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by elai 18y ago
This seems like a part of google finance's news view (except with more news). What I liked about google finance is how it pegged news articles with exact times on the market. Yours might have more articles, but I don't see how it's that m
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by elai 18y ago
That's really sad. But 71 isn't that bad.
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by elai 18y ago
For me, I was starting to get wrist pain with my mousing. I purchased 12 different mice, tried them all out, keeping note of how I felt in my hand. I eventually found out that really large mice is what work for me. The M$ intellimouse ex
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by elai 18y ago
I like 'things' for single person task tracking. It follows GTD and it's the best GTD app I've used. I use it regularly and daily. Unfortunately, the team functions are not implemented in it, but for personal tasks (not tickets), it's qu
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by elai 18y ago
Flying is a real PITA. To just take off with a GA plane, you have to do 20-30 minutes of setup pre and after takeoff. You have to register a flight plan with whatever country nav system your with. Your also usually restricted to semi-rur
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by elai 18y ago
That robotron game that was on news.yc is a game startup. Gaming startups usually start out as guys making a game, and then either hitting it big and being bought out (counterstrike), making a profitable game to sell or getting nowhere, or
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by elai 18y ago
Why don't we just rename the table tag "grid" and just be honest about what it is. That way, it can either be a layout grid, or a tabular data grid.
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by elai 18y ago
Tables give you abritary grids, a very important design tool. CSS doesn't do as well. People turn to CSS frameworks to make it happen.
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by elai 18y ago
Wow, I couldn't see how that is worth 1.7 million dollars. Even if it was made out of pure uranium, you had to buy the master watchmaker's equipment and pay him for 3 months straight.
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by elai 18y ago
Tucker max has a good forum post on where the leeway is: http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showthread.php?t=3032 1. If I know I am totally innocent, I am totally honest with the cops 2. If you are kinda guilty, i.e., you did something wro
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by elai 18y ago
And then they'll go back to apple, when they realize that telecoms or portal sites would take minimum 50% anyway. And there's marketing.
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by elai 18y ago
AWESOME GAME! Wayy better than 95% of the flash games out there.
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by elai 18y ago
For on the fly css editing, you can use cssedit2. It's alot better than firebug's css editing, although firebug still has a bunch of useful features (like showing the box model attributes of a DOM item). And CSSEdit2 use's safari as it's
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by elai 18y ago
This might be my ignorance of virtual machines, but what prevents vm authors to compile bytecode into asm??
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by elai 18y ago
But, with the iphone, you have a userbase that will have an easily available way to get the programs. Almost no one in canada installs java programs at all. All the money is in the default blackberry apps. It's the difference between a f
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by elai 18y ago
Why didn't you run the program on a jailbroken iphone? The performance characteristics/quirks/etc would be far more similar to the "official iphone" vs. the simulator
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by elai 18y ago
You don't notice the rapture of the nerds themes in 'the singularity'? Or the 'god like powers' themes of the singularity? That is totally a religious pattern of thought.
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by elai 18y ago
Where I work too, there are designers who do mockups (in photoshop) who hand it off to developers to create them in HTML/CSS. They understand HTML enough although to not do bone headed designs that are really convulted to do. It saves me
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by elai 18y ago
Press the plus sign bottom left and add a "local copy" bookmark. You have to do it one at a time although >.<. They should add a mass add.
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by elai 18y ago
SVN is what many 'ugly majority' corporations are starting to move to. Now that is stable and big enough and has enough mindshare to become "the default".
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by elai 18y ago
This is beauty of the 9 to 5: * 7am: Wake up, read HN, eat/get dressed/etc * 8:20am: get on bicycle, bike to work (30min exercise) * 8:50am: get clean * 9am: work (code for 90% of the time) * 4:50pm: stop work * 5:00pm: bicycle back home (3
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by elai 18y ago
If your going to use craiglist for appartments, use craiglist appartments on google maps, alot nicer! http://www.housingmaps.com/
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by elai 18y ago
To be honest, I believe that all intelligence comes from innate motivations and practice. You suddenly become 10x more "intelligent" when you actually give a shit or get some innate joy or obsession relieved when you do it. If that is som
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by elai 18y ago
Yeah, especially if you don't drink alcohol. I've heard that around 24/25 is when people get over the novelty of it and start not caring about it as much. Maybe you can move to a country where nobody drinks. I can't think of one that isn
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by elai 18y ago
Glasses are horribly, horribly overpriced in North America. They only really cost $15 dollars max to get a decent looking frame with anti-reflective & anti-scratch coating with a prescription as high as -8. (zennioptical.com)
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by elai 18y ago
Actually nowadays, firefox is 1/5th of the browser market. It's a significant chunk of the market.
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by elai 18y ago
By looking the company up in the phone book/internet and calling from there. There might be some cases where endless bureaucracy might get in your way, but in most, it wont.
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by elai 18y ago
Whats so freaky about teaching yourself?! Learning college level material isn't some mystical magical thing that you need the professor who holds the keys to teach you! Unless they are the only repository of information and no textbook ex
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by elai 18y ago
Dont be the kind of employer that asks for a week long project as a resume. That's just irritating.
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by elai 18y ago
If they didn't add so much nickle and diming bullshit, I bet their customer service costs would go waaaayyy down. Most of the cell phone confusion from the large amount of confusing restrictions and nickle and diming.

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