Reminds me that according this NYT infographic :

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-...

about 20% of physicians are in the top one percent. This is the highest percentage of all occupations.

> Works that are not challenged within this period, have their rights seized, so that they can be published again.

It's even more restrictive : only the public libraries can make these works available (and only to there suscribers)

I think autocompletion as a selling point for static language is underrated. With autocompletion I feel I type less than half the characters that my code requires.

It is not just about completing a word. The completion can be a pattern of several lines of code with placeholders where the IDE jumps and waits for you to enter one or two characters that it completes again.

The resulting experience is that things just flow. The IDE frees your mind from details like name spelling, api method list, exact language syntax and usual idioms.

And it is probably just the beginning. The completion is still pretty basic when you think about it. At some point maybe, IDE will switch to a rule engine to manage thousands of completion rules.

Autocompletion tools are getting pretty good as it is. IntelliJ for Java and Resharper for C# are unnervingly good about predicting exactly what I would have typed even for stuff like declaring method names.

ActiveState's Komodo has autocomplete for some dynamic languages like Python. Obviously its not possible to be as accurate as static type languages, but it helps a lot.

Firefox : everytime I close it, and third party cookies not allowed.

Chrome : never

I use Chrome almost exclusively to check my gmail account and Firefox for everything else.

I am aware that Chrome and Firefox share a flash cookie on the subdomain mail.google.com, but apparently it does not contain tracking data. Moreover it is not supposed to be sent when I use the main domain (if adobe follows the RFC). Google.com could hide an iframe pointing to mail.google.com but they wouln't dare, would they ?

So I think I am pretty safe from google tracking for now. Anyway, when I have time I will search HN comments and the web for a list of hostnames to map to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file.

Moreover, I am pretty sure that Apple iProduct prices are carefully crafted to maximize profit. They could be sold with a much lower margin and completely crunch the competition.

So, it seems that at least between profits and market domination, profits come first.

The NYT has a registration wall that seems to pop up at random. At the moment with FF I can't get through unless I had r_=1 to the article url, but with Chrome it's not there at all. Strange...

I am not sure you can find a fair trade laptop.

"According to a study by Oekom Research, a ratings agency with a focus on sustainable investment, 42% of consumer electronics manufacturers are guilty of violating labor rights, far worse than the next two offenders: textiles (30%) and mining (24%)."

Relevant article : http://techland.time.com/2012/01/27/will-the-world-ever-see-...

They probably use an atomic force microscope (google "atomic force microscope nanomanipulation").

You may be right. When you think about it, what were the odds that the 100,000,000th file would be something funny worth mentionning in a post?

They didn't mentioned the filename at first. What they actually said was : "And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a picture of a cat!)".

So people got the impression that they actually saw the picture. Hence the backlash.

Users of cloud services may be aware that engineers, sysadm or dba may occasionnally see their data but they certainly prefer not to think about it.