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I predict the world will undergo an enormous robot revolution at some point. Things like highway maintenance, garden cultivation, cutting trees that leer over powerlines, self-driving cars, painting, home assistants (mixed with Siri technology)... it will certainly outshine things like the hippest Twitter clients.

If you had to give up your mobile plan or your home broadband, what would you pick?

It seems that Adobe is shifting most of their resources away from Flex and towards other projects. The same thing happens to obsolete operating systems like Windows XP. They are technically supported, but the company has moved on.

I won't comment on the semantics of whether the title is editorializing.

That renders like shit on my Droid X.

Navigating between two windows is much more annoying than scrolling up.

I've used Windows most of my life, use Linux for work, but I LOVE my MacBook Air.

You say you've been programming for 9 years. You're 19 or so. That does not equate to true 9 years of experience, compared to say someone who's been working professionally for that long at a 9 - 5 job.

I find it amusing how you penny pinch on day to day food purchases, keeping track of it all in a notebook, but then expect to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of VC money.

I'm far from an expert in this but I don't see how you'd get funding unless you have a really great idea. It's cool how you can create a site really quickly though.

It'll be interesting when the 'old web' is distinguished by it's use of Flash, so with modern devices you can't see content of ancient sites or web games.

This is an article about nothing. Some guy I've never heard of it has a secret idea. Just wonderful. There's millions of tech-savvy people with secret ideas in various fields, and yet there is nothing reportable about it.

It's much more likely that there will be almost no pens or styluses.

Why don't they automatically update yet like Chrome? Having to download something every couple of weeks is a huge annoyance.

Today will be 11/11/11 again. Just like in 1911.

Let me get this straight. The father made an account for his daughter, but lied about her birthday and broke the ToS?

I don't think we should move off completely. It's best to have some redundancy in technology.

Here is a standard implementation I found from some code at work.

    /* memmove.c -- copy memory.                                                                                                                                    
       Copy LENGTH bytes from SOURCE to DEST.  Does not null-terminate.                                                                                             
       In the public domain.                                                                                                                                        
       By David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.  */                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                
    #if HAVE_CONFIG_H                                                                                                                                               
    # include <config.h>                                                                                                                                            
    #endif                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                    
    void *                                                                                                                                                          
    memmove (dest, source, length)                                                                                                                                  
         char *dest;                                                                                                                                                
         const char *source;                                                                                                                                        
         unsigned length;                                                                                                                                           
    {                                                                                                                                                               
      char *d0 = dest;                                                                                                                                              
      if (source < dest)                                                                                                                                            
        /* Moving from low mem to hi mem; start at end.  */                                                                                                         
        for (source += length, dest += length; length; --length)                                                                                                    
          *--dest = *--source;                                                                                                                                      
      else if (source != dest)                                                                                                                                      
        {                                                                                                                                                           
          /* Moving from hi mem to low mem; start at beginning.  */                                                                                                 
          for (; length; --length)                                                                                                                                  
            *dest++ = *source++;                                                                                                                                    
        }                                                                                                                                                           
      return (void *) d0;                                                                                                                                           
    }

Linux isn't Unix, so are you sure it's the same?

If an app falls in the woods, and nobody buys phones to use it, does it make a sound?

A more realistic comparison is with Google Trends.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Linux+mint%2C+mint+Linux%2C+U...

I did not appreciate having to press spacebar for every sentence, so I exited early. For something that tells you to relax, it sure does make you do a lot of work.

I disagree because you want to test photographs from a human holding it, not a tripod holding it. Perhaps you could take dozens of shots with each phone and compare.

What's the YC brand? I come here for the intelligent conversation about tech subjects.

I was being sarcastic.

The masses will end up relying on some sort of a welfare system, and would riot otherwise.

Food and wellbeing are the main things keeping civilization together. Wealthy regions are also stable regions, so it is necessary for the poor to be supported.

You can create an app over the course of a week that is then used by tens of thousands of people, so that is an example of a productivity multiplier.

Joe the forklift driver is never going to do powerful and interesting things when he loses his job. It's completely unrealistic.

I would never get this for my iPad. It's not worth the physical encumbrance. If I wanted to type quickly, I would buy an external keyboard or go on my laptop.

I'm on my Droid X and I don't see anything. Oh well.

Why do you say that? They're both from the same year and nearly the same length.

This is the full interview video: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/11/02/watch-steve-jobs-disc...

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It was watchable a week ago, but now you have to register I guess?

But Bill Gates forces people to use IE6, which wastes a lot of time that equates to thousands of lives.