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If I were to blndly guess at an underlying phenomenon, it would be what I've come to call "app pollution" for lack of a better term. More and more money is being thrown at an ever …

I just realized this: Companies totally unaffiliated with Windows manage to produce browsers that have bleeding-edge feature parity all the way from XP through 8 (not to mention tw…

The product itself looks cool, but things like this keep catching my eye: > HI ! Looking to purchase MULTIPLE REWARDS IN ONE GO ? YES YOU CAN ! > FREE shipping in the US and EU. Ad…

Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur. But I get it. To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious po…

Since you asked, here are the problems I see. Most of these I've learned the hard way working on a similar problem for over 2 years, so hopefully that counts for something. 1- The …

Considering the billions spent on "national security". Considering all of the privacy violated in the name of airport security. Considering that it's considered okay to fly across …

This doesn't feel as much a social network as an unstructured dumping ground of noise vaguely related to "programming", in an insultingly naive sense of the term [1]. Maybe there's…

Poe's law [1] at work. My bet is on parody though. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law

> I rebutted with a question: do you want a commit every time you type a character in your text editor? I don't get it. I want a commit every time I say I want a commit, not upon a…

buzzword buzzword unqualified huge number superlative google microsoft! big data! $X billion buzzword buzzword random powerpoint diagram. And on top of that, the entire article end…

Actually, part of the criteria for getting a patent (at least in the states) is that the invention is non-obvious to those in the trade. So patents kind of are about doing things t…

This argument never made sense to me. If I were designing a Ponzi scheme intending to defraud people, I wouldn't base it on a 100% transparent network of open source software using…

I'm getting the same vibe. And I'm beginning to think that allowing this kind of thing will be the downfall of Kickstarter. Yes, I will explain. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely lo…

Forget ethics; just from a business standpoint, each new piece of legislation like this makes piracy an increasingly better alternative, costing Hollywood more and more money. Pira…

This is such a powerful and often-(ab)used argument that it genuinely horrifies me. It seems these days just about anything the U.S. government does can be justified under a bindin…

The reason this has no chance of working with open source software is the same reason DRM doesn't work. If you cripple your version of the software, the next guy to figure out how …

I think we can assume that either: a) they haven't figured out the details, b) the details are underwhelming, or c) they just don't want us to know yet. Retina-like resolution on s…

> The main problem is that if you own the majority of the hashing power, you can rewrite history. You can make all the bitcoin ever mined owned by you. No, this is completely wrong…

On the bright side, web server performance, reliability, and maintenance are much more concrete than "amount of spam prevented", and general internet meritocracy has worked well to…

So you're implying that if you changed the HTML colors based on mouse events, the claim of "difficult or even completely impossible for robots" would hold? Such a claim would be no…

The "Support" page reveals how they charge $200,000/year for the privilege of setting a header: > 199,999 [Swiss francs]: Use G-WAN under the brand of your choice (custom "Server: …

pg's reply as to why such threads get killed (and likely this one will as well): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103210 >Because in the guidelines we ask people who have quest…

I see psychological parallels between this policy and Microsoft's recent attempts to crack down on class-action lawsuits.

Joe probably cares about Metro, though, which is a far more significant piece here. And let's not kid ourselves; Microsoft is catching the attention of developers mainly in order t…