrong. Firefox is downloaded by millions of users - there's value in being the default search engine. If Google did
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15y ago
>The UI is done in Adobe AIR I don't think that's true. Adobe AIR is supported for apps but the actual UI is native.
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15y ago
>and focused on building kick-ass Flex development environments/authoring tools/etc They did. Flex dev tools are quite good, and they were continually improved since Flex 2.
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15y ago
>Twitter heavily uses rails Twitter abandoned rails for java.
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15y ago
>For instance the cost of the design suite in the US is $1,299 while in the UK it is £1,032 ($1,638) before taxes are applied. Tell me for what software that isn't true. For some reason every publisher charges more for software (and gam
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15y ago
Hyperbole much? Having done UI work widt GTK and Swing, I can tell you that Flex (especially the newer spark component set) is much nicer.
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15y ago
>What I'm missing here? They're essentially pulling funding and engineering talent from Flex Development, and made it clear that they see HTML5 as the future.
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15y ago
>Microsoft is very afraid of disrupting its main business Maybe, but this was a shitty idea.
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15y ago
I dunno. Windows 7 and Mac OSX kinda make Gnome look dated.
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15y ago
>No startup is giving away a 20% equity slice to their first employee after they've already raised a round Then pay your first employee a market wage. On the other hand if you want him to take a 50% haircut you better compensate him.