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Re:Introducing the 4chan API on Thursday September 06, 2012 @06:24AM (#4483558)
I understand what you're saying.

BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.

Re:Introducing Prose: A Content Editor for GitHub on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @05:17AM (#4160905)
This is outstanding.

The ui is beautiful.

So what about code highlighting?

Re:The Problem with PaaS on Monday June 25, 2012 @11:10AM (#4156836)
He makes some very good points, but I think it's still very early days for PaaS and it's evolving at a very rapid pace.

I'm sure functionality such as "load balancing between multiple data centre providers" isn't too far around the corner.

Re:Nokia launch 808 pureview with 41 megapixel camera. on Saturday June 16, 2012 @06:11AM (#4120297)
Progress. Wow, look at all my megapixels.

I mean as an achievement (from the technical point of view), this is pretty amazing, but this feels as more of a "look at what we can do" thing, than a real attempt at a phone.

Much love for nokia though, hope they reclaim the throne one day.

Re:First chunk of Meteor auth now in GitHub on Friday June 15, 2012 @11:43PM (#4119786)
This is the future of hackathons, free code days and weekend dev marathons.

Yet I'm not sure how soon any serious company will trust it with serious applications.

I'm not putting it down, this is incredible progress, the money (x millions in funding) behind it will give it a good amount of momentum, but it just seems a bit too easy, a bit too gimmicky to be taken seriously. I hope I'm wrong.

Re:Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:58AM (#4105931)
Depends on the company.

I don't imagine you'll be able to buy ipad.apple, but I don't see why google wouldn't start selling *.foo.

Re:Introducing Live for RubyMotion on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @12:40PM (#4008591)
Bret Victor's reach never stops amazing me.
Re:UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data on Friday May 18, 2012 @10:35AM (#3992044)
I never said it doesn't happen in private companies. It's just not extremely pleasant to hear about our government doing it.

Sadly, it has happened before, is happening now and will happen in the future, but this mustn't stop us from fighting them.

Re:UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data on Friday May 18, 2012 @10:13AM (#3991912)
So we pay them to spy on us. How surprising.
Re:The True Costs of Paper on Friday May 18, 2012 @10:12AM (#3991905)
We have to switch to hemp as lots of companies will continue using paper for many years to come, regardless of best practices.
While licensing (without a doubt) is a big issue, I think the infrastructure that Apple have in place for manufacturing and sourcing of materials is second to none.

This is only possible due to forward thinking people and a ridiculous amount of demand, the two together mean bulk buying prices available to them only.

The competition will catch up at some point, but I fear that it might require a couple huge mergers for this to happen.