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Re:Apple and Google Create a Buzz at Frankfurt Motor Show on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:06AM (#10233739)

“What is important for us is that the brain of the car, the operating system, is not iOS or Android or someone else but it’s our brain,” Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Daimler

Looks like I won't be buying a car from the Daimler family of manufactures anytime soon.

Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:18PM (#9115956)

Your point? That is also too bad.

Re:Microsoft introduces Windows Phone 8 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @01:12PM (#4137924)

But who is going to buy a Windows Phone 7 device now? Nokia's already poor device sales is going to fall off a cliff.

Re:Should We Use Progressive JPEGs for Retina Displays? on Saturday March 24, 2012 @09:03PM (#3751348)

A huge blunder or a yet-to-be tweaked nuance of the Webkit engine? Seems to me that a huge blunder would entail a very difficult to address issue. I'll chalk this up as a minor blunder.

Re:Could Kinect be Microsoft's iPod? on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:42PM (#2071924)

Providing a commercially supported, UNIX-like platform.

I got nothing..

Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) on Saturday September 04, 2010 @11:43AM (#1662865)

C#/.NET Engineers - Milwaukee, USA

My company is in the Milwaukee area and we have a significant need for strong C# .NET engineers. Telecommuting is not currently an option, but we offer some relo assistance on a case by case basis.

Re:Groggle boggled by Google mean spirit on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @09:12PM (#1303276)

Not for long ;)

Re:Tech Hiring Binge? on Sunday April 18, 2010 @01:58PM (#1275167)

The market for experienced Java & .NET engineers in the Milwaukee area hasn't been this hot in many years. Finding top talent is proving to be a challenge and is affecting growth.

Re:Will Apple’s history repeat itself and make Android the winner? on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @05:43PM (#1263442)

> People are getting tired of fart apps.

Sir! Bite your tongue! This truly unique genere of iPhone apps has incalculable (by you, at least) amounts of potential. I'm certain that you would be shocked at the extensive research and development that is going into the next generation of these apps.

Re:Switching from C# to Java on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @08:05AM (#1261679)

The case that I've bumped up against several times is when trying to get the class of the generic object. Something like:

  T obj;
  obj = getObjFromSomewhere();
  log(T.class);

This type of operation is most useful if writing framework type of some sort. I've come across it when trying to write a generic JPA base DAO type of class.

Re:The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @01:16PM (#1247816)

This reads a bit like fan fiction. Anyone know its authenticity?

Re:A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @09:17PM (#1246148)

Actually, Apple ended up going with the standard lithium ion batteries instead of the thermonuclear reactor for the iPad.

Pretty weak if you ask me. Any money that the HP Slate will have a 50MW unit.

Re:The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching 404s on Friday March 26, 2010 @01:28PM (#1221560)

"What in the world makes webmasters think it's okay to fail to maintain their mappings between URLs and live content?"

"I have trouble believing any CMS author could fail to support them"

It almost sounds like you are assuming that The Onion has some sort of duty in maintaining ancient URIs. IMO, they should maintain their redirects as long as deem it necessary - there is a cost in doing so after all. Sure, the cost of not maintaining outdated URIs may or may not outweigh the cost of losing vistors, but that is for them to decide, not the peanut gallery.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that isn't so entitled that I wouldn't forgive The Onion if the links from my 2001 bookmark.htm export fail to land on the original content.

Re:The new branding of Ubuntu on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:12PM (#1165356)

This is a gigantic step... sideways.

Big clunky fonts and an excessive amount of blank space. It's like the American car of UIs.

Re:Ask HN: Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? on Monday February 08, 2010 @05:45PM (#1110916)

And poorly done humor is just uncomfortable. If first impressions are of any value, you better be sure your material is top notch.

Re:When work doesn't pay for the middle class on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @12:49PM (#1062674)

Who deems what is benefical to society?

Re:John Gruber (of Markdown) responds to Atwood's criticism on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @04:51PM (#1023308)

I think it was more a response to this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001317.html

Re:Responsible Open Source Code Parenting on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @04:50PM (#1023307)

What an entitled attitude.