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Ugh ... It sorta works, sure, but doesn't hold a candle to zoom in terms of overall video and audio quality and reliability.

> Life arising only once could very well be the more plausible option Indeed I feel like coming to this conclusion is something that the authors - and most of us rationalist types …

Once again, the top Hacker News comment on an amazing piece of work is an asinine nitpick complaint.

there is an obvious problem with this assertion, as I'm sure you know: the govt can get a warrant to wire your phone line, or your appartement. but if your unlawful activity is bei…

What do you mean, "many credit cards for Apps"?

You are correct, although I would modulate this by adding that techy types like us are likely to undervalue people search compared to the average person. Conversely, this kind of f…

At this point, what is the difference between John Gruber and an Apple P.R. flack? He derives all his income from writing stuff glorifying Apple and bashing its competitors.

5 pages means 5x hit count for one article. it has nothing to do with readability.

i'm having a hard time imagining a realistic scenario where political turmoil is strong enough to make all stocks worthless, yet my gold bullions at the bank are still mine. unless…

if you can spare 59$ sublime text 2 is superb (ways better than notepad++) and works everywhere: linux, windows, osx. also you should try iTerm as terminal replacement for osx, it'…

>> But none of that really matters. I would bet that you are neither a woman, black, jewish, poor, or gay. So the fact, for example, that ron paul is a huge racist is something tha…

kind of ironic to say hackers are above branding, when here we are arguing Apple vs Google vs Facebook!

exactly. all those car-sharing services may become much, much more useful and prevalent when you can use your smartphone to whistle the car to come to you. that would also spell do…

you know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment has found something negative to nitpick out of a cool story.

depression would be more accurate. the problem, i think, is that there is a core contradiction at the heart of the euro system: 1) you can't have a currency union, without a fiscal…

>> Any action requires a hilarious number of clicks to get done. like what? again, i'm not challenging you, i'm genuinely wondering.

for now i only use linux server-side, but i'm thinking of maybe swiching from osx to linux for my next laptop. i played a little with both mint and ubuntu in vmware, but i don't th…

honest question: why are so many people hating on unity? is it the launcher bar?

my point is that this style of writing is pervasive within the scala world, including the official api. and it's not just the list class. look at the base xml class, NodeSeq: http:…

no. the problem is that scala allows almost any string of characters as identifiers, and this encourages programmers to use symbols instead of english words for their function name…

i used scala for a few months. it sounded very promising, java without the verbosity. but in the end i decided to stop using it. The biggest problem for me was readabilty. Scala is…

personnally i find it quite amazing, and incredibly short-sighted, how developpers are willing to give up the freedom of the web in favor of the golden chains of the apple platform…