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Has anyone else switched to a standing desk setup? Do you like it?

What boggles my mind about Chrome is how terrible the location bar autocomplete is. At least, that's how it seemed to me for ages when I switched from Firefox. I mean, I would have…

I guess, but the saving grace is that the passengers of such cars are less likely to care, unless they're in some special rush. I mean, if I had one, I would be reading or working …

Is Android not open-source? You would think any surreptitious phoning home it does would be well-known by now. If Android devices really send data to Google -- even after disabling…

Like iTunes.

The comedian Pete Holmes did an amazing routine on exactly this phenomenon, on Conan O'Brien: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ4o1N4ksyQ

You're right. There isn't really an easy solution to this.

I agree this is probably a bad idea, but I still think the basic problem it's trying to solve is a real one. A less hack-y solution might be for new languages to start incorporatin…

Sorry, right -- I was just thinking of straight-up scraping of public pages. Asking for the user's password and logging in to do more scraping would probably be possible, but a lot…

I was going to ask that exact question. I think the answer is no, they can't stop you. And perhaps I'm being naïve, but it doesn't seem like it would be too terribly tedious if you…

How are they expecting to enforce that? Are they really going to download and test every third-party app?

FYI, the article suggests self-driving cars have been approved in Nevada and California, which is true -- but in both states, a human passager (presumably with a driver's license) …

Re: 3, he didn't say mechanics would go away, just auto body/collision shops.

That's wonderful, truly noble -- seriously -- but you, OP, and people like you are probably a very small group, at least compared to the masses of people who are paying simply beca…

I think the explanation is much more simple: it's working because most people aren't tech-savvy enough to figure out the loopholes and feel comfortable using them on a regular basi…

How hard would it be to adapt this for Ruby written for iOS using RhoMobile? I'm looking into whether to start learning RubyMotion vs. RhoMobile, and don't know much about either y…