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For the 2 people that downvoted I would love to know what you consider a takeover. I'm pretty sure that in financial term takeover means change of ownership. BTW, I'm quit, HN is j…

Takeover for me means change of hands of ownership and power of decision in the company, and whatever your technical or managerial arguments are I think the resulting company was o…

Can someone write about what's going on? Is it the same type of stuff that happened to the XServe line?

This however is not applicable to every developing country, here in South America the majority of foreign companies are here because of the local market potential and not generally…

Facebook's interface is much better than Orkut's interface, Orkut is a social network that was acquired by Google some years ago, and it does have the broadcast feature that made t…

Care to explain the errors? People tends to vote on divisive issues in whichever post they agree. Although not perfect and not entering in details, maybe because of generalization,…

> Would Android really have had the same success it had if the iPhone was available on Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile (and assuming Apple could keep up with the volume) from the start?…

Well to be fair I saw a lot of people downvoted on HN because they got valid points criticizing OS X or even Rails, so your first rule applies in some other situations too, at leas…

This was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617379

From what I read, I think there were not that much IT departments in the 80's outside technical companies, I think Microsoft got its position because of a series of factors, one of…

Mac App Store is not even related with portable devices synchronization or media playing and purchasing, areas that's traditionally iTunes covers, why would Apple even consider inc…

> Presumably, Apple will replace Samba with something that works well for the vast majority of cases. I doubt it although I wish this becomes true, the protocol is a pain in the as…

> If Catalonia has its own TLD, why not California or Maine? Politics.

.cat is for Catalunya, and only open for sites in Catalan. .co is for Colombia Google uses both: http://www.google.cat/ (in Catalan) http://www.google.com.co/ (in Spanish)

> Red Hat provides support for MySQL? No. But it does have mysql packages in the distribution.

I think you want something like http://rudix.org

It will make me mad IF Apple does not release Xcode outside the fucking App Store. I do not care paying for an IDE, that I do not use, but I still want a compiler, some assemblers …

Just a correction. As far as I observed in my coworker Macbook gcc still is the default compiler in Xcode 4. Just compiled some software with it today, and it pops a lot of gcc's i…

Extra languages are still there though. But I think this is good, mom uses her Mac Mini in Hebrew, my account uses English, dad uses our native Portuguese (I live in Brazil).

Will there be a way for me to install the developer tools for the command line (a C compiler, the C library headers, linker, assembler, and debugger) without using the App Store?

Two questions: Is it royalty-free? If the answer is negative, what are the licensing terms?

That is a false dichotomy, Apple vs. Google. I think it's a poor way of trying to make sense of the situation. Keep in mind that the word "Google" is not even cited in the link. Th…

Oh man, I just began reading this book four days ago, it's my current book to read while commuting, and it's pretty weird to think that tomorrow this will probably be in my head wh…

I guess you never dealt with microcontrollers, right? The company is about popular DIY electronics kits, I think it's a marvelous project if you consider that, but nothing close of…