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That operation also needs to be async itself, and ultimately it needs to be implemented as running on a separate execution queue. Yes, but this is the relatively easy bit. It's wri…

I did that. Phone is more prone to crashing and much slower even with a 10X speed SD card. Not sure I could recommend the palaver involved for what you get.

The app doesn't appear if you search for instagram on the android market. Found it by googling and installing from the Play website, which is horrible to use on a phone. Rubbish, b…

99% of the reviews are gushing 5-star Zynga-related back pats. Added in the last 4 days.

Amazing the drivel that can make it to the HN front page sometimes. I'm afraid that, objectively, this guy is a speculating ignoramus.

I'm assuming 'everything is an object' will be done by copying C#. i.e. value-types, autoboxing.

Apparently I am racist, mean, cheap and British.

No, youre right - brainfuck is a good language.

Brainfuck has the goal of being a bad language.

You are misreading the line - it's in fact listing the presence of 'Women' as a good thing. Imagine if a female-dominated profession held an event and mentioned that the wait staff…

The presence of the "generic C++ hater" type comment about vtables, when talking about STL algorithms, was a huge red flag making me doubt the guy's argument, for the reasons you g…

more often than none, the "step aside" lane is far less crowded than the regular one, which means that despite the intensive search, it's still takes me less time. Strange. In my e…

Google can give you a new password if you forget yours. There is no technical barrier to giving the FBI access and clearly no requirement for plaintext passwords anywhere (setting …

Interestingly, the original XML specification states that it "SHOULD be used for evil, but MAY be used for good".

Reminiscent of the famous artwork Dead Fly Impaled on Spike (with LED).

From your user page, I see that your IT company likes/dislikes conform to one of the approved off-the-shelf opinionsets. [ticks box] Carry on.

Self-driving cars need to have their windows blacked out.

For a map intended to show the distance of points from the nearest McDonalds' that isn't the best algorithm; equal pixel colour should => equal distance. I was thinking it'd be coo…

If you look closely you can see his coloring algorithm is broken. The "spheres" of close restaurants appear to "squash" each other rather than just intersecting. The result is groo…

If you look closely you can see his coloring algorithm is broken. The "spheres" of close restaurants appear to "squash" each other rather than just intersecting. The result is groo…

It also reminded me of various devices related to recording/illustrating the passage of time.

Apple fans try and write in the Apple Voice. Example: HN comment threads about Apple.

The highest voted answer is clearly the sensible interpretation, but people do like to indulge in gossip and the 'politics' answer pushes those buttons.

> Isn't this a little weird, given that MSFT wants people to use "managed code" What's really weird is MS sell a C++ compiler they don't want people to use! > Or is it telling us t…