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Awesome news. Hopefully it will render herbicides useless.

I think I just witnessed the day Hacker News died. This thread is appalling, much like the article. I'm no Windows apologist, but the article was a ramble about windows 8 with a pa…

I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs th…

Here is an idea, sometimes it is a good idea to look inwards rather than outwards.

She won the lottery.

Much like tattoos.

Or they could just make sure the have a good spidey collection.

I should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might hav…

Are you saying no game is relevant if there is a more difficult game (and that is assuming what you say is true or even provable)? And as someone who has played 100's of hours of b…

I am just wondering whether you can write your own wrapper class that implements (exposes) the read method and doesn't expose a close method (or expose a close method that does not…

I don't like LinkedIn for similar reasons but I somehow feel I will offend people if I drop out, and I have had some decent leads from it over the years. The import contacts featur…

I think this comment is even more naive than the game UI comment. Excel has one of most complex UIs in existence. I seem to recall reading once there are many 100s of developers on…

I don't really get your point. Its obvious that game developers would produce better interfaces / experiences, because that is what they are selling. Enterprises are selling a prod…

Nothing like broad sweeping generalizations to make a good story. I have a few points to make : 1. End users have an incredible ability to complain that software doesn't meet their…

I think this has parallels with the saying "I'm not young enough to save the world".

Buyer's pride perhaps?

This is an example of why analogies should never be used (except perhaps if trying to explain a concept, not something tangible). ATM software has nothing to do with the backend st…

I can't read the article, probably a HN DOS. However, I really can't see the point of doing DRM in html5, it will just result in browsers becoming the equivalent of the evil plugin…

Calling "copyright protection" a straw-man is in itself a straw-man.

Nothing sucks in readers like a bit of Microsoft Schadenfreude. The may as well have implied the electricity powering the computers was to blame.

Nice headline, but I can't see what this has to do with Excel.

You are right that it was a generalization, however you are pretty much arguing the same point as the author. I remember seeing a matrix/graph in a book, maybe 'code complete' or s…

What happens if the data has spaces in it or new lines in it? in other words, how do you escape a space / new line?