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Woof vs. Meow: What Our Furry Friends Reveal About Us(blog.hunch.com)
2 points by akent 15y ago|1 comments
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by akent 15y ago
I kid you not, I have only vaguely heard of Orbitz before now. Suspect it is US-centric? A generic term for this kind of thing might be "price comparison".
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by akent 15y ago
Who are Orbitz? Why not just explain what the site does without namechecking other companies.
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by akent 15y ago
Perhaps I've just not been paying attention, but I'd never really heard of Hipmunk before. The "X for Y" only works if X is sufficiently common. Surely better to define in simple terms what the site actually does.
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by akent 15y ago
Results of a HN poll from a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726 Total responses: 1539 Linux: 564 (36.65%) Mac: 557 (36.19%) Windows: 365 (23.72%) Other: 53 (3.44%)
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Skype: Interop is a Waste of Time(pindropsoup.com)
3 points by akent 15y ago|0 comments
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Rooted devices blacklisting by Google movies is not acceptable(google.com)
1 points by akent 15y ago|0 comments
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by akent 15y ago
Was only a matter of time really, not dissimilar to previous stories of IT staff reprimanded for running distributed.net crunchers or SETI@Home on company equipment.
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Adobe scraps AIR for Linux, focuses on mobile(news.cnet.com)
1 points by akent 15y ago|0 comments
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by akent 15y ago
Be nice if they could fix the https if I'm going to be entering a password... https://forrst.com/ currently goes to an Apache 2 Test Page.
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by akent 15y ago
Which "other planets" do you have in mind that are within easy reach of Earth?
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by akent 15y ago
My dead simple standing desk: laptop on top of a storage box on my kitchen table. Great for whenever I have a sore back and don't want to sit down.
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by akent 15y ago
Wow, there are people out there still using CVS?
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For Apple, Yesterday's Banned Apps Are Tomorrow's Great New Feature(wired.com)
13 points by akent 15y ago|7 comments
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by akent 15y ago
What was wrong with the plain text version? http://attrition.org/misc/ee/protolol.txt Much easier to skim through quickly.
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by akent 15y ago
Just stumbled across this script. Works great. Also available in Ubuntu "bikeshed" package.
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GNU patch - auto detect strip level(savannah.gnu.org)
9 points by akent 15y ago|1 comments
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by akent 15y ago
The overloading of "checkout" to mean revert a file as well as "switch to a different branch" is for me one of the most confusing git design choices.
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by akent 15y ago
Is it about the use of a private API or just the violation of the Human Interface guidelines? Everything I've read has said it's just about the guidelines, not because an API needed changing. For me it's all about the timing. They should ha
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by akent 15y ago
Apparently, wish and you shall receive! See the search box at the bottom of the page. http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#4jun11
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by akent 15y ago
Will be interesting to see if the Human Interface Guidelines are amended appropriately, then. Further discussion here too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2625950
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by akent 15y ago
"Lucky"?? This is why I'm glad I'm not an iOS app developer. So the app with the "volume button as camera" feature was rejected, then within a year Apple turned around and implemented the same feature themselves. Even if they didn't directl
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by akent 15y ago
This hurt me. I didn't notice until 24 hours later that no cron jobs had run at all the previous day. Affects my confidence in updates big time.
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by akent 15y ago
I sure wouldn't want to be Marco. I think "nice while it lasted" might be the best spin to put on this.
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by akent 15y ago
Try: http://www.hnsearch.com/ There is also http://searchyc.com/ but they are currently down.
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Rubik's Cube solving robot, best time 10.69 seconds(engadget.com)
4 points by akent 15y ago|0 comments
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by akent 15y ago
This mostly seems to be a bitter rant about the time Facebook tricked TechCrunch by rolling out a new feature that only TechCrunch staff could see. See the results of the prank here: http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/facebook-now-lets-you-f
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by akent 15y ago
Original video of the presentation here: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977&...
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by akent 15y ago
I'm pretty impressed by the "push karma" system for gauging how risky individual engineers' commits are on average. Here's another (much shorter!) video where Chuck Rossi talks about push karma very briefly: https://www.facebook.com/video/
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by akent 15y ago
Why was this announced via a post on Facebook? Don't they have a corporate blog or something?

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