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So... People who already had my email/phone in another service were able to get it as part of downloading all their facebook data. Consequently, my email/phone was not disclosed (by Facebook) to anybody who didn't already have it. I don't really see an issue here.

No, but this article was a bit of sensationalist hype (which, btw, I thought was against hacker news conduct?) This kind of stuff should be taken in context.

Clearly, no other company ever tried to tweak sizing or dimension of products in diagrams for their own benefit. Definitely not Apple.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/238047/apple_offers_flawed_ev...

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/195473/apple-fi...

My impression was that he meant that at that point it was potentially viable to scam some financial information out of the target.

I think it makes sense. They have the most incentive for people to stop using their outdated product (it's hard restoring the image of software like IE).

Looks cool, but seems to immediately fall into Lisp's parentheses hell even in the Hello World apps.

I guess I'm one of the few. While he headed a company that spearheaded internal innovation, it also stifled external innovation. He was also a jerk, as well documented.

Neither does Hulu. https://hulu.com/ Amazon redirects to HTTP: https://www.amazon.com/ Netflix redirects to HTTP: https://netflix.com/ Etc... Etc... Etc... Why pick on Bing?

"Yes, and if a Chevy Malibu could be sold for what BMW 5 series sells for then GM wouldn't have gone bankrupt." This is probably the best product quality analogy I've ever read.

I remember the days of using LibreOffice on Linux. I always gave up after 5-10 exceptionally frustrating minutes and just went to Google Docs instead (though now, MS Office Web Apps would likely be my choice on Linux).

To go along with it, making XKCD diagrams in Mathematica: http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/05/automating-xkcd-diagrams-...

Looks like a great game! Any plans for a windows phone version? ;)