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by ecaron 16y ago
Thanks for the tip! I submitted the tip and will let you know if I hear anything back from them.
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by ecaron 16y ago
The PDF is linked to at http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/msg00316... . As of this moment, the link is now http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/pdf6cGj5... - I'm not sure if they rotate the URLs to preven
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Ask HN: Who would you send a tech-related investigative story tip to?
10 points by ecaron 16y ago|7 comments
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Creator of PHP talks to Digg about performance and security(about.digg.com)
50 points by ecaron 16y ago|58 comments
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by ecaron 16y ago
If I could make one point to everyone related to hiring, make sure that all the jobs you talk about are on your company's website and are in a search-engine-friendly format. I hear that whenever Eric Schmidt sees a job posting that's buried
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by ecaron 16y ago
Are you open to bartering? I'd trade a year's service for a pre-release of Jade Empire 2...
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North Korea's official website: A case of very <strong> web design(thedailywtf.com)
17 points by ecaron 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What if auto industry used agile instead of waterfall for car models?
3 points by ecaron 16y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 16y ago
What bug tracking systems are you basing your concept on? I'd love to know what you've not found in other systems that you are wanting in yours. Knowing, explaining and the demonstrating the differentiators is often the foundation for getti
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by ecaron 16y ago
Please don't anyone use this method. Anyone sniffing the network will see your username/password in plaintext. Twitter's example is very solid, incredibly secure, and still mostly just drop-n-go. You can see the PHP version at http://githu
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by ecaron 16y ago
Go for it! Amazon's track record in new media has been very solid. If you're nervous, push for more non-monetary perks (like giftcards for their video service or a chance to tour their HQ). Being their goto-guy for a new platform would pay
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by ecaron 16y ago
Don't go for startup #1 unless they're able to concisely explain what they did wrong. Typically a startup recoding from scratch means they're afraid to invest in good programmers (leaving too many cooks in the kitchen and a dish that needs
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by ecaron 16y ago
Adobe's Digital Editions ( http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ ) would be my starting point. Of course, the decision ultimately relies on how many you're going to sell ( <500 a month you can manually do these and save coin, m
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by ecaron 16y ago
* Use Google Apps instead of Office & mail server * Use Google Voice as your primary number (lets go migrate from Skype to whatever without any headaches down the road) * OpenDNS (more for the stats than the blocking/filtering capabilit
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by ecaron 16y ago
Do you have any specific threads to point to where you're experiencing this? I actually find that a lot of my comments get upvoted when they're out-of-line with the majority, but provide good counter-arguments. (I find that in-line-with-maj
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by ecaron 16y ago
No, you should learn Java instead. The leap from Python to C would be atrocious, but the leap from Python to Java would be feasible. (And if, after feeling comfortable with Java, the leap from Java to C becomes reasonable too). You'd want t
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by ecaron 16y ago
When professors started thinking of education as a secondary role to research. I'm positive if someone mapped the likelihood of cheating with a given professor against that professor's workload, there would be a correlation too heavy to mis
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Charity store uses RFID tags to give items a back-story(springwise.com)
1 points by ecaron 16y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 16y ago
Or how small your head is.
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HTC 1(designfabulous.blogspot.com)
247 points by ecaron 16y ago|127 comments
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by ecaron 16y ago
This is actually the only reason we're still running a ColdFusion server. About once every 6 months I look at the options out there, but until the FSF gets the momentum going behind GNU PDF ( http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
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by ecaron 16y ago
The two coolest are: http://www.veer.com/products/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR00054... - which is for the font-a-holics and shows Helvetica on the side in Light, Regular, Bold and Black (get it?) http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_f
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by ecaron 16y ago
I called it WorkSearch: http://www.linkup.com/worksearch/ Basically it is a timer for jobseekers that runs in the background, to push them to spend a longer amount of time hunting for a job than they normally would (even if it isn't on ou
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by ecaron 16y ago
Other good links for learning about webfinger are http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ and http://www.abstractioneer.org/2009/04/personal-web-discovery... .
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by ecaron 16y ago
In the same way that Internet Explorer's 98% market share was problematic, and that the web is a better place with competition/awareness of browser choice. As it is now, few consumer know of options other than Reader. (And anybody who's had
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by ecaron 16y ago
The Free Software Foundation agrees with this, too. That's why their #1 "High Priority Free Software Project(s)" is GNU PDF: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/index_html/#g... The problem isn't with PDF itself, but more PDF v
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by ecaron 16y ago
We bought a 20x20 spot (JobDig, if you can find it on the page you have too much free time). All we got out of it was a bunch of spam from all the 50k homepages and things like that... The reward from it was we bought the person who made th
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Best Buy telling new Android buyers they need antivirus(bbyfeed.com)
2 points by ecaron 16y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 16y ago
You could also reduce the list to: 1) Root* your phone or install Froyo 2) Install ShootMe ( http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bw-picme-loc... ) *: If you're reading this thread, and you have an Android but it isn't rooted, yo
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by ecaron 16y ago
I know the screenshots in the store are lopsided, and yes we have an Android app already ( http://linkup.com/android ). We're working on a HTML5-enhanced version for the site, but until then I hope people find this useful. There are 2 other

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