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I'm not sure if anyone remembers the Microsoft Courier tablet demo, which came out before iPad's announcement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI This video left me with a …

I don't if it's me but the position:fixed layout makes the page scroll noticeably laggy. I'm using Chrome on a 2.0GHz Mac btw.

That was a nice read, though I wonder if there are legal issues with mining the web for content. For reddit they were just submitting links, so they probably wouldn't have gotten i…

I'm not sure which part about Maoism you are referring to. No, the infanticide is not well-grounded, just reports. I'm Chinese btw. I actually don't know anyone who buys these bags…

>China did not permit women to own land until 1950. After 1950 men were not permitted to own land either. :P edit: In some ways China should really be looked at as two distinct dem…

Can you explain why "not from scratch" construction is a bad thing? AFAIK most houses these days are built from cookie-cutter plans.

I wonder why prefabs houses aren't more common. A friend of my parents was building a house. I asked him if he considered prefab, he had no idea what I was talking about.

I wonder how designers fit into this development process. Most open source projects lack UI polish, yet GitHub looks like it's crafted by a professional.

Someone should make an alternative discussion site for videos, with a good comment system (eg. HN, reddit). I'm not sure if there are legal issues though.

I've always wondered what's the Chinese word for "hacker" in the its original context. 网客 sounds good, but it seems to implies web hackers only.

I like your layout, it stands out. I think you are perhaps dimming the texts to make the highlights more skimmable? It's a good idea, but when I read it I spent about 1 or 2 second…

I actually know a few "100% Han Chinese" people who have slightly brown/reddish hair. At first I thought they were dyed, but eventually I was convinced that they were not. In retro…

I think in the end it's how saturated the market is. If all your competitors have polished fronts, having one that's rough around the edges will certainly put you at a disadvantage…

I think people buy large SUVs under the false assumption of crashworthiness. For the price range they could have gotten sedans of similar prestige.

Keep in mind that if you decide to hire people later on, you may have to go through your site/app and change every instance of "I" to "we". :)

I'm thinking of something along the line of usesthis.com, but for smartphone developers. It's partly to generate buzz for my upcoming project (tinkerwave.com), and partly to satisf…

Like a monastery?

I think the archived versions may be missing some CSS files. Twitter's font doesn't look right compared to its own screenshot.

I also dig the app, but I think it could use a better name. For something this cool, it deserves an original, less-descriptive, feel-good name. TheSixtyOne is a fantastic name.

I ran a VMWare image of OS X a few years ago. I don't know what it's like now, but back then the lack of an OpenGL driver was the deal breaker. OS X's graphic shell uses Quartz Ext…

Isn't Flash 10.1 GPU-accelerated? Maybe that was just for videos. Though I recall the Mac version using one of the Core libraries for vector graphics.