The most interesting part of this article is how entirely openly it's indicating that a default setting that can easily be changed in a web browser will be left by virtually all users permanently. Of course it's true, it's just so odd to see written down so explicitly. To an extent I kind of feel that if people seriously won't investigate the option themselves then upon their own head be it. But at the same time it ahouldn't be opt out, this kind of thing should never be opt out.

Thanks for this post, I sometimes feel as if this is the world's least well made distinction. So many people seem to have constructed the idea that dictionaries instruct the use of language not vice versa.

Could you explain how this is "pumping and dumping"? What I have learned from the material floating around is that there are fundamental difference in the architectures of Chrome and Safari and how they talk to WebKit. Google decided to go their own way because maintaining the common code base was a pain for both sets of developers.

There is no pumping or dumping. Google and apple have different goals and ideas to how the projects should move forward.

Seriously, thank you. Plus there was literally nothing about college. Which I am at.

Yahoo Answers. Amazing. Have you recently visited their Programming & Design section? How does that community survive?

Yahoo Answers... you mean the College Student Health Care Plan?

...just because it's not for you, doesn't mean it's (totally) useless.

It's still, quietly, the best place for what it does. Much like a lot of Yahoo.

This sums it up: http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/4052532525_0a2c9...

Not all questions are programming questions. For non-programming questions (ie, baby health questions), it does ok.

I use Google to find yahoo answers.

I'll say it. It might sound incredibly trivial, but the name. It's an insanely intimidating name.

I don't see how ogg is worse than mp3.

And if you're considering Ogg Vorbis, lets remember that the "full" name of mp3 would be something like Moving Picture Experts Group 2 Audio Layer III.

People just call them by their file extensions.

But they didn't. Noone ever just called it ogg. It was always Ogg Vorbis, sometimes Ogg/Vorbis.

Some file types just get an easy ride, like jpeg/jpg. Imagine if it was actually routinely referred to as a Joint Expert file. Maybe pngs would have taken off faster (they are still less frequently searched than gif or jpg according to gtrends).

Did the problem not exist before, or was it just invisible?

(Katy here) I would super appreciate feedback on how to be less abrasive.

DHH is so mouthy it actually is really beginning to give the impression of massive insincerity.

This should shove the internet into a more sophisticated mode of advertising (if more clandestine in many ways, shills ahoy). It's unprecendentedly pathetic to see companies worrying about their outmoded methods and hegemony on content choice. Imagine when content choice is purely based on relevance and recommendation (and shills).

Extreme levels of correct, I myself am incredibly bitter/jealous/you-name-it. However, I get a tugging sensation that it's almost all PR-minded.