I think the title is misleading about the significant change of gnome. it still looks conservatively out of date.
open source applications generally have had a history of ugly user interfaces. the reason behind it has understandably been: well it's open source and free, we don't have the resources of microsoft and apple to get a topnotch designer.
it's competitor kde is no better. kde's look can best be described as mimicking windows ui done wrong.
these facelifts are not significant changes. it's time for a serious re-design.
speaking of renaming, how about making a post on HN and asking everyone what the new name should be? this has nothing to do with publicizing, just a democratic way (the right way) of naming a framework.
don't you get it, he only wants some publicity time to time? the content of the news is not important, the important bit is that it gets circulated, which it sadly has been circulated here in hackernews.
and so was that ruby gut called why or whatever, a few days ago in hackernews.
sad but true: just like people in middle east are not culturally ready for democracy, people in advanced countries are not intelligent enough to not to create hype for free for random individuals.
nope. ie can go to hell. I hope every future version of ie has less and less market share, and I wish it a painful, but fast death.
if you're a frontend developer, you've got to have that 'ie moment' curse engraved into your brain.
the moment where everything gets developed smoothly in other browsers, and it fails in ie.
the moment that everything looks beautiful in other browsers, and it sucks in ie, and because the majority of the visitors use ie, you have to kill that beautiful feature.
the moment that everything runs fast (or fast enough when it comes to firefox, the new ie), and it's so fucking slow in ie you can hear your cpu fan dying too fly.
remember those moments? now integrate them over time, start from since you were young. when you're done, integrate it in another dimension over all developers all around the world. you will get a big number. a very big number, which is the number of hours that we have suffered, for free, so that fucking microsoft can sell more.
g+ didn't stop that. reddit people still post about how g+ looks like a ghost town.