throwaway32

no, because people usually fence in their yards, from one, or both sides.

dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already is.

the real goal of free Google Analytics is to get people to place the javascript tracking snippet on their webpages so they can collect data for Ads and now paying customers.

If we project even further chrome will have 200% market share, imagine the results of that!

I doubt many sites are going to bother with all the complexity of implementing and utilizing SPDY when only chrome supports it. To see significant advantage with SPDY vs something like long-polling you need to build your app around it, and if you need to support long-polling methods anyways, not very many sites are going to bother.

just because you know somebody's name, doesn't make them honest either, if it did politics would be a whole different ballgame.

well perhaps somewhat understandable, why should i be happy with an inferior interface because of it? This falls very squarely in the category of "not my problem, but you just made it my problem anyways"

I see this as part of a big trend towards software and software designers that think they know what you want better than you do, and its an endless source of frustration for me, and im sure many others.

"These concerns aren't real, not because Facebook isn't collecting information but because everyone is collecting information"

So Facebook isn't acting counter to your interests because everyone is acting counter to your interests?

whats humorous is that Strunk and White use the passive voice in their recommendation to not use it!

>BSD is losing its ground against Linux (and Windows).

why is that important? why do the BSDs have to be gaining on Linux to be a viable, useful system. If your entire goal becomes "competing" with Linux, you miss the entire point many people chose a BSD to begin with, a stable, well thought out, usable system. The ZFS integration clusterfuck with freeBSD pretty clearly shows the results of trying to rush things so they are somehow better than linux.

Merging all the BSDs together to "fight" Linux is stupid and shortsighted, the OpenBSD philosophy is about more than security tweaked defaults for freebsd, its an entire process from conception of a new program, to implementation, to maintenance of the code. If you try to reduce it to a common codebase, it is just going to be freebsd + tweaks, which negates the entire reason people want to use OpenBSD to begin with.

Slightly OT, but this is a perfect reason to regard javascript crypto as dangerous. If one of the most heavily scrutinized cryptographic protocols can have what is in retrospect, a fairly obvious flaw (WEP fell to a very similar predictable IV attack), the average developer does not stand a chance of getting it right implementing it from scratch in an environment they do not have strong control over.

Forced arbitration clauses, with an arbiter of the companies choosing, are in no way "holding them accountable". They are pretty much the definition of an unjust kangaroo court.

yes, it is heavily patched to support things like IPv6 (which the Apache foundation claimed was "impossible"). However, the code-base is getting a bit long in the tooth, a more modern replacement will be nice. I am curious however about how they are going to implement CGI with nginx, as tons of applications still rely on this.