maethorechannen's comments

What version of Chrome are you running? It needs version 25, which is fairly recent.

Works for me on a AC700 Chromebook. I think it doesn't yet work on the Samsung ARM CB.

Anyone who is a throat cancer sufferer who has only recently quit smoking has paid quite a bit of tax, at least in the UK.

It's probably a deliberate error to provoke negativity.

Or the guy was confusing HN with Google+

"Oracle has made Android a target in spite of the fact that Oracle has little or no stake in mobile devices, now or on the horizon"

I guess the author never heard of J2ME. One of the reasons why Oracle are up in arms over Android is that it does an end run around their J2ME licence revenue.

Looking at the bottome of the page I see that Apple have a toll free number 400-666-8800, I take it we're supposed to wonder if that 666 is a coincidence as well?

Saying that, if Steve Jobs was the devil it would explain a lot.

Or it was the next number assigned by some computer like most phone numbers, which seems far, far more likely.

They use a different date format in China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_R...

It probably wouldn't be recognized by most people as the date of the Tiananmen Sq date (to be honest, to me it looks like 6 April 1989, so it's only signifgant if you write dates the way you write dates)

Isn't the "you couldn't build it without GNU tools" argument somewhat silly, as no other OS out there includes the toolchain as part of the name? I doubt the folks over at Microsoft would seriously consider renaming Windows "Visual Studio/Windows" or "TFS/Windows", yet they would be hard pressed to build Windows without it. I'm also fairly sure Linux isn't the only OS out there that can be built with GNU tools (I thought Solaris was using it, at least during the brief period of time that they were open), yet it does seem to be the main target of the "GNU's contribution should be specially recognized" crowd - it's hard to see this as anything but sour grapes over Linux pretty much taking over the GPL licensed Unix-like kernel market away from Hurd.

"Surely no one here suggest dropping Linux as the appropriate name for the system?"

Linux based Android doesn't use Linux. Arguably the distro name is now the "primary" name (though this would still leave the FSF people feeling unloved). Thinking about it, I mostly say I use Ubuntu on the Desktop and Android on the phone and tablet and barely ever mention I run Linux nowadays.

Isn't a podcast, by definition, not live?

The source code the guy links to comes from Apache Harmony, so if anyone actually has committed copyright infringement it could well be the ASF as the source of the infringement. I wonder if Oracle would go after Apache as well.

"But hasn't this already happened?"

It's certainly happened in the UK. The iPhone is available on all the major networks (for free on the higher end contracts) and is available unlocked and SIM free from Apple stores. It hasn't hampered Android's growth to any great extent.

In the UK, there's The Week

http://www.theweek.co.uk/

I'm not surprised they got kicked out as "... we were encouraged by a few industry warhorses to launch a unique blog that would link the items in our daily digest directly ..." sounds suspiciously like something that looks like a link farm to an alogorithm.

I'm guessing that they used the link to imdb because it's copyable text, whereas on the studiobriefing.net site the post is actually a PNG file. That's the sort of thing that makes think they deserved to get kicked out of the index.

also

>Having interests that are unstereotypical for your gender and getting seen as cool and progressive rather than freaky and asexual for it.

A male (programmer or otherwise) with interests that are unstereotypical for a male is rarely seen as "cool and progressive" - being seen as freaky and gay is far more likely.

I'd like to add

> Having your desk near the entrance to your office without visitors assuming you're the receptionist.

I'm male, I've had the desk near the entrance and guess what - I got treated like a recptionist too. It's not gender, it's that your the first person people come across.

I completely disagree. For me, most of the value of the feed is the link to the original article. If I want to go to the HN comments, I can just click the comments link.

If you really want this feature, maybe you could use Yahoo pipes to modify the feed the way you want it, instead of everyone being forced to use the RSS feed the way you want it.

What's the bet that if/when Google drops AP content completely AP will start suing them to get put back in to search results.

`iPod will die by next year`

They quote Alan Sugar saying that the iPod would die by Christmas 2005 and then state "Incidentally, at the time Sugar's Amstrad and Apple were reportedly neck-and-neck in the personal computer race. "

Amstrad haven't been in the computer business since the 1990s (and I doubt they were ever "neck and neck", except maybe in the race to launch a PDA in the early 90s). If they can't get the first item factually correct, I'm wondering if I should bother with the rest.