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I don't think that is a good excuse for being rude. Sure it's their project they can do what they want. But if they have any desire of attracting users that is not the way to do it.

Far far less than half of companies succeed. So identifying successful companies by random draw is not equivalent to a coin toss. In the case of this study, its 10%.

So you can put the phone to sleep. Depending on the power usage of the gyroscope.

I love posts like this having spent a decent bit of time designing a music queuing UI myself. I think number 4 is really interesting if you could get the recommendations right. And you could do it in addition to play strength.

I don't understand why your defending this. Do you support this practice? 32 GB partitioned off for apparently no purpose?

Also, I've always hated the "you aren't the target audience" argument. Lenovo sells a device advertised as having 128GB SSD. But because its targeted for casuals its okay that less than half of that is available? Are they not worthy of getting what they thought they purchased?

Guilty.

Why are you considering only the unbroken line when theres obviously more than that? The patent is for the entire thing.

Considering just the outline, the nest thermostat is just a circle. Considering just the first ten minutes, Up is a movie about a couple growing old together. This isn't a pick and choose thing.

Neither. Surveillance cameras don't interrupt classrooms. Surveillance cameras don't distract musical performers. Surveillance cameras don't walk on to private property after being told to leave.

Hes an asshole who happens to be carrying a camera. And then when people get irritated, he makes it out as if the camera is the primary cause.

You are being deliberately dense. If no existing JVM gives runnable objects their own stack, then it's impossible for a java developer to create thousands of threads (without creating their own JVM, which is totally unreasonable 99% of the time). It's a practical impossibility. Is that so much worse than a technical one?

because NFC is the way of the future. so much potential. how could they not.

When I'm playing a game and my system suddenly restarts without warning it feels like a crash. Nag all you want, but a restart without explicit user approval is a terrible design decision. And if you are going to do it at least postpone it to a time when the user isn't actively using the machine.

I don't get your point, can external authorities not protect your rights? What is the course of action that you are getting at?

A recent discussion on the lightning cable and its chip.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562810

I enjoyed it. Not out of any interest in the iPhone 5. But as a (somewhat) technical article about how displays are measured.

One of the more interesting articles of the day imo.

Why not? The primary question here is whether 3taps is engaging in copyright infringement as Craigslist claims.

Does everything scraped by Google becomes public domain? If Google News scrapes an article from the NYT, can I then scrape the article from Google and republish it?

Yes in mountain lion garbage collection has been deprecated in favor of arc

I am jealous. 10000 messages and it very often takes 5+ seconds to switch between smart mailboxes. Admittedly the smart mailbox filters I have set up are pretty crazy but still... It's not like email metadata changes. The results should be cached.

> If the rumors were exciting, people wouldn't be able to contain themselves with excitement for the actual launch.

Why would people be excited for the announcement of something they already know. And if you're talking about the release date of the product, people still line up outside apple stores for days ahead of time when new devices come out.

> Blaming it on the others again (copy cats, spies, and so on...)?

How is saying that you're "doubling down on security" blaming others? Note that Tim Cook said this in response to the question "What have you changed? What's different?"

So much condescension...

People have proved that they like Apple's products. Skeumorphism is but a fraction of the entire user experience.

I don't think people here are against commenting APIs... That's more of a documentation thing.

I guess I read his comment differently. "regardless of whether she's right or wrong" about the crimes/identities of the attacker.

Rather than regardless of whether she's in the right/wrong for posting their names.

    someone who has a different opinion than you

"annoying, obvious, contributes nothing"

So what would you do instead? Ignoring stack overflow (which I think is doing fine). How do you improve a community who's quality is declining? Do you just let it run its course for better or worse?

I really think moderation is the best choice.

Suppose you we're in charge of a q&a site whose quality was going downhill. How would you go about fixing it if not for locking and deleting questions?

Because theres no way anyone spent more than 10 minutes fact checking and verifying the page on your neighbor's dog. And if it has your neighbor's dog it has other people's neighbor's dogs. So now every page you have to distinguish between actual curated, "trusted" content and some guy posting about his friend.

> Plus, as long as they maintain the "no original research" rule and the citation requirement, this isn't even a potential problem.

Thousands of articles are published everyday. Its not difficult to get in one. So and so got an honorable mention at the town's local pet show.

It loses its "authoritative" nature. It becomes just a list of facts that have citations. Which has its uses of course but I think is much less interesting.

Would you trust wikipedia as much if it had a page for your neighbor's dog?

> there are studies that indicate this

So... not a proven fact at all. More like a vague correlation with assumptions tacked to the end.

> A better response would be a prohibition on self-promotion or some other clear guideline, rather than a vague requirement of notability.

Its easy to say "some other clear guideline" but I think your going to run into the exact same problem wikipedia currently has. Can I create a page for my cat? for my friend's cat? the neighborhood cat? a stranger's cat?