This is turning into a Big Deal, isn't it?

So, Mobile Safari proper uses Nitro and has seen some good performance improvements. For reasons unknown, these changes didn't make it into apps that use UIWebView.

You don't have to be Nostradamus to see what debate that "reasons unknown" part is going to cause.

1) Apple is evil and trying to cripple web performance so that people buy apps
2) It's a bug and/or simply didn't make into iOS 4.3 because it wasn't prioritized.

I think you have that backwards. The banks own the government.

You know, there are two licensing-related problems Google is facing now with Android: the Oracle lawsuit, and now this. Both seem to have at least partially arisen because Google didn't float stuff past people who have interests in the technologies they chose to use. It makes me wonder if there was some development going on behind closed doors back when Schmidt was on Apple's board, but it was kept hush-hush to keep from letting Apple know what they were up to.

Reality: Recent history seems to show that there are two things no President has the power to affect: the Pentagon and Wall Street. Presidents can only begin new actions. They cannot end or meaningfully decrease existing ones where boots are on the ground.

We'll see what happens with Libya. If it turns into a Serbian-style air campaign, then we will be in and out relatively quickly. But if the Marines or Army get involved, we will be there indefinitely.

Astroturfing, HOOOOO!

This isn't true.

Brief intro to sandboxing on OS X

OSX Sandboxing Design in Chrome

You're right. The net benefit of energy usage will be completely negated by you using an incandescent bulb to keep your pipes from freezing.

Fuck the free market. It doesn't work for shit, and deserves no more religious or moral dedication than any other system of economics. Banning CFLs is a net positive. Banning weed is a net negative. Those two things can both be true at the same time without the need to make idiotic claims of government running amok.

Spotlight.

Spotlight and fuhgeddaboutit.

Basically I don't worry about it any longer. Spotlight let's me search the entire file system, and subsets of it like emails, and OS X is pretty good about automatically generating metadata. Good enough for most circumstances, anyway.

And since you can search the contents of files, this makes looking for that PDF Joe Blow sent you last week dead easy.

Honestly, I have ~/Documents and a few subfolders, and that's about it. Between Spitlight and Quicksilver I don't have to worry about directory hierarchies any more.

Very informative. Do you have a source?

I've noticed this as well. I encounter much more zealotry from the Android side of things. Conversely, the "Apple fanboy" seems to be more-or-less a mythical creature. I have never encountered one, at least. I *have* encountered Android evangelists, though.

And they're annoying as hell.

> I doubt there's a programmer alive who hasn't made at least one mistake in dealing with time and dates.

*raises hand* Yup. I ran into an issue earlier this year where we were getting currency exchange rates from a webservice on a daily basis. Our dev and QA environments were in CST, and our production servers were in Pacific time. When tested in dev and QA everything was fine, but once deployed to production the rates never expired.

I was able to fix it, but it was subtle and difficult to track down.

Holy crap, I am so glad I am not alone here. I had an E6500 and that is far and away the worst laptop I have ever used. Cheap materials, the keyboard sucks, the display is dim even on full brightness. Also the trackpad is freaking TINY, the buttons are shit, and the area on the trackpad for scrolling is far too small to be anywhere near useful. It's heavy and awkward to carry: the docking connector in the back adds another inch to the dimensions of the thing, and makes it so it won't fit in most backpacks.

I had it for a contract I was on for most of this year, and it was the first Dell I've used in probably three years. I was hoping their quality had improved, but it most assuredly has not.

You know, it's fascinating that your list doesn't include the most plausible explanation: "being railroaded by the US." Assange's persecution is entirely about politics. He has embarrassed America and damaged the credibility of its foreign policy apparatus, as well as that of other governments. If you really think that the charges against him have anything to do with their merit, them I'm sorry but you are naive to the point of idiocy.

I've been here for a while. /. hasn't changed in a long, long time. Well... except the layout has gotten shittier over time, and the new Ajax comment submission stuff is slow as hell.