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That has servers running in debug mode..

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Are you saying there are 200,000 Fortune 500 companies? Numbers really lose their meaning, nowadays..

Very good point. Are there any indications that this is happening?

Your point - that the software was at its peak when it was called MSN Messenger - is exemplified by the fact that most people still call it MSN Messenger. It seems even teens, who've probably never seen this brand out in the wild still call it MSN.

How right you are! Another reason to love HN: you even get constructive feedback on a comment written in haste :)

Mobile learning is the future! Imagine everybody spending their idle time learning new skills (languages or anything else) instead of playing angry birds! Additionally, mobile learning is accessible to a larger percentage of the world population than probably any other kind of learning. It's going to change the world.

This is actually one thing I've always been wondering about as a non-native speaker when reading English headlines. Is there any reason newspapers prefer this style? It sounds weird to me.

Maybe the user wants to find out if there is more weather data for Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra by comparing the number of results. Sydney has the lead, btw.

I don't think it's a meaningless number. Maybe I want to know compare the frequency of two terms, then Google's estimate of results is pretty useful. On the other hand result number 230,000,000 is certainly not useful. Well, it might be a little useful, but there are 229,999,999 documents that Google thinks are more useful to me, so it is a reasonable optimization by Google to not actually prepare a results page for it.

This post made me laugh, and I sure hope that's what it was supposed to do. It happens more circa once per week to me that somebody "has already done all the legwork" and only needs me to design and code "the app that will make us rich"..

But what's so surprising is that I don't remember the Windows client to be nearly as bad as the one for Mac. I guess they are made by two completely different teams with no coordination on UI issues.

I switched from Windows to OS X a couple months ago. Everything was bright and shiny until I installed the Skype client. I could literally not believe that this is the same Software I used to love on Windows - there is so much wrong with it (constantly popping up Dial Pad that I never use, inability to resize the Name column, to just name a few). Over time I got used to the annoyances, but it it still one of the worst UIs I've ever seen. Does anybody have an idea how this could happen?

"Beds are considered a cost center but are tolerated because they are the number one amenity requested by guests."

WiFi is just as much part of the service a modern hotel provides as a clean bed, nice breakfast and whatever else they might advertise. Why isn't it treated like that? Why aren't they putting ads on my pillow?