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Completely fubar on my Nexus One - hangs for a half minute on load, then all I see is the categories/account/etc panel.

You're a "huge Kurzweil critic" one reply back, now you're railing against the sins of his "naysayers"?

Is there actual case law supporting the notion that I can be party to a contract on the basis of a bunch of legalese buried in a manual I'll never read, for a product I purchased t…

I'd be interested to know why a contrary opinion honestly held and expressed deserves your downvote (or the 2+ it did get), or your pointless comment. There is an HN Two Minutes Ha…

You wanted volume licensing, but decided to be clever about it and 'test' the vendor. You inferred from their unwillingness to give John Q Random Customer a single pro version at t…

Really guy? Did you read the guidelines and FAQ before you decided to start threadshitting here? Or you just don't care either way?

Wow, does this unassuming post really constitute an appropriate venue for the old axe-grinding platform snark? Find something better to do with your Sunday afternoon, gents. Marius…

How is it even remotely of interest that Apple is capable of producing a phone in a different color, and may in fact be doing so?

You should be evaluating whether things are worth supporting on their own merits. Why would you trust anyone else to do your thinking for you?

Schemas are an optional part of Solr. Pretty sure that the default schema.xml has an example of a catch-all field definition, if you use that it will automatically deal with any ke…

I've been using Solr for some pretty heavy lifting, and it's incredibly impressive. Rock solid, extremely advanced analysis and search capabilities, and the performance is amazing …

Most mainstream manufacturers do seem to put Swype on at least some of their models - HTC, Samsung, Motorola at least. No doubt this works out nicely for Swype (strictly volume dea…

It's too bad that Swype persists with their bizarre OEM-licensing-only model. Would love to try it on my N1, but they can't be bothered to provide it to the unwashed masses as a no…

Many, many young devs are in love with the idea of developing games. Many more than the industry actually needs. It follows that you're less likely to land such a gig, and that you…

My understanding is that anything that allows the user to choose what specific tracks they want to hear is deemed "interactive" by the industry, and costs an awful lot more than "n…

It's based on IE7, albeit with a few bits from IE8 sprinkled in (some JS and CSS selectors, I think).

>This isn't about whether Android is open or not; it's about whether the way it is open is at all consistent with the way it's openness is marketed to end consumers. I keep hearing…

So you're now taking the position that how open Android is can depend upon how they have marketed their openness, and how misleadingly they may have done so? That's nonsense. At th…

My recollection is that Patti Schmidt ran a more rigidly structured ship: 1 hour of broad and relatively palatable stuff, 1 hour artist profile, and then 2 hours of miscellanea, wi…

You seem to be missing that the CBC buys One Big Library (APM), and thus isn't in the business of talking and negotiating with individual artists at all. I'm not going to defend th…

10 points and climbing for a reply that essentially says, "Bah, it's Microsoft, there must be something wrong with it"? That's really disappointing, HN. I foresee some serious cogn…

Editing in the suggestion that those who don't share your reactionary and tone-deaf views on this subject are likely not property owners doesn't really do much improve your reply.

One nice thing about the HN crowd is that it is for the most part pragmatic, able to quite refreshingly discuss C# as a language without immediately descending into these tired tal…

Indeed. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033

I've never seen the appeal of Scribd, and I'm no fan of the direction they seem to be stumbling in, but it seems a bit unfair to dismiss invitations to join a user advisory board a…