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groggles

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    Comment #3545622

    It is mentally arduous to try to parse through it. I really tried but had to give up. Punctuation exists for good reason.

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    Comment #3518452

    Pedantry -- that isn't Moore's Law related, aside from the loosest interpretation that computers as a whole get faster. This is so true, though. Much of the horizontally scalabilit…

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    Comment #3514306

    That would create lots of restrictions Microsoft wasn't comfortable with The most likely scenario was that Microsoft would have been broken up, which while it was unwanted by Gates…

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    Comment #3514143

    Probably, given that Microsoft has never made money on Windows Mobile -- minuscule licensing costs coupled with a high engineering price. In their brightest expectations I don't th…

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    Comment #3490601

    Do you perhaps see the Apple glass as half full, and the MPAA glass as half empty? As the GP argued, one could just as easily argue that every MPAA policy is for your own good . Fu…

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    Comment #3490444

    Indeed, but the piece is primarily anti-MPAA. See- "The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use.…

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    Comment #3490358

    Given that the author is Marco (and the article is on HN because it is from Marco Arment), I wonder what his boycott position is regarding Apple? Apple has a long history of suppor…

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    Comment #3485067

    They do it for all comments to have a protection when someone comes gunning for some comments. This isn't about someone defending a champion of free speech or a hero of mankind. It…

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    Comment #3485019

    >I do have to agree with the site that they might not be able technically to give the info. I have mixed feelings about sites that rely upon the "we regularly purge identifying inf…

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    Comment #3470990

    >These are examples of 'bad' comments They weren't bad comments at all. The circle-the-wagons "we're better than this" reaction is worse. While a death is usually a tragedy, made m…

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    Comment #3464755

    The Citi claim is based upon absolutely nothing. For that matter every single "Microsoft makes $X from Android" are based upon nothing but speculation. Show me a line item in eithe…

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    Comment #3437540

    A decent watering schedule is not an overwatering schedule. Watering plants properly is not a difficult activity. Further even assuming that it is very low power, just the energy a…

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    Comment #3430338

    HN has been soundly trolled. This guy -- who apparently rejects 99% of interviewees -- apparently runs a single-person company of dubious purpose. This absurdly trollish post is ov…

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    Comment #3358903

    That sounds pretty cut and dry. Of course in reality it is absolutely nothing like that . I've experienced plenty of lag on iOS devices. I've had buttons not respond, apps crash, a…

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    Comment #3358783

    >those for whom the little details like UI responsiveness are supremely important That isn't what he said. The general angle of MG and Gruber is that iOS is universally superior to…