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TIMN/Verge also has this note[0]: Note: Our initial performance observations were focused on touch response and not system-wide performance, and were based on a Galaxy Nexus being …

The other 20% loudly despise their lives?

List of comments I have upvoted - Similar to saved stories. I may upvote comments which are valuable, but not the story itself, making it hard to come back to those valuable commen…

Yes, but nobody knows about it.

And here the physical world comes to the rescue - get yourself a new computer when your old one is infested with malware!

note that this is just part 1 of 4. (I am assuming you didn't read all four parts, because that material would have to be covered impressively quickly to fit in 20 minutes)

portal: the flash version seems to work well enough. The directions are constant, but the momentum gives you time to shift your heading as you enter/exit portals http://portal.wecr…

So, what is the current "greatest company ever"? What defines it?

On my SGS (not II) I can use volume-down as a ctrl key in terminal emulator.

Like all good lessons, this one starts with a little lie and tells you the truth later on... "Supriya : But how I will create different types of Chutneys? Shekhar : Now you will se…

Yeah, I did the search, saw google.com.au first and wasn't surprised at all. For those interested, but not interested enough to visit the AU site the results are: 1. www.google.com…

some more context from http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/steve-jobs-calls-blu-ray-... "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech…

"it’s worth noting that Firefox 8 is as fast or faster than the latest Dev Channel build of Chrome 14. Chrome’s WebGL implementation is still faster, but with Azure, Firefox’s 2D p…

Matz starts talking about 2.0 at about 14m30

I think in this case "the text" refers to the label's text, not the text in the input that the label is @for.

previous discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445164

"First and foremost, our takedowns have nothing to do with any sort of open source licensing violation. Both Yong and I handle developer relations behind the scenes. We give cuts t…

Illumination Software Creator: http://radicalbreeze.com/ Target Flex, Android, iOS, maemo... in a visual "block" environment. I haven't tried it myself, but could be useful for you…

The list of bugfixes is hardly nothing: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/bu...

In your career, what are you most embarrassed about? Have you made a fatal mistake that you, of all people, should never have?

http://www.translationparty.com/#9269521

On the contrary, it's new every time you generate a paper!

On the contrary, Unity broke all my keyboard shortcuts. I gave it a fair shake (used it during the beta, tried not to mark it down for bugginess) and am back to classic. For my set…

I feel obliged to say that I've not had spammy emails from crunchyroll, either. Their "notifications" are quite spammy, however.

You're being disingenuous here. Anybody looking for information about jQuery's selectors will google "jquery selectors" and find that five-word phrase front and center. Or take a l…