Terrible article. Broch's story is a tragedy but one that's tenuously linked to that famous painting. I kept reading waiting for the substance promised by "life imitating art" and all I got was a set decorator's coincidence and a Goethe quote to paper over the gap. Which is kind of ironic because that quote ("you work out what their intention is and it breaks the spell") applies to the article itself: once you see the author struggling to connect Kramskoy's painting to Broch's death, the spell breaks and all you're left with is empty padding.

In my opinion, replacing ads is worse than simply ad-blocking.

Imagine a scenario where a replaced ad actually degraded the website's performance more so than the website's own ads, which is not all that far-fetched, and users end up blaming the website for having crappy ads.

Additionally, what if Google and Mozilla started doing that with their browsers, would you still be okay with it?

I think all the HN traffic might have crushed the website - I'm getting a blank page and when I refresh it seems to be stuck. Not very encouraging, assuming they're using it to serve their main page.

Do you have noscript? It is loading fine for me, but this site does not work without JS.

No, I don't use NoScript, just uBlock. It seems to be sort of intermittent, as when I pulled it up again, I got the title loaded, but still blank page.

Yeah, this seemed more like a listing of the operating systems than a comparison.

You're right, it's a list of the OSes and some of their strengths. I'd rather not get into a container OS war on "which one is better", as I stated at the beginning of the article it always depends on your needs :)

Thank you, that worked great as it had majority of my library saved in JSON format.

I was also expecting a new GUI shell and used to run GeoShell and Litestep. I got somewhat excited and hoped that there might be a resurgence in the popularity of Windows shells but it seems like that time is gone for good now.

If I recall correctly, the Windows XP release managed to stabilize the Explorer shell quite a bit (compared to Win9x) which in turn decreased the demand for a lightweight, stable and customizable replacements.

I believe lightstep is also working on windows 8 now.

But this wouldn't affect Apple as much. By destroying the phone, they're effectively reducing the number of users. If they sold it, the number of iPhone users stays the same. Not to mention that it makes quite a dramatic statement: "I'm so upset, I'd rather lose $xxx dollars than continue passively supporting Apple's policies"

Proof of rage?

The controls are pretty horrible, especially when using the mouse and the cursor leaves the viewport.

Concur. But WASD works.

I wouldn't be surprised if they try to sneak in a provision in the Terms of Service prohibiting VPN use.

They would have to distinguish between my employers VPN traffic and other VPN traffic. If I cannot remote to work their service is a non-starter.

What if they made the door-to-door delivery a premium subscription that one could opt-in? That could provide some revenue to offset the losses they are posting. If you decided not to get it, your mail goes to the community mailbox.

I doubt that makes much economic sense. If the delivery person has to walk to your door, he or she might as well deliver to all the doors in between.

and they could price that into the model. A person's price is $50/month - $10 per neighbor that is signed up.