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1. If you want answers from hacker news, run your post through a spellchecker and edit out the mistakes ;-) 2. Check out this article on teaching yourself how

1. If you want answers from hacker news, run your post through a spellchecker and edit out the mistakes ;-) 2. Check out this article on teaching yourself how to program, don't wait til you do it in college. Some of the best programmers out there are self-taught. http://lifehacker.com/5401954/programmer-101-teach-yourself-how-to-code http://lifehacker.com/5401954/programmer-101-teach-yourself-... If you want nice links as images for sites you frequently use, get a proper browser like Chrome. It does this by default: http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/9/google-chrome_468.jpg http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/9/google-chrome_468.jpg So does Safari: http://harshitpandey.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/safari4mactopsites-thumb-640xauto-2362.jpg http://harshitpandey.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/safari4mact...

jacquesm 17y ago
The formatting is a bigger problem, but let's concentrate on the message and not on the format it arrives in. All or most of these have their reasons. Fax machines are big and ugly because they're yesterdays gear, there is not a lot of money invested in making fax machines 'cutting edge' because email attachements have taken the wind out of the fax market. Faster, no paper required, cheaper. Dating sites for those under 18 are not to be found because nobody wants to be sued in to oblivion by the parents of the minors. So, if you 'want a girl' go out to where the girls are and try your luck. The reason why you can't find price comparison sites for stuff that costs < 3 'credits' (dollars, euros, whatever) (most articles in your supermarket cart) is because nobody thought it was worth doing, maybe that's a gap in the market waiting to be filled. But most people that can afford a working internet connection are no longer going to 5 different stores to do their shopping, they'll go to one that is convenient (nearby) and where they get the feeling they're - on average, not per item - not being ripped off. That the occasional item is cheaper next door is not their concern, nor would they invest the time in to researching their shopping list. When you live off pocket money that's different, but someone will have to enter all that information. For the links problem, try the 'bookmarks' section of your browser, it really works. If that's not what you are looking for then try any one of the 10's of sites that allow you to manage your bookmark collection online. (diigo for instance). As for formatting your posts on HN, two times enter (a blank line) will give you a paragraph break.

jacquesm 17y ago

The formatting is a bigger problem, but let's concentrate on the message and not on the format it arrives in. All or most of these have their reasons. Fax machines are big and ugly because they're yesterdays gear, there is not a lot of money invested in making fax machines 'cutting edge' because email attachements have taken the wind out of the fax market. Faster, no paper required, cheaper. Dating sites for those under 18 are not to be found because nobody wants to be sued in to oblivion by the parents of the minors. So, if you 'want a girl' go out to where the girls are and try your luck. The reason why you can't find price comparison sites for stuff that costs < 3 'credits' (dollars, euros, whatever) (most articles in your supermarket cart) is because nobody thought it was worth doing, maybe that's a gap in the market waiting to be filled. But most people that can afford a working internet connection are no longer going to 5 different stores to do their shopping, they'll go to one that is convenient (nearby) and where they get the feeling they're - on average, not per item - not being ripped off. That the occasional item is cheaper next door is not their concern, nor would they invest the time in to researching their shopping list. When you live off pocket money that's different, but someone will have to enter all that information. For the links problem, try the 'bookmarks' section of your browser, it really works. If that's not what you are looking for then try any one of the 10's of sites that allow you to manage your bookmark collection online. (diigo for instance). As for formatting your posts on HN, two times enter (a blank line) will give you a paragraph break.