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The article makes a great case that Motorola is the real winner. The buyout can't have been solely for the patents, because Motorola are losing patent battles. It's unlikely that i…

Has the documentation situation improved much in the last year? I tinkered around with it a few times and it really felt close to being great. But... aside from the 2 or 3 intro tu…

Other factors like Facebook finding and removing spam accounts, users enabling privacy features, etc. seem like a much more likely cause. I could see people getting bored / busy an…

Right, sorry.

I'm getting very different numbers... I may be wrong though? (7,000,000/8) = 875,000 bytes/s = 0.834 MB/s 0.834 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 72,057 MB/day (EDIT: Tweaked numbers, had mistyped …

On this "Apple should buy / copy Dropbox" thing... Dropbox is wonderful. I love it. But Apple is slowly moving away from exposing the filesystem to the user, so if they do anything…

AFAIK, very little iTunes music is DRMed these days anyway.

There's plenty of room for 'respecting dangerous invisible shit that can kill you' between those two extremes of being a scaredy-cat and acting macho.

tl; dr's rarely do justice but I think that's a bit snipey. The point I took from it was in the organisational culture in the team that looked after the reactor. A macho attitude c…

Sounds great but I am never going to pay a subscription for my IDE, or my FTP program or my Twitter client. Relationships require trust and effort from both parties and it's simply…

You can have a fast internal development cycle without devaluing the established concept of major version numbers. I don't appreciate this because I make money from software. To me…

My argument is that violent protests would do very little to help. We're having an election that will throw the ruling party out. The next government are campaigning on the basis t…

Ha! That doesn't surprise me at all. What's the book called? There is an appetite to reform this stuff now, but it's hard to imagine the winners of the game when played by those ru…

I wonder about that. I view our (lack of) reaction as mature, not passive. People died in Greece and they burned all kinds of things. They still have a huge debt to pay back. We're…

One fundamental problem we have in Ireland is the way in which we elect our Dáil (parliament). There's a 4 minute section in this video (43m45s onwards ) http://www.rte.ie/player/#…

It's hard to disagree with his analysis of what the practical outcome will be. Google's not stupid though, so there's either another piece of the puzzle still to be revealed or Goo…

So glad to see this getting tackled at last. SproutCore's lack of decent documentation has been my single biggest difficulty in adopting it.

Fair enough, but your use of long-ago deprecated HTML tags to make your point doesn't exactly inspire confidence in your expertise!