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(In Chrome) If you right-click anywhere on the text and select "inspect element" it will select the #comments div because it covers the whole page. Then on the right-hand side of t…

"The Echo Nest API will remain free and open to support its robust developer ecosystem." http://the.echonest.com/pressreleases/spotify-acquires-echo-...

This is addressed in the talk. It's a short talk, so may be worth listening to it to see how it was used.

Spotify aren't "logging into the users account" as suggested, the user is signing in with their fb details and by adding an app to their account fb reactivates their account. The i…

No, it's not.

It doesn't

The android client doesn't use p2p.

Indeed, the web player isn't U.S. only, just that the beta testing currently concentrates on new users from the U.S. It is however possible to gain access - there are many guides o…

No, I'm pretty sure they don't.

This was submitted and discussed twice yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198064

Airplay should indeed be available for you in the iPad app - see http://www.spotify.com/us/about/spotify-on-ipad/

The new app is a universal binary which also includes iPhone updates, so it might be worth downloading the update and seeing if it fixes any of your issues.

It's a known issue and is being worked on, last I heard.

Also, pas sw ord Will apparently take centuries to crack. I see the reasoning, but can this be correct?

I would argue that this reputation only really applies within the tech echo chamber and that the vast majority of wider society isn't aware of this reputation, and has never heard …

It seems all dreamhost sites are currently down, including snook.ca. Here's the cached version -> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

You're right that a framework that should provide mobile compatible animations should have a website that is itself mobile-friendly. However the page itself doesn't seem to use any…

Seems to be either bad handwriting or a very bad font. Notice the same on "magazine", and "Sam" looks like "Samn".

Presumably because the author of the app feels like it would be nice to be compensated for the work involved in creating it.

Im guessing it's both because of homophones in general and the fact that yslow is a deliberate play on this - "why is this page slow?"

I think this is a few years old, but a few previous posts have some interesting discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539783 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825015 ht…

A marked change of stance from the following? "Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your “big numbers” here ar…

It seems that they do already - see http://www.codeacademy.com