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Re:Show HN: Rick Roll Pull Requests on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:13PM (#16532153)
I tried to show this by actually submitting a Rick Roll'd PR and it got flagged so fast, this time I'm being more up front about it.
Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:26PM (#14953291)
Just add a line your hosts file mapping lolcathost to 127.0.0.1 and you never have to worry about it again.

No that's not a typo

Of course he was given a Zune. You really think he can find a copy of iTunes in order to use an iPod? I mean the odds of finding a USB interface and music in a supported encoding are already astronomically small... But at least with Zune you can just copy the files over, instead of using proprietary software.
Re:The Largest Flying Creatures on Sunday April 02, 2017 @12:02PM (#14017611)
Exactly, the largest flying creature was basically still a bird.
Re:Is Sugar Killing Us? on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:09AM (#13165113)
After being off sugar for only two weeks I had a melon. It. Was. Amazing.
Re:Switching from macOS: The Basics on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:52PM (#12866825)
It's been years since I've used linux, but my muscle memory for copying/pasting in the terminal is still there, to the point of it being the reason I can't use non Mac layout keyboards in OSX. I'll just keep pressing shift if I'm in the terminal.
Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:56AM (#12660659)
Mobile safari was literally one of the reasons we decided to build an app instead of just having a mobile optimized website. So if that's they're strategy, it's working. Though it is a free app so it's not working _that_ well.
Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:52AM (#12660633)
"Build natively" means to create it yourself in vanilla JavaScript, like this http://meandmax.github.io/lory/. What's the use of a native element that only one browser has when you need cross browser support anyway?
Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:40AM (#12660568)
Are you kidding me? "Which Android" doesn't even make sense in terms of the browser, it's not tied to OS releases and is therefore the same on every phone (except freaking Samsung... Their browser is even worse than Safari). Maybe WordPress sites that need a "carousel" work better on iOS, but I can't tell you how many times I've had to go back and fix something because it won't work on iOS right. I can tell you, however, that that number is now higher than it is for ie10. So yes, it IS the new internet explorer.
Re:Sublime Enhanced on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @09:38AM (#12209817)
This. Whatever Atom's flaws are, the fact that it's not just one developer releasing updates once a year gives it an edge in my book.
Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks on Thursday July 14, 2016 @08:55PM (#12098329)
If all you do is use a browser, the real answer isn't Linux, it's a Chromebook.

Which of course is Linux. But still.

Re:Why I have finally taken off the Apple Watch on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:36PM (#11872568)
I feel like Apple is killing smart watches. Android watches are cheap enough that they can make incremental improvements and everyone would be fine with it. Even then, I have the huawei watch, and it's already so, so much better than the apple watch. And cheaper. So I worry that people are going to get fed up with the apple watch before Android watches get a chance to really take off.
Re:Americapox: The Missing Plague (2015) on Monday March 07, 2016 @08:33PM (#11243032)
Somebody get this guy an editor... or at least a spellcheck.
I know the only reason I use OSX for work is because we have an iOS app. If we didn't have that I, and probably half the other developers, would be rocking some flavor of Linux. You can write software for 99% of users on OSX (with a windows VM, anyways).