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  Lots of people thought of it, but discounted it because it was a dumb idea
An idea that costs almost nothing to do with almost nothing to lose.


Almost being the operative word here. Compared to the eventual payoff, yes, almost nothing. But I'll bet Tew actually spent quite a bit of time working on the idea, time he might've spent on something else with much better prospects for success. He's a classic case of survivor's bias: we only know about him because he was successful. We don't know about the thousands of others that pursued similarly dumb ideas (maybe even the same one) and failed.


this wouldn't be your normal case of pirating a tv show. You use one of these logos and end up becoming a large successful company you will be paying when you get sued.


I guess if you enjoy being sued for $X amount of dollars then nothing is stopping you.


Safari is the new IE.


They really are doing themselves a long term disservice by letting this meme be absolutely true.


Hoping for the day I can use Service Workers in all mobile browsers.


Scrolls fine in Firefox, Edge, and IE11, so yeah. It's Safari.


Scrolling works fine in Safari unless you override the native functionality with a buggy/insufficiently tested script.


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