follies

If you don't submit yourself to the follies and whims of these platforms, you will never be seen.

Who can't relate to the follies of youth, esp when there's powerful media enterprise trying to exploit them?

The comments in the link describe the follies of the CE/C button - one only clears the last input, one clears everything and they are easily confused.

Money AKA energy is not free; Mozilla can least afford follies; there is always an option to reject a neo-standard.

It doesn't care about wealth-effect follies that can't be standardized among developers without a compile-to-JS plan that undermines the native-VM plan.

Further, in all respects it is difficult to tell the difference between an expert and a non-expert, hence all the fun interviewing follies.

Away then with your expensive follies, and you will not have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families...

Both PNaCL and asm.js are could follies if you consider mobile games.

For a while now I've had one of these parables earmarked to conclude an article about the follies of my youth.

Convincing people of their follies isn't my primary goal.

Understanding their follies and the dynamics behind them are.

The internet preserves my follies for future generations!

This is not a case of me as past Mozilla leader ducking "responsibility" to fund your pet follies based on breathtakingly incomplete HN-comment assertions about low complexity from you.

Hell, the journalists covering the war used to call the daily afternoon briefings from the military "The Five O'Clock Follies", due to the sheer amount of CYA bullshit in them.

Bonus fun on "Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard", duelling, and "Popular Follies of Great Cities" (which were basically memes long before the internet).

Engineers, who had been told by the government to make the UK a nuclear power by 1952, nicknamed the filters Cockcroft's Follies, mocking them as an expensive piece of pointless delay.