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What? Nothing is broken. They don't let you mute ads, because they're ADS. This is the intended behaviour. If you don't like it, pay. Of course it's a matter of removing ads, your …

It's £4.99 or £9.99 per month. Most people probably spend significantly more than this for their iPhone contract, data and so on. Unlimited music for this price is a steal. Pony up…

"OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux." There are many more OSX users than Linux on the desktop.…

I realise we were never able to hold the Microsoft Courier, but I think they were on the right track there and had they executed (yes - I realise this is where Apple won) the lands…

I think that was the intention: (tech == man revived) returns true :)

"if you are serious about programming you will _eventually_ master both." Starting to really dislike the text editor snobbery on HN. At home I use TextMate for Python and Ruby, Ecl…

Have you discovered the (relative) joys of Calibre? http://calibre-ebook.com It's not perfect, but it's very good and much nicer than doing it manually. Especially for managing col…

I have very mixed feelings about CCTV, but generally I don't mind it (note that this is different to being 'for' it). I worked for a company writing software for CCTV operators, re…

Fully agree. I wish they'd left Spaces in, maybe just enabled Mission Control by default. I would pay to have spaces back, rather than MC.

Doesn't seem to be available for me (UK, 13:45).

The first public release is pencilled for the end of 2011.

Nice timing, I'm in the process of replacing my beer snobbery with whiskey snobbery :) I needed something just like this, to help my find my way through the masses of new drinks ou…

IANAL, and haven't read the patents. But "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data" and "real-time signal processing system for serially…

I think PaaS would be worth mentioning at an introductory level - the difference between managing your own VPS/Dedi/CoLo, and using something like Heroku.

Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly constructive to add, just that I hope this does take off - it's definitely needed and I would be a customer. The reason I'm not a c…

An interesting read. I'm born and raised in the UK, 23 years old and would love to move to NYC in the next few years. The problem for people outside of the UK is always going to be…

Thankyou for Iconfinder!

Meeting the love of your life by banging heads as you both reach for the last copy of your favourite magazine is serendipity. Arranging a date via an online dating site is not.

But law enforcement _wouldn't_ be able to use the hashed password to gain access to the system, would they? Otherwise there would be no advantage to hashing over storing plaintext.…

You're focusing too much on it being a 'birthday', traditionally a 1 day event. He spent a long weekend with his girlfriend, which is healthy and worthwhile to do so long as he isn…

I believe Reddit does this for the first X hours of a submissions life - to discourage bandwagons, and so that newer submissions that may otherwise be overlooked (due to having les…

I have started automating a lot of the smaller, repetetive tasks. It doesn't save a huge amount of time, just removes small annoyances and friction. One example is that I'm new to …

Ouch. Thanks for that. For people who haven't followed the link, 2.8 is available from the source at http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/maco...

Sorry for the curtness, that reply was from work. I actually found this site for the first time last week while searching for the subject of this very thread - I had reinstalled OS…

http://mac.oldversion.com/Skype.html