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Re:The First Google Maps War on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @10:17PM (#3646259)
The reporter read about it and thought, with what's going on in Syria, Afghanistan, etc. that it'd be a good use of column-inches to yammer on about a "war" that was never going to escalate into an armed conflict.
Perhaps a semicolon, next time? :)
Re:Vim ported to iOS on Friday January 20, 2012 @02:02PM (#3490717)
Especially as the guideline is clearly there so as not to give users the misleading impression that the app's crashed. That's obviously not the case when a vim user is using the expected command to close the program.
Re:New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:46PM (#3490617)
You have to understand that all those years ago, Microsoft occupied the position Google does now - if they did or announced anything at all, it was obviously sinister in the eyes of a lot of geeks.
Re:Ask HN: Hellbanning unacceptable on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:09PM (#3477702)
And worse, I just created a new account, and everything is lightning fast. (Yes, I'm Semiapies.)

I may just have to dump this account that I've had for three years.