What's the problem with this comment? Don't you think the EU would be more accommodating if google wouldn't evade taxes? After all Capitalism is the de facto world government.

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

My account is rather older than a year and I share the same sentiment. This isn't reddit.

Right now wearables are in a pre iPhone era. I guess people are waiting for an iWatch, let's see which company delivers.

What would be the point of that? you might as well write something like "Error 0x000332, program aborted" that's as helpful as an apology to the normal user

Actually, this is very useful message for me. I can google the error and fix the problem on the spot.

Desktop software trained people to parse it.

If that's the sole use-case of having an error ID, then the error dialog should probably just embed a web browser with search results, to save you a step.

I would rather use my own browser than whatever half-assed kludge someone was forced to throw into the help system at the last minute.

Why Apple will never make floppy disks again

looks like a cluttered windows program. Not going to use it.

fuck these guys, they stole our business model!