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That's interesting. Have you linked dynamically? Maybe the author is talking about a statically linked binary, since he uses terms like "bare metal" and "final binary". Even if tha…

I was under the impression that vinyl records sound better. Are you saying that they are not or that they haven't achieved a noticeable revival?

Twitch.tv + Google Glass will be interesting.

dat keyboard.

Where is the money coming from? Why wait for people to lose weight if they already have the money? I'll assume the device manufacturers are donating the money. Looks like a marketi…

Have you read past the first sentence?

Bullshit. Here is why: Yemeni government != Yemeni people. The authorities, probably, don't mind letting US drones kill people, simply because it won't be them getting killed. Imag…

I agree that iOS 6 layout is ridiculous and far from usable. However, if you are building an app for Picasa, it better have "Picasa" in its name. The results are probably sorted by…

I am already considering to drop OS X after the lawsuit, but I only read 2 paragraphs before I decided to look for this comment in HN before reading further.

Okay, I understand that the formal definition of "idempotent" is different than what the author means. What is the correct term to use in this case? Edit: Next paragraph says: This…

What is the definition of "result". My point is that result in this case is a "change of state" vs "no change in state".

I don't think this is the right way to think about it. The ending "state" might be the same, but the output of the first logout operation would be "change of state: logged in -> lo…

The problem is I watch the movies when I want to watch them. Flash is embedded in random. You can always have click-to-flash solutions but those are usually buggy and there are oth…

I suggest Learn Code the Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw ( http://learncodethehardway.org/ ). It's online, it's free and it's brilliant. I'd suggest him to go with Python as his first lang…