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It's funny how BeOS could handle playback of multiple videos extremely smoothly on a Celeron 400Mhz from year 1998, but modern browsers struggle with it. Of course, the complexity …

Thanks for the link. I donated as well. Isn't OpenSSH used by a lot of companies? $20,000 a year would be extremely trivial for many companies where it is widely used, without even…

I wish Coda would come up with a feature like that. It's annoying switching between my Macbooks at work and home.

This would be interesting to see with StreetView photos or with Microsoft's equivalent. Imagine virtually driving to your destination before starting out there, will help with the …

I am happy that Apple doesn't need to encroach on user privacy to make money, atleast for now. All this giving away stuff for free and then storing private information forever to d…

Yes, unless NSA has access to MS's signing keys, which I won't be surprised if they do.

That message is only going to reach an extreme minority of people, of which an extreme minority will actually put it into action.

That's an interesting argument, but I guess it fell flat because the work itself is subject to copyright, and someone else can now "invent" a Watson that never played rugby.

Agreed, every situation is pretty unique out there and things change a lot between different domains. Advice on HN seems to be projected as absolute but breaking into B&M markets i…

How does buying a lot of Walmart shares make Walmart employees poor? I am frankly baffled here. Walmart buyers should probably get more blame here. Have you ever spared a thought a…

We aren't talking about independent escorts here. Here's the link for one infamous redlight area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonagachi >5.17% of the 13,000 prostitutes in Sonagac…

>In May 2007 Vulpe and i4i successfully sued Microsoft, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Isnt that considered evil around these parts?

As usual, Linus shoots straight. http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_is_...

I already knew about that, but not sure what you're implying here. The link says this: >in 1994, a California jury ruled the infringement by Microsoft was not willful, but awarded …

Everytime a big company implements a feature or rolls out something, they affect companies working in that area. You can find similar things about almost any company or person, but…

What would you prefer to see, $xx billion burnt in a hurry in 10 years and then run out of money, or have a foundation that keeps on working for upliftment of the most vulnerable h…

From the perspective of web users, there is choice(even if heavily skewed by default search in browsers). But from the perspective of web sites/web companies/web devs/web advertise…

Personally, I feel the same way since a year and half or so ago.

>Do you believe they couldn't use the Motorola patent portfolio against those companies if they wanted to? Huh, haven't they been using them against Apple and MS? MS now pays them …

The author seems miss the point in the comparison to the Moto G's price, since ZTE does not have a ~$50B search business to subsidize its phone business(Motorola's been losing mone…

These three articles should give you a lot of background. http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/14/3335204/google-statement-a... http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-…

Luckily I haven't had such experiences so far. I guess people go through too many daily stresses, especially in tech life. As the only girl in my team, its hard for me to say no to…

Here is the story. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...

>Also, the last time I looked at Myriad's technology, they were using their own Java VM, which means, at least,some kind of Dalvik to Java bytecode converter for apps as they are i…