> And WTF does this have to do with overtime?

Many people foolishly think that as they can check their work email while on holiday, they should check their work email while on holiday. By doing so they are doing unpaid overtime (an evil evil thing).

> Most adults who play FPS tend to play offline (i.e. Bioshock).

I disagree, most adults who play FPSes online don't talk.

They do trains so I don't see why not, it is much more moral than the prices they charge on trains.

I come from the same camp, hire the best person for the role. Definitely.

But best is not just "technically best" but also "team fit best" and "not a dick" and "can communicate with the team" and various other little things. What this can mean is that the team unconsciously equates "best team fit" as "same as the rest of the team". The management should step in if this happens and look at ways to fixing what is a problem and reports like the one performed by Mr Apple is one quick way to measure if this is happening.

> Have you paused to consider that there might be other lifestyles than your own?

Yeap. And I want a smart watch. Or Glasses (minus the camera maybe), I've not worn a watch since the late 80s when it came with a radio built in.

As long as they don't stop selling watches when they start selling smart watches we will both be groovy. I'll have both a smart watch and you will have a watch. CauseBy may have an even smarter watch then I.

Wow so they fucked the TV show up then as I don't remember the helicopters in A Song of Ice and Fire.

By running the screensaver on The Cloud we can save each home device from having to process the images.

I pay a flat rate for water as well. :/

Run it in a browser without having to compile it into Javascript.

You could o/c not do any front end interaction have a set of static pages (yeay the 90s) or use Flash (Wooo 2000!).

Find yourself a good REST writing API (I'd go Jersey & Guice, but many go Spring for Java) and then HTML AngularJS as your front end framework.

> virtual machine

VM or emulator?

How about an emulator running on the JavaScript Virtual Machine? You can do that. ;)

And Google Chrome. ;)

But Phonegap/Cordova are part of the the "proprietary app stores" ecosystem which "will come and eat us all."

Languages we have. Add on emscripten (a back end for LLVM) we have a healthy number of language. But do we have a framework for these to live in which can allow apps to expand out of the browser? And are the frameworks designed for anything other than the Java script world the browsers live in.

> Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function

An app built on top of a app on top of a framework will not surpass an app build directly on the framework in function. It may be easier to develop, but that is a different thing.

In this case I could see Google doing the same as Google is not part of the loop.

You are correct, it should drop way down the list as a "these pages mention two of your search terms" type results. A search for "+MindPrision slashdot Thursday" would not return the tweet at all.