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GeneralRe: Company with no product wins $533M verdict vs. Apple, says it’s no “patent troll” Pin
Duncan Edwards Jones1-Mar-15 12:04
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Dan Neely1-Mar-15 16:36
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NewsMicrosoft's Collective Project wants students to change the world Pin
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NewsOne in three of the world's population now owns a smartphone Pin
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NewsIKEA will start selling wireless charging lamps and tables Pin
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News"Ten Simple Rules for Lifelong Learning, According to Hamming" Pin
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NewsHistory of the browser user-agent string Pin
Dan Neely27-Feb-15 3:12
Dan Neely27-Feb-15 3:12 
I found this clicking links from another article posted today and thought it deserved some attention of its own.


Quote Webaim.org[^]:
And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.


Sigh | :sigh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

GeneralRe: History of the browser user-agent string Pin
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Dan Neely27-Feb-15 11:18
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NewsEstimates? We don’t need no stinking estimates! Pin
Kent Sharkey26-Feb-15 12:16
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NewsMicrosoft's future for productivity: More touch, pen, personal agents Pin
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Newson-line bitches indiscriminately whelping PUPS calls for spay no mercy jihad Pin
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Rob Grainger26-Feb-15 22:44
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NewsGoogle exec: It's 'irresponsible' of Apple to make everything expensive Pin
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Ron Anders26-Feb-15 17:28
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GeneralRe: Google exec: It's 'irresponsible' of Apple to make everything expensive Pin
Kevin McFarlane27-Feb-15 0:17
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GeneralRe: Google exec: It's 'irresponsible' of Apple to make everything expensive Pin
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NewsHow Google avoids downtime Pin
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NewsMicrosoft updates Windows App Studio with a variety of new features Pin
Kent Sharkey26-Feb-15 10:13
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