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It's only "wasted" if you got no value out of it. If you thought it was entertaining (which, presumably people who watched it many times did) then it's no more of a waste than time…

Making no mention of Microsoft SQL Server seems like a pretty big oversight.

Humans can't multi-task.

Yeah, Apple doesn't really invent stuff, they generally just come out with the same incremental technology improvements as every other company. They're mostly just good at combinin…

If their performance claims bear out (which, we'll see) I could see this becoming a popular way to deliver apps and games to mobile devices without giving 30% of your income to App…

From a discoverability standpoint they are. There's not really any way to find like-minded people you don't already know and strike up a conversation with e-mail, because everythin…

A kids soccer game is different than a competitive league. The point of having your kid join soccer is for them to get exercise, have fun and make friends, not to see what team is …

Even if you don't exercise in your "computer room," it'd be trivially easy to put your laptop or tablet on a chair and do the exercises with it in your field of vision

Yeah, I'm not about to buy Google Glass any time soon, but arguing about it ruining your life is kind of like claiming that having a GPS robs you of all the fun of getting lost and…

The thing is that being in the tech industry (I assume based on the fact that you're posting on HN in the middle of the day), you don't really need a smartphone because you're like…

Yeah this is the same thing that happened with the iPad (it's a huge iPhone without the phone part? who would ever buy that?!) and more recently, with Windows 8 (metro is a failure…

I don't see how, given that the content is knowingly provided for public consumption by the individuals

I don't understand the point of what he's proposing. Rewriting WordPress as completely as he wants and breaking all existing plugins and themes would surely just result in someone …

A lot of it is due to the fact that it's much easier to sell an end-user on a plugin to their existing site that requires little to no server configuration than a completely separa…

The problem is that this utility defeats the battery life savings which is the main point of the metro "one app at a time" model by breaking the suspend/restore functionality by en…

Yeah, and other languages certainly don't require a separate server instance per application. I have about 25 .NET apps running on my production server at work and it's humming alo…

I don't think it's so much that it's considered an upside, but rather that it's basically impossible to displace PHP with something better unless the thing you want to replace it w…

I agree, and I think that means it will be very difficult for any language that requires more understanding of OOP concepts to get started with will have a hard time competing with…

This is what the team behind Discourse is attempting to address somewhat, making Ruby software as idiot-proof to set up as PHP applications. Whether they will end up succeeding is …

Not exactly sure what the "tips" are in these, most of them just look like cruddy PHP code. In the 2nd part of Example 2, using "else if" instead of several "if" statements to chec…

I think so. In the natural arc of a new medium, social media is now at the point that television hit thirty years ago, when the "big three" networks started losing control to a hos…

A lot of that can be ascribed to being in the right place at the right time, however. Lots more people have access to the internet, or are internet-savvy enough to use social media…

Yeah, I don't know that it's really anything to do with Facebook per se, but rather the fact that it's 2012 and people's parents are now signing up for social media sites.

It already has, in the sense that early adopters and content creators have largely abandoned it in favor of other services (mostly Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and now Vine). Faceboo…