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Surely the "addiction is a disease" mindset is a defensive response to the (especially in America) mindset that addiction is a moral failing. I.e. one crackpot opinion begets anoth…

"Last update on XCode 6 made it impossible for some 2012 models to run it" I find this difficult to believe, care to provide evidence of it being an Apple problem?

This is the most delusional piece of self-justification I have read in years. Your use of words like culling and optimise makes me suspect you need to work on your social skills, a…

Making money is the only significant metric. They may have a large market share but if they're not making money from it who cares?

Come on, its not difficult. Apple makes products in gold because it makes those products more appealing to Chinese consumers. If you're going to try and be an Apple hater at least …

Are there a "large number of people who think they prefer full justification"? Citation required. I think most people don't think about it.

But what is luxurious (or even exclusive) about HN? If you are going to generate some culinary comparison perhaps a niche burger (tofu?) would be more appropriate.

A luxury product created by gratuitous cruelty? Seems a bit harsh.

Also turmeric which many uses in folk medicine for stomach and liver ailments.

Reordering could alter the program's semantics as well as being extra work for such limited machines. FORTRAN permitted explicit and implicit declarations. It would be quite legal …

So, do you have any actual proof of this allegation or is it just another gratuitous accusation from an Apple hater?

"The default sql mode has changed." So long as it possible to redefine the mode at will on a per connection basis or on startup then the integrity of data held within MySQL cannot …

That is silly. Most addicts don't have the resources to change their life structure, where would they go? what would they do? how would it be paid for?. It is only the rich who can…

I would turn this round. Your habitual behaviour comes to be associated with your environment. By removing yourself from that environment you find that those habits become weaker a…

Regrettably a significant number of back ends (principally Microsoft ones in my experience) regard the +bit as malformed and reject the email address.

The SLA mentions 99.9% or 99.99% for Database connectivity. Where does 99.999% come from? Do Microsoft say this about Traffic Manager or are you suggesting you have to pay for extr…

Neither interesting, nor surprising really. Curtis requires people to pay attention and think before they comprehend what he is saying. The Cook piece merely required them to click…

I don't think it is an original observation but Steve Jobs chose a very capable and worthy successor. Tim Cook gets more impressive each time you hear anything about him.

The difference between film and paint is that with a little skill it is possible to make your own paints. Film? Not so easy. Film sales have been in decline for over 10 years. Befo…

The fact that most people could look at that code and have no real clue what it actually does seems to have escaped you. This is in any event not the entire source code, as most of…

I live in the UK, I think of my height in feet and inches and my weight in Kilograms. Blood pressure is in mmHg while cholesterol is in mmol/L.