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Public mudslinging between big names ... does that make Medium the new Twitter?

> I’m fascinated how simple the __NSDictionaryI turned out to be. There may be other cases where one gets something entirely different than the __NSDictionaryI class, depending on …

Years of their skills and labor that could have been spent working at another company (including competitors).

The quality of Uber drivers in San Francisco has dropped all the way to the point where I simply will not try to use Uber anywhere near downtown. They will accept the ride and the …

This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which woul…

Indeed. The essay mentions "predictability" as a problem with solar, but that becomes moot with good enough storage & transmission.

They will find a way to opt-out instead. One set of rules for them, and another set of rules for everyone else.

Ticket holders for the upcoming Google I/O conference just received an email today which reads: "New this year, your Google I/O badge will feature your photo." The message indicate…

> there was regular black market where one could buy contract for cheaper rent A precursor to AirBnB!

While this isn't nearly as bad as companies like Valve which go around claiming not even to have any managers , let alone any policies, it still means you're going to run into this…

Yet another chance to call out the highly relevant essay "The Tyranny of Structurelessness": http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm It should be required reading for anyone pu…

For those who've watched the show Black Adder: http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?p=8712

> [I]t's only going to become easier and easier for competitors to enter the same space. Not going to happen. Those "regulators" they decry so loudly? I'm sure they have plans to b…

Android is only a "success" insofar as being the only game in town for an open-source iOS competitor. I'm frankly amazed it ever gained any traction at all, but when your competiti…

Were these sodas sweetened with cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup? (I did look at the abstract of the actual paper, but it doesn't seem to specify. The full paper might say, b…

The middle paragraphs are just further proof that talking to a blowhard like Cory Doctorow is a complete waste of time. The "all photos are fake at some level" slippery slope argum…

Ever since the days of the original Firewire-only iPod, they've done 3D renders for extreme closeups like that. They are usually very accurate but still, it seems like it would be …

Great comment, pretty much agreed on all points. One minor correction -- it's "toeing the line", not "towing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

And yet if you post about AirBnB's history of spamming Craigslist users, you'll get downvoted into oblivion. Playing dirty is considered okay on HN so long as you're a YC company.

So it's yet another toy project with grandiose, overblown claims ("git for databases"? seriously?!) An honest update to the README would be to take the whole thing down several not…

> My wife and I sleep on the floor, with a few blankets, and have slept with our daughter between us since day one And when your daughter is old enough to talk, she'll tell everyon…