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Re:John Gruber’s hypocritical and off-base Google attack on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:57PM (#2392744)
The problem here is that Google used the word "open" as a feature of Android and marketing term against iOS/Apple. But don't forget that a lot of parts of iOS are open source and several parts of Android are closed (Google branded apps). Does the percentage of opennes matter?

Gruber might be biased but that doesn't mean he is wrong or off-base.

Re:Apple to acquire ARM? on Thursday April 22, 2010 @07:44AM (#1284770)
It seems Apple already holds some kind of ownership over ARM. From ARM Wikipedia page:

The Company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Inc and VLSI Technology

Re:Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @11:22AM (#1161734)
Apple is suing the biggest Android phones maker
Re:Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @03:51AM (#1034412)
I think you have to read the full paragraph.

"If you go back to the Pirahã language, and you look at the stories that they tell, you do find recursion. You find that ideas are built inside of other ideas, and one part of the story is subordinate to another part of the story. That's not part of the grammar per se, that's part of the way that they tell their stories. So my idea is that recursion is absolutely essential to the human brain, and it's a part of the fact that humans have larger brains than other species. In fact, one of the papers at the recursion conference was on recursion in other species, and it talked about how when deer look for food in the forest, they often use recursive strategies to map their way across the forest and back, and take little side paths that can be analyzed as recursive paths. So it's not clear, first of all that recursion is unique to humans, and it's certainly not clear that recursion is part of language as opposed to part of the brain's general processing.

He says Piraha doesn't have recursion and that he thinks recursion isn't essential to human languages (thus in contradiction with Chomsky theories), but that it's part of how the brain processes information.

The new look and feel of the Mac version is very similar to Safari.
Re:Five Rules for Writing Good Code on Sunday November 29, 2009 @05:30AM (#966208)
I think that if you follow the "One level of abstraction per function" tip from the "Clean Code" book, and you do a proper naming of your functions this problem disappears.
Re:10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse on Monday October 12, 2009 @05:27PM (#877695)
At the end of the video you can see the multitouch device integrated with a keyboard. :)
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN? on Thursday February 05, 2009 @11:23AM (#468115)
I'll pay that and a little more without hesitating.