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Oh, absolutely not. They had no idea, and it wasn't really a thing outside of a few minutes of pranking one engineer visiting us + a bit of photoshopping for fun. The only ones to …

It had all started a bit earlier with a colleague (I assume that's you up there, jkb79 :) pulling the leg of a guy visiting us from the Bangalore office, about the polar bears roam…

As a user who frequently opened the AppStore just to browse, discover new apps, and who used to buy a lot, I've just stopped opening the AppStore over the last three-four years. Br…

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... and watch for a few minutes. The whole video is really interesting, but that part is the really embarrass…

Those numbers alone really don't mean much. How many queries per second can they handle on those nodes, and with what latency? What kind of relevancy calculations were they able to…

Just to confirm your arguments, I'm quoting from from http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article545833.ece : "Although stretching cable for about 3,000 kilometers from Andoeya…

I'm looking at the Mozilla example on my laptop without a mouse, and I get a little bit annoyed when I'm hovering a certain node trying to click on it and the visualization keeps o…

Personally I would have bought it, contacted Steve Jobs directly and right away (not called up Apple's support line, who of course cannot help with this issue), given him the phone…

Too bad you're leaving us, but good luck man :) Where did you get that Y! branded wizard's hat by the way?

To me this submission felt more like an ad for killerstartups.com than a story about creatly, and I'm not really sure I liked that. Linking directly to http://creately.com/ instead…

Yes, the people at Ludicorp ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp ) were making Game Neverending ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Neverending ). And as pointed out in the Wiki…

Crawling a few million pages, making some sort of searchable index, and building a simple frontend is a nice exercise for anyone, and building a new search engine as such is nothin…

I'm not quite sure I agree. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google , you will see that they have often bought companies as well. In some cases y…