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PrimeVideo.com is the website (in addition to apps on mobile and living room devices like TVs and consoles) where customers outside of the US, UK, Germany, and Japan can watch Prim…

Isn't your own blog's title "brevity is for the weak" ..? ;) In all seriousness, the post was pretty typical stream-of-consciousness self-discovery stuff. It's wordy by definition.…

> "In general Microsoft doesn't allow free DLC. You can ship bug fixes and there's a tiny amount of title update space you can shove content into, but large amounts of content are …

Henry F. Carey; East European Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1995, "Irregularities or Rigging: The 1992 Romanian Parliamentary Elections"

"the Romanian revolution was practically bloodless compared to what could have been" Compare it to the revolutions in the other Balkan states around 1988-1992. It was by far the mo…

"Those three countries - along with Romania (and sometimes Slovenia) are the case studies for Eastern Europe. They're where the transition from communism went remarkably well and l…

This article blames the author for not having a Kindle version of her book. That is a very simplistic view of what it takes for some authors to be able to sell Kindle editions (I u…

According to that graphic, the previous highest peak of long-term unemployed in the US was in the early 1980s, with around 3m unemployed. The current high peak in 2010, which looks…

This is a very popular essay which tends to get posted around the web quite often. Yet it suffers from many not-so-obvious flaws, as analyzed in the popular linguistics blog "Langu…

An intriguing coincidence? http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040319h.jpg

encoding the type in the filename isn't a bad way of ensuring the type never gets lost The most likely way of losing the type is surely if a user accidentally (or maliciously) chan…

DISCLAIMER: I haven't worked at Amazon for some time now. The author makes a number of unsourced assumptions about the business models involved, as well as his moral rights. You'll…

I think what codyhilton was trying to say (correct me here) is that the 'no scratch on the car + no remote possibility of injury' claim is about accident prevention , not dealing w…

High-speed train competition is a fascinating topic (if you're a.. uh.. trainspotter :)) For about a decade, Germany has been trying to sell the 'Transrapid' mag-lev trains and tec…

Not to repeat what was said above, but many of us (I suspect) immediately think of THIS when they see someone write "M$" -- http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215178115_ExTPi-L-2.j…

Perhaps I'm missing something, but the iPhone instructions ( http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=apple ) tell you to add an Exchange (ActiveSync) account in your iPho…

"I find it surprising that so many Hacker News readers are focusing on his (lack) of academic degrees" The focus of the linked article is not his (lack) of academic degrees, but ra…

This clone is advertised as costing at least $209. Kindle 2 currently costs $299. As far as I can tell from the sparse details provided, content is added to this via a sim card. If…

I worked at Amazon until very recently. Some thoughts on the article: "Amazon — where workers famously had desks made of wooden doors nailed to two-by-fours in the company’s earlie…

From reading the earlier articles, I believe the player in question was -- * Going to PvP-specific areas only (i.e. areas where 'hero' player characters are meant to fight 'villain…

It's interesting to see PR in action, especially as Proggit, HN, and several popular blogs have been sounding the HTML5-induced death knell for Flash in the last week or so. Transl…

So far, I don't see a lot of people asking the really tough questions of what this non-competition for employees (especially engineers / developers) actually means. * If some of th…

The popular linguistics blog "Language Log" had some interesting commentary on "Politics and the English Language" written in a calmly analytical style (interspersed with some judi…

"Steve Guttenberg," unless there is a much more intellectual seventh _Police Academy_ sequel uncovering his secret time traveling invention, probably didn't contribute very much to…