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I don't think Daniel's point is that Chat is generically a clunky UI and therefore Cursor cannot possibly exist. I think he's saying that to fully specify what a given computer pro…

A common assumption, but it is actually from Шпола, a city in the Ukraine.

at the time Yahoo owned something like 30% of Alibaba, which, today, would be worth maybe $200B.

I don't know why everybody thinks Microsoft Word doesn't have Reveal Codes. They have it; it's called Reveal Formatting; it has mostly been there since version 1.0 which I remember…

A member of that team told me that for much of the project the implementation of the function to calculate the height of a line of text, which is a very complication operation invo…

not true, actually https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg615596(v=o...

Sorry, Prashant, you lost track of the plot of the story somewhere along the way. (creator of FogBugz, here) FogBugz won and Jira won, but they were playing different games. I want…

I don't know why people keep doing this startup every two months. Every two months somebody tries it and then discovers why it doesn't work. For almost all the smaller buildings in…

If you want to help, post this patent application to askpatents.com and get some feedback on prior art published there that a patent examiner can find. This wouldn't be the first t…

n.b. Nick is a Stack Exchange system administrator

this blog post is by Bobby Grace, not by me.

stackexchange.com is bigger than stackoverflow.com. Source: https://www.quantcast.com/stackexchange.com?country=US https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?country=US

Right. It's not so easy to pull off for someone bootstrapping (but then again, rich players / people with audiences / people with social capital will always have an advantage, this…

The only business models I want to work on any more have some mass-market component that is absolutely free, and a niche companion product that makes money off of the exhaust fumes…

why wouldn't a private office have natural light?

You can filter by user in Trello... even using keyboard shortcuts! It's right on the Filter menu, and the handy "q" keyboard shortcut filters to your own cards.

[trello co-creator, here] Definitely not a joke :) But also not something you need to buy. We're working very hard to make sure everybody understands that Trello is free and will a…

Oh. Yes. You can always submit it directly to the USPTO. See http://meta.patents.stackexchange.com/questions/105/i-want-t... for details

Ask yourself, then answer your own question.

I sort of like http://www.google.com/patents/US4464650 (Ziv/Lempel compression), which doesn't seem obvious to me