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by anurag 16y ago
It's funny that a guy who built his computer from scratch used Microsoft FrontPage to build the website for it.
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by anurag 16y ago
With Compass you get fancy buttons for free: http://github.com/imathis/fancy-buttons/
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by anurag 16y ago
Just tried it out - works well for editing code over SSH. Great work, thanks.
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by anurag 17y ago
Detailed 23andme review by HN'er PStamatiou who tried it out recently: http://paulstamatiou.com/review-23andme-dna-testing-for-heal... Comments thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1170074
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by anurag 17y ago
It's great that they're supporting this, but the UI is unintuitive - you can only drag files onto the green box (which is ugly btw) but users will try to drag files onto the message textarea, which won't work. Even changing 'Drag files here
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by anurag 17y ago
In addition to learning about their setup, it's great to put a face to so many interesting online names. Thanks for putting this together waferbaby. Direct link: http://usesthis.com/
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by anurag 17y ago
DRM-free ebooks work with this app as they do with the PC version. I just downloaded and opened a DRM-free mobipocket file from here: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/88 , so the problem seems to be specific to your O'Reilly ebook/Mac app ins
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Google App Engine Team's Post-mortem for February 24 Outage(groups.google.com)
48 points by anurag 17y ago|20 comments
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80legs introduces Python API(80legs.pbworks.com)
2 points by anurag 17y ago|0 comments
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by anurag 17y ago
No personal experience, but manybooks.net is a popular (mostly public domain) ebook site that has been running well on macminicolo.net for several years now. http://manybooks.net/about/
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Linode Manager for iPhone(linode.com)
3 points by anurag 17y ago|1 comments
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2D Cloth Simulation with Canvas(andrew-hoyer.com)
101 points by anurag 17y ago|10 comments
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by anurag 17y ago
In PDF here: http://garry.posterous.com/the-startup-library-613-page-down...
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by anurag 17y ago
We ran some numbers comparing Amazon's ebook pricing to BN, Sony and other retailers, and found that Amazon's prices were the lowest (or matched the lowest) for 74% of the 11K ebooks we looked at: http://inkmesh.com/blog/2009/11/30/amazon-
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by anurag 17y ago
From the PDF: "21. Plaintiff has expended considerable time and effort promoting and advertising Dropbox, using DROPBOX as its brand name. To date, Plaintiff has spent in excess of $1 million dollars marketing the DROPBOX brand." They
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by anurag 17y ago
I tried 80legs a couple of weeks ago when it was still in beta. It works well if you're willing to write Java code to process HTTP responses (see http://80legs.pbworks.com/80Apps ). You can issue new requests in your processing code and wr
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by anurag 17y ago
FeedBooks has less than 3000 'official' books (mostly public-domain titles) and around 600 user-submitted books; over a million Google Books can be read on the Sony Reader. However, the OCR quality of ePub content from Google is spotty. I b
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by anurag 17y ago
Though epub is nice, scanned PDFs might still be the only feasible option given the current limitations of Google's OCR tech illustrated here: http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/08/googles-one-million-eb...
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by anurag 17y ago
I understand stemming. I just think the webpage contrast is not a good explanation for why they're not doing it. Building an unstemmed search index per user is also expensive, and helps only the recipient, but they do it because they think
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by anurag 17y ago
> However, with email, the only person who'll ever benefit is the recipient. I'm not sure that makes sense - if they add stemming, all users of GMail benefit. Going by your explanation, it wouldn't make sense to add any expensive fe
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by anurag 17y ago
pg said in an interview that there is no generic name for YC-like programs, and he likes it that way because whenever a new program copies them it is introduced as 'another YC-style firm'. 'Seed Accelerator' sounds interesting. I wonder if
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by anurag 17y ago
The US presidential election was won with influence and money. Would Obama have won as an independent candidate? In that sense, the election was indeed gamed. Andrew too, is trying to use his influence (his 4630 Twitter followers) to win vo
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by anurag 17y ago
Vote gamed: http://twitter.com/andrew_chen/status/2873238341
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Digitize Your Own Books: The Book Ripper Project(bkrpr.org)
25 points by anurag 17y ago|8 comments
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by anurag 17y ago
Link to the PyCon video (split into three parts): http://pycon.blip.tv/search?q=django+in+the+real+world
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by anurag 17y ago
In addition to being more nimble than the big players, Zoho also competes very aggressively on pricing. One way they can afford to do that is through their unique approach to hiring: "We hire young professionals whom others disregard. We do