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This reads as being very butt-hurt that somebody else chooses not to give away their core business. It is cool that you see profit as something obscene, but don't blame others for making a business.

Same goes for sending takedown notices. If you are technically in breach, you are in breach.

If you don't want to do business with Elsevier, that is fine. If you don't want others to do so, that is fine too. This is just being sad.

But they will change soon enough. It is just that IE8 is the ceiling of Windows XP, which is end-of-life in 4 months. If that does not convince, the bad press of all the vulnerabilities that follows, will.

Another driver: ipads and chromebooks are taking over.

People make choices and when the choice turns out wrong you could always claim they did not do their research well. Maybe so, maybe these guys can be blamed for that too.

That is of not much consequence. The important part is that they evaluate their choice and are ready to move onto a better platform. Without destroying the business.

If you check out the blog, you can see they did it for jQuery as well. Good for them. You could also argue they should have made other decisions from the start. But hey, they learned and it works for them.

What is more, they tell the world about it and try to prevent others from making the wrong choices. Even providing pointers to resources that were useful for them.

What I trying to say, they deserve a bit more credit than an off hand remark like: "our square peg didn't fit into App Engine's round hole".

After getting his hands on a Chromebook Pixel, the father of Linux said:

THANK YOU GOOGLE

With the web as a platform, Chrome deserves all the attention on HN. I do not even understand where your animosity comes from, when reading your post. None of your is even specific to Chrome OS. It would hold true for any fridge or toaster with embedded Linux. Yup, those are consumption-centric as well. In fact, I am a consumer too. Shoot me.

As for attacking the Linux community: Sparked by Android and ChromeOS, Google has soared into the top 10 of Linux contributors and seems very committed to keep Linux healthy.

In that case my opinion would go from "fck apartheid" to "fck the system analogous to apartheid". I would support the Americans in their fight against Arabs (never thought I would live to say that!). I would still not condone hurting innocent people and feel that a punushment would be justified.

Yeah, I should not have let that remark fly without further elaboration: For all I know mr. Mandela was directly connected to bombings that made innocent victims, such as the Church Street bombing. In my book that warrents jail sentence.

I am not too sure how to feel about an institution of the apartheids regime being the judge to this. Right and wrong get mixed up in my head.

For the fact that he and others resisted this regime, they deserve the praise they are getting. Sure some laws have been broken, but who made and interpreted these laws? That is not why I was saying he deserved punishment. It is innocent victims that make the difference. I was definitely not clear on that.

Btw I just did some reading up on the ANC bombings and it turns out I might be all wrong and just made an ass out of myself.

F*ck apartheid, but for all I know Mandela pretty much deserved to go to jail.

Big disgrace if the CIA actively sponsored this regime, but the allegations in the article are just from one source not directly related to the affairs. All the "Who knows" and "My guess" doesn't make the case any stronger.

Or supplement it at the very least. The profitability they enjoy with advertising is hard to achieve in any other existing industry, so they try to be a front runner for new industries: Self-driving cars, robotics and green energy.

That is not to say they do not believe in the ad business. For the ad business the model seems to have moved towards getting more people online and have them do more online. Google put a smartphone into a billion hands. They wire up African and American cities to fiber. They made browsers far more capable and performant. They plan to fly balloons over the whole globe. All investments connected to the online business.

As a fellow Dutch native speaker, let me shed some light on this. Here is how Ben explained stuff:

" To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey (...)"

The difference here is not so much in language as in culture. The Dutch language has similar gender distinctions as English. Subtle differences are that: - Our nouns are male/neutral or female, similar to French 'le' or 'la' - We cannot make neutral possessive ('its') and are limited to 'his' or 'her'

For the rest it is pretty much like English, including 'him', 'her', 'they' and 'them'. Also Ben should have good knowledge of English as any young and educated dutchman.

The difference is more likely cultural. Americans seem much to be much more easily triggered by signs of potential gender inequality or racism. The Dutch are more tolerant/rude and the humor often flirts with political incorrectness. In short Ben (and I) would not have sensed this as a potential agitator.

I am surprised that Dart is not mentioned as a comparison in any of the comments. It is also heralded as a better and more performant Javascript. Is it because the use-case of ASM more limited? I would imagine that DOM integration in ASM would be tricky so that would set Dart apart.

I saw you dropped this line in the comments under the article. Guess this would be a better place for it :)

"PS... Cloud Performance is hiring :)"

How does Ionic relate to different screen sizes, orientations and resolutions? Would responsive layouts be viable or is that out of the scope? The way I see it now is that it is targeted at phones and not so much at tablets.

BTW, the word 'which' is in the wrong place on the components page: "The advantage here is that the devices Ionic which supports, all support flexbox."

BTW2: in the Getting Started guide, chapters 4 and 5 have no link to the next chapter at the bottom.