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A very middlebrow dismissal of OP. :|

Anecdotally speaking, I went to a party which had a few Amazon employees in attendance. After a few drinks, two of them let on to the group that they were quitting their jobs because they were sick of Amazon - and high fives were shared all around, including among the folks that weren't leaving. Doesn't seem like a happy group.

Probably chows down on ritalin like half of HN. ;)

I agree with most of his points, and that's why I don't drink to excess. But I'm happy to have a glass of red wine with a steak or a nice stinky piece of cheese, and I don't suffer any of the drawbacks he states. I don't feel an urge to continue drinking either, because yeah, being drunk and hungover later sucks!

Drinking (or doing anything) responsibly doesn't just mean "find a DD and then get trashed", it can also mean "find satiation with a little bit of something nice."

I think this is the price we pay for hewing to the party line of only permitting non-breaking incremental changes on the Web.

Would this still be the case if Web development wasn't a broken matrix of browser and OS versions powered by a language which people are constantly trying to paper over with abstractions? (Seriously, it's like a person you'd only have sex with as long as you'd put a paper bag over their head.)

I agree with this article. The Web is a shambling mess of crap technologies, just a Jenga tower of crap. When is it going to collapse under its own weight? The rise of native apps suggests that the collapse has already begun.

This is the Web version of walking around a museum with an audio guide around your neck.

Very engrossing.

I'm utterly shocked that this happened in a Southern state.

They are _scanning_ your content!! Mobilize the "scropboxed!" campaign!

This 6th Grader Stood Up To Government To Tell Them Something... And I Think The Results Were Amazing.

This might be good for spotting astroturfing campaigns.

I think you're thinking of raycasting.

It's remarkable to witness a company that responds to criticism instead of powering through it via reeducation campaigns and hype.

It's sad that Ars Technica is making blogspam.

Exactly right, and people here seem to ignore that in favor of convenient ideological screeds.

Look at the EULA of what you pay for. It's amazing how little you're entitled to. Even if you paid for it~~~~~

Designers: please stop it with infinite scroll. They are painful to work with and work around.

When a service switches to infinitely scrolling lists, I stop using it.

Much of the same in France. Many semi-"public" hotspots set up for subscribers.

SITE CREATED WITH NOTEPAD (THE RIGHT WAY)

Haha, I wish I could've been a fly on the wall for that.

You should've recorded it with your cell phone. ;)

Based on the nitpicking, I thought it was!

Too late, it's already a disaster. People already set their iPhones conspicuously on the table _between_ themselves and their conversation partner. And then they check the phone compulsively.

Reek.ly?

I have, and I think he's correct - Metro is fundamentally different than any Windows to date. The evolution from 3.1 to where we are today was slow and steady, with innovation happening in little fits but never breaking with the basic GUI interaction model. Then Microsoft boiled the oceans to give us Metro. It is a clean break.

You don't agree, I take it?

Their decision to deprive me of choice with GNOME2 sucks.

Yeah, man.

The marketplace isn't static. If all people move to T-Mobile, other carriers will be forced to become less hostile to their customers.

No it doesn't. Visit it in an Incognito window if you don't believe me.

It's asking for your password because you apparently do have a Google account and it wants to verify your identity before it lets you access things that are tied to your account.

Lesson from Day 180: 99% of user generated content sucks.

What are you doing, what you have done, is proved that you're just here to spew acid.