Seriously, though. Are we supposed to be afraid of the huge building destroying robot? What does the city signify, IE users? And what’s the deal with the UFO’s in the background?
Am I reading too much into it? Highly likely. But it’s much more snappier. MUCH more snappier. John Resig thinks so.
And snazzier too… one example is when Firefox asks you if it should remember your password. No longer is it a separate dialog box which would disrupt the flow between pages, but instead it’s a much more muted slidedown-style dialog row of text. I don’t know what you call it, but it’s awesome. I’m pretty sure this was done before in IE (Insistent IE ActiveX warnings and others), but it’s a welcomed changed here.
And something with the text… is it anti-aliased? It just feels more softer than usual. I guess I should consult the changelogs.
Why is it that the top two searches for the string “php rss” shows up as this:
If you take some time to actually look at Magpie RSS and LastRSS (which I didn’t… silly me), you’ll see that they haven’t been updated since 2005 and 2004, respectively. For some silly reason, I didn’t think about PHP actually having an xml_rss function built into it, and it was only after out of frustration at these libraries not doing what I wanted that I stumbled onto the third link, the IBM article.
This just points out the fact that I’m still living in PHP4 land. Hooray for PEAR.
I love seeing these technology leaders speak, even though not in person. First it was Sergey Brin, now, through the advent of YouTube, Linus Torvalds himself.
Yes, there’s an upside to the Internet video madness. All that VC money at hard work.
And man, he’s so very “strongly opinionated”. Codeword for: a jerk. He’s like David Heinemeier Hansson in this regard. “Opinionated” is the euphemism I’d use, but then again, they themselves wouldn’t tolerate that bullcrap. But they have a reason to be so opinionated… they wrote the book(s) on it. Literally.
Now, Torvalds makes very valid points. Almost… too valid. After all, he is the father of the Linux kernel, and heads one of the largest distributed open source project out there. He knows what is needed in this arena, and so I’m happy to have seen this clip.
