According to whom?

They are effectively stopping people from running personal ejabberd servers. What the hell is the point of running your own jabber server if your users can't talk to users on the largest jabber network on the planet?

If you haven't read Neal Stephenson's Anathem, you should. (That idea is called Saunt Lora's Proposition -- all possible ideas have already been found -- in the book. Good stuff.)

"Confound those who have said our remarks before us" -- Aelius Donatus, circa 4th century AD.

Not to mention that (at least compared to the previous release of HighCharts) D3's performance is just so much better. Graphing tens of thousands of data points causes my browser to freeze up for 10+ seconds at a time with HighCharts, while a D3-based graph visualization of the same data loads in under a second.

It doesn't appear to have gotten much better in this version. I took a peek at the new bubble chart (via their link to a jsFiddle) and it took about 7 seconds to render. I'm drawing similar charts using d3 with 800 data points that render in under 300 ms.

That's 7 seconds waiting for JSFiddle, not Highcharts. In my Chrome browser, Highcharts renders 800 bubbles in under 200 ms: http://jsfiddle.net/highcharts/hAyzq/

I wonder what kinds of safeguards they have in place to prevent people with the same name from claiming each other's things.

You need to enter in your SSN/Tax ID/FEIN.

Well are their fake SSNs or other ID numbers because I'd doubt that Ms. Asdf Asdf (of CA 90210) has a genuine government ID number, http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyRe....

Could you just claim that against your own ID?

> Half of the then-absurd snide "promises" he listed as others making have pretty much come true: HDTV pixel counts on a pocket device, LTE data rate 10x faster than T1, etc.

Shame we still don't have microsecond latencies, though.

and never will... at least on the "Internet" (as opposed to a controlled demo with all nodes fitting in a room).

That's true, but also irrelevant. GNOME Shell isn't an app, it's part of the infrastructure.

Rhythmbox? C. Evolution? C. (Geary? Vala.) Shotwell? Vala. LibreOffice? C++. gnome-terminal? C.

There are no GNOME apps written in JavaScript yet. The fact that they're using it in the shell is promising, but if they want app developers to pick it up en masse they need to lead by example.

> its the most popular desktop app dev language period - by sheer numbers.

By what numbers? Number of projects using the language? Number of lines of code in the wild in that language? Number of users using apps written in the language? Because I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I seriously doubt that that's correct. Firefox, Chrome, iTunes, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Excel, Word, Powerpoint... None of these apps are written in C#. The most popular app dev language, period, is C++. (Maker help us all.)

Where's the article about how you're leaving PHP for statically-generated content? ;)

Touche!

I think you mean "casualty". :)

Hah, yep, good catch. Damn you [manual] spelling correct ;)