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by estel 15y ago
The Kindle version is of the 1998 edition and is available in the US only; which is more than a bit rubbish.
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by estel 15y ago
This is the key point isn't it? For so many services whose core demographic is not HN readers, vast numbers of the customers will prefer to use a telephone over anything else. Even I will occasionally prefer to call if there's an issue with
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by estel 15y ago
Looks like it was supposed to be internal only: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/bwJ7kAEL...
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by estel 15y ago
He's posted saying that it was meant to be available internally only, but didn't set his permissions correctly: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/bwJ7kAEL...
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by estel 15y ago
It's pretty hard to form an opinion from a website with absolutely zero information on it.
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by estel 15y ago
That might be a valid analogy if we lived in a world where the majority of cars were bought simply to prevent other people from getting it instead.
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by estel 15y ago
CSS Web fonts have been in IE since (essentially) forever, and the :before / :after pseudo-element since IE8.
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by estel 15y ago
The price increase is because Amazon don't have an ad-supported network for non-US territories; so the $79 Kindle becomes the $109 Kindle. The UK store is selling this Kindle for £89. Are you really that surprised that Amazon add $50 for sh
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by estel 15y ago
Nor is the Kindle Fire.
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by estel 15y ago
I'd be interested to see what % of Kindle users make use of the Keyboard. I'm pretty sure that I've only ever touched it for inputting URIs when web-browsing from abroad.
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by estel 15y ago
Sadly it seems they've said they're not providing one.
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by estel 15y ago
The actual press event is starting in five minutes. There's no livestream, but various blogs: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/live-from-amazons-tablet-...
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by estel 15y ago
Is there a problem with having diversity in the market? Whilst I can always wish that every development studio were developing games to suit my needs and tastes; obviously it's far better that there are a range of studios producing a range
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by estel 15y ago
Presumed pro: Spotify said at f8 that users who engaged socially with Spotify through their existing facebook functionality bother listened to more music and were much (I think they said 2x) more likely to pay for a premium membership. If a
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by estel 15y ago
The tradeoff between "Lost registrations" and "Extra engagement through everyone having a linked Facebook account" must be an interesting one.
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by estel 15y ago
Uhh, only if you regularly search for everyone you know you were previously friends to, yes.
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by estel 15y ago
It's definitely a stupid url, but the site is entirely SFW.
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The World of Tomorrow - 1981 school text book(goaste.cx)
3 points by estel 15y ago|2 comments
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by estel 15y ago
To say that Windows is a perfectly competent and acceptable server OS that is the equal of Linux for the majority of usecases is a different proposition from saying that you must use Windows on [your] backend , or should shoehorn Windows
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by estel 15y ago
What do you think makes it inferior and mediocre?
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by estel 15y ago
I've been wondering that about webOS. I've started making a few apps that fill my own personal wants for the platform; and it seems that in the short-term it's a platform primed for opportunistic development. Hundreds of thousands of consum
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by estel 15y ago
Is it really the best idea to auto-play music? It feels like a web design cardinal sin.
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by estel 15y ago
Link for the UK store: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-B...
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by estel 15y ago
Given that the op mentioned that he was an Android developer, it's worth noting that the Android SDK possibly has the very worst testing environment of any widely used system on the planet ever* . * possibly an exaggeration, but it's defin
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by estel 15y ago
A call for donations is always fair, but I'm confused by: I *have* to go to the (clojure/conj), but the total cost of the journey is above what I can reasonably afford right now. Why have ? I don't get it.
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by estel 15y ago
I had a similar issue with Cufon, and it was resolved with a graphics driver update. Perhaps try that? Not that it isn't a hideous piece of software that has no place in the web eco-system.
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by estel 15y ago
Love the idea! But please can you make the map the default action for mousewheel scrolling? I want to zoom into the map, rather than up and down a page I'm not going to read anyway.
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by estel 15y ago
Convenient you mention that, given another box set of the original trilogy is coming out... today!
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by estel 15y ago
Peculiar: in FF5 I don't see the alert, but do see it in view source.
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by estel 15y ago
No proven benefits? Not exactly a surprise for a language whose announcement has only just been announced.

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