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Seems to have struck a nerve. I thought all this patent litigation was considered bad around here.

Come on, Steve was using all kinds of legal shenanigans to try to keep Samsung Android products off the market. Why are they continuing to love their abuser?

In my experience the results of those two queries are almost identical: http://imgur.com/a/qGVAn#3ilhM

> 128-bit floating point? Why exactly? What hardware out there supports this, what problems does it solve that 64-bit floats or bignums don't? Why add more intrinsic types to the t…

Chrome manages to release every six weeks without each release creating a deluge of bugs. This makes me think that maybe Mozilla is missing something that make's Chrome's fast rele…

I went to go see CmdrTaco speak in 2005. Someone asked him how to make a website as popular as Slashdot. Malda said to start it in 1997. Of course in the next year the meteoric ris…

I'm grateful that Steve managed to sell America on tablets and smart phones after so many failed attempts by others. But as someone who likes to take things apart and tinker, I've …

Interesting. This appears to be Greg Maxwell (gmaxwell) from Xiph. Xiph is an organization that respects software patents. (As opposed to various other multimedia efforts like Vide…

Because serial is a trivial interface to implement in home brew electronics, just throw in a MAX232. Even many major consumer electronics are still developed via a serial console. …