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I've never had my posts downvoted so much as on HN. I'm more or less on topic. I'm not engaging in a flame war. I'm not trolling. Is it the "kilopounds" thing? What can I say, I he…

Interesting how the example image for a bad UI shows the good UI using "Metric" vs "English" buttons. In the England and the rest of the UK we use "Metric" vs "Imperial". And we us…

A "motion map" ? I think you'd better read the paper again. They compute a full 3D reconstruction. Much much more computationally expensive. You would not "be able to create a simi…

> You weren't previously asking me why I disagree with her. I think the onus was on you, the person posting a comment that you disagree with the author of the article, to make your…

> The fact that it wasn't perceived by her as a big deal does not prove she knows better than I do. You've already said you don't agree with her on this point and yet again you don…

> it's difficult for a woman to step into any kind of leadership position and do the tough things without being perceived as a "bitch". I disagree that leadership is about being a …

She didn't emphasise it very strongly, in fact it was a very weak emphasis but she was saying that everyone has a different set of strengths and weaknesses. She might find it easie…

I very nearly stopped at this point: "All Apple products are banned in my household to make a statement about programmer freedom." Sorry kids, to increase freedom I'm taking away y…

It was a rhetorical question. But it's not necessarily true that Nokia X came "way after". Nokia could have put the project on hold when they started serious negotiations with Micr…

The natural assumption is that the hacker has got your password, not hacked gmail or hotmail, etc.

It was developed before or after Elop's burning platform speech ?

> If someone were to hack into any mail account, all they need to do is search for ‘password’ and they have all of the user’s passwords. Only if you're dumb enough to not delete an…

I am not surprised. I tried to add some additional languages to Google (web) preferences to the "Skip translations for" but then the primary language for everything Google was chan…

The information was on the web. Students didn't have to pay the $1 to get to the information; they would have paid it because he made a nice, convenient app. Or they could go in vi…

Profit = Sales - Apple's cut - Apple Developer Account annual fee - iTunes App Store annual fee. What makes you think he will be making a profit on a $0.99 app ? Likely he was not …

People are using shorteners on shortened links, this is the problem. The most obvious one is Twitter, always using it's own service regardless.

> I don't need to worry about some app stealing my private files or similar This is highly unlikely. But I estimate a probability of 0.7 that you don't have notable security protec…

I think we need to see this story in its proper perspective here. Yes, this woman received unacceptable messages via twitter. Yes, there need to be mechanisms to deal with it. Howe…

> Adding memory is the cheap option Only in the sense of having a broken system, putting in place some procedural constraints and then praying that everyone follows the rules. As y…

But surely they don't use the mean to find the average score ? Even a basic trimmed statistic would find a much more accurate average. Lazy people leaving 10s and 1s would be remov…

If RSS "died" (and I don't think it did), then it was when the main browsers stopped showing the RSS icon next to the URL and started hiding RSS feeds and links. From a user perspe…

Me: I'm trying to do X, I know I need to do Y first but it doesn't work. Can someone please go through the basic principles I need to do this thing. Comment: Post some code Me: (po…

Oh good, another blog post on text coding. We don't have enough of those.

This. This is what causes at least 50% of queues. Everyone can take 1 small bag. Nothing on wheels. If you can't lift it above your head it's too heavy. No exceptions. Overhead bin…

a. They get money for each patent examined. If they spend more time scrutinizing it, their profit is reduced. At their annual review, one measure of how hard an examiner worked is …