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Your cat might have a bladder or kidney stone which is causing extreme pain when pooping. Please take your cat to the vet and have that checked out. I ran into the same thing: Cat …

Do you bike faster than you can run? Would you run, as fast as you can, head-first into a concrete wall? No, it does not make sense to bike without a helmet.

He also had a regularly updated blog at: http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/ There are many 'back in the day' stories archived there. It's bothering me quite a bit that his latest…

Hi Folks, We've adjusted our networked Java desktop time and expense tracking system (Senomix Timesheets) to provide a cloud-hosted option for our customers and I thought I'd post …

Reminds me of The Phantom video game console from around a decade ago. That one also promised the universe, with PA declaring their skepticism back in 2003: http://penny-arcade.com…

"Well, everything worked fine until you installed that [Chrome | Firefox | Opera] thing on my computer." Doing free tech support for non-technical people is a wonderful thought, bu…

It's a clever gag, but titles like this will unfortunately show up in future HN searches. Would it be appropriate to adopt an April 1st etiquette of some sort? Say, an [April Fools…

I was curious what the author had gotten up to since that piece was written 20-odd years ago. This appears to be the gent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ventura Flashtastic …

>...a large number of little hurdles add up to a big hurdle. Maybe not for them, >developers who have already committed to this platform and have a stake in it A quick perusal of t…

Active reader here, but I avoid commenting. Whenever I do, I seem to find myself caring too much about the responses. This leads me to returning again and again to a thread I've al…

"At that time" Microsoft ruled everything except for the browser. The public internet was emerging as a surprisingly powerful force against the desktop and the argument before the …

But Apple did make Microsoft Internet Explorer the default browser on the Mac, which was Microsoft's battlefield at the time.

How much in the minority am I for thinking this is a good plan for Nokia? Echoing my post in another thread, Apple received $150 million in financing from Microsoft back in 1997 in…

All of this 'Nokia is doomed because of their Microsoft partnership' talk reminds me of when Apple announced something similar back in 1997. Anyone remember this Steve Jobs talk fr…

Could you synchronize two Kinect devices on one clock and then toggle the display/capture of that grid every odd or even 10ms span? So, only one grid is displayed and processed dur…

Keep in mind that recruiters "get people for jobs, not jobs for people". You, as a potential employee, are not their customer -- you're the commodity being sold. It doesn't change …

To add to the sound GTFO advice posted already: When you do get a new job (and you should), make sure you're on the revenue side of the business rather than contributing to the com…