I would try to take you seriously and prove all you said above is factually wrong if you wouldn't have made this comment on another topic:
> "many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). "
So you are supporting the Syrian regime, and think it's all done by the CIA and not Asad's people, or did I read it wrong?
I admire the effort you put in trying to convince others with your point, but calling Israel a murderous regime and in the same time protecting Syria and saying it's all done by the CIA is not helping you make people agree with you.
If you are not being paid by someone to write this, than I don't really think you are going to make any difference in the world, the best you are doing is making sure any US company, Israeli company, or company with Jewish people in the world will not hire you as a programmer / whatever it is that you do, and if you are not a programmer or anything hacker related, than what are you doing in Hacker news besides starting flame wars?
You are no better than the "Hasbara" you call, count the number of comments you have made in a thread that was long ago removed from HN (just because of users like you who started a flame war in it).
Please go and do something productive, build something, share your code, what have you done lately that helped humanity?
I don't take you seriously, sorry, you also claim that:
> "many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). "
I think it's really nice of them... having Google say something nice about something Microsoft did is not taken for granted, and feels more like just talented people aknowledging the work of other talented people.
Finally! (not related to TypeScript being released, right?)
Sarcasm aside, I really wanted Dart to succeed, but I want to say, too little, too late.
TypeScript has interop in day 1, and is 100% seemless, they won, that's it, end of story.
Even if Dart VM is amazing, even if the language is genius, how can you beat a langage that is just JavaScript + static typing?
I would shift resources out of the Dart project for now, join the TypeScript team and do a Google-Microsoft bipartisan project for the benefit of the world...
I'm sure some people from Microsoft are getting job offers from Google as we speak...
The spec says Chrome is right (was recently changed). Chrome is not the only browser. iOS browsers, the Android browser and Chrome for Android have always used the new behavior. The reason for the change is faster scroll performance, particularly on mobile.
Really? Can you point to the spec change? Did I miss a working group decision on this somewhere? Last I checked, the discussion on this got nowhere, with WebKit folks claiming this change was needed to optimize stuff and Opera and Mozilla folks claiming that optimizing scrolling worked just fine without this behavior change...
The CSS 2.1 spec was last updated in 2011 and does not include any mention of this new stacking context behavior (which was only proposed on the CSS mailing list in May 2012 and has not yet made it into any spec).
No, they changed it to no longer comply with that spec, actually. Please do read the spec, not assume it says what the "html5rocks" marketing folks want it to say.
I'm very glad this is HN front page, my site became actually blocked for all users because of a tour we had that used a floating overlay, but I still don't understand, is it a bug? or just following the specs? is there a concensus on this? if so, should we expect it to be fixed? or copied by other browsers?
> "many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). "
So you are supporting the Syrian regime, and think it's all done by the CIA and not Asad's people, or did I read it wrong?
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318514
I admire the effort you put in trying to convince others with your point, but calling Israel a murderous regime and in the same time protecting Syria and saying it's all done by the CIA is not helping you make people agree with you.
If you are not being paid by someone to write this, than I don't really think you are going to make any difference in the world, the best you are doing is making sure any US company, Israeli company, or company with Jewish people in the world will not hire you as a programmer / whatever it is that you do, and if you are not a programmer or anything hacker related, than what are you doing in Hacker news besides starting flame wars?
You are no better than the "Hasbara" you call, count the number of comments you have made in a thread that was long ago removed from HN (just because of users like you who started a flame war in it).
Please go and do something productive, build something, share your code, what have you done lately that helped humanity?