jlampart

I say this will spell the end of the US patent system before it spells the end of HTC or Android.

How do they check if you have cookies enabled without setting one? Aren't they breaking the law in the process?

Honest question: why use this instead of e-bay?

If I understand correctly, sites using AWS, and reddit.com for sure, are geared towards automatically starting and stopping EC2 instances as needed. If that is the case, why can't they just move everything to a different region, which hasn't been affected by this disaster?

I just bought "Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript", went to the the download page, and found out that it is available online for free: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596805784/index.html

WTF, O'Reilly?

"That's good for separating the mediocre from the morons."

That's a lot, if you ask me - the morons usually make up the vast majority of candidates, so by filtering them out effortlessly at an early stage, you get to spend your time more effectively - identifying the great ones among those who at least hold a promise.