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stuntmouse··on Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for Microsoft
No OpenGL ES support. DirectX only.
stuntmouse··on John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
Agreed on Hypercritical being the stronger show now. It's also something that ages better, so that old episodes are still informative.
stuntmouse··on Journey, unofficial Path client for Mac (open source)
FYI: it's not compatible with 10.5.
stuntmouse··on Daring Fireball: Cookies and Privacy
Is there a clear guide to only allowing "first party" cookies using Chrome?
stuntmouse··on Daring Fireball: Cookies and Privacy
Strange. There was a comment supporting you that referred to the "Ad men" that would downvote you.

That comment has completely disappeared.

[Edit: bstar77 has cleared up the situation.]

stuntmouse··on Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
How would you improve Finder?
stuntmouse··on Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
"5GB's" should be "5GBs".
stuntmouse··on Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"
It's "champing at the bit."
stuntmouse··on HN "Who's Hiring" Language, Framework, Data, & Mobile Trends
Hiring for Q2 perhaps?
stuntmouse··on I laughed at Posterous, but they proved me wrong
All of the black hats who want to abuse numerous holes in your browser of choice?

They wouldn't necessarily even have to get you to click on a link. There have been numerous attacks against image processing libraries.

stuntmouse··on [dead]
Wow. Uninformed headline and speculation.

I'm pretty sure they're rejecting usage of an unofficial regex API. Nothing to get too excited about and I'm definitely sure they're not rejecting pcre, etc.

stuntmouse··on Opera 10.6 - HTML5, and then some
Microsoft is really throwing money at search lately. Bing is everywhere (Colbert, iOS 4, "Filomena", "Search Overload").

How long can they keep it up for the returns they're getting?

stuntmouse··on ARM stock rises 25%, Apple bid rumours resurface
What about making the purchase defensively? I.e. to keep it out of Google's hands.
stuntmouse··on Chrome Mostly Outperforms Safari 5 in JavaScript Benchmarks
It's important for resource-constrained devices. Think netbooks and smartphones.
stuntmouse··on IPad’s Arrival in Tokyo Causes Japanese to Reflect
Why doesn't the Times capitalize iPad correctly?
stuntmouse··on Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.
seems to work great, thanks.

any chance of changing the link color? too much red.

stuntmouse··on Poll: how do you use HN?
site + searchyc.com
stuntmouse··on Google Chrome for Linux goes stable
Also wanted to say thanks, especially for making all user-tracking optional.

In addition, I'm really happy to see Apple and Google keep cooperating on making WebKit better. Together you've now built the best desktop and mobile browser technology.

stuntmouse··on Google Chrome for Linux goes stable
Seconded. Can't find anything like this in the release version of the Mac build.
stuntmouse··on Google Chrome for Linux goes stable
The stable Mac version has better idle CPU usage. Doesn't cause my MBP fans to crank up so often.
stuntmouse··on Jisp - Lisp implementation in JavaScript
Marc Feeley of Gambit Scheme wrote Jss, which might be similar:

Jss: JavaScriptScheme: a multithreaded Scheme to JavaScript compiler

http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Dumpin...

stuntmouse··on AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac
Steam, AutoCAD, possibly Rhino. Why are all these companies doing their ports now, when Apple is so focused on mobile computing?

Are they just slow to react? Making a bet on the halo effect from iPhone/iPad?

stuntmouse··on Ask HN: What's your morning routine?
Not to be mean, but I don't think this is really worthy of discussion here.
stuntmouse··on The Gloves Are Officially Off: Google Vs. Apple
I actually thought Conan gave him too hard a time. Vic came out looking like an affable, though slightly stiff, nerd.
stuntmouse··on Google Previews Chrome Web Store — An App Store For The Web
I would argue that the age of Unix as an end-user OS is already here. See iPhone and Android sales figures. Also, WebOS, etc.
stuntmouse··on Google IO streaming live
For an even better contrast, compare with Microsoft.
stuntmouse··on IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
"As we said at MIX recently, when it comes to HTML5, we’re all in." Canvas too?
stuntmouse··on Try Clojure
Great work.

Please hook this up to ymacs!

Also, the highlighting in the tutorials makes the code difficult to read.

stuntmouse··on Microsoft sues Salesforce
As jimfl posted, I think they are feeling threatened by "enterprise" apps built on the Salesforce platform.
stuntmouse··on Microsoft sues Salesforce
The future of the Microsoft tax.
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