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Really? This got voted up to number 1 on the front page, and so many awesome real projects are buried without ever getting anywhere? HN is really a joke now, I see. Haven't been ar…

Only if looking in the mirror does the same, I suppose :)

This article is claiming they've been trying to get rid of a worm for months? Why wouldn't they just format the computers and return to a previously backed up state? Secondly, if t…

The leaked letter is at the end of the article. The article is nothing exciting, but I found the letter an excellent and relevant read.

I've been thinking about this consequence of government ineptness for a while now. The problem is that politicians think (rightly) that they have gamed the feedback loop that is pu…

Respectfully, I don't think you've given the issue enough consideration. You're saying that if they didn't search the pilots, someone would fake as a pilot to get through security?…

Exactly. At least in Pakistan, a huge part of this problem is the insane emphasis of teaching everything in English, even though the people do not really understand English. Imagin…

I've never had this happen to me if I recall. Do the people who have a problem with this not keep their hand in "typing position"? It seems really difficult to me, with my left han…

I have an honest question to ask, since the number of comments hasn't exploded here, I hope some thoughtful people can see it and answer. Please don't attack me for anything I may …

Man, I wish those punks would do something like that in my neighborhood. 5 or 6 guys should get together with some nice, big sticks and go patrol the streets. Let some kid throw an…

I was thinking the believe it or not was on account of who invented the Yahoo store?

hmmm.. yeah, I didn't think of the repeat letter advantage. In english, at least, that does seem likely to be a significant advantage.

(a) I'm afraid you missed my point. I purposely stayed away from all matters of interpretation, and only replied to factually incorrect statements. None of the counter-arguments I …

If this is properly optimized, it should require much less finger movement than handwriting. And it can easily get even casual users to higher accuracies than even full size keyboa…

This is measurable- the minimum diameter of a circle passing through the four quadrants is the maximum distance the thumb can ever have to travel. Allowing for some safe radius fro…

I don't understand how it could be more tiring than tapping with the thumb? Unless your touchpad is rough or requires too much force. Many of us make similar motions all day long o…

It's hard for me to say intuitively regarding speed and the Swype, but I can see that Swype would probably increase accuracy by some statistically significant amount. This device, …

It doesn't really offer advantages on a computer that it does on a small device. Full size keyboards already allow no-look, potentially 100% accuracy typing, with multiple fingers …

Not just a bit, but a lot, IMO! Some people are comparing this to the dvorak vs. qwerty keyboard layouts. A more apt comparison is to a keyboard laid out in alphabetical order vs. …

Compare relatively low error rates to zero error rate. And no matter how good you get, no one (very few people?) can use Swype accurately without looking. And intuitively speaking,…