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by snrip 13y ago
This reads as being very butt-hurt that somebody else chooses not to give away their core business. It is cool that you see profit as something obscene, but don't blame others for making a business. Same goes for sending takedown notic
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by snrip 13y ago
But they will change soon enough. It is just that IE8 is the ceiling of Windows XP, which is end-of-life in 4 months. If that does not convince, the bad press of all the vulnerabilities that follows, will. Another driver: ipads and chromebo
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by snrip 13y ago
People make choices and when the choice turns out wrong you could always claim they did not do their research well. Maybe so, maybe these guys can be blamed for that too. That is of not much consequence. The important part is that they eval
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by snrip 13y ago
After getting his hands on a Chromebook Pixel, the father of Linux said: THANK YOU GOOGLE With the web as a platform, Chrome deserves all the attention on HN. I do not even understand where your animosity comes from, when reading your post.
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by snrip 13y ago
In that case my opinion would go from "f ck apartheid" to "f ck the system analogous to apartheid". I would support the Americans in their fight against Arabs (never thought I would live to say that!). I would still not
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by snrip 13y ago
Yeah, I should not have let that remark fly without further elaboration: For all I know mr. Mandela was directly connected to bombings that made innocent victims, such as the Church Street bombing. In my book that warrents jail sentence. I
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by snrip 13y ago
F*ck apartheid, but for all I know Mandela pretty much deserved to go to jail. Big disgrace if the CIA actively sponsored this regime, but the allegations in the article are just from one source not directly related to the affairs. All the
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by snrip 13y ago
Or supplement it at the very least. The profitability they enjoy with advertising is hard to achieve in any other existing industry, so they try to be a front runner for new industries: Self-driving cars, robotics and green energy. That is
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by snrip 13y ago
As a fellow Dutch native speaker, let me shed some light on this. Here is how Ben explained stuff: " To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey (...)" The diff
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by snrip 13y ago
I am surprised that Dart is not mentioned as a comparison in any of the comments. It is also heralded as a better and more performant Javascript. Is it because the use-case of ASM more limited? I would imagine that DOM integration in ASM wo
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by snrip 13y ago
I saw you dropped this line in the comments under the article. Guess this would be a better place for it :) "PS... Cloud Performance is hiring :)"
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by snrip 13y ago
How does Ionic relate to different screen sizes, orientations and resolutions? Would responsive layouts be viable or is that out of the scope? The way I see it now is that it is targeted at phones and not so much at tablets. BTW, the word &