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Which regular Kindle? The built-in backlight was the selling feature to me. My old Kindle had the light built into the cover which worked OK but was too bright for my wife. The pap…

Yes, but Tolkien invented Second Breakfast. No comparison.

Modern processors can generate different micro-ops depending on whether the flags are observed. In old non-pipelined/non-speculative/non-rewriting processors what you said is true …

It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MSIL is rich, maybe ove…

I find this disturbing. I realize that startups are usually associated with non-linear returns but assuming the burn rate in the OP is about gross expenses, not just net burndown o…

Revenue per employee is certainly interesting but isn't comparable to the topic of discussion. It would be very interesting to see what the run rates for each of these enterprises …

Will you buy the newer products without the newer UIs? I didn't think so, so the manufacturers are motivated to keep changing.

It's a trap! I want net neutrality as much as the next person but having the federal government oversee it like it oversees utilities is a cure far worse than the disease.

Except for the phone observation, he matches what I saw in say '90 completely. And replies like yours were also common even back then. I'm inclined to agree that it's about the mon…

Some people have built string processing libraries which operate on struct which have a string object reference and an index to the first character and a length. This lets you slic…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad Retina came in the 3rd generation.

You have to type it three times.