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And if I could actually try Grouper, I would. But given I signed up over 4 months ago and haven't heard a peep (though the site still insists "YOUR APPLICATION IS ON ITS WAY. WE'LL…

" I hope Google does just that. It takes a nontrivial amount of stupidity to think that Apple does not know shortcomings of its maps application and are working on fixing that. " I…

"If I were Google, I wouldn’t launch a native Maps app for iOS 6 for at least six months, [...]" If I were in Google's shoes, I wouldn't be launching a native Maps app. Period. It'…

Getting a database error. But thankfully Google's got it cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:idAZix5...

I have no idea what Telrik is like. But I do know Eric - he's incredibly committed. Fiddler was a side project for him, written during his meager free-time when not working his ful…

If PayPal is so very terrible (and I believe it), Is there a reason Amazon Payments or Google Wallet haven't overtaken PayPal in this market? If neither Amazon nor Google's brand r…

Anyone have any guess why Amazon pulled the plug? There must be a reason beyond "Amazon has decided against “boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time”" - just pulling the …

I'm confused - the author assumes an android powered camera should have the same usage expectations as a tablet or phone... And that's a terrible mistake. I don't care how capable …

Some of it might have to do with the server platform - a lot of us really like the flexibility of using Linux on the server, but when we think C# we think IIS + Windows. Is the ser…

I only skimmed the article, but that strikes me as a "mistranslation". Adobe is emphasizing that they have to do more compositing logic, so they they need an RGB version of the vid…

Does this mean there's a business opportunity here, than? A 3rd party, escrow-esque middleman who holds the domain so that neither party breaks the agreement?

I find the idea intriguing. Is there a market for crowd-funding scholarships - rather than let committees decide who to give a scholarship to, leave it to the people? Maybe even sp…

I think I see a way of shaving another byte: instead of "0 My goal is to shave 2 bytes, so you can change the key handler back to onkeydown. :P

A vote for UltraEdit here.

Perhaps I missed it, but I couldn't find the 14 device smoke-list actually enumerated. Is it actually listed anywhere? If so, I'd love a pointer to it. If not, anyone know (or have…

Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690063

Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690063

This reply hit so very many of my buttons - it's either a brilliant trolling, or incredibly unfortunate. But either way, my (entirely too detailed) response: > why is that comment …

Not my insight, but one of the more informative comments I saw in the article Slashdot linked to on this topic ( http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/10/mika.mobile.sa... ): …

I have to respect consistency. :) I find it interesting that the poster mentioned the growth of C# (going from 4th to the 3rd), but didn't mention Objective-C's much larger growth …

But for a low-budget startup the licensing costs are what'll get you in the long run. Stick with something free to use like ruby, javascript, php, etc. I take it mono isn't a reaso…

I think it is a shame that a language targeted mainly to a single OS gain such popularity (not counting Mono.) I do hope you hold the same cynicism for Objective-C. :P

ASP.Net might be behind the growth, but I wouldn't discount native application development (particularly in the enterprise space). Not everyone writes web apps, after all. :)