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This is missing all of the Google+ news that is shared through Google+, or the output of all of their Twitter accounts.

Thanks for collecting all of the RSS feeds, though!

I saw all of those extra spaces around "then" in the article and assumed the worst. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

    and Javascript uses promises and "then ()".

What is "then ()"? Have they created their own wacky fork of Javascript? Javascript already handles asynchronous programming (feel free to argue that is doesn't do it "right" or even "well"), so why extend the language?

My new mission: downvote every comment I find that whines about getting downvotes. How to automate this...

Interesting! Thanks for pointing out screen-size media selectors. Given how on top of CSS quirksmode usually is, I wonder if there is some problem with using screen-size media selectors on mobile devices.

"Just debug the machine-generated code instead" is not really an answer.

I wonder. Specifically, would you be able to "scrub" every number in the "equation" 1 beans / 1 buckets = 1 beans per bucket?

Ha ha! This is the second time in as many hours I've thought: "I am such a dope..."

I nodded along to this article and even sent it to some friends. One of them pointed out that the tide comes twice a day, meaning that these hypothetical sailors would be risking capsizing to avoid a 12-hour delay. I call shenanigans.

I like the sound of this, but I'm stuck on: "Are we OK with serving noscript desktop users what is essentially the mobile version of our site, small images and all?"

You would still need an app that could translates the MMS back into a page and open it in a browser on your end.

He's sending back html+js+css+images, not a static image. It is not the same thing; it is a better thing.

"My extension sends MD5(url), which makes it nearly impossible for me to track someones browsing behavior."

You're kidding, right? In order to tell if there is a HN thread about the page, you also MD5(url) all HN threads. If you find a match, you send the thread to the user. Therefore, you know the user is visiting the url the HN thread is about!

Let's not even talk about how cheap it is to test for MD5 collisions against popular urls, or the how easy it is to determine if the user has visited an arbitrary url.

I tried to read the article, but it appears to not parse or cuts off partway. I call shenanigans; flagged.

First off, thanks for writing Design for Hackers.

What distracted me when I was reading this post is that many parts of the page appear to be improperly aligned: http://i.imgur.com/77bVj.png

Since every thread on HN about google+ has a top comment about how google+ should have this (self-tagging, able to follow user+topic in addition to being able to follow user), I'm glad someone has written something like it. playing with subjot will give me a feel for how this concept plays out in practice--well done!

Mention at the top that this is "according to PrivCo" without citing any other sources. Long quote attributed to... some guy at this same PrivCo.

Stay classy, marketers.

Ah, I was mostly a "putter in the corner by myself" kind of minecrafter, so I never tried multiplayer. I agree that that is a problem, yikes!

Click link to Bushido in TC story -> click "Sign up" -> click "Learn more" -> back at contentless splash page.

I can take Jason Kincaid's word for it and sign up, or Bushido can actually tell me something, anything, about what it is.

When the authentication server went down my second week of trying out Minecraft, my copy kept working (with a dialog on startup letting me know that auth had failed).

I agree that it is embarrassing for a company demoing at a conference to have a protracted outage on their website, but the impact on current users should have been nil.

Have they made the DRM stickier since I last played?

But are they also giving back the OnLive coupons?

It did not backfire. It should not be given up.

I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation last night, and was surprised to see one of the characters carrying around a tablet computer.

I can believe that finding visually-pleasing ratios of screen/margin, height/depth is a challenge, but the basic outline does not seem to be hard to imagine.

This is great news! I may not like them, but I'm glad they decided to surface the "send to groups" feature for all my friends who are on Facebook.

I have no problem with the idea that being able to copyright library APIs might affect other kinds of APIs. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916969 for a longer description of why I think the article is talking about how apple-y oranges are.

Sure. The API Oracle is talking about is the interface between various parts of Java--if you include this file, you can now call these methods. Conversely, Twitter provide network endpoints with which you can communicate with Twitter.com. These bear a certain abstract similarity (there are interfaces), but they have vastly different purposes.

The author could make the argument that changes in the patentability of one meaning of API could impact the other meaning of API. Instead, while purporting to define the APIs under discussion. they talked about the Twitter sense instead.

They then discuss Java's API in terms of "Open" vs. "Closed," which appears to refer to how easy it is to register for an API key with web APIs. When you are using an APIs of the library kind, the files you are interacting with are under your control--there is no registration, there are no API keys.

It is painful to watch the guys at itworld go into a spiel about APIs, only to realize the intern they asked to look this up thinks they were talking about web APIs like Twitter.

Sheesh.

This is a "new" ticket. That means that Chromium WebKit has not been ported to Android.

vimperator or luakit?

Exactly. I was amazed at how little ground was covered by the end of the post, off on a yak shave for the part of this problem that is not hard or novel.