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I think this is a result of not having suitable substitutes TBH (from my personal experience).

I also think it is a bad way of recouping research costs.

Not when you remember he works for them?

Why bother with class 'bold' when you could use inline styles? (I jest)

I come from an older thinking that your HTML should not have any classes that imply visual style, and that classes/id's should be semantic to the content and structure of the HTML.

CSSZen garden is a good example of this.

Nowadays I personally love semantic markup, stylistic mixins, and a CSS file linking the two together following BEM patterns.

I think legitimate times when this falls apart, is when I watch the designers I work with now, work in HTML & CSS - they need to quickly move things around, so doing this all from markup gives them a big speed increase, up until a point that is. We get involved now early after initial client direction sign-off to make their markup and CSS more robust before they carry on like a pig in poo.

It's not just apple, it is every company that dodges taxes. Making an example of apple is not fair - everyone should pay their taxes... who knows how the systems we have in place would actually work if people used it the way it is designed (instead of finding loopholes for their own benefit).

Unfortunately I think the Judge does not understand the context here, users of whatsapp will simply use another messaging app - the role of a messaging app is not to store users conversations but relay them.

Any messaging app that actively stores conversations, and then turns them over to anyone when requested will simply not be used by the public (or if it is, it won't be for very long).

Known as whales in the industry I believe - they are actively targeted and it is a disgusting strategy :-(

Engineers don't often get to chose the features they work on, or to what degree they get polished. If it amazed me, I would direct such amazement to the correct person :`D

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What are you talking about? The Daily Mail is a terrible source of what they believe will sell to their audiences; news/tabloids is a business, and they certainly do not care about the quality of their product, but only the income they generate - which, is worthwhile remembering before choosing to digest its dribble. I am not going to waste time demonstrating examples when anyone can simply visit the site and experience this for themselves.

Sure other 'news' sources are not immune, but at least step above appealing to the lowest common denominators in society or attempt to form some kind of quality.

I could provide analogies to help illustrate the point, but it is a waste of time arguing about it.

anything for that money...

IMHO it really depends on what you are doing;

- Chatting with friends? = Whatsapp

- International drug deals? != Whatsapp