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I intend this as constructive criticism, so I hope you understand that and take it as such: please hire a designer. Email is an app one stares at all day, it has to look good. Not …

It's 15 hours now. They have some very irate customers. Rackspace bought them a year ago and have been migrating accounts to their own servers, but this huge outage doesn't reflect…

Already April 1st in the UK.

Humans haven't stopped evolving in the 8000 years since grains were cultivated. It would seem logical that changes allowing grains to form an effective part of the diet would have …

Huh! 37Signals has all this other stuff that I never scrolled down to before. Interesting.

Free music is infeasible? Tell that to people jamming with their friends, or buskers, or radio. Is it feasible for free music to make big money for the majors? Different question, …

I get the impression that moving away from COBOL, "Big Iron", and such dinosaurs has, after the initial wrench, made companies more productive. All of which makes me wonder what pa…

To all the commenters here saying "it's not a bug it's a feature": Ok, but how did the other michael sign up with the non-period name? That's the bug, surely?

There can be very good reasons for "punishing" them. The development time required to cater to IE6's idiosyncrasies may simply not be justified if the site's target market is not b…

Kissinger, Begin, and Sadat all won it in the 70s. It's had zero credibility since then. Which is a pity, because the clear purpose is to encourage rather than necessarily always t…

The elephant in the room is that the quality of 99% of journalism is so low that no one in their right mind would pay for it. Murdoch is a major purveyor of this rubbish. Will I pa…

It's mail in bed that's the issue for me. I can't be the only one who wakes up, reaches something like full consciousness, and then reaches for the iphone to see if anything urgent…

The properties of the outcome of a limit function or an infinite series are known to be, often, different to any finite part of that series or limit. Check the SEP under "supertask…

The study mentioned seems to say "iPhone isn't making the profit you might think" even though the thing is spun in the story as "iPhone making a loss for carriers." But bearing tha…

Talking loudly on a cell phone, oblivious to the tranquility you destroy around you -- that will come pretty close. I'd like to think restaurant patrons and mass transit commuters …

Is m^4 like volume through time?

Tethering is free (and currently available, I tried it out) on Optus in Australia. I don't know the situation with the two other Aus iphone carriers.

I think your information's out of date. I use Optus 3G on an iPhone in an area which was in exactly that position, but they upgraded a week before the iPhone came out. I think that…

I'm sure that's AT&T. I'm in Australia and there's been no such problem personally or from anything I've heard.

You'll find that with only a little practice using tap gesture for button press becomes second nature. From there it's only a 5 minute learning curve to double-tap equals right but…

For what it's worth, I agree. Survey's show only 40% of new users returning after a month. But Facebook was more like that, and it's not dead yet. There's the Stephen Fry | Socking…

I think there's a reasonable argument for using the Kelly criteria, but leaving that question aside, the author misses a most important factor: the marginal utility of the money. I…

There's no doubt you're right about the profiling. I don't know how much they generate from the ads but they're context sensitive. Is it better or worse than ads next to a search? …

"Why does Google give away products like its browser, its apps, and the Android operating system for mobile phones? Anything that increases Internet use ultimately enriches Google,…