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Not sure about iPod but many players like the cowon iaudio or sandisk sansa series act just like USB drives. So you just drag and drop songs to or from any computer so its easy to …

Factor has not been related to JVM in any way for many years now. The core of the VM has been in C since 2004 and now it has been ported to C++.

My guess is that the reverse is likely more true.

Fedora servers were indeed hacked if I remember correctly and malicious packets were uploaded but it was detected before they reached the users. Repo security is certainly very imp…

Article title on TC : "Ztail Launches Innovative eBay Guarantee For Worry-Free Shopping" (Why was this title not retained when submitting to HN?)

Please, can a moderator change the headline?

"To get GS to make the site look less official/confusing and bit less insulting" is only part of the answer. The other part, as mechanical_fish has elqouently pointed out above, is…

Not very interesting. edit: Is it possible to have some filtering according to interests or whatever? Otherwise conversations are exceedingly random.

You mean like a console? They are also offering a browser plugin for your PC or Mac so you don't need their box. The box is only required if you want to use your TV and not your co…

I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency. Don't tell that to us h…

You will note it includes no standard benchmarks and only includes a vague hand-waving claim saying that its orders of magnitude faster. No real world numbers are quoted. Nothing i…

Its a little funny though. I learnt programming first and maths later. SO when I encountered functions in maths at school, I thought "oh I already know this stuff".

112 was quoted as IQ score for Indian-Americans.

I wonder if your score is an all time high on HN. Anyone know of any higher ranked comment?

Does that mean they dont have to earn money?

Does it matter whether they are testing it in a VM or a "real machine"?

Hmm and maybe have a "peer reviewed" planet?

I do check occasionally and usually Google has been better. YMMV.

Or maybe you know, it does provide better results.

Processing.org : easy to get started with graphics. I have been having fun with it recently myself.

Btw Flash 9 does run on ARM devices.