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Yes, bluetooth has plenty of unfortunate limitations. For example, there is no standard high-quality bidi audio codec in bluetooth spec (see https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dup…

ASN.1 is extremely complicated and hard to implement correctly. All ASN.1 implementations I've seen are either specialized (know how to work only with a very specific message), or …

Take the state of the project as a market fit test of the idea?

This already exists: https://ubuntu-touch.io/

Not available in the UK. Online movie distribution they said.

Try staying on the page for a while and scroll around. Pretend to read it. Triggers for me on mobile chrome browser.

evil, adj.: morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant

I totally get the frustration and such, and not trying to protect Amazon, but: author's web site intercepting browser history to trigger "checkout this content before you leave" wh…

I find it amusing that the advice in the style guide gives a good example contradicting another good example, and contains a subtle bug. In the "Reduce Scope of Variables", second …

I'm fine with paywalled content overall. I'm not fine with paywalled content on the front page of hn, because it reduces hn utility: I can't see the content.

Wired web site displays annoying "pay us now" banner over half of the page on a phone browser, which cannot be removed, probably due to JavaScript bug. Can't help, but flag this.

1. Force everyone to register to get access to content. 2. Leak that data. 3. ... 4. Profit. Not sure how this part works though. I hope lesson should be learned: don't force users…

I never claimed this design to be Russian ;) I only said it is very popular there.

Suprisingly enough, this collection doesn't seem have the design most common & popular in Russia, roughly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsxMqvHXkw .

It's England. You don't tip here.

May be in reading it wrong, but that page contains another video, couple example snapshots and "why we built this". I still have no idea what all the fuzz is about, and I'm not was…

I wonder, is there a quick way to learn what's that all about without watching a video? As usual, seems like good old text reading/writing skills are ignored...

A friend of mine who used to work at McDonalds, told that "custom" burgers are always made to order, so he advised that if you want a fresh hamburger, order a cheeseburger with no …

The most hard part of PKI is omitted completely in the article: how to deal with revocations (CRLs, OCSP and such). Hope that's not because they "forgot" to do that in their actual…

Everyone. You are not buying "5 grams of golden earrings", you are buying earrings which fit you, hence the volume.

I've been using Jawbone 24, and after it broke down (button stopped working) decided to switch to Fitbit Flex (thought, software will be better). I've been using both devices with …

Seriously? I don't consider myself poor by any standard, but I'll also think 5 times before buying a 1500 sofa. It's just stupidly expensive.

A better question would be "why the poor buy a $1500 sofa"?