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Then you'd miss the SwiftKey prediction options, which allow me to tap out common sentences in a breeze, and the multiple active languages, a huge plus in countries with multiple l…

You should know the basics to know why you're ignoring them. When you start writing, you have to use proper grammar, spelling, etc. Once you have that down, you can choose to ignor…

You can probably implement these things yourself once you notice them missing.

A couple of points: - Backups are your responsibility. Not the hosts, not the government. Not anyone else. You. Period. - Cannot pay with Paypal? Paypal HQ spontaneously explodes i…

Why is that surprising? People complaining about the lack of features obviously need something more capable. For the rest of us, the lightweight, cheap option is good enough. :)

By dangerous animal you mean humans, right? ;)

I'd be happy if only I had the opportunity to buy apps, period. I can only access apps that are free AND not US-only (so no Amazon Kindle for Android app). While I understand that …

Good point, I had glossed over ebooks. Many thanks!

Yeah. the 40% is great fro ebook and screencast. I hadn't taken ebooks into account.

It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as th…

Well.. Depends really. The benefits you receive is not limited to that one company (people you meet, network, advice, etc)... Those transfer with you if you later start another com…

That Facebook is evil or not is irrelevant, I think. (I happen to think that their interests and the privacy interests of their users are not aligned at all). Google is fighting th…

It seems to me that their wording pushes their anti Facebook data locking agenda, intimidating novice users. To me, this goes against their "don't be evil" company motto.

There's a similar free service for online writing: http://timecert.org/ It's by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pelle

Why don't you start the story off with your email. If they are interested, they will click through to the rest of your pages.

I'd appreciate an invite. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Py0H-tJw2Mektbkg3TyvzA==... Thank you!

Who is John Galt?

Consider an XML file consisting of one long line of text. A diff would not be very useful in that case.

Bandwidth at Linode is also pooled for Linodes withing the same datacenter (of which they have 4). You can also bring up any number of Linodes and bring them down whenever you want…

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Not only that, but more importantly, on Twitter you can follow pretty much whoever you like without a required acknowledgment from the followed person/organization. To be friends w…

Remember that the secret of creativity is how well you hide your sources. ;) Most creative works now stand on the shoulders of giants.

How so?