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Seems to have struck a nerve. I thought all this patent litigation was considered bad around here.

Come on, Steve was using all kinds of legal shenanigans to try to keep Samsung Android products off the market. Why are they continuing to love their abuser?

In my experience the results of those two queries are almost identical: http://imgur.com/a/qGVAn#3ilhM

> 128-bit floating point? Why exactly? What hardware out there supports this, what problems does it solve that 64-bit floats or bignums don't? Why add more intrinsic types to the type system that will need vm and library changes when you could implement them in java?

Not to mention his example of inaccurate floating point was "2.0 + 2.0 = 3.999999999999999979"

When 2.0 and 4.0 are exactly representable in both IEEE 754 float and double.

Chrome manages to release every six weeks without each release creating a deluge of bugs. This makes me think that maybe Mozilla is missing something that make's Chrome's fast release schedule successful.

I went to go see CmdrTaco speak in 2005. Someone asked him how to make a website as popular as Slashdot. Malda said to start it in 1997. Of course in the next year the meteoric rise of both digg and reddit began.

I think there is a moral here about not resting on your laurels and never thinking no one can catch up with you.

I'm grateful that Steve managed to sell America on tablets and smart phones after so many failed attempts by others.

But as someone who likes to take things apart and tinker, I've haven't been a big fan of Apple in recent years.

Interesting. This appears to be Greg Maxwell (gmaxwell) from Xiph.

Xiph is an organization that respects software patents. (As opposed to various other multimedia efforts like VideoLAN and libav that ignore them).

Because serial is a trivial interface to implement in home brew electronics, just throw in a MAX232.

Even many major consumer electronics are still developed via a serial console. Sure they have fancier connectors to talk to your PC and the network but serial is so simple it's practically idiot proof. So it breaks far less often, makes new hardware much simpler to bring up, and it allows you to debug the fancier interfaces without interfering with their operations.