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There's also that little thing where Intuit and Citysearch fail to innovate and have terrible products. That just might have something to do with Yelp and Mint's success.

Funny, I assumed it was a thinly veiled jab at Mark Pincus. I didn't attend SUS09, but by the video clips, it seems he committed this very "presentation sin."

I absolutely admit that OS X has a somewhat fuzzy appearance, particularly at small point sizes. This gets exaggerated with the MS Core/Web fonts, which were designed for the scree…

1) OS X. A tad fuzzy, but everything is rendered _accurately_. Consistent thickness and character tracking (spacing). 2) Windows. Everything is slammed into pixel boundaries, makin…

Being fair to the parent, you don't seem to have the MS web fonts installed on Ubuntu, so the two OSes are rendering different fonts. Still.. even if you do install the right fonts…

Run, don't walk, to your nearest optometrist and get your eyes checked. Ubuntu and OS X are not even remotely comparable from a typography standpoint. Using Freetype (the Linux/X11…

This line toward the bottom really caught my eye: "Cselle said reMail will soon add a feature allowing users to upgrade by inviting 10 friends to to download the app." This is a br…

If you're disappointed with the quality/performance of Fusion 2, why would you pay more and blindly upgrade to 3 without actually knowing that it has measurably improved? Either wa…

Looking at your list, I see universities that have some amount of cachet or prestige, but not necessarily with specifically solid Engineering/CS programs. Further, many of them are…

> It's pretty clear that the core simulation objects have to be written in C++. C is too painful, and anything else is going to give an unacceptable hit in speed The author lost me…

Disagree. Chris's point regards direct seed-stage investment from a VC, where a "pass" on funding an A-round indicates that the VC lost interest over time (suggesting that they mig…

Yep, pretty much. Just because preying on ignorance is easy and lucrative does not make it okay.

I can answer your question quite simply, and it's not about aesthetics or the magsafe power connector. The aesthetics are just icing on the cake. Very, very beautiful icing, but ic…

Bug with the most spectacular results: As a (former) hardware engineer, I've worked on many projects where bugs have physical effects. This can range anywhere from amusing to serio…

> C++ does not guarantee floating point operations happen the same every time... Can you elaborate more on this? Are you implying that two identical calculations will return differ…

Requires further explanation. :)

Very, very cool.. and I love the name. That said, I regularly test APIs using actual usernames and passwords via HTTP Basic Auth. It will be a cold day in hell before I toss my cre…

..but a bitch ain't one. ;-) (With apologies to Hova.. and HN. I couldn't help myself.)

You're probably right. I was feeling negative, because I had hoped that Capital Factory would provide seed funding for innovative development and help kindle some entrepreneurship …

Austin, TX. A YC-ish group called 'Capital Factory' recently began operating here, but if you look at the inaugural group of funded ventures, they're either: a) Not attracting Sili…

I haven't worked in a Windows-based environment in a while, but I do recall in the Fx 2.x days that it was significantly faster on Windows. Perhaps this is just a case of Mozilla c…

Argh. I want to love Firefox 3.5. Really, I do. Modern web standards. Faster. Smaller memory footprint. Native Aqua widgets (effing _finally_). The problem is, compared to Chrome a…