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He never claimed to be a world class designer. In fact if you just clicked on the About Me link at the top you would find his background. > I am currently a Product Manager at Bigd…

The initial iPhone OS, before it was called iOS, shipped without copy and paste or 3G at a time when all mobile operating systems had both copy and paste as well as shipped with 3G…

Video and streaming media is not at all alone. Think of it as just being a more geek friendly topic as opposed to the patent litigation that passes for innovation for everything fr…

I get that the overwhelming majority of Hacker News supports Barack Obama and feels the need to be very vocal in their support of him online. I understand that every two to four ye…

Original Issue Forum Post - Time: 05:56 PM First Negative Forum Post - Response Time: 06:00 PM (same day) : "I think this is the worst iOS release to date. And Steve would've never…

My advice is to not regret having regrets. It's natural to have regrets so jumping to acceptance is the best method to avoid the self-help dependency cycle that leads to a lot of w…

As an app developer I thank the Screen Resolution Overlords for making all my competitors look obsolete.

I have an easy method to see the future. In fact it is so effective it works 100% of the time without fail. I will teach you my method if you read a little further. Here it is: Wai…

He means that instead of becoming open-source and dying, it became a Mozilla/Firefox situation.

What is a "multimedia app"? Will you provide links to your website as well?

> You can't run GPLed software on iOS. This is 100% not true. GPL v1 and v2 are fine and v3 has some questions that most people avoid by sticking to v2 of the license. There are, h…

Members of the U.S. Congress[1] have looked into the privacy implications of apps which have "call home" features. Obviously, nothing was done and this is still an issue. Go figure…

And to think it ruined an otherwise brilliant teen comedy. Next week it'll probably tackle VI vs. Emacs, explaining that Microsoft Word is a superior text editor to both. Maybe the…

The word "irony" is frequently misused and doesn't mean "unintended consequences" or "rain on your wedding day". Irony would mean that those who supported drilling were actively tr…

The Usenet readers had kill file's. That is the only solution which will have an overall improvement with no downside.

If you are not applying for the Y-combinator or are an alumni, you will tend to have a degraded experience to those that are in the "IN" group. Sorry to see that this affects you, …

To be fair the author is condescending to the people who read the article, which the author labels as "the internet". From the bottom of the article: > Comments are not currently e…

If the porn is copyrighted then the DMCA will allow the content owners to send a DMCA notice for each copyright infringement. That's the law and now you know it.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party …

It was like the OS/2 supporting Windows binaries debacle all over again.

> Colon’s legitimate expectation of privacy ended when he disseminated posts to his “friends” because those “friends” were free to use the information however they wanted-including…

The article is hyperthreaded so you can read all five pages at once if your brain supports that kind of instruction set.

Whatever happens I hope things work out for you.

Who says anyone changed their opinion? Sorry, but it appears to me to be that he wants as most coding done as possible before he invariable cuts you out of the deal. Going public w…

Sounds like a big waste of money for me. Too bad AI is so hard, and we are experimenting with a human flagging system. Unlike DMCA notices in business sector, this apparently doesn…