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Twitterrific was retina-ready before the retina MBP even came out.

You never ever ever ever blindly trust the client to behave a certain way.

A patent is not a product.

This is stupid. 1994? Star Trek: TNG "invented" tablets, too - in the late 80s.

I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem to be any significantly better than a k-d tree, does it? I might be missing something. I find academic papers hard to parse.

I don't think there's any reason to believe they can't have their own rules in this regard - especially since senators in particular represent the state itself and the United State…

I'm unsure about the House, but there are a handful of states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New J…

No, the point is that even if you ban it in order to protect "everyone else", people who insist on being unsafe will find new ways to do so regardless of the law. Banning behaviors…

I love this idea and fully support it, but a possibly unintended side effect would be reporting of this event taking a turn towards: "Holy crap, we all rely a lot on Wikipedia! Who…

Twitterrific has done this for a long time. It was hard to make it perform well, but not impossible.

Does anyone know why that pile was valued at $1.1M in the first place? I occationally stack junk in piles myself, so I'm kind of interested in the prospect of turning that habit in…

I don't know. Perhaps the utter iPod domination was largely a US thing - especially since it went hand-in-hand with Apple coming back from the dead and them not initially having th…

"Do they expect Apple to continually innovate in a non-competitive market?" Probably, yes, and I would argue there is some reason to believe they would do so. Look at what happened…

The median age in the US is 36.5 according to this: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_... I have a terrible grasp of things like statistics so I'll avoid maki…

I can relate to the and immediately switch to Twitter, email, etc. In fact, this is me right now! However when I'm working on something truly interesting and challenging, all the d…

Well I'm not sure who to believe, but leading off their rebuttal with, "I am not going to begin to decipher their convoluted logic" does not inspire confidence.

In regards to your second question, check out figure 2 way at the bottom of the article where they have a breakdown of made in us with us parts vs. made in us without us parts, etc…

I don't think that's what it means. I might be wrong, but I got the impression it meant that 75% of the total money spent on motor vehicles ultimately stays in the US in some fashi…

We did this over 2 years ago. Our 2.5yo son is (so far) growing up with very little exposure to television commercials (he almost never sees them unless we are watching something o…

Greatest demo ever, IMO, was Future Crew's Second Reality. That utterly blew my mind in 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_aUxbbqWU

If you know the perfect solution, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it. All you're doing it tearing me down. You're not offering any suggestions to fix these apparently obvious glarin…

No one would be getting paid (by way of tax discount) for a patent unless they're already doing something the market values and therefore generating an income to tax in the first p…

There's probably problems with this, but... Patents should not be an exclusive license. Instead they should be a limited time income tax benefit. In other words, when you are grant…

This is only a patent. This is not a feature of a shipping product. Hopefully it never will be. Apple patents anything and everything and a ton of them are never really used. Optim…

Nobody would keep $500,000 in cash sitting around their house, but that's essentially what this guy did.