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Less than 2% of all web users have javascript turned off. Some say it's less than 1% and it's mostly people who understand the consequences of doing so.

Turning off the native component of anything always has consequences for those tinkering under the hood and the vast majority of those visiting that site don't tinker under the hood.

As the owner of a web dev company, I sometimes consider ignoring the "must work even without javascript" mantra. I haven't yet but there are times.

I don't think anyone ever called it a Microsoft bailout. And the people who lost their jobs, both at Microsoft and Nokia back then, wouldn't consider this such a rewarding, positive thing.

In 1992, a friend got a job in the valley and I visited him when I was out there visiting the HQ for my company. He asked me to go with him to check out a condo he was thinking of buying. Remember that these are 1992 prices.

The two-bedroom place we looked at was just like one of my first apartments. When the agent said it was $250K, I almost fell on the floor. My wife and I had just bought our first house, which was about three times bigger as this condo with a large front and back yard in a nice middle class neighborhood, for $80K in St. Louis.

A few years ago, I saw him again. He has never owned a house but he now lives in a much nicer condo for $1.25 million. However, that condo just looks like a much nicer, updated version of that same apartment. He could have lived cheaper at an upscale, full service hotel in my town.

>what’s more revealing is how Chinese firms have taken the best tech and adapted it.

Only felt like skimming the article but it seems that quote is at its base. There's a difference between "adapting" other people's work and "innovation". There is also a difference between manufacturing products and creating the original idea for those products and making them.

As mentioned in the article, and I recall from when I was more heavily invested in the stock market, Bing cost Microsoft billions of dollars every year in lost revenue. We all knew that. But this article goes on to say that it's hard to figure how much Bing brings in and they are only going by what Microsoft says and Microsoft says it's "profitable".

Well, profitable could mean by a dollar, and I don't see any shouting from the rooftops by Microsoft. I also don't see, as someone else brings up, much in the way of their presence in my server logs either.

What really gets me are all the articles that appear on MSN but really turn out to be searches with Bing. Don't know if they still do that. I don't use MSN either.

I was going to post the same. I was lucky enough to get a few answers from Fielding himself when I first started learning this.

So are you going with them, Geoffrey?

I know things can go downhill quickly when I read things like this:

>There is one irritating thing about C as a viable programming language.

Given its history, I don't see where this guy comes from that he can declare whether C is a viable programming language or not. Especially when his real complaint is not about C at all.

>Microsoft’s compiler support is not good.

While some may complain that I'm making a minor quibble, my point is, when you make statements like this, your credibility falls a notch or twelve and I have to look at the rest of the article with suspicion.

It's very popular in countries and continents like India, Asia and Africa. Specifically on small, cheap phones.

>Tesla allows minutes of hands-off time; one customer reports driving 50 miles without touching the wheel.

>They tried to blame the driver.

In this incident, the driver was using autopilot in a fashion that it should not be; twisting road at high speed. The driver IS at fault.

>They're being sued by the family of the dead driver

This is no proof of anything. You can find a lawyer to sue anybody over anything.

>and being investigated by the NHTSA (the recall people), and the NTSB

Well, of course they are. They're supposed to. Again, no proof of anything Tesla did wrong.

I'm not saying there isn't a problem with this. I'm saying your reasoning is wrong.

I'm also curious as to how many autopilot sessions take place every day. If there have been three crashes, such as this where the driver is at fault, out of a million then that's one thing not considered so far.

Totally agree with this. Braintree will save you a little money but their documentation is horrible; some of the worst I've ever seen. Their email tech support can be responsive and somewhat good but I feel like I have to email them about every little thing cause I can't find the answer in their disconnected documentation.