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superiortoyouon Safari is the new IE

If Safari became a little too good, people might stop buying or developing apps.

superiortoyouon U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s

>IQ tests are notoriously unreliable across cultural and societal boundaries

That's irrelevant. What matters is what they _are_ reliable for.

superiortoyouon U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s

Surely it's the opposite. China pollutes far less per capita than the US.

superiortoyouon Ask HN: New MacBook for iOS development

I have been wondering the same. I went to the Apple store and none of the employees had heard of Xcode...

superiortoyouon Working at Microsoft (2004)

>Four or Five years ago, if you'd asked me what tech company I worked for, my answer would have probably been, "Microsoft, I know, it's a bummer. I'm trying to move to google". Now though people actually think MS is cool again. The stuff we're working on is exciting and the corporate culture is starting to get healthy.

It's embarrassing how fickle the technology industry is... so much reliance on hype and trend-hopping.