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Re:How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name on Saturday November 14, 2015 @08:25PM (#10568114)
Control-click didn't exist until System 8. There was a good decade of zero contextual menus on Macintoshes before that.
Re:Google Fi Patent on Saturday April 25, 2015 @02:28PM (#9439135)
Google filed a patent! LET'S RAGEPOST ABOUT PATENTS!
Re:The Hating Game on Monday March 16, 2015 @11:26PM (#9216110)
I agree. FE technologies are in and out of fashion faster than anything else, it seems. Dig in and hate away and then maybe your knowledge will get a slightly longer ROI.
Re:Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow on Saturday February 28, 2015 @01:08PM (#9124449)
The UI could still use polishing. For example, the attachment confirmation dialog is so confusing. I'm tempted to send them a patch that makes the wording clearer.

"Did you forget to add an attachment?" ("Oh, I didn't!", "No, I did!")

Exactly the same, except with 1/10th the article quality.
Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google on Friday January 16, 2015 @08:52PM (#8902987)
The bullshit didn't even have to be believable: "Marilyn Manson was the kid that played Paul from the Wonder Years. Also, he had a rib removed so he could perform autofellatio." Kids everywhere believed that. Hilarious.
Re:WebGL Water Simulator on Sunday January 11, 2015 @02:22PM (#8870930)
So close to a WebGL Wave Race!
Re:Intel Compute Stick on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @09:14PM (#8848491)
So long, NUC!