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SJWs are not beyond criticism, nor should they be: http://studentaffairsfeature.com/ten-counterproductive-behav...

> The consumer version of the Rift should be out in about a year. Yeah, and will I be able to buy one and use it without Facebook keeping a permanent record of everything I do with…

At the other end of the spectrum, there's Subliminal[1], which relies on Apple's UIAutomation underneath, which in turn relies on the application's accessibility information as-is,…

Steve Jobs once said in reference to Ed Catmull (and another Pixar co-founder): "They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen."[1] I guess train…

> the only innovative thing they did was finding a law loophole Don't forget this: http://www.quora.com/Airbnb-Craigslist-Spamming-Controversy

Google gets grief over being "evil" because they publicly claimed not to be, and got a lot of popularity and goodwill in the marketplace as a result. When people get "riled up" abo…

The smaller ISPs are just following Comcast's example: "You mean we can charge multiple times for the same data without doing any extra work? Sign us up!" All last-mile ISPs will e…

The world is less violent than ever. The average person's chances of coming to a violent end have been declining for a while: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-vi…

HN has pretty much always been a creepy echo chamber where more or less all posts toe the line of "whatever startups do must be right, so don't question or criticize".

Bingo. The Oculus and WhatsApp deals have added up to billions "spent" via mostly stock instead of cash. This is almost certainly due to insistence from the Facebook execs themselv…

>I'd note that Facebook was one of the only companies NOT conspiring to deflate the wages of half of the people that visit this site If you're referring to the fact that it was rep…

I share your concern about drift, but in practice I've never seen it become a problem. On the other hand, blurry views really stick out. The easiest way to avoid them is to have a …

> I use UIView+Positioning... Looking at that code reveals that it doesn't try to account for fractional positioning. If you set self.center on a view that is an even number of pix…