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Well here you go -- this account is now hellbanned.

EDIT - Posted the above, and now, yet again, I'm experience 10 second or so page generation delays, which is another of the (the rather pathetic slowban) passive-aggressive ways th…

I've been hellbanned here on HN on at least three different IP addresses and accounts...that I am aware of. Probably more. In each case nothing I'd ever said would be considered tr…

Empirically what has been shown is that if you do an IAMA on Reddit leading up to the release of your "experiment", a lot of people will play along. It does not carry over to any o…

The Android crash report functionality does send logs to Google, however Google does not forward these to third-party developers. Third-party apps can request READ_LOG manifest per…

That barely novel gimmick got it front and center of every social news site. Indeed, why are we even talking about this experiment if it were "barely novel"? This submission and ev…

The comparison is the hype, delivery, and conclusions. After the initial release of the Plant there was much fanfare about its demonstrated validation of a sales model, yet it was …

It is also an instructive example of novelty. His initial experiment was reported very widely, and tens or hundreds of thousands lined up to "prove it could work", putting their do…

Remember The Plant ? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/11/30/1238204/stephen-king...

I'm thankful someone wrote this. I've been seeing a lot of people talking about how depressed and/or suicidal and inadequate they feel quite frequently around here lately. Suicide …

Worse, it is an estimate of sales to date of the two markets. The Android market was seriously immature until around a year ago, and it has been exploding since (from a personal pe…

You should be downvoted for it, and it's sad that you haven't thus far. Worthless market share? Zero profit? Such emotionally-driven hubris has no place on HN.

Even my 1st generation HTC Magic+ had an experience absolutely nothing like what you've described. I don't know what sort of broken device you're in possession of, but it has nothi…

There was a dark period in Android's existence where a very immature OS came together with underpowered hardware (the GPU in an iPhone 3G demolished the GPU in the Hero) and create…

I don't disagree with what you've written, and the relative thing is a problem -- if people feel a bit shameful that their new device isn't as slick as the last generation iPhone, …

That wasn't at all the focus of the comment that I replied to. I get that you're on this "keyboard/trackball" thing (sidenote -- did you know that Android devices still come out wi…

>Yet single clicking the home button still instantly gives you the response you expect. The task manager/switcher is a child of the home screen. This overloaded functionality makes…

A big part of the delay on the GS II is the Vlingo voice functionality. Did you know (I ask because many people don't know) that if you tap the home button twice it brings up voice…

How was the iOS decision more "correct"? Android is clearly succeeding despite the lack of UI refinement, so it's hard to hold one as victorious. There is definitely a different ph…

This isn't a "follow-up", per se. Nonetheless, while Android continually works to smooth out the rough edges -- helped along by the march of technology -- this is something that is…

On an aside, relating to the performance of these two Firefox technologies, it is interesting that in the battle of the JavaScript engines it is artificial metrics that are driving…

Does the world really need Chrome fanboys selling the religion? This story has nothing to do with Chrome. Yet like with every single story about Firefox , here's some guy slurring …

I'm sure people consented through some random paragraph in a two hundred page long EULA, usually under the guise of quality monitoring. The meta is pertinent. I expect the sort of …

??? Really, how so. How are they going to get all of the passwords you typed in? Can you point out where anyone has noted any log on the device of this data? This whole story is th…

>All user data (since it is a keylogger?) being logged and sent to a third party without user knowledge or consent Where does anyone say that it is being sent to a third party? Thi…