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Pooter

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    Comment #3333912

    It's not entirely clear to me (from looking at the splash page in the link) that you'd even need to file FOIA requests for the information. There are several sites linked which sup…

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    Comment #2947894

    Wow. That guy Anthony Navarro is kind of a gigantic asshole.

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    Comment #2901218

    You're letting facts get in the way of a perfectly good anti-Apple rant.

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    Comment #2898814

    I wasn't aware of these efforts to block the merger before reading this article. After reading about them, and AT&T's attempts to sue them away, I'm actually making a point of fili…

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    Comment #2878657

    Yes. We do.

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    Comment #2873184

    > doesn't support div scrolling Huh? Safari on iOS supports div scrolling just fine (at least, on my iPad with 4.3.3). I know it worked in earlier iOS 4 revisions on an iPhone, as …

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    Comment #2869803

    This is how they referred to themselves originally. Maybe he's just being anachronistic. Or maybe he thinks they suck balls.

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    Comment #2853999

    Does patent troll now mean anyone who sues for patent infringement, non-defensively?

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    Comment #2846917

    >Oh, and that's why we blame Apple/Microsoft for using the patent system in this manner. It's unethical. They're big companies fighting other big companies with legal resources, le…

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    Comment #2844488

    Your point was that google hasn't sued anyone, which is pretty much a non sequitur without the assumption that this would've remained the case if they'd won the Nortel bidding. Whi…

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    Comment #2844429

    > For a truly innovative mobile UI, look at WP7 and Metro. To each his own, I guess; I think metro is ugly and has lousy usability.

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    Comment #2825899

    > This article was completely one-sided. It was one person's subjective experience of switching platforms; it's not intended to be a balanced examination of API design across platf…

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    Comment #2821811

    Yes. Anyone who has a less than adoring reaction to Android is either a pro-Apple shill or a brainwashed idiot.

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    Comment #2813117

    is there such thing as a non-3d Rubik's cube?

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    Comment #2813088

    > but at least this drama would end. And anyone without a big enough arsenal of patents to protect themselves via MAD wouldn't be able to produce any products. The system needs an …

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    Comment #2808247

    > wasted it all in next NeXT got bought out by Apple; it also produced the core OS, and language and runtime that would become the software cornerstone of Apple's resurgent compute…

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    Comment #2785983

    It'd be great if they were real Apple products, so the fake Apple store was selling fake fakes.

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    Comment #2757516

    Why is this very common and historically well attested use of the word psychic a pet peeve of yours?

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    Comment #2756523

    > Actually this is a very good idea. This is a stupid idea. Most people buy phones in wireless providers' stores, get them provisioned there, and then leave with a functioning phon…

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    Comment #2726323

    You mention being single and childless, but don't describe anything in your life going on besides work. What do you do besides work?

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    Comment #2726303

    Since Redis isn't a relational db, this isn't an orm.

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    Comment #2724416

    Shoddy methodology - I see no mention of a Blendtec test.

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    Comment #2714918

    There are already Android handsets on AT&T, and the iPhone still sells better there (per the link you provide).