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1. You won't have to wait for an hour for your tank to fill up. 2. The supercharges aren't free: you're paying for them when you buy the car. And it's proprietary: you can't use it…

That sounds interesting, could you elaborate? (what is pinning in this context?)

Does Google Play have a public API for downloading APKs? Does it work for paid apps as well? (I'm not able to construct good keywords for search here: Google thinks I'm looking for…

Surprising how many companies Yahoo has been gobbling up... and shutting down. What exactly _are_ they doing with all the new hires?

They searched the account of a French blogger, so that adds another layer of insane complications (I'd guess both France and EU would come down pretty hard on Microsoft, but for th…

What happened to the Hydrogen option? A few years ago, everybody was talking about how it would be the best possible fuel and how much better than batteries it is, but I haven't he…

Aren't a lot of people who used to work at Microsoft during the 90s/early 2000s working at Google now? I'd be surprised if the people who implemented Embrace/Extend/Extinguish in t…

Showing modal dialogs on every new permission request is how XPrivacy works right now, and while I understand and deal with the process, I can easily see how most people would (rig…

I see where the Swype folks are coming from, but it's a bit like the people who complained against the existence of mailinator.com a decade back. Are they seriously claiming that a…

I agree, but look at the grief Microsoft got when they tried it with Vista's UAC prompts... more permission popups is clearly not what the majority of users want. I think one solut…

The entire store experience is the opposite of what Eric Lippert calls the Pit of Success: literally no one involved in the process is incentivized to protect your data. Developers…

XPrivacy should really come installed by default with Android: the new versions are really quite good (especially with the cloudsourcing and on-demand bits) and really highlight ho…

GPS just means the plane knows where it is. The equipment necessary for the plane to inform the airline ops about its location is still vulnerable to all sorts of problems, even wi…

IE11 was bundled with windows 8.1, which fixed a bunch of idiotic features/annoyances in win8, so people had more incentive to upgrade.

It's not as bad now, since most platforms these days insist on a push mechanism that is common to all the apps. You're stuck with different UIs, but the cost is still like running …

I don't understand why a badge is necessary in the first place. Won't NFC on a phone suffice?

I'd guess so. It's pretty easy with roslyn these days.

You need to click on the "Export" button, at the top right corner of the page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/export/help/?returnU...

I agree, but what happens when you want to share just a part of the page, not the whole (for example, something on your tumblr dashboard)? I think IE, of all things, had a feature …

Does anyone know what TempleOSV2 is talking about? I can't reply to his comment in this thread because it's marked as dead, but it sounds very interesting.

I don't think it's still as simple as entering your username/password if you don't have your paired device nearby: you also need a recovery key. I got bitten by this once: I didn't…

They couldn't do it. The compiler does static verifications that, say, a value of type Meter when divided by a value of type second results in a value of type Meter/Second, where '…

The wiki for her sister mentions it's actually /woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-jit-skee