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Isn't that the point of the article? Apple sold enough devices to get Adobe to change their content delivery strategy?

There is some evidence this might be a hoax: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/23/japan...

One additional difficulty in making Portal 2-dimensional is the loss of a relative frame of reference, which can cause control problems. If you hold down the left key to enter a ri…

Stanford gives out automated warnings if you have a lot of torrent-y network activity (I got a few back in the day after downloading some linux distros), but as I recall they are o…

Is it 90% of people who don't know the keyboard shortcut, or the find functionality?

"If you divide 480 by 44 you get a remain­der of 20. Divide by 11 and you get a remain­der of 9" Isn't it 40 and 7 respectively? edit: I think the author meant 460, which is 480px …

The link to the actual list: http://arunshroff.com/2011/08/10/8-reasons-why-google-will-b...

It personally reminds me of 2d side-view games (like later castlevanias) where you can't walk around objects like tables or boxes (you have to jump over them to progress). Perhaps …

Just out of curiosity, where are you from and how is cheating regarded there?

Um, I think you misread what he meant by "destroying" websites - this app seems to be a game where you control an "asteroids"-style spaceship shooting UI elements on websites (a mo…

Judging by the fact that Boise, ID is their only market right now, and the deals on both sites for Boise are different, I'd say it's independent of livingsocial

Are they mutually exclusive? Serious question

Here is the paper their tech is based on: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/ Basically, the light isn't focused to a single plane, but rather is sent through an array of…

Props to the befunge coder as well

The math comes out to about 17 months' subscription fees for a permanent license for each product. Hopefully at least some of those fees can go towards buying a full license in the…

The conversation in the middle of the post doesn't sound too different from conversations I've had with friends. I hope I didn't miss out on a big opportunity...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/world/asia/22poverty.html The poverty rate in Japan isn't that much lower than the US (15.7% vs. 17.1% according to the article). However, people …

instantwatcher.com does a good job of indexing new and popular streaming titles on Netflix, if you haven't already heard of it or something similar.

The Japanese title on the about page translates to something like "Heart-Pounding Library: The Legend of Gatsby", which is how I think the book should have been titled.