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Re:Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war on Sunday March 01, 2015 @04:49PM (#9129035)
They need to move quickly before everyone who knows anything about it has quit working at Mozilla.
Re:The Zed Shaw Phenomenon on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:17PM (#6093535)
He has a planet sized ego made of tissue paper. Not much point in engaging to be honest because you just get to join the end of a line of victims. Live and let live?
Re:Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk on Friday December 14, 2012 @07:31PM (#4924074)
about the last para, there is more than can meet the eye (for example: when said people issue unwarranted physical threats) it's not to diminish the greatness of anyone's work but some (not all) people have genuine complaints beyond a single blog post.
Re:LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S. on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @05:44PM (#4845204)
But now so aptly named.
Re:George Lucas Will Use Disney $4 Billion to Fund Education on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @09:42PM (#4725775)
Enough to attend Harvard for a few years.
Re:I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist. on Saturday October 20, 2012 @10:14PM (#4678673)
Using 10px Georgia on a Web page does get one wondering..
Re:Programming Languages Have Social Mores Not Idioms on Sunday August 19, 2012 @05:14PM (#4405265)
The pedantic answer is the code block following the for is not parsed as or represented as a code block internally. You don't need the "do" but Ruby slurps it up to play nice. Only block semantics were fixed, but those for constructs like while, until, for, or loop remain the same as they do not introduce new scope.
I'm ranting about shit fucking loser pricks like Giles

A litany of bilious libel as useful an indicator as asking Kim Jong Un for opinions on Dick Cheney.