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I'm amazed that twitter for blackberry has as many users as twitter for android and iphone!

HN is a (largely) community moderated content aggregation site. What if you don't have the benefit of a community to moderate? If you're an email service and want to stop bots from…

Loads of apps that do this. Except they're all called "timers", not alarm apps. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=timer&c=apps&...

I think I wasn't clear enough there. Google+ is not more widely used than twitter NOW. There are a lot of people on Facebook who were formerly on Orkut, Myspace etc who've never ha…

Between twitter and google+, I'd say google+ is the one with mass appeal. It's simply better for what people call "social" - sharing updates, sharing photos/albums, chat/conversati…

I believe google's equity is also structured similarly. The founders hold most of the voting rights even though they've liquidated a lot of stock.

Yes, this exactly. I desperately want to move from my Blackberry to an android phone but all the best phones seem keyboard-less. Typing on a touch screen is a major annoyance for a…

This is correct. More on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/transform#skewX

Unless it locks when backing up or copying?

Muslimy named guy at Fort Hood? He is a Muslim! According to eyewitnesses, Hasan had taken a seat at an empty table and bowed his head for several seconds when he suddenly stood up…

I'm laying this one on the babies. Mommy handles them, they're all happy. Daddy tries something, suddenly they aren't as happy. Asshole babies! If the parents are worth so much, in…

Blew it? What's the point of interviewing a smart kid if you want him to be dumb during the interview?

I agree. You would also see resentment towards women founders from the guys who are pitching if startups are being picked based on the gender of the founders rather than quality.

I saw this in the morning on my phone with a tiny screen. I couldn't read it properly but figured that since it already had so many votes up, it must be legit, therefore important.…

There is usually an upfront cost of time and/or effort. The choice comes down to copy-pasting what you need everywhere or put effort into making a generic function that you can put…

A large part of the post can be rewritten as "don't be lazy". 1. Don't be lazy and just do something that works without taking the time to learn why it works. 2. Don't be lazy and …

The difference between library and framework is quite subtle sometimes and in this case many use it interchangeably. You are correct though, jQuery themselves call it a library. I …

The reason javascript won't get nearly as much ridicule as PHP is because there's no other choice with javascript. Most arguments against PHP are in the form - I'm using because PH…

Yup, exactly. My blackberry is synced via GPS. I doubt a watch could do better than that, so I don't wear a watch now. When I can afford a super expensive watch that signals my tra…