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Totally shocked that a community full of Aspies is having a hard time mustering sympathy for this girl and instead have to pedantically inform the Internet that that's not really p…

There've been unhexeditable game consoles since the 70s. Doesn't seem to have impacted people's desire to hack thus far.

throw new BathwaterException(new Baby()) ?

Answer your "What is your shoe size?" security question...

Drag them? How do I do that on my iPad? #mobilefail

Did you read the article?

Heh. Want to place any bets they built the whole thing audio included and just before launch brought in the lawyers who quickly said WTF? To which the product team said ORLY?

Would you prefer SaaS, or web service? Will that soothe you?

Here's another scenario: idiotic developers ask for a boatload of permissions "just in case" and don't realize how sketchy it looks.

Point 1 just isn't right. I have 2FA on my gmail and am reading it with the default mail client just fine. "yr doing it wrong."

He addresses scale but only scaling up. What he neglects to realize is that AdWords et al are elastic, if I want to get 10x impressions over the weekend I can do that. With cold ca…

Charles Symoni (sp, I know) used to float the Intentional Programming team around on his yacht for weeks at a time. I think it was mainly to increase productivity though.

One of the more useful things I've seen on HN. However it seems to only really apply to B2B. There is a bit of a hand wave about B2C at the end. Would love to see more thoughts abo…

"well do data mining" is the new "well have ads" for unmonetizable businesses. Then again the data mining is probably just for ads anyway, so maybe it's just more of the same...

No Google doesn't read your email. In fact their spam detection just works by flipping the worlds luckiest coin at every incoming email.

Woman, boy.

"Feeling tired? Drink this Koolaid." - Jim Jones

How do you get around the 10GB/domain limit? What do you do when your fleet gets big enough that you start getting throttled? What's the query latency? How do you delete old log da…

Paid search results? Would it really be incongruent with what DDG is doing?

Which do you suppose is bigger, 30% of Zynga's FB credits, or 100% of their FB ad spend?

Good. Suck it. This company is pure slime. I pity their acquirees. And it's totally worth my karma hit to just get this off my chest.

Nice accomplishment but I have to say that the idea of the product is off-putting. Still I guess it's up to people if they want to advertise this way. I'm not convinced that this a…

10-20% (pathetic really)

This guy is seriously misunderstanding the long tail. First of all the long tail is an opportunity, not something that "dies" (his words). It's an opportunity for authors because w…

"A single AWS instance is not reliable, and isn't designed to be particularly reliable." Source? An AWS instance is simply an OS running on a virtualf (xen?) machine. On the larges…