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CERTIORARI

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CERTIORARI··on Startup Lessons, Courtesy of United Airlines’ Crappy Customer Service
I am so starving. http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-am-so-starving-vs-i-am-so...

We get it, flying is frustrating. Sometimes you have to wait four hours in an airport. Sometimes, the airlines don't treat you like the important person you are convinced you are. Write your rant, and delete it. Just don't publish it under the color of "advice", it makes you look like a whiney little kid.

CERTIORARI··on 'Father' of British computing dies
pater familias, when one dies, another takes his place.
CERTIORARI··on Ask HN: Is there a hippie commune for hackers?
It's called "descriptive detail", and can add atmosphere to your writing.

Why do people insist on telling us their pet peeves? It's just your pet peeve dude...

CERTIORARI··on Ron Paul: Airport Scanners: Enough is Enough
It's political bikeshedding. Few people have the background to understand Quantitative easing, but everybody gets the squicks about being naked in public.

The politicians know this, of course, and are going to reduce this to a few slogans and beat it into the ground. This despite the fact that very few Americans spend any real amount of time dealing with the TSA.

CERTIORARI··on Path — Introducing The Personal Network
Email solved this problem 20 years ago.
CERTIORARI··on Out Of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf]
http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf
CERTIORARI··on Apple Headphone, Camera Patents Reveal Obsession With Design Details
In terms of Audio quality, the Apple mouse is even worse.
CERTIORARI··on Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Expanded url:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3953309968260107254...

CERTIORARI··on Exhaustive, commented, list of units
It's missing Lovelace (Ll), the standard unit of suckiness.

http://www.infonet.ee/~sbernard/asr/computer.html

CERTIORARI··on My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
Exactly. In fact not only could you say it isn't non-obvious, you might go as far as to say it is obvious.
CERTIORARI··on John Gruber about Papermaster and "That Damn Antenna"
Truly, Apple has become the most boring tech company of today. Months and months of discussions about phones, antennas, internal policies, petty theft, and now business executives. It must be hard being an Apple blogger, and feigning excitement over such trivialities.