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541.
by cdr 17y ago
Steam is the most reasonable DRM I've seen. I don't mind it at all.
542.
by cdr 17y ago
You did that in 1996?
543.
by cdr 17y ago
It might work "awesomely" one some platforms, but the Nautilus integration is pretty buggy - it was a nightmare to try to get it working on my Ubunutu 09.04. I ended up having to just use the command line utility a user wrote.
544.
by cdr 17y ago
" even with premium parts"? The more the components cost, the more you save building it yourself. Dell makes the most sense for cheaper machines.
545.
by cdr 17y ago
It's news because HN lets you resubmit dupes after a year has passed since the last time it was up.
546.
by cdr 17y ago
"The plant is to be running before year's end. At first, the company will make only 'facing brick,' used on the outside of buildings, a $2 billion annual U.S. market. It plans to branch out into paving stones, roofing tile and other brick
547.
by cdr 17y ago
Both. Mint is by far the best known name in the segment, and now it has Intuit's name and dollars to push it.
548.
by cdr 17y ago
I was hoping it was a typo.
549.
by cdr 17y ago
Mint is likely going to rot, though, once most of the original people leave. That should give more than enough room to catch up. The hardest thing to fight will probably be the name recognition.
550.
by cdr 17y ago
Yodlee's frontend was ugly, clunky, and unfocused. Probably still is. UI was not their strength.
551.
by cdr 17y ago
If your university doesn't have MSDNAA - and almost any decent CompSci/IT/etc dept should have it - you can get MSDNAA through IEEE. I don't think there's any program requirement for IEEE other than being a current student. IEEE student me
552.
by cdr 17y ago
I've found very few places that are good about blocking all of the disposable e-mail domains - I can't recall ever finding a site that blocked all of them.
553.
by cdr 17y ago
From the video, that would appear to be a digital picture frame, not a "tablet".
554.
by cdr 17y ago
Wesabe is not a good competitor IMO. When it first released it had a lot of promise (philosophy of data freedom, etc). Unfortunately that's pretty much completely been lost, which I guess to some extent because some of it was too hard to be
555.
by cdr 17y ago
I'm not a security person - you're saying hashing is useless because an attacker could capture passwords before they were hashed? I think maybe you're over-thinking things. There have to be compromises that don't involve getting access to t
556.
by cdr 17y ago
If you're willing to pay $800, why not just pay someone to run a wire?
557.
by cdr 17y ago
I'm pretty involved with the tournament operation side of Magic - it hasn't died down, it's done pretty much nothing but grow. It's always bigger than it ever has been. Magic Online is actually quite worthwhile, especially if you don't have
558.
by cdr 17y ago
I volunteer for a huge corporation, along with hundreds of other people, to do things that couldn't be done if they had to pay employees. It's a hobby that has aspects of a side-job. I don't see why it couldn't work for Cuban. (Interestingl
559.
by cdr 17y ago
I don't see any evidence of it in his other submissions, so it probably wasn't intentional.
560.
by cdr 17y ago
Human psychology doesn't work that way, unfortunately - the most a person is willing to pay is generally not knowable ahead of time.
561.
by cdr 17y ago
It's actually been halved to -4 now.
562.
by cdr 17y ago
Oh joy, gimmick accounts. You can keep those to reddit, thanks.
563.
by cdr 17y ago
Tarsnap is probably the most "hackerish", but I use jungledisk and have been quite happy with it.
564.
by cdr 17y ago
Because HN is optimized for churn (constantly getting new stuff on the front page), and it only takes as a little as a single upvote to get something on the front page.
565.
by cdr 17y ago
Just do it - on the side - and then sell it.
566.
by cdr 17y ago
They always say they are - they spam craigslist every week like clockwork - but I haven't heard of anyone being hired in quite awhile. There were rumors of a undisclosed hiring freeze awhile back; I wonder if things ever got better.
567.
by cdr 17y ago
I've never seen justin.tv not hiring, and it always seems to be the same positions - do you guys actually hire people? :)
568.
by cdr 17y ago
Here's a reddit comment/thread on the patent: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/99utb/judge_ord...
569.
by cdr 17y ago
"threads" on the top bar shows you all your comments, with replies. This is all you need.
570.
by cdr 17y ago
The type of Hungarian notation Spolsky uses at Fog Creek is different than the Hungarian once pushed by Microsoft. He goes over that in the linked article. I'm not defending it - I've never tried it - but it obviously works for Joel. Also,

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