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Making your Mom deal with permissions? Yikes. I think reasoning, in addition to basic instructions, is important even though some people might not care about it. By leaving it out …

and you're not answering my questions. what are we debating? i'm happy to debate. here's my guess: we're debating whether mdonahue's statement "people like you are not a large mark…

Thank you. I knew there must be a reasonable explanation.

Intelligence insulted. Next. I have a MicroSDCard inside a SDCard adpater sitting flush in my smaller-than-iPad netbook. I got it for "free" with purchase of a cell phone, before t…

This HN title reminds me of the type of headline The Onion used to be famous for.

This is a fascinating story. The most interesting stories never seem to reach the HN frontpage.

Solution: Let these interface gimmicks be the stuff of tech conventions and demos, and never part of any mass-produced product. But maybe some marketing folks, seeing the success o…

re: his appeal to "interested corporations" Does he need money? One would think he probably has a pretty good day job already. But if he really needed it in order to continue writi…

This is nothing compared to the number of py spent writing crapware. Think of how much effort has been spent writing lousy software. It is enormous. (But then most consumers of sof…

If Bluetooth isn't working for some reason, then cables would not work either, so it makes sense to remove the option to use them. Bluetooth always works flawlessly, unlike cables.…

"this claim" what claim? can you be specific? the original comment referred to a market for "people like [me]" being "not large". my response was that i have not seen any evidence …

It's possible that innovation, specifically scientific progress that leads to innovation, actually relies on scientists sharing stuff with collaborators that patent lawyers would n…

no empirical evidence to support the original statement he made: "the market for people like [me] is not very large" for one, what does "people like me" mean? people who can make u…

anecdotal evidence indeed. that's precisely the point. there is no empirical evidence behind the vast majority of comments like these. conclusions without evidence or any indicatio…

They owned the network. And they wanted to control devices that could be used on it. (There may have once been legitimate reasons for this.) Apple wants to control your devices. Ho…

I understand the comment. Of course the thought has crossed my mind. But I'm not so sure there's any evidence to support it. I actually test some of my ideas with people like your …

The iPaq was/is a fantastic device. You could attach peripherals. Try doing that with an iPad. I could put an entire OS on a CF Card and assuming I could boot from the card, the ex…

Yes, but perhaps _making things easy to use_ and _sexy hardware design_ might have something to do with their success? The problem with the research labs at those example companies…

"Wow, this just what we've been looking for! Where have you guys been all these years?" The sad thing is it's not what we think that matters. If clients fall for the buzzspeak, it'…

Just based on the Linus quotes, I think he's right. The kernel did what it was supposed to do back in 1991. What is the "desktop" supposed to do? There will never be unanimous agre…

Toughbook is hardware not software. Get an old Thinkpad. It's durable. I take the opposite view. I like durable software. And that's how I build my systems. If they get trashed, th…

Yes. This is why I defined "incompetence" quite carefully. Finding bugs in Knuth's or NASA's code might be beyond "a reasonably skilled hacker". To find bugs in that code you would…

I hate writing what I just wrote because I know it might offend some people. I'm OK with the "incompetence" (I'm sure I qualify myself), but it's the fact that many of these progra…

It's interesting if you think about how easy is is to get food. The drives that cause us to eat probably evolved in the long period of human evolution where we had to work really h…