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This is fine from a consumer point of view, consuming content on a phone or tablet is really great! But if you want to create, there is just nothing out there that can rival a keyboard and a mouse. Fo…

It would be nice to have an easier way to view your own profile (I expected this when I went to my profile page, but it didn't happen).

MD5 is not suitable either. The illusion of security is almost worse than no security.

Can anyone come up with a feasible reason why they haven't done this? Other than allow the connector to go in either way up, what advantages does Lightning provide?

Regardless of the actual browser, Qihoo demonstrates absolute mastery of the Dark Pattern.

As with most internationalization problems, blame the British. We used this middle-endian format around the time we colonised North America (I guess it does kind of make sense when you're reading alou…

Because it's a format rarely used outside of an engineering context. If your users are 100% from a technical background, and always will be, fine. Otherwise, a lot of your users will find it difficult…

It may keep your HTML clean, but it makes your CSS messy!

We have a Roland HP307, which is already a few years old. It's fantastic - every aspect is customizable, and the modelling is spot on - you can press notes down silently and the strings will resonate …

Nothing is the same, it's true, but for serious practise a digital can be better. The key response and weighting will be consistent (good luck getting that with an old instrument) and the tuning spot …

Yes. Performance is one area digital pianos will probably never be as good as the real thing. However for practise, a high-quality digital can actually be a boon, since you can set it up to match the …

This is very true. Honestly, even the best-kept instrument degrades significantly over time. When's the last time you saw anything but a brand new instrument in a big concert? There's a reason you nev…

I expect this is largely due to the prevalence of decent-enough quality digital pianos. A school or church no longer needs to deal with a second-hand honky-tonk that needs maintenance and tuning (not …

The wireless hotspots provided for the Olympics are not free: £5.99 for 90 minutes. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2180518/bt-covers-olympic-par... …

I don't think it's parodying the use of metrics, it's parodying the extreme attention to detail.

If it really bothers you that much filter it out. I enjoyed the article, I'm glad HN directed me to it.

I think the cost of removing them (checking every value to see if it's a multiple of another) is greater than the benefit of removing them. My search terminated though (with no interesting finds) - my…

I wrote a quick script to walk through Q, spitting out fractions with high "quality". Here are some early values: 22/7: 3.42928833728 355/113: 3.20195874233 710/226: 2.79251047296 A quick s…

A useful single link to give to people to illustrate why the TSA are a bad thing: http://boingboing.net/tag/tsa/

This looks like the basis for an extremely cool Minecraft mod.

Wasn't this idea the basis for the spoof MMO Asteroids earlier this year? http://seb.ly/2012/04/gotcha-fake-mmo-asteroids-april-fool/ …

As a British person, I can't help but worry about how they're going to make a 200 acre expanse of Detroit safe enough to play this game. Making sure that the structures are sound, that there isn't dan…

This looks cool, but they have a massive problem: nobody wants to learn how to use a keyboard again. The only people they are going to be able to sell this to are a few geeks. The general public will …

I desperately want this as a Wordpress plugin.

That's fascinating! The comments on the question seem to following a similar pattern: Why 80 colums wide? - because of the size of the card. Why that size of card? - because it matches the size of the…

Doing fine until giraffe, completely stumped.

It sounds like this is exactly what the author wants. Given this is the kind of thing that is much harder to implement on Android than iDevices (due to the large number of different screen technologie…