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Just kind of curious about what people think about different FFI implementations.

First of all, Linux violates 0 patents in my book til Microsoft at least specifies them. Then maybe we can talk about whether or not the present tense "violates" and not "potential…

I looked at the application sheet, is it preferable to already have incorporated before applying? Or is that a no-no like YC?

Can someone explain when one might choose VVVV.js over processing.js (and vice versa)?

Can someone who has experimented with re-pricing their product explain the legality of it? I mean can you offer different prices to different customers at the same time? Or do you …

Okay, how about this: build a Linux distribution using no GNU software. If you don't think it's critical, try to get by without it. RMS is a good guy, and I think that his effort t…

Everyone laughed because they released it way too early without proper security mechanisms in place.

I wonder if another aacs controversy is going to rise.

It's sad that it isn't openly licensed. http://groups.google.com/group/silversmalltalk/browse_thread...

Sorry, my bad.

Dude, no. I think he was talking about how you can't tell how the size of the user base of a language is affecting the ranking. So, for example, only 1% of all projects could be in…

Pinoy-grams for the rest of us.

Really? This is kind of like some sort of weird time warp, and the Yahoo mentality of "curating" the internet is back in fashion. Which is weird, because Google came to power becau…

Isn't anyone else kind of bewildered by this? I mean this is kind of like if a kid pissed all over the floor in wal-mart, and when you notified an employee about it they gave you a…

http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf

This was posted 9 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2124799 I do congratulate you on linking to the mobile site to bypass the url conflict, that is pretty smart.

I do agree with most people saying the valuation based upon their current business model is idiotic, which is why I think the investors thinking bigger. Maybe someday soon we will …

I don't know about that. I would love to have an extension that made the omnibar a lot more like firefox's awesomebar (good indexing, can search for key phrases for title of articl…

If they were actually competing to differentiate themselves, wouldn't they have issued android os updates to their users phones in a reasonable time frame? And not ship phones with…

Trust as in reliability or privacy?

Is this different from saying 50% of desktop web users have browsers that support html5?

I like how you can't tell it to monitor other folders for new music.