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Window-based task management is "Windows", App-based task management is "Metro". We spent the last 25 years of computer history teaching both the users and the computers how to mul…

> Could you elaborate on the evidence for people willing to pay for good content? I also don't understand why Game of Thrones supports your argument. http://bit.ly/1mLgOc3 > I know…

This fact is why newspapers are dead, and online content continues to blossom. In the information age, there's absolutely no excuse for the content they produce to cost $1500/year …

Infinite scrolling like this works pretty well if you want to do scrolling for, say, search results. It's all around horrible for something like Twitter, IMO. The problem with Twit…

The first time I see an email from this service, they will meet my permanent blacklist. This is absolutely, brutally intolerable. It's hard enough maintaining spam-free email witho…

Why do we have to imagine this? This is reality for software engineers on LinkedIn.

Whole program optimization is really the killer feature for static linking today. It's possible with dynamic linking, but a static compiler can really go to town shedding weight si…

> you most certainly do not "cut down on file load time." Surely you must be joking eekee. I know SSDs have made us all forget, but Disks (you know, those spinning piles of rust th…

> Sigh, another string library. And this is the reason why I prefer C++ over C. You don't end up writing another string library for the 300th time. You say that, and yet every C++ …

Good luck finding a congressman to buy who will accept bitcoin as payment.

> Is it actually proven that the costs are passed on (i.e. that the price would be lower in absence of credit cards)? Because, again, in theory that only works if the demand has en…

> I predict Amazon will take BTC within the next 2-3 years. I'm willing to bet a hundred doge this doesn't happen.

> I find it humorous that Tiger Direct and Newegg are promoting Bitcoin mining with GPUS. Why wouldn't they? They both sell GPUs and have a large backlog of them. Somebody who isn'…

> Credit card companies do not charge 4%. I worked in credit cards about a decade ago, so unless the marketplace is less competitive now than before, I assume this still holds true…

> How about the fact that the banking system charges huge fees for the use of their networks and technology? Yeah that sucks. But the only thing that's going to change this is regu…

It's a strange world where we're saying 1080p is "low res".

I give it 8 seconds before it's all penises and people saying various things are dicks.

Well it's $200,000 today, $386,000 tomorrow, $120 the day after that...