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I hope the author realizes that TI does a ton more than make graphing calculators... they're probably one of the biggest manufacturers of ICs out there (about to swallow National S…

I don't read HN much, but I thought that in theory that's something you would expect of reddit and not HN? Isn't HN supposed to be above that kind of stuff?

I thought this was always the point of Gears, as a stopgap for HTML5 features until browsers supported them all. But I don't really see why they need Gears on Firefox for local sto…

Err, I think the Cliq is actually a totally different phone for T-mobile but with a similar form factor. The hardware on the Droid is much better, eg. 848x480 screen instead of 480…

All Verizon smartphones will now have wifi. This is because all Verizon smartphones now also require you to get a data plan anyway. Kind of meh, but it's not going to discourage me…

Haha, my roommate is in this class. His textbook is really nice, it reads really naturally. But my roommate said that his lecturing is not that great.

I got one that says "Save the Shire" and I have no idea why.

I think Insertion sort tends to be the most natural sort for doing things like sorting playing cards. Anything else seems like it would be more of a hassle than it would be worth i…

And of course, it originated in Firefox. I also think Opera can do this as well, although I suppose that's not a libre browser.

I'm sure Stallman knew about that, considering that he went there for some time.

> Does "Programs and Features" do anything more/less than "Add/Remove Programs" in Vista SP3? No. Actually, yes. You can search the list of programs, and there are a lot more colum…

Ahh, that's a bit of a problem. That was something I was intending on using. But I'll still check it out and hope for msysgit to improve in the future.

I agree, the PHP documentation is pretty great. And the user notes, while sometimes hit and miss, are usually fairly useful too. Often you'll find someone who's trying to do exactl…

Nice, I've been pretty interested in git recently but since I use Windows primarily (flame me all you want, but I actually like Windows) it seemed like it wasn't worth the hassle. …

Some forum software accepts openID now. I agree completely, at this point I have so many forum accounts on random sites where I just needed to ask one question pertaining to some p…

> Games are going to be a big question, however. CSS+JS? Hm. Yeah, that was my thinking as well. The phone and OS overall look superb, but I was wondering what would happen to game…

Wow, I was looking for this recently but didn't remember what it was called. For me, Windows is good overall, and I'm a gamer, and I started on DOS so I'm pretty command-line happy…

What? I think you complain about stupid things and miss real features. It's called "Programs and Features" now for one thing, and it features a lot more detail and information than…

I agree. XUL isn't that bad, but it seems like XUL based applications use about twice as much RAM as their non-XUL counterparts. Firefox and Thunderbird are fairly competitive on t…

Err, if you noticed he linked to the "Jason character's" blog post about Windows 7 and the guy himself was pretty active in the comments on that article (jperlow).

The point of this article is that one of the problems with Vista and now Windows 7 is that people were so used to the XP way of doing things, even if the XP way was stupid or unint…

That's pretty interesting, I didn't even know about Flash cookies. Feels kind of weird to learn about technology first hand from the NYT, but pretty cool nonetheless.

I agree. Anyone who thinks a touchscreen-only device can replace tactile buttons on a gaming device is on crack. Although, the DS doesn't have a web browser built in except on the …

Geez, how elitist can you get? I just started coming here because there's more programming related stuff that sometimes doesn't hit /r/programming, but I haven't seen any evidence …