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The Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.

I think that saying that car sharing will be limited to the privileged metropolitan residents is short sighted, too. Services like Zipcar don't work well in less populated areas, because the cars are exactly where the previous person dropped them off. Autonomous cars would be able to relocate themselves to areas where they are needed, and could optimize their deployment very well especially if people scheduled in advance.

A good many of the linked articles are full of snark and vitriol, setting a poor example for the commentariat to follow.

I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chords I do unless I was able to observe my hands performing them.

"This site is currently running on free quota--that means that things can and will turn off as people play with it."

Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch. If you're unavailable, you aren't around for contingencies.

What's the threshold for an "old account"?

I don't know why this is so hard or requires such significant investment up front. How is making a decentralized Twitter service more of a challenge than, say, IRC or Jabber? I know that the problems aren't exactly the same, but I would hazard to guess that they are on the same order of magnitude in terms of implementation difficulty.

This is the brave new world of SEO in our media. Once reputable news sources are more than willing to throw all their credibility out the door so that they can be the louder wall of an echo chamber for the sake of impressions.

My Page Down key melted from being pressed repeatedly so many times. Fucking designers.

Security traded for convenience, back to square one.

It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?

I await Gruber's lengthy analysis of this font.

(and the monospaced version)

The tech press loves bloodshed, just like the regular press.

Imagine having your arms in front of your face for an 8+ hour workday. That will be terrible. Chiropractors are going to make a fortune off Win8.

Can't it be Hotmail v2? There looks to be vestiges of Hotmail/Live Mail everywhere. So, a better question is: is this just added features and a reskinning on top of Hotmail?

It's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing teams.

Besides the Metro thing, what's so modern/different about this versus Hotmail?

And, let me guess, you don't want to pay any money for this?

Quoted for posterity. One of the most amazingly crappy articles I've seen come out of the SEO content mills.

"1. Coffee and cigarettes. 2. For nonsmokers, coffee and a donut. 3. Chew gum. 4. Doodle. 5. Red Bull. 6. Think about college professors. Don't think about morons. 7. Sniff rosemary. 8. Do NOT take an IQ test or be ranked by intelligence. 9. Have good relationships, be social and adopt other people's perspectives. 10. Exercise. 11. Listen to some Bach or Mozart. 12. Better yet, learn how to play some Bach or Mozart. Or learn any new skill. 13. Stop multitasking. 14. Guys, stay away from pretty girls. Don't even think about them. 15. Get enough sleep every night. 16. Finish what you start. 17. Lay down to improve problem solving. 18. Believe you can become smarter. 19. Try out certain nutritional supplements. 20. Feed your superstitions. 21. Talk to yourself. 22. Stay away from the color red. 23. Avoid situations where you feel out of control or powerless. 24. Avoid rejection. 25. Get a boss who thinks you're a genius."

Meta-comment: why do tech blogs punch-up headlines with words like "just" and questionmarks?

More fundamental than that: I think the issue is poor performance management and the well-connected tenured employees that can't break free from decades-old paradigms.

Empirical evidence aside, do you think a publishing model like HuffPo's can possibly produce an informed populace? There's very little fact checking, no followup if they get their facts wrong, and most of it's probably just reworded press releases from PR lackeys anyhow.

Oh shit. Good for Wunderground, bad for me. I can't stand weather.com

??? Using that metric, MSFT: +115% since 2004. GOOG revenues: +3,320%

Do you even notice the "beauty" after spending a week with it?

There's a delicate balance between healthy skepticism that comes from experience, and enthusiasm for trying new things.

Going with cool new things for everything is very risky. This is terrible for established businesses, it's great for startups with no legacy and no pressure to maintain inertia. There cultural differences are endemic to the realities of both types of businesses and aren't just the product of politics.

It's been a HN meme for quite some time.

Very Siri-like.

The logo is a "Q"...

A good Sonos installation is really expensive.