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Markdown's problems aside, the premise that it's reaching near ubiquity is crazy. Tech geeks live in such a bubble. Ask practically anyone that isn't a techie about Markdown and th…

The tech community has a wonderful ally in Mozilla, who has been committed to open standards since the beginning. They struggled with bloat issues and Google came along with Chrome…

"FSF could have avoided my complaint by changing "According to this thread, Google is doing this on purpose" to "Based on this thread we're guessing Google may be doing this on pur…

The input box is a keylogger that sends what you type to FB before you ever press enter. That's the interesting story here. Everyone already knew FB had a scraper for retrieving im…

The DIY guys say text wins. http://diythemes.com/thesis/html-or-text-emails/ Personally I prefer short text ones.

If they're going to be a consumer product, they should definitely change their name. It's a terrible name for a consumer product. It's too geeky. If they plan to be an infrastructu…

I thought TechCrunch drove way more traffic than that. I got more traffic than that in an hour from Smashing Magazine mentioning my WordPress theme. Interesting. Thanks for the fig…

The author is confused.

People still use Quora? Weird.

A citizen? Why define yourself in the context of society? You are a human. A citizen gets his rights from another. Human right is private. Be free.

Google: the worse UI people in the world.

People still use Growl?

It's only a disgrace to the generation that knows nothing about privacy. Why would we want a DNS-like system for contact information? Get real.

Neat idea, but this thing seems broken. This would be a useful tool!

Huh? How are they stored for a couple days if they're not on disk?

Etherpad with a bit of sexiness. Would love to see this contributed back to the open source community from where it came.

If you want to roll your own on Mac or Linux, try bitpocket. I'm not sure about the options for rsync and bash on Windows. https://github.com/sickill/bitpocket

Neat, but not amazing. It barely functions.

"I subscribe to the belief that ideas aren’t worth anything, and that it all comes down to good execution." If not for the idea, the execution would be unnecessary. It takes a vill…

Both of these are designed terribly. It's hard to believe this came out of Apple.

"Aim of this project is to develop new technology for processing human waste without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and at costs affordable to the poor in developing count…

Pogue is a paid punk.

None of us are rich. Rich people are busy trying to control every square inch of earth. Schmucks who think they're rich are simply doing the work for the rich.

It took a study for people to realize it's easier to read larger text on a tiny screen?

That's fine and dandy until you search for something and the results return something in there randomly and is considered a threat to national security or of interest for you to be…