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>Perhaps a pull-up from the bottom for general actions? Stealing part of the touch screen for consistent app-related behavior really limits what you can do with it I think. The menu button is grea…

Does that matter to us? When I'm deciding what to support as a developer I care only about the size of the platform.

So their spam detection system isn't as good as at should be. Give them a break. People spreading malware use url shorteners all the time, and I'd bet some automated system just got tripped up here. (…

I wouldn't use flash game sites as an estimate of the number of linux gamers. Flash is probably the worst way to experience anything on linux. (Unfortunately, I don't have a better idea for how to mea…

What games do you buy that are still on a disc?

That's also a great way to ensure that your employees never take risks, ever, and spend most of their time marketing their work rather than improving it.

>If you were boarding a bus in Israel, Sri Lanka, Iraq during certain periods of time, you would have a higher chance of dying from a bombing than from an accident. You should check the stats on t…

There's a much greater chance that your children's school bus will be in a horrific traffic accident.

How do they sleep at night? :(

Personally, I think it will be a great day when it becomes economical to eat things like Paw-Paws again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawpaw …

You stopped just short of the explanation I was hoping for. :)

Can you explain more about how the kernel trick specifically works?

I wish talks like these had transcripts. I listened to the first half, but don't have the time for the whole thing.

Many people never escape the conception of themselves they developed in childhood. As banal as it is, this stuff is important.

We've created popular culture that doesn't value intelligence. This has an intergenerational compounding effect. When smart people aren't socially valued for their intelligence, they mate with less at…

Out of honest curiosity, is it a matter of principle for you, or do you really feel harmed by anything companies have done with your private data? Is it a worry about future harm?

Amazon has observed exactly the same behavior. The average review for something on the internet is 4.5 stars.

Important subject, but this article sucks. Instead of just two states, on or off, as with transistors, memristors can represent many states. This means we can create new types of computing models, we…

Definitely. What it lacks in appropriateness, it overwhelmingly makes up for in why-the-hell-is-everyone-around-me-tweeting-@wtf-ness.

>Doesn't adding CSS and JavaScript inline hurt your google rank? Why would it do that?

Why would they do that? Half of Google uses C++.

Here are some videos of the game in question. It looks like an incredibly interesting concept: https://www.achrongame.com/site/gameplay-videos.php …

>google should most definitely be scared. they make something like 90% of their profit from advertising - advertising based on your search query or the context of the page you're reading. facebook…

Because I'm not used to agreeing with Newt Gingrich. :)

Either that, or it inspires him to do better work than he otherwise would.

I'm going to need some citations before I believe that it's just as good as quick sort.

I would like to see the change in the enrollment of both types of schools. Maybe the enrollment of public schools increased faster than at private schools, so demand for private schools went up and th…

They banned it because Google Voice would make the switching cost from iPhone to Android easier. If you don't have to change your phone number or even talk to a phone company to port it, switching car…

Where are you? Plans without a phone to subsidize are typically cheaper.