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"Too many men, like too much testosterone, is not a good thing." Men built the entire world we live in today. Women's contribution to this has been negligible and inconsequential. …

So Greenland will finally be able to live up to it's name. Nice.

Yet another great feature brought to you by Google- Not signing up at the beginning is starting to look like a better and better decision every day now.

I used to spend a lot of time on Reddit, Ars, Vulture Central and others (I abandoned the craptacular /. years ago). Now I mostly spend time switching between HN/frontpage and HN/n…

7) The iteration protocol, which allows user-defined classes to participate in all iteration contexts, such as the for loop.

Let's face it people, Google has reached the zenith of it's trajectory, and it is now a fading flower, and it knows it. Yes, it has had some amazing products and innovations, but e…

"interesting how the concept of theft seems meaningless when applied to copyrighted material, but meaningful when applied to private data." Not all that interesting. Theft of perso…

Well they didn't really say sorry, not for what they actually did: "We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts." Should have be…

What if I gave someone my silent, protected phone number and that information was stolen by Path like it appears to have done? I may not "own" the information, but I may have right…

Those fuckers should be in jail for this.

What a waste of time. Where is the fucking space shuttle code.

Noticed a few Street View blackouts in Melbourne, Australia. They all appear around Jewish centres in a certain area. Conspiracy madness or censorship - what do you think? If true,…

Tablets are the future. What do I use it for? Basically all the stuff I was previously doing on my PC and Phone, because it does it better. I have a Asus Tranformer Prime (Android)…

"CheapViagra DotCom has added you to her circles" ...if you suspect this is a spam account, click here to ban them from following you and report them to Google. Well that's how it …

OP is a liar.

"Just because you have not seen it does not mean it doesn't exist." And just because you say it is so does not make it so. To say something is "not up for debate" is really just sa…

Female journalist? Enough said.

So Google is taking the position of the RIAA, MPAA etc? I have not heard any of them advocate for the "end of liberty" per se. Fucking evil Google.

Ha, I like the way you use "we" as if there is a like-minded community of people who agree with you. Cute.

One less obnoxious TED save-the-world talk to not look forward to by the sounds of it.

Kind-of a long-winded way to point out the (very well known) fact that passing non-terminated strings to functions that expect terminated strings is fraught with danger, isn't it?

Profile your existing app and find out what is making it slow. When you fully understand how your existing app performs (and why it performs) you may start making informed decision…

This is so typical of the brain rot most technology reviewers suffer from. The basic line is something like "if it has been well engineered, and someone has put a whole lot of effo…

So when does work start on the one that will be angled for use in the real world, you know like Java, C, C++, python, Haskell and other languages?

The problem with Google+ is there are too many people like you there - perhaps which is why you are blind to it. Facebook is full of human beings sharing their lives - Google+ is f…