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Comment · 14 years ago
I don't see how finding JavaScript programmers is going to be a problem in 10 years... even if they started now it would take, at least, that long to fully deprecate the language out of the browser. NodeJS may go away but I think betting on JavaScript going away are some pretty long odds.
Comment · 14 years ago
Well that link works but the filtering doesn't... If I search for "Javascript" W3Schools is top result despite the fact I blocked it.
Comment · 14 years ago
They filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which means they don't have to fully liquidate to their creditors and also means their debt is not absolved, merely that there is a trustee appointed to oversee their assets while allowing the business to continue. They could still end up filing a Chapter 7 in which they would have to liquidate and would mean the end of the company as we know it but they are not there yet.
Comment · 14 years ago
Is domain blocking working for you or are you using some other extension? Domain blocking mysteriously disappeared for me a while ago. It was a real buzzkill when the likes of Experts Exchange, W3Schools and Quora started showing up in my search results again.
Comment · 14 years ago
BTW Angular supports prefixing your 'ng-' attributes with 'data-' if you want valid HTML.
Comment · 14 years ago
Generally speaking you don't need to own and test all devices, the emulator does just fine. There are a few quirks here and there but as cryptoz alludes to I've never had more headaches than trying to support all the versions of IE and modern browsers.
Comment · 14 years ago
Or only allow downloading in background when connected to a charger.
Comment · 14 years ago
The problem is if you're using 3rd party libs, especially if the 3rd party code is coming from developers with the philosophy that ASI is a good thing and intentionally leave out the semi-colons from their code. Adding the semi-colon to the code you control is safe and doesn't hurt anything.
Comment · 14 years ago
After having my account locked down because I didn't want to use my full name I closed my account, shortly after they turned into a more modern looking experts exchange and I wasn't so sore about not being able to contribute to the site.
Comment · 14 years ago
I would hazard a guess that we're roughly the same age because I grew up with the same mixture of units but I think it's less to do with growing up in a rural area than the fact that your parents and grandparents were educated on imperial units and even though metric was standard by the time you were born, the imperial system was still ingrained in your elders and some of that nomenclature was passed on to you. When I talk to anyone over 50 I have to be careful to remember when they say it got to -70 a few years ago they are most likely saying it was -70F and not -70*C.
Comment · 14 years ago
Maybe you have friends, family or loved ones that use iphones that may be at your home that want to charge their phones? No. Then this product isn't for you. I personally am in love with a woman that comes from a family of mac users, perhaps you can understand my dismay when I stayed at her brother's house for two days and he didn't have a single MicroUSB cable and he's a tech geek/developer with 3 computers (MBP, Mac Pro and Mac Air), 2 tablets (Ipad 1 & 2) and 2 (i)phones. I've never expected that someone could have so many tech devices and not have a billion usb cables like most of my tech friends do.

Then there is the fact that I'm competing with my old lady for plugins for our phone cables. We live in an extremely old house and the amount of plugins are limited as is the amount they can be extended.

Comment · 14 years ago
International ecommerce, including China, I can't speak to the exact numbers but the revenue from 6 and 7 is in the millions so we're not quite out of that maintenance cost to revenue hasn't quite tipped yet. Though we do display the ie6countdown.com banner along (and I may have messed it up a bit to display for 7 as well.)
Comment · 14 years ago
The Humble Bundle may have allowed them to file Chapter 11, which means they don't plan to shutdown, instead of Chapter 7, which would have required total liquidation of the company.
Comment · 14 years ago
The end user shouldn't care or know what version the browser for anything but troubleshooting anyways, to them it's just "Firefox" and "Chrome" no more of this stupid bullshit like IE6/7/8/9/10 that will held back progress for the last decade and will continue to do so for the next decade to come.

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