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I don't get it.
Re:The Athletes Who Train with Soda on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @12:48PM (#8730518)
Boom! Paywall.
tl;dr Arby's sells horrible roast-beef sandwiches
Re:Give or receive 1 hour of coding help in 2015 on Monday December 08, 2014 @03:06PM (#8718810)
I'm with you. Is this just some stupid form I fill out for no reason? Or is it going to actually help match me up with people? It might be answered in the video, but I shouldn't have to watch a video to figure out what the point of a web site is.
Re:IO.js, a Node fork on Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:19PM (#8700724)
Cool fork, bro.
Re:Introducing the Photon on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @02:30PM (#8597600)
It had the opposite effect on me. I saw that I missed out on free shipping so I didn't order one.
Re:Google Inbox on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:27PM (#8496252)
WTF google? You get me interested in a product. I download it on my phone no problem. But then when I go to open it I'm told that it is invite only. I missed this detail in the blog since it isn't mentioned until the end. Knowingly allowing me to download a program I can't even use? This is a perfect recipe for a 1 star review. How it has so many 5 star review is beyond me.

Oh well, I still really want to try it. So I clicked the invite link that makes me use gmail (the app I'm replacing) to send an email. However, it's not a standard mailto link but a link to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=new . Seriously? Now I have to type in an email address because Google failed to use one of the most primitive features of HTML. So far my email experience has only been less convenient.

Anyway, I uninstalled it from my phone. I'll just wait a year or so to see if it flops like several of there other products and then maybe install it.

I still don't get why javascript developers put so much effort into a library and don't provide tests for it.
Re:Performance and Opportunities of HTTP 2.0 on Monday October 13, 2014 @07:25PM (#8451206)
"It scrolls up for me, fixing the video on top"

That's the problem.

Re:Show HN: HackerBracket – What are you working on? on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:20PM (#8397442)
Nice but the infinite scroll is unbearable. You have some badness going on there. It completely blocks the UI and it crashes Chrome if the dev tools are open. Good luck.
Re:Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:08PM (#8397362)
It will also be placed in such a way that I accidentally click it all the time.
You wouldn't download a city.
Re:Microsoft is killing the Nokia and Windows Phone brands on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @06:26PM (#8299601)
"In fact, Microsoft refers to Windows Phone simply as Windows."

What?

Re:Is It O.K. To Kill Cyclists? on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @06:19PM (#8299561)
This is different. The article didn't even answer the question.
Re:Is It O.K. To Kill Cyclists? on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @05:50PM (#8299389)
Interesting article. Horrible click bait title. I guess it worked though.
Re:Ebola death toll rises to at least 2,296: WHO on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:00PM (#8293091)
I thought this was a link to a list of all the names of the people who had died.
"Don’t worry—Pornhub promises it won’t actually load pages more slowly."

Nice click bait title.

That map they have in the article is pretty much worthless since it's not weighted by state population. It pretty much resembles a population map.
I hope you get punched in the face.
I took me a minute to figure out, but that hard coded list is the list of URLs it checks to see if you've visited. Try opening a private browser window.
I'm not too familiar with PHP. Are there any tests I can run to make sure this actually works as expected on my machine?
Re:Firefox 29 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @03:23PM (#7669356)
Here is why I don't use it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541

This bug makes Firefox useless to me and has been around for over 5 years!