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That's cool. Android had it in 2010, and the Car Home was a big push for a while. This is a rebirth / reconsideration of Car Home.

This is unbelievably cringey and this person is in the wrong profession. The fact that they seriously pretend that good programming = boring is embarrassing, as is their caricature…

They update quickly because they know every trivial update will be a front-page on Reddit as a bunch of Microsoft boosters try to shout "SEE WE'RE HERE TOO!" It's pretty lame.

This is just not right at all (and one is a document data format, the other an IPC, so the comparison is flawed to begin with), not to mention that you're focusing far too much on …

But from a Microsoft shareholder's point of view it was a disaster. As one of the very first outsiders to actually use MSXML in a project (with the Usenet archives to prove it), em…

It already pushes the boundaries of "obvious promo post presented as some sort of operational wisdom". I think they realized their limits and held off making it too obvious.

>Because moving an existing site to another platform is non-trivial. It's not just that it's non-trivial, it's that when it comes down to a real analysis, these "clearly better" al…

I've run a sporadically popular (100s of thousands of uniques on some days) blog on Wordpress for years. All running on a single spot instance (if it was killed I have a script to …

HN has gone to shit, and one of the reasons is that huge numbers of .NET developers somehow funneled in and started directing the content, so absolutely terrible submissions like t…

When a company like Microsoft or Apple buys back shares, they retire them. This in effect gives every remaining shareholder a larger ownership stake. Which is why shareholders love…

Your assumption is completely and absolutely wrong. Not just wrong, but actually the opposite of the traditional reality -- market cap usually doesn't even consider cash and short …

These tests churn GBs of data (necessary given how fast flash is), rendering the cache largely irrelevant. As I mentioned elsewhere, it is incredibly unlikely that parallelism play…

That isn't a general rule at all, and it would be foolhardy to generally apply it. While there are cases where it may be true, in many other cases multiple chips sit behind a singl…