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Where are the protests? The marches? Were any buildings burned down?

Your examples presume there was something better than CGI at the time and the other products are better than something else. For one, I wouldn't be caught dead using any of the products you mentioned.

You claim IIS by using a ZDNet article from two years ago but the reality is IIS is number three behind Nginx and Apache. Still, being a distant #2 is nothing to brag about.

Now you're trying to claim clients are what powers the web but that's not the topic. What an amateur uses does not define what the professional uses. And to claim not wanting to be on the bleeding edge of things is no excuse for falling behind. Firefox and Chrome knocked IE off its perch years ago by being on the bleeding edge.

The web was built, and runs on, *nix/BSD. Windows is an outlier. Windows can't even get the slashes going the right way. There's a reason 80% of internet traffic does not use Windows.

There will always be someone greater or lesser than yourself. Don't worry about it. You hear about the successes but not how they got there. Half the time it was a lucky break; being in the right place at the right time. Other times they worked 100-hour weeks for a year, got divorced, and their kids hate them.

Then, next week, you never hear about them again. Well, maybe a couple of them you will, a year later, but not the others. They're forgotten.

Do what you want to do and quit relying on other people's stories to make you miserable. They aren't you and there are plenty of people, here on HN, who wish they were in your position.

Strive to be happy.

I can't agree with you more and you gave an excellent analogy.

You're being off topic. Straw man comes to mind.

Whether you agree or not with how they got to prison has nothing to do with how a prison should operate. The point is prison's do what they do with people incarcerated and no one should consider it as a nice place to spend some time.

So, we should let everybody go? You're complaining as if jails should be abolished and, seemingly, all laws, too.

While innocent people do go to jail, most people in jail are not innocent. You only hear about the innocent ones cause it makes the news but, by far, most people are in jail cause they deserve to be there.

Apparently you don't understand what a prison is for or how those people got there. Your point a) implies you think prisoners are not bad people which stands out to me.

You are in prison to be punished for what you did AND pay back your debt to society.

iow, you were treated like a prisoner. Imagine that.

It makes sense today and isn't cryptic at all. Perhaps to outsiders it is but we're not outsiders. We know it stands for something and "stream editor" should make sense. Looking it up is a matter of "man sed" or, in my case long ago, I'd turn to the guy sitting next to me and ask him.

Yes, awk is an exception, and there are others, but they aren't the rule.

Nope.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-st...

In most cases, it's not cryptic or strange at all and makes perfect sense. This article ignores history. Back then, names were shortened to save every available byte cause ram and disk usage was so limited. It was also easier to type when you did everything from the command line. In addition, a lot of these were created in some lab somewhere, like Bell Labs, and they had no intention of you using it.

Long ago, when I heard of awk and sed, the first thing I did was ask what they stood for. I would think any seriously interested computer person would do the same thing.

Your complaint is about people who don't know what XML is and how to use it and broken tools, not XML. XML does not cause any of the examples you show.

So it does everything you want, with ease, in every language, better than everything else, but you won't promote it?

XML has never been a medium for transmitting anything and never will, especially not structured data other than text.

You can find more detail and technical info in Stevens' book "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"; the best book for maybe 25 years and helped me do the same thing about 10 years ago.

And you would be wrong. There are plenty of open source projects that are not free. That Microsoft wants to name some of their projects "shared source" doesn't change that. And I'd bet we will see you in court should you do anything with Microsoft's.

I think this is positively maybe almost definitely possible.

We've heard these vaporware statements from Microsoft in the past. I'm used to them. I guess they're starting them up again.

As a reminder, "open source" doesn't mean free, in case anyone goes off on that tangent.

Nowhere in the article does it say that. It DOES say Spartan couldn't match IE11's score.

On another board, people are all excited about this but I said they need to take a wait and see and "I'm from Missouri, show me" attitude. Microsoft has not shown they can produce a standards compliant browser on par with the others and, so far, the article points out it isn't even level with IE11. And it is this same hype for every version of IE for the past 10 years that we've all been told the same thing, "This one will be the best!".

I'm working on integrating Braintree payments into a client of mine. Braintree is a perfect example of this and is a wolf in sheep's clothing, meaning, their docs look great at first glance until you need to get all the way through them.

For example, you start reading about how to do A. Half way through, you find out you need to do B. So you look at the link to B which then refers to C but C is A and you realize you're in a loop.

So then you try their search function, or Google, but then you find yourself linked to either outdated docs that look like the same thing or articles about the subject which give no detail.

It's spaghetti documentation mixed with out of date spaghetti mixed with meatballs. At this moment, I have 13 tabs open to various parts of the docs trying to piece things together to understand how to make it work and, sometimes, I find the out of date docs more understandable!

What's funny is I don't know what I was downvoted for. Was it because someone thought I thought such postings were worthwhile or do others think it's worthwhile and didn't like my chiding.

In either case, the absurdity shines through.

This is what I come to Hacker News for!!!

While some are saying it's only optional and up to the hardware vendors, isn't Microsoft giving Windows7 users a free upgrade? Is this the reason? A potential lock in?

This doesn't give any idea about the quality of any of these hosts. Many of these are already well known so it's not much help.

ATT was just kicked off the Dow Jones Industrials so, as a sagging, old company, they gotta make money somehow.

Too many new people creating web pages these days ignore the science behind it all.

No, NT is not far more advanced.

Such as not supporting XHTML until IE9.

Chrome and Chromium are not Blink. Blink is the rendering engine alone. Opera uses Blink.