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Since the link is in a comment that begins, "MS is not a horrible stack to develop on," and ends, "I'm glad I went with .NET for my startup," a reader could get the impression that…

The writeup on what Quora is built on say that, "Quora uses Ubuntu Linux as it’s OS of choice," and does not mention any Microsoft technologies at all.

Read this passage again: >"The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five percent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it."…

I like the UIs of HN and Craigslist much better than most sites.

This promises to remove the only obstacle to my spending $99 on an Apple TV box, namely, my fear of being locked into Apple's content distribution system. Will someone unaffiliated…

"Note that you will have to repeat this process every time you upgrade your Mac OS to a new patch release (10.6.5 -> 10.6.6)."

"If visual contact was essential for forming significant relationships then the blind would be unable to make friends." Maybe the blind are much less successful at making friends. …

Wait because the software is busy. E.g. OS X's spinning beach ball. (Emacs is single-threaded, but so is a Unix shell.)

I would rather have an Emacs that offers fewer choices but looks good out of the box. Example: the software supplied by Apple with a Mac does not have any themes except for the cho…

I regret the trend towards gray rather than black maintext.

Thanks for the AdblockPlus rule!

I'd like to grayscale my browser while leaving Emacs in color. Actually, I'd pay good money for a grayscale version of Firefox.

"Submissions are cheap and skippable." By that logic, you will not mind if I spam your mailbox since emails are cheap and skippable.

Can a person join an existing Posterous Group using only email?

"big budget entertainment will increasingly have to compete with more and more free and low-cost entertainment options on the internet" By "free and low-cost entertainment options"…

I saw compiler flags for OSX in the source tarball [1] but to install on OSX probably requires installing from source, and if my experience with using macports to install Conkeror …

because the authorities have no control over the supply of cash, would never try to outlaw cash, or never require banks to report the withdrawal or deposit of cash.

Sure, but I did it because the OP did it. Also, there's a good chance that Orwell would have just as much of a problem with "estate tax" as with "death tax", "estate tax" being the…

When I saw "the Deaths of Four People Cost the U.S. Government $6.5 Billion" I imagined the government taking 6.5 billion from taxpayers and spending it extremely inefficiently. Bu…

Well, now that Assange has demonstrated the effectiveness of using internet technologies in this way, yes, Assange is probably replaceable. If (as I suspect) the technology to do w…

Good point. Before concluding that things have permanently changed, maybe we should wait for some large leaks for which the leaker does not get caught.

Because using code plus data where just data can be used introduces security risks and limits what people can do with the document. I would have hoped that the industry would have …

"work with someone else, with each one being able to look at the other's monitor." This trick works even when the other person is remote: for the last 6 weeks, I have spent about 2…