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Reviews of advance copies lose their value when the book is swamped with fake reviews that were written years before publication. How many of Goodreads’ reviews of The Winds of Win…

Is it BS? If a driver does a poor job of delivering food shouldn’t the recipient be able to not tip? Why should it be different from a traditional restaurant where you decide on a …

Spreads are ordered, and try to match the semantics of object spreads at runtime. Intersection types don't do that, they express that the type is both things at the same time. It i…

You can `sandbox-exec`. But that probably wouldn’t be useful for a program like little-snitch, which needs rather broad permissions normally.

Hopefully they don’t take the suggested approach of forcing everyone to explicitly write the generic types when creating new Sets/Maps/etc. I realize the type systems are very diff…

From my experience with their phone support I'll agree that it probably isn't expensive, but only because it seems to be chronically understaffed. Multi hour wait times appear to b…

What you're missing is that const is a compile time validation. The compiler _does_ compute whether or not the function you've created is const automatically and uses that to give …

Aquamacs is emacs with osx styling, I've heard good things. http://aquamacs.org/

There already are versions of KeePass available on Android and iPhone (and windows phones too it seems). So I guess the only thing missing at this point is a webapp version.

Apple's advertising has never been big on hashing out technical merits.

Can anyone elaborate on how this protects against tampering? It sounds like you can't actually look at the LOCKSS copies unless the "live" source is down. So long as the single "li…

I actually found the switch to be most apparent when focusing on the left/right sides of the figure. The left rotates counter-clockwise, while the right rotates clockwise.

That doesn't seem feasible, most people (that I know) leave FF running all the time; or if they do close it the last thing they want is the application taking even longer to shut d…

And yet you don't buy an iPhone as a replacement for your computer. People still need a "real" computer, and for that reason we're probably not going to see computers go the way of…

Thanks for the explanation! I'd also like to take the time to point out that you can get similar functionality using the vim-style keyboard hotkeys in gmail: j/k to move to the nex…

I've asked this in previous threads about mail applications, but what is an email preview window/pane for? How is it any different from actually opening the email? GMail (and apps)…

This is the comment where I apologize for downvoting you. This is not a comment where I make any reference to the article.

He is angry that they effectively hijacked his bandwidth to earn them revenue off of his work. And all without the courtesy of asking his permission. Twice.

Could you elaborate? AFIK the "fine print" is the requirement that the ebook be at least 20% cheaper than the dead-tree version, that it be priced under $10, that you don't price i…

e-ink's appeal is in the fact that it is beautiful to read off of. I do however agree that its not the right display tech for this device.

The basic problem is how do you even adress the "user experience" on a chart like this? All you'd end up doing is throwing your personal opinions about the device into the mix, whi…

ChromeOS is a linux like Android is a linux. Which is to say: just barely.

I've never understood the idea behind the "preview pane", all you do with email is read it, so what does a preview do other than show you the message? And how is that any different…

I'm all for good customer service, but this article didn't make me feel good about Apple. This reporter is running around trying to get 10.6 for his PowerPC laptop, and he ends up …

I keep hearing that the problem with the approval process is that there are too many apps submitted for the testers to handle. What I don't get though is why Apple can't just hire …