ataranto

Chromium Embedded Framework: http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

CefSharp (.NET Bindings): https://github.com/ataranto/CefSharp

"any highschool kid can go ahead and just build it"

What high school did you go to where everyone was an expert on multithreading, network io, disk io, bidirectional synchronization, and state persistence?

At the PHP shop.

Congratulations, you've created something far better than what Asana and their huge team took 3+ years to build.

Sounds painful.

"Let me take you back to 2006. ...iTunes was horribly slow..."

We've come so far since then!

Dropbox does in fact use mach_star.

"I know I could probably whip together a decent email client in C++ within a couple months from scratch and maybe a week or two if I used any number of libraries out there."

Want to know how I know that you've never written an email client?

They bought some other brewery's beer at the store for way too much money, slapped a Google label on it, and now it tastes worse?

tl;dr: people take uber to and from bars. that's it. not sure why that took so many paragraphs and images.

There's a huge gap between isolationism and, you know, not occupying TWO countries on the other side of the planet.

I stopped reading your comment after that sentence with the assumption that all of your other points would be equally dumb.

I'd like to hack on the mercurial codebase. Is there a git repo somewhere that I can clone?

1. Find something that you can't do. 2. Do it. 3. Repeat.

I'm confused, not a single one of these courses covers Ruby?

"I’ve never been one to base my actions on others’ expectations. Just ask my dad, with whom I was having arguments about moral relativism by the time I was 13."

I bet this guy is a blast at parties.

I can't wait to see this movie and then complain about it on the Internet!

"Find a 40-hour/week opportunity"

Ah great. I'll ride my unicorn to work every day.

Since the browser most people are reading this in is written using C++, I'd say the answer is no.

Yes, it's easy to make your average Desktop GUI ugly as hell across different operating systems using a GUI Toolkit such as Qt.

"Desktop GUI can easily be made cross-platform."

lol wut?

I'm amazed and shocked.

I'm amazed and shocked that kuro5hin.org is still around.

"I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect."

So... exactly like HN comment threads?

"But unlike Oracle, Davis and the Raiders have not had a winning season for awhile – not since my Baltimore Ravens flattened their hopes and the shoulder of quarterback Rich Gannon after a vicious pancake tackle by Tony Siragusa on the way to a Ravens’ Super Bowl winning season in 2001."

The Raiders were 11-5 the next year (2002) and went to the Super Bowl.

Is there a button you can click in Starcraft II that will upgrade your sense of humor?

Hot tip for investors: invest in the companies that lose in the first round, as their employees are probably too busy building great products to play games.

Does anyone if you can buy a cardboard mockup of the boxed set that would look like the real thing when placed on your bookshelf next to "Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days"? I'm thinking $5.

GTK+ doesn't "look" like anything. Themes and engines do though. Is that your complaint?

True, but not much more.

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