"I'm really outraged by this, I never saw such attitude in software development... ever, in my entire life, and I have 10 years of experience in software development..... this is just unbelievable, such irresponsibility! Going public with this!!! come on!! WHY!?"
- Simon
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Simon, I think the author of the comment you just quoted, Comment 14, is satirizing a comment above, e.g., Comment 9. But the author of Comment 9 is being serious.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I'm not so sure. Graphics geeks get really sensitive about this kind of stuff. Both #14 and #9 may be expressing their honest opinions. They only way to be sure is to troll them both and post a reply about the bug not being that important because the page still operates correctly with the sub-optimal rounded corners. Also, I can't repro it on the latest dev channel release of Chrome 4 on the Mac.
- Bill Strathearn
I once filed a bug with IBM about a single pixel being the wrong shade of gray, but arguing for a P1 seems to go too far.
- Amit Patel
I see crap like this on a fairly regular basis, and it doesn't appear to me that comment 14 is being satirical (or if it is, then the author is pretty bad at making satire clear). There seems to be no shortage of douchebags who will spam every bug that bothers them with "the sky is falling" comments, lambasting the individuals responsible with ad hominem attacks, and so forth. This is one of the things that makes working on open-source software for a large company less fun than it should be.
- Joel Webber
Apparently the author of comment 14 is going to escalate the issue, so the Chromium team can just ignore it for now until the executive fixes the bug.
- Matt Mastracci
"In France the name was shortened to MR due to the similarity in pronunciation of MR2 with the French word "merde"."
- Simon
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In some circles, the MR is pronounced "Mister", for it's resemblance to the name salutation abbreviation. As in: "the super charger on that Mister Two makes it really snappy".
- Bill Strathearn
"Fourteen states, eleven of them in the South, ban anyone with a felony conviction from voting for life, even after the person has served the sentence."
- Simon
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"The first step was to model his face in 3D Studio Max. After overlaying a wireframe, he added textures in Mudbox 2010 and Photoshop CS3, before using software called Pepakura to break the model up into printable sections."
- Simon
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"In 26 out of 27 European Union countries, Mr Buffett’s plans [to leave most of his fortune to charity] would not just be shocking, but illegal. The exception is Britain."
- Simon
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"In continental Europe a big part of an estate (often around half) is reserved for the surviving children of the deceased and must be equally divided between them. ... Finally, “clawback” laws in many countries stop parents from dodging forced heirship by giving assets away while they are still alive. This applies to gifts made in the last years of life (two years in Austria, ten in Germany), or much longer: in some countries, no time limit applies."
- Paul Buchheit
I bet the Europeans think it's crazy that we reserve half for the IRS :)
- Private Sanjeev
I thought only millionaires had to reserve half for the IRS.
- Gabe
As of 2009, it's 45% for estates valued at over $3.5MM, with exemptions for small businesses and farmers. It affects less than 1% of the US population at present. It's set to revert to $1M in 2011, but there's pretty much no chance that Congress will let that actually happen.
- Joel Webber
@Sanjeev: In Europe the inheritance tax rates vary, but can be similar to the US, and the exemption limits are often much lower: "[2007] France if you are inheriting from a spouse you receive up to €76,000 tax free. Anything above this limit is taxed at between 5 and 40 per cent, depending on the size of the gift. But the rate for non-relatives is a hefty 60 per cent, with no...
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- Simon
@Simon: Interesting -- I had no idea it was that high. It's also telling that, as the Economist article suggests, (continental) European law seems to strongly favor blood relatives (especially children) over the wishes of the deceased. I'm not sure which is preferable, but it's an interesting dichotomy.
- Joel Webber
"IAC boss Barry Diller basically put Ask.com on the market during yesterday's earnings call. And as Reuters notes, there's no more likely buyer -- or outsourcing partner -- than Microsoft."
- Simon
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"Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 and the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, among many other things. The ZX80 was the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than £100. [...] Despite his involvement in computing, he does not use the Internet."
- Simon
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"The setup allows for real-time, almost-real-motion tracking of single neurons. That feat has eluded researchers who have a fuzzy, general understanding of brain systems, but little knowledge of how individual cells actually work. They hope that cell-level details will make sense of motion, cognition and other complex mental functions."
- Simon
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ok they weren't really playing quake. That would be bigger news than the brain scanning :)
- Private Sanjeev
"According to surveys, barely a third of Egyptian adults have ever heard of Charles Darwin and just 8% think there is any evidence to back his famous theory. Teachers, who might be expected to know better, seem equally sceptical. In a survey of nine Egyptian state schools, where Darwin’s ideas do form part of the curriculum for 15-year-olds, not one of more than 30 science teachers interviewed believed them to be true."
- Simon
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"phenomenon in which a word or set phrase is separated into two parts, with other words occurring between them: "A-whole-nother", "Abso-fuckin-lutely", "Wel-diddly-elcome"."
- Simon
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The title is misleading given that MSN has lost the most absolute and relative percentage share during the rise of FB and YouTube. YouTube and Facebook Eat MSN's Lunch, Yahoo's after-dinner snack.
- Bill Strathearn
"The experiment has important implications for the eventual development of a technology to create false human memories. We could one day “learn” by having experiences directly inputed into our brains."
- Simon
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"One important development in the 20th century was the introduction of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young Margaret Thatcher was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream, which allowed manufacturers to use less of the actual ingredients, thereby reducing costs."
- Simon
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"Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial you're actually stealing the programming." -- Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting
- Simon
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"I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom."
- Simon
"In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple's Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That's no longer true. I still give the Mac OS a slight edge [..] however, it's much more of a toss-up between the two rivals."
- Simon
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Alt text: "I'm teaching every 8-year-old relative to say this, and every 14-year-old to do the same thing with Toy Story. Also, Pokemon hit the US over a decade ago and kids born after Aladdin came out will turn 18 next year."
- Simon
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Aaaaaah, the horror, the horror. I'm still amazed that the new generation will never believe my sheer joy of additional 2MB for my Mac Plus :) Shuffle Puck foh life!
- Timo Josten
"The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. [...] Mr Blaney believes it is the first time a order has been served via Twitter."
- Simon
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"The Duracell Bunny campaign was launched in 1973 and predates the Energizer Bunny, which actually began as a parody of the Duracell Bunny commercials. [...] The Duracell Bunny does not appear in North America, due to Energizer jumping the trademark claim for the marketing use of a "battery bunny" in the United States and Canada."
- Simon
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"In North America, the term "Energizer Bunny" has entered the vernacular as a term for anything that continues indefatigably while in Europe and Australia the term "Duracell Bunny" has a similar connotation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Simon
"Also, while the Energizer Bunny is a single rabbit, the Duracell Bunnies are a species." .... Fascinating
- Benjamin Lee