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I still hate the x buttons on their notification centre.

I'm on OS X too, took me so long to figure out I need to scroll. Is it a web problem or an OS problem?

It doesn't explain MacGyver at all.

As cool as this is, if you have an iPad check out Star Walk. It's really really cool, and if you hold your iPad up to the sky it'd show you what the sky would look like if there isn't any pollutions.

I really don't understand the last sentence: >Love him or hate him, Scott Forstall’s departure makes Apple a more stable company, and I wonder if that is how it begins.

What does he mean by 'it'? Demise of Apple or being a stable company?

They used Scala, not Java, on JVM.

Yeah Spiderman uses Bing, we should too.

I should note that Codea uses Lua too: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea

You can even code on the iPad itself, and use Codea Runtime to convert it to Objective-C: https://github.com/TwoLivesLeft/Codea-Runtime

Well if you ask Apple or Google they'll just say remove the icon completely. Autosave it. That's what happens in Google Docs and iOS + OS X.

It's crazy that we have all this hard drive space and processing power and yet if you forgot to save and the power's out you can lose hours of work. Won't happen to any of Hackernews readers, but probably have bitten my less tech savy friends and family a few times.

$110 for the soft keyboard cover, $120 for the hard keyboard cover. They think $10 difference is big enough for giving customers confusion of choice.

It's still the same company that released 6 editions of Vista.

This is somewhat unrelated, but how did you change the scroll thumb colour in OS X ML in that site? All other pages have gray scroll thumb.

I don't think Facebook is much interested in gaming. If anything they'd buy another social network company.

For some reason I got the feeling that he doesn't want to tell the whole story and wants to hide some stuff. I understand completely, because it's only a Reddit AMA. I enjoyed Mark Zuckerberg's story more in 'The Accidental Billionaire'.

What I respect the most from him is his persistence. I think most people wouldn't really have that strength to go back to the company who fired them, and revive them from near bankruptcy, and do the things they dreamed about a long time ago.

That's very respectable.

If you still have the DVD then I guess you can just pop it in your super drive.

iOS 6 is still in beta, it will probably be out to general public sometime this month.

I'm actually quite amazed by the adoption rate of iOS. Before iOS 5.0, it was very very hard for users to upgrade their OS. Android on the other hand is supposed to be easier to upgrade.

There was some statistics last year that shows only 50% of iOS users sync their iOS devices regularly, which means those people went out of their way to go and get the OS update. I still can't believe this fact.

Now that iOS does update over the air, of course more iOS users will update quicker. Especially when the update comes straight from Apple, but the fact that iOS users upgrade their OS very quickly before 5.0 still impressed me.

This is a spam.

Any plans to make it available for international customers?

So, will we get more understanding about the shape of the universe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe

Can we now conclude what'll happen if we go right to the edge of the universe with speed of light? Without any further debates?

I think he was referring to the general idea of fully trusting something to educate you. People make mistakes, including those who are teaching you. I think what he meant is that we also need to do our homework and do our own research from time to time.

Perhaps this kind of stories is what makes the App Store very successful.

Well does your Windows XP breaks? Does it still work? Of course it still does, but you will have to pay if you want the new stuff.

You can use your music if it's in MP3 or AAC (which are pretty much the standard these days), you can play AVI and WMV. You will always have to repurchase your apps no matter which platform you jump to.

It sounds like such an old wife tale that people kept saying they can't play video formats. There are a number of ways of doing this. I have numerous friends who thinks this is the case, but it really is just a myth. There are even so many apps that pretends to be like a USB drive.

It's amazing how many of my friends dismisses the retina display, saying either it's not important or it's just a marketing hype. I guess it's really hard to put into words how good those displays are, it's really something they'd have to see.

People said the same thing when they acquired Siri.

If it really happens, Windows and Linux users will probably have no choice if they want retina display laptop. At least for a few years.

Does anyone have any idea how well retina display MacBooks work for Windows and Linux? AFAIK Windows have resolution independence but can they display hi res system UI? Or will everything just become smaller?

May I ask if you've upgraded to Lion a few months ago? My 4 years old Macbook was not as bad as you described, but it does become a lot less stable than when it was under Snow Leopard. Even Safari does not work properly in Lion.

Snow Leopard was truly very stable, it's the best major version of OS X that I've used. I hope the minor OS X updates will fix out all of the Lion bugs.

Disclaimer: I work for Atlassian.

Yes of course they'll support github too. Check out the facts in here: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/acquisition-faq/

Here's the quote: Will SourceTree drop support for non-Atlassian products (e.g. GitHub)?

Absolutely not! Atlassian is completely committed to empowering developers to use whatever tools they choose; artificially limiting choice is simply not on the agenda.