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Everything about the story reads like it was fabricated.

The code in question is most certainly not TimSort, but the rangecheck() method within it, which is copied verbatim from arrays.java, which Bloch wrote while at Sun. It's what Orac…

"...Josh Bloch (the Google employee who checked it into Android) wrote it in the first place and gave it to Sun." What does that mean exactly--'gave it to Sun'? He was a Sun employ…

Tiny correction: As of March 2011, iTunes has 200 million credit cards. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/apple-200-million-itunes-ac...

"It took contacting them again, insisting on a response, to get an explanation." Which was...?

"As we are constantly reminded here, Apple takes 80% of the phone industry profits and thus deserve proportionate blame for working conditions." Blame needs to be proportional to a…

Not trying to refute you, but how can that be the problem? From the email you cite, "Please be assured that your Adsense account remains in good standing and any actions taken on t…

You mean the non-smartphone that was announced a couple weeks before the iPhone? I forget, how was multitouch on it? And the web browser, was it any good?

Except that you just made this up. Do you really think Apple doesn't know people are on the lookout for just such behavior?

So "a consistent experience that users expect" == user tracking for ads?? I don't think so. That's quite some spin on Google exploiting a bug to track me.

The Battelle link is a horrible explanation. His position is that user tracking for ads is a normal function of the web people want and therefore it is Apple's fault for blocking i…

The post in question by itself means nothing. There is no context. We know Google and Sun were in talks about Java. This post could have very well been posted when Google made it c…

Agreed. I wouldn't want to do business with this company.

Windows Phone 7 is 'stealing' the idea [of a touch-screen smart phone]. That is very different than just copying. Ex: http://www.cultofmac.com/side-by-side-comparison-samsung-vs-..…

There is a difference between stealing an idea and blatant copying.

"...Tornado because it offers little support for the plethora of Python drivers that are blocking only." Could you list an example of what you mean by support for blocking drivers?…

"To defend Android, Google must attack software patents" But then Google jeopardizes its own search patents.

" A common algorithm for succeeding in the App Store is take Popular App A from 2009 and re-implement it with new graphics and perhaps an additional gameplay mechanic and release i…

It's going to be hard to get the 'best' framework, but you'll certainly get a lot of responses of frameworks that definitely work for people. I'll add: Tornado http://www.tornadowe…

Better title: How to create Cappuccino interfaces using XCode4

The io is burstable. Try doing a sustained large download and you will see the speed throttle down

I concur, but technically Scrapy is an entire web scraping/crawling framework for writing crawlers, not just XML/HTML parsing like BeautifulSoup or lxml. You don't even have to use…

Good advice, thanks.

Prices are listed as well. How would one describe a price comparator/search engine for something like a tag line?

I put this together to simplify finding where to watch an online movie. I'm not picky about which provider I use, but I do have an order of where I check for availability first. I …