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Yeah, this is a great way to keep customers locked in. And I like it since it actually promotes honesty in marketing, to an extent.

Speech recognition is cute as a tech demo, but I doubt it'll be very useful in the Real World.

It seems to me that the questions we're asking in the 2010s seem to be less about "how can we make a new technology" and more about "how can we use the technology we already have". We already have pretty much all the computing power we need for most tasks* at our fingertips, and the question is now what do we do with it? It's the same for other technologies. How do we use, say, social networking, or databases, or what have you in a way that people want to use and that we can profit from?

* I don't want to fall into the trap of Bill Gates saying "640K is more memory than anyone will ever need."

Fair enough. :)

I think this is a pretty common problem, people failing to realize that good news for one demographic isn't necessarily bad news for another.

Why is it wrong to look at the issue from a cost/benefit perspective? If an expenditure of resources isn't very effective at preventing child abuse, shouldn't those resources be deployed in a different way so we can prevent as much abuse as possible?

What's sad about that?

Good point. I'm personally of the opinion that one should not publicly denounce a thing unless they've spent time in the trenches trying to make it work.

Physicists, or at least the ones I know, tend to use FORTRAN almost exclusively.

You wouldn't download a car.

I hope they weren't running any mission-critical software on her...

Remember when PythonAnywhere joked about this? http://pinode.pythonanywhere.com/

So it's open-source Siri in Python? Cool!

This just in: users don't like social login, water is wet, sky blue..

You sir are a god amongst men.

Nice.

Hooray! Now I can do all my work directly on GitHub.

So many Node.js libraries....

Who <i>does</i> that?

While "better designed" is definitely subjective, I find that HN reads easier and is more visually appealing. Personally, HN feels superior on an aesthetic as well as functional level - many of DN's design techniques feel kind of cliched or tacky.

I'm gonna check this out as soon as they support FTB Mindcrack. The added complexity from Gregtech really makes the game a lot richer, despite the problems I have with that mod.

Fog distance can be changed on the fly, though. You don't need to start a new game to adjust it.

As a Bayesian rationalist, wut.

There's your problem!

I find it kind of amusing that Hacker News is better designed than Designer News.

Apple Space is something I'd be entirely behind.

Well implemented. Thanks for sharing!

DRM is quite frequently a brilliant parody of itself.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the educational philosophies espoused here. As a musician, I've learned firsthand the dangers of learning incorrect ways of doing things. I feel like it's a lot easier to learn something new than to unlearn a wrong way of doing things. Just my 0.02c.

Bug number one being the amount of bugs seems somewhat...recursive. Also, "I only used it when it was still indie"?

Cute.