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But how about an excellent mobile browser that actually works?

Reminds me of some thoughts I had on how Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, and yet you or I can use an iPhone, while he, despite his wealth, is stuck with clunky Windows …

Weird, surely you noticed the TAs during undergrad? Did you think they were grading papers for fun? =P

Some burger joints do the same, but I think I'll stick to not starting my own burger joint.

No wing-tip vortices.

An RFC isn't an international standard, and this particular RFC was drafted by MS Research.

Also, it is important to mention that RCF3484 was drafted by MS Research.

>We've de-emphasized the history part though have kept it in the product I would default it to off, otherwise, pretty evil.

Externalities ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality ), positive or negative, don't seem to get much consideration throughout.

Sorry, but sending men to the Moon to drive around in a little car is a better example of wasteful entertainment than any of the three web companies you named.

Since under his utopia those session players will be basically out of work, they would be a lot cheaper and you could still make your album.

Arrington hired him and could fire him.

>People seem perfectly happy to make these compromises to install OS X, but they will whine and whine if it's Linux. What's the difference? Lets see some evidence for this. There a…

Is the parent post supposed to be self-referential?

If you google "coffee tea bag" the first link explains why not: "Unlike tea leaves, coffee grains release little flavor unless they come into contact with water that is not only ho…

If anyone wants great instant coffee try cold-brew, you can buy it in refrigerated condensed liquid form, just search Amazon for N.O. Brew, I used to swear by this stuff. It was al…

Those same racketeering statutes also do things like say prevent unions from making secondary-strikes, which is why unions in americahave been all but completely neutered for the l…

> I'm just wondering if they lost a few who could be Nobels along the way. I don't think studying for an olympiad impedes this. Terrence Tao (Australian, to be clear), dominated ma…

>who won? China, as usual. I'll need to hear more details than that; China is the largest country in the world.

Can anyone explain the relationship between 4:3 and 16:9? I know 16:9 is each number in 4:3 squared, but is there a geometric reason/interpretation for this choice?

For its time, sure, but the problem is the hype hasn't stopped. It is great if you are a film buff, but not so great if you just like films.

The 500k limit is only on executives of banks that receive future extraordinary assistance from the government--the execs are free to find jobs elsewhere if they don't want the res…

I thought the link would point here: http://huddlechat.appspot.com/ With the implied answer to the headline being: because we'll bust your knees if you even think about trying it.

The grievances were: * Experimenting with eliminating grades. This was the issue at hand anyway. * Altering a course curriculum with student input. Every teacher does this to some …

That's going to take a change to the way the whole mutual fund system works. People that buy into mutual funds (typically because it is their only choice in their work 401k's) don'…