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And Stephen, this is why Ant fragment is actually more maintainable than the magical combination of Maven hacks.

La magie, ça n'est jamais maintenable ; sauf à avoir en permanence des magiciens à travailler dessus.

KUNMING, China (Reuters) – Nestled in a sleepy southern district of Kunming city in southwest China, is a 10,000 square meter, four-story building that could make Swedish furniture giant Ikea uneasy.

If you define an “HTML5 browser” as one that supports all features of HTML5 then there are precisely zero in existence. (You’d need to define “HTML5″, of course, but that’s another story.)

Huhu

The truth is that browser manufacturers are driving it collaboratively because if browsers don’t render HTML interopably, developers will use some proprietary technology instead.

La vérité c'est que les développeurs visent Apple Webkit aka "néo IE6" (utilisé dans Apple Safari et Google Chrome / Chromium), et essaient d'être compatible avec le reste derrière, avec en compatibilité prioritaire Mozilla Gecko (utilisé dans Mozilla Firefox...). C'est comme ça que voyages-scnf.com est un site Web, alors que capitainetrain.com est un site Webkit. Ou alors, c'est parce que les développeurs web les plus audibles sont des macqueux, et ils ont oublié au passage ce qu'était l'interopérabilité (One Browser, One OS, One Store).

Taipei (The China Post/ANN) – Amid the very real concerns of Taiwan’s declining birthrate, advocates for children and youth health Saturday (July 16) pointed out that within the last year, up to 500,000 women underwent abortions.

Apple is suing “the copyist” Samsung because they “imitate the appearance of Apple’s products to capitalize on Apple’s success”. Be that as it may, the similarities between the two tech giant’s gadgets are nothing compared to what other Asian knockoffs are doing for a living. Like Anymode Corp., which is in the business of designing, manufacturing and selling a blatant Smart Cover rip-off, pictured above and below.

On most computers, including the developers', the code simply set the system date to the current month, day and year. On the French computers-where dates use the DD/MM/YYYY format-the code swapped the months and the days.

La grande habitude américaine : "on most" signifie en fait "aux USA".

Asian industry sources have suggested that second-grade touch panels that don’t pass Apple’s quality standards for the iPad 2 are making their way into Chinese “white-box” iPad clones, according to a new report.

A 14-year-old Australian boy was charged Monday with manslaughter over the stabbing death of a woman who complained after her house and car were allegedly pelted with eggs.

While social media has demonstrated its utility in all kinds of unexpected areas, some of the most interesting applications have been discovered by criminals, who use social media to perpetrate elaborate frauds, identify vacation-going burglary subjects, and steal online identities. And it seems like resourceful outlaws are finding new, surprising applications for social media every day. Here’s a good one: social media as a communications platform in armed standoffs.

A 20-year-old computer technician working as a Mac repairman was arrested by police in southern California on Wednesday for allegedly installing spyware on laptops that he fixed, thereby enabling him to gain control of the computer’s webcam and remotely take photos of women in various states of undress.

"Scientific" facts about toilet paper orientation

Interesting sport.

Image: traduction de "ananas" dans diverses langues. L'anglais est-il si simple que ça ?

Iconographie déviante, 90000 pixels à la fois

New patent from Apple to spy on its customers. Very scaring : the device can take a photo of your photo without you knowing and other kinds of creepy things.

A fact of life : after monday and tuesday...

JavaScript is a language we love despite it giving us so much to hate. This is a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just plain painfully unintuitive moments for the language of the web.

Methodology

We first created three different variants based on the original microdata proposal

Google n'embauche que le top 1% des développeurs. Google embauche tous les PhD qu'ils peuvent. Et pourtant, Google nous sort des "études" qui dès la première ligne nous font penser à un sondage Opinion Ways : une problématique exposée foireuse soutenue par des questions biaisée. Google : le JC Decaux d'internet.

WTF?