Drinking with the whalers?

That's one of the problems of languages that are tied too much to one significant implementation.

Twitter doesn't limit you to 140 characters.

I remember Wikipedia hating on blogs. And now Reddit hating on TikTok. Somehow some people bring tribalism into social media and don't even realize it. You can use multiple services and don't need to bash any one of the others. I'm on twitter since June 2009 with over 71,000 tweets. I'm still using Usenet (the part with the discussions, not the pirate part). I was on IRC.

Except that they don't really work that well. The character set is undefined, so you end up with different interpretations of non ASCII characters in different apps. And not all necessary fields are available or get recognized in every app. Nope, I'd really like QR code to work for this, but they don't.

It's the Minecraft runtime.

That's the second time today I read about it, but there's no preferences option in this App. Do I have to tripple tap it with four fingers?

Scan is the first QR code scanner I installed on my iPad and later on my iPhone. There is nothing to change any options.

I look again: There's just the History

ARGHL! THERE IT IS! The settings are hidden on the history page!? WTF?

I bought my iPhone this December and the high rated Apps (even searched the web for lists of QR scanners) never ask. Maybe they were first, but finding anything via the iPhone is tedious. It's better on the iPad, but I can't try 10 or 20 Apps for just one feature.

As for RedLaser: I think I've avoided it because of the company name "eBay Inc."

I've searched for some time until I found a QR code scanner for iOS that does show me the URL first. There aren't many of them, I'll tell you. :-( The 6th was the right one, after I asked on Twitter, Reddit, a mobile phone newsgroup, and a Mac newsgroup. Qrafter is the name.

Because people still insist in using their old and silly date format everywhere. dd.mm.yy, dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy.

There's an international format called ISO 8601, which is accepted in almost every country around the world. yyyy-mm-dd with 4 digits for the year.

If such a date format would be common, nobody would even think about using only 2 digits (or less) to save a date. And no, 2010 wouldn't be interpreted as 2016. It would be wrong from the very beginning if somebody wants to interpret a BCD number as a hex number.

Implementation of the ISO 8601 Standard Around The World, including Europe, Germany, USA.

How about playing with your friends on the internet?

Tell that to all the Pastafarians on Slashdot who talk about Internet piracy in a climate change story or vice versa.

Not only is there nothing wrong with linear story lines, some of us actual prefer them. I hate those vast expansive worlds where you can just run around doing anything. I got flustered and overwhelmed when I get near the 25 quest limit in WoW, for example.

Part of the "entertainment" aspect (for me at least) is playing a game like watching a movie or reading a book...you get to unveil the author's vision...not make your own. Some people want to make their own art -- some of us like discovering the artistry of others.

I know a lot of people use the term "evolutionary" as a synonym for "gradual" or "slow" but when I think of evolution, I think of the specific process of mutations and reproduction by which a population changes over time. Unless there's something new about galaxies I've never heard of, I don't understand why the term "evolutionary" is the best word to describe the development of the early universe. (Or anything at astronomical scales that I can think of.)

Linus is naive and ignoring Microsoft's history.