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Some other HNer pointed out Magnesium Threonate helped him with sleep in a recent comment. It's supposed to have better absorption in the brain compared to other Mg supplements. He…

It's cliche at this point but... "The Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent"

Apparently almost half of search engine users don't even realize that there are ads on the page. http://marketingland.com/wsj-search-engines-thumbing-noses-f... Search engines have…

>Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds. > less FUD on HN So it's FUD only if it's not anti-MS FUD? There was plenty of anti-MS FUD on Slashdot. http://tech.slashdot.org/…

>This is a thread about a bug in Microsoft Edge So... where are the threads about the bugsI linked? Why were they not voted up so highly on HN? That was my only point about the sto…

There are a lot more details in this sibling comment. Have you read it and the linked article? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012392 They hid and lied about the facts about…

Google's communication is clear as mud. http://www.infodocket.com/2014/04/30/privacy-google-no-longe...

>I can't believe how stupid Microsoft is. This is never a bug. You can't be that amateurish. Apple had a similar bug in Safari. >Safari's Private Browsing Mode Saves URLs In an Eas…

Perhaps they use commercial distros, like RedHat and buy a support contract.

It has been my observation that when many folks ask for open source software, what they really want and mean is free(as in beer) software.

Surely FFMPEG being mostly LGPLv2 and some GPLv2 would have a bearing on the API reuse issue? Especially since they're open sourcing the code.

So that's 6 months of sales versus 3 months for the Surface, so not directly comparable.

I agree, the author picked a really bad example(Office) to make his otherwise good point. Office certainly isn't a shitty product compared to its competition. You can use browser e…

I think it has to do with the trajectory. iPad = declining sales year over year Surface = increasing sales year over year The iPad was hyped to kill laptops/PCs and Surface's doom …

From Red Hat's earning statement: >Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including:…

>One has the passion and enthusiasm of well respected open source volunteers behind it, and the other has a sleek high quality shine only our dear corporate overlords could deliver…

>If nothing else, he would have less money if microsoft didn't participate in the anti-poaching scandal. >Some of that money came from him, as an owner, colluding to not pay fair w…

>Citation needed. >By September 2004, the NSA had developed a technique that was dubbed “The Find” by special operations officers. The technique, the Post reports, was used in Iraq…

>but there's absolutely no need for Bill Gates to be talking down the existing solutions that are clearly better than coal in order to promote his own speculative investments. I'm …

He did, a couple of days later. http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/29/news/economy/bill-gates-brea...