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Bug: I clicked the little down arrow to minimize the chat window and it beachballed Chrome (latest version, OS X).

Pretty awesome overall, though!

Re:AngularJS 1.3: a new release approaches on Saturday December 14, 2013 @07:29PM (#6907731)
Yeah totally. And if you can't be bothered to read your car's owner's manual from cover to cover you probably don't deserve to be driving it anyway.
Re:Mean Stack on Friday August 02, 2013 @09:25PM (#6150665)
It is. The text blends in to the background image on my iPad and makes it very difficult to read.
Re:Ubuntu Edge on Monday July 22, 2013 @02:11PM (#6085418)
It's an idea that might be a little ahead of its time yet, but I think the potential is there for tomorrow's phones to drive every aspect of our digital lives.

The little geek in me that wants to live in the Jetsons' future is going to be pretty disappointed if, 5+ years from now, I'm not unplugging my phone from a dock at home and plugging it in to one at work to meet all my computing needs.

Re:AngularJS Learning Resources on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:16PM (#5843590)
They serve different purposes: Bootstrap is (mostly) a CSS framework for quickly laying out pages etc, while AngularJS is a Javascript framework for developing front-end application logic. They can be used together pretty effectively for rapid development.
Re:NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program on Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:02PM (#5836484)
Nobody wants to see a car bomb go off in Times Square, but the problem with this line of reasoning is that it requires an unrealistic amount of trust that the government won't take this power to extremes. It's just human nature that power tends to corrupt, and absolute power will corrupt absolutely -- especially if left unchecked. In the case of these revelations, how can something be kept in check if its mere existence is kept secret by those who abuse it?
Re:Facebook Home on Thursday April 04, 2013 @04:12PM (#5494977)
His point is that while he's not intentionally on Facebook looking at questionable pictures, it's now on the lock screen of his phone, which he can't avoid if he needs to use it.
Re:Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @03:24PM (#5253088)
I think you're right. We just put in a new Barracuda Backup server this week and I noticed that, along with the usual file restore functions, it presents us with an option to share files to a Copy account.
Re:Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead on Friday August 17, 2012 @09:08AM (#4396137)
Zynga accounted for 15% of Facebook's revenue in Q1. Although Zynga's contribution declined compared to last year, payments and fees revenue (mostly from apps) doubled over last year to $186 million. That's not an insignificant amount.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/23/zynga-made-up-15-of-faceboo...

That's not always reliable. For example, if you do a query on my company's web server IP address, you'll just get the name of our ISP as your result.
That's assuming the numbers they disclose are even honest to begin with.