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I created this account after a couple of years. My main account is 1000+ days old.

Seriously. This summer has been depressing to watch HN go down the pan.

Just don't do 'login' type work at public wifi :/ is that so hard? Do people not know this already? Did some people ever think it was safe to use public wifi for anything other than general browsing?

Please HN: Stop getting outraged by stuff that doesn't really matter. You're turning into Reddit, and just like them, you will have forgotten all about this by next week, and be on to the next topic you need to be outraged about. It's depressing. Angelgate? No one cares any more. No one should have cared in the first place.

Either you'll do a great job getting people out of debt, or you'll be profitable. You can't do both.

> " No web developer in their right mind would drop support for IE - no one would hire them - and yet they seem to be fine taking that approach on mobile."

No consumer in their right mind would use IE on a mobile :/

FWIW my webapp is 20% Chrome, 55% Firefox, 19% IE (All mainly desktop users). So dropping support for IE isn't that insane.

shrug pretty much. The issue is that framework docs are often better than js docs. So instead of people sitting down with a decent js book and learning the right way to do something, they just use a framework.

The fact that pretty much all js frameworks periodically announce speedups of 50%+ should ring alarm bells.

Don't believe the notion that making 100 websites that earn $1 a day is easier than making 1 website that makes $100 a day. It's not.

Create value, make users want to stick around, iterate, grow.

They probably realize that linux/osx devs will look at their stuff and laugh out loud at its lameness.

2k = 95% of what you'll ever need.

FWIW browser differences are always vastly overplayed by 'framework' developers.

When exactly did he say "women should not run a startup."?

> "I write in a gender independent style (unlike your comment!)."

That seems fairly silly considering 95%+ of founders are men. Women founders are an edge case. Whether that's how things should be or not is a question for another day IMHO (Ask women why they don't want to be founders), but acknowledging the fact that 95% of founders are men, isn't being sexist.

I think his point is completely valid - if you have a supportive spouse, you can be 50% involved in baby, or you can be 1% involved in baby. If it's 1% then it won't really impact your success in a startup (Although you'll most likely live to regret it).

wow you have been able to do this on linode for years :/

USB keyboard. Many people use the wii to browse.

How about the baby who died because through unknown causes in its own room, that could have been saved if it was in your own bed?

everything carries a risk. Do what seems natural and right for you.

I agree with you - I wouldn't use a webbrowser on a games console. But the population disagrees - they do :/

FWIW, I disagree.

When MS announced support for facebook on the xBox, I thought "hmm why not just give users a browser". Then they announced twitter integration... "Umm how about just stuff a browser on there".

It's farcical. But OTOH, it fits right with MS's plan - they detest the www. It's open. It's free. It's not a walled garden they can monetize.

Last time I heard the web division at MS still makes a huge loss. Which leads me to believe they're not in it to make money. They're in it to mess it up, stifle progress, and keep people buying their installable software. They did an absolutely fantastic job of that for 5 years or so.