I hope the author realizes that TI does a ton more than make graphing calculators... they're probably one of the biggest manufacturers of ICs out there (about to swallow National Semiconductor or something).

I don't read HN much, but I thought that in theory that's something you would expect of reddit and not HN? Isn't HN supposed to be above that kind of stuff?

There exists a non-negligible rift between "supposed to" and "actually does".

You could make the argument that HN would be more interested in the code as opposed to the blog talking about it...

Which is odd because starting from the blog you get the author's take on it AND a link to the code. It's not like you just get one or the other. I would think HN would (should?) be more interested in the whole story and not just a link to a codebase whenever possible.

In my experience the stories upvoted on a weekend or holiday are more lighthearted than on a week day.

I thought this was always the point of Gears, as a stopgap for HTML5 features until browsers supported them all. But I don't really see why they need Gears on Firefox for local storage for example, when Firefox has had a local storage API since version 2.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Storage

Of course, I am not really a web developer or a Google employee so I probably don't have the whole picture.

Oh, I guess the Firefox 2 storage isn't actually HTML5 storage, according to http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/html5.html#localstorage . But then, I don't quite understand where that lies in relation to HTML5.

Err, I think the Cliq is actually a totally different phone for T-mobile but with a similar form factor. The hardware on the Droid is much better, eg. 848x480 screen instead of 480x320 screen. I don't think the Cliq has an OMAP SoC either, probably ARM11. And the Droid uses stock Android 2.0, whereas the Cliq has Android 1.6 or 1.5 with Motorola's MOTOBLUR on top. But the Droid will have wifi, since it's a higher end model, and Verizon has changed its policy of removing wifi now that they require data plans on smartphones anyway.

All Verizon smartphones will now have wifi. This is because all Verizon smartphones now also require you to get a data plan anyway. Kind of meh, but it's not going to discourage me from getting this phone. Having a data plan is still fairly useful, and since I'm on a family plan I only would have to pay for the data plan anyway.

I believe what he's trying to say is that Verizon used to disable WiFi to force people to get data plans, but now that data plans will be required, Verizon will include WiFi.

Haha, my roommate is in this class. His textbook is really nice, it reads really naturally. But my roommate said that his lecturing is not that great.

I disagree; he's one of my favorite lecturers.

I got one that says "Save the Shire" and I have no idea why.

(They're named palantir, after the crystal balls in Lord of the Rings... so hence that shirt)

I also have the shirts too. Good addition to the collection.

I think Insertion sort tends to be the most natural sort for doing things like sorting playing cards. Anything else seems like it would be more of a hassle than it would be worth in real life.

And of course, it originated in Firefox. I also think Opera can do this as well, although I suppose that's not a libre browser.

I'm sure Stallman knew about that, considering that he went there for some time.