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It would be hard to imagine if they didn't? Seems like stuff like this always comes to Windows first. I use Win10's built in virtual desktops but I keep all my browser windows on o…

I'm the beta channel so I've had the new address bar for like 6 weeks or whatever. I didn't like it at first because it was kind of jarring, but within just a few days stopped noti…

MySQL, memcached, and a custom pure-memory database that stores volatile real time data.

The problem is that the window to submit prior art is still very small (6-18 months basically) and prior art must be submitted before the patent is approved. This means that all of…

> I found a pretty major bug in your loader code ... last week and today you are still distributing the broken code has me worried. Do you not take this stuff seriously? Clearly yo…

Yeah but these kinds of stories have been going on since Groupon first started doing business. At this point it's kind of embarrassing to see a new rant about Groupon. I feel bad f…

For what it's worth, I've had a pair of SSD's in RAID1 on a production server for well over a year now and they're still spanking any other hard drive I've ever used with regards t…

Don't forget about time. I value my time and I spend way too much of it dealing with physical servers. Unfortunately AWS has not been an option for us because we are very I/O inten…

The privacy concerns are overblown. Mixpanel doesn't magically "know" stuff about your users - they only know what you tell them. And you only know what your users tell you. You wo…

Not true in my experience. Now maybe the difference is my company doesn't have a lot of pissed off customers... if the person is mad, I take time to try to understand what exactly …

Christ I hope not. I love that tool.

The point is that the expensive/quality meals were presented as part of her compensation in exchange for lower salary, then this was taken away. If instead she had just gotten a hi…

> What I hate is what Android has become. What I hate is what Apple has become, and this is the reason I will never own another iPhone. It's a fantastic phone and changed everythin…

That doesn't make any sense to me. If you click a link on an HTTPS site, your browser doesn't send a referrer. So people coming from encyrpted Google to another site, that site wou…

Sorry Cloudant, but the only thing you're going to be doing is helping evil become eviler. I hate to piss on your parade, but Monsanto is literally the worst company in the world. …

Agree about backspace. It is hands down the worst short cut of all time. I have been completely F'd over by it more times than I care to remember.

Wouldn't every school on the planet want to do this then? Why don't they?

Hmm, not a bad idea. My company is going to be hiring soon, I'm thinking about doing something like this. It would be relevant to our service though, not just a random web app. e.g…

I hope Microsoft succeeds in derailing this ridiculous trademark. "App Store" is way too generic. It's a "store" where you buy "applications". Apple is claiming Microsoft has a gen…

Half of Rao's stories are about Salesforce. I can only assume she either gets paid directly by SF to write about them, or she has some kind of personal connection with one of the f…

"I feel like I'm the butt of a joke for even visiting TechCrunch." Ha! That's an awesome way of putting it. I nominate you for comment of the year.

I know! And the amazing thing is just to think about how relevant this is to Hacker News! Because when I think, gee, I wonder what technology Mega Corp is raking in the billions, t…

Fair enough, however, $9.99 is no longer the common price point. Most new releases are $12.99 now, which many people think is too high, and the problem is the retailers can't do an…

Yeah, I know, interest rate used to be good. I used to get 5% on my emigrant direct savings account. Now it's 1%, and I don't know of anything higher (for a money market account an…

> Incoming calls will interrupt data activity. I don't see why people make a big deal out of this. How often do you really need to talk AND use data at the same time? I've never, e…