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I saw this on my feed, opened the tab on the background, saw it was from MG Siegler, closed the tab. I don't deny he doesn't have some genuine insight. I just find that the amount …

Really. So you can write academic material on it, with the inclusion of bibliographic information? You can outline a novel and write it? You can create process documentation and ti…

Well, you can’t do complex office tasks on tablets yet, I think. Anything that requires you to input a lot of text input still can't be done well on tablets. That includes any seri…

That's a pretty interesting look into what happens in an evolutionary algorithm. But for a minute there I was hoping that the OP was going to evolve an actual "hello world" program…

If I wanted to read stupid-ass chain letters repeating the same old boring irrelevant political talking points repeated by the mainstream media I'd be reading my Facebook feed.

You mean like the Republican political party's faithful cheering on the fact that Rick Perry presided over more executions during his tenure? I think your definition of "disgusting…

I don't understand how this article was any better than, say, this Old Man Murray post, written over a decade ago: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html What ended up happen…

It's certainly very ironic. So the OP is unhappy about people complaining (when the OP could certainly... I don't know, not bother to follow the issue?), and thus OP decides to com…

You magnificent, magnificent bastard.

Not quite. That study says that you associate attacks of the brands you identify strongly with with attacks to your own personal identity.

I'm genuinely disappointed that this link actually made it past TechMeme and HN. It kind of exemplifies everything that made me quit reading the TechCrunch feed -- the smug bias, t…

...or I could just unsubscribe to TechCrunch, and use Hacker News and Techmeme as a filter to figure out what was interesting and what isn't.

First off, the author misrepresents the idea of patriarchy as a "conspiracy of men to subjugate women". That's not how I've heard how it's been defined. Patriarchy/kyriarchy, rough…

Google Reader. Mostly because it's available on any machine I can login to my Google account, so I don't have to worry about synchronising my feeds on multiple machines. What could…

Have used it, not really getting an "Aha!" moment.

http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-id... Jury's still out, but that's okay. All we need to do now is wait.