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by fharper1961 16y ago
I just tried a high traffic site that runs on App Engine (appbrain.com). It used to feel a bit slow, and now it really flies. It definitely makes me reconsider using App Engine for new projects. Disclaimer: I have no connection to Appbrain
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by fharper1961 16y ago
I agree. If HR won't even accept PDFs that's a very bad sign!
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by fharper1961 16y ago
Oops, thanks for pointing that one out!
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by fharper1961 16y ago
HN is already monetized, albeit indirectly, through discrete and relevant references to YC products. For example the reference to Leftronic in this post.
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by fharper1961 16y ago
It's Windows only; which you did mention, but only at the very end of your comment.
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by fharper1961 16y ago
Danilo, If the App store was so good for you, why didn't you continue developing for the App store into 2010?
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by fharper1961 16y ago
I take a 20 minute nap almost every day, and I'm quite sure that I'm much more productive because of it! I'm looking for a new gig in Paris now... my chances of getting hired would probably be infinitesimal if one of my interview questions
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by fharper1961 16y ago
Thank's so much for your generosity Jacques! I'd like frank.ww.com CNAME theharpers.biz. If frank isn't good then frankh or fharper.
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by fharper1961 16y ago
I am actually storing one of my hg repositories on Dropbox. I don't really see the advantage of having a separate "local" repo. either. I hope I'm not missing something...
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by fharper1961 17y ago
I have also requested this change. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one.
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Hard to tell until you've tried. I guess you can imagine it's your lover touching you.
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by fharper1961 18y ago
The Drag drop Upload add-on takes care of that quite nicely. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2190
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by fharper1961 18y ago
I have learned the Persian alphabet in the last year or so. At first I avoided learning it because it seemed like a daunting task. But once I figured out that I'd be better off knowing the alphabet, it wasn't hard at all. There are only a v
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Speaking of the design of Hacker News. I think that not having a footer that gives visual feedback that you've reached the end of the page is a glaring usability flaw! On HN, when you scroll down page by page and you reach the bottom there
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by fharper1961 18y ago
It sent me to a windows pong game...
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Paris, and the Parisian life-style are very different from the rest of France. The article was more about cafés in small towns/villages. I don't think parisians are going to replace their cafés by Starbucks within the next 20 or 30 years.
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Thanks for the great link. The correct link is actually http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php The graphs alone should open the eyes of any who defends the current US system. Of course Cuba and the US are both outliers. But realistically the U
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Yeah, just don't tell any Persians that they're similar to Arabs; unless you wan them to feel insulted that is. Suppose you're from the USA, how would you feel if someone says you're similar to Mexicans?
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by fharper1961 18y ago
I'm wondering how someone who might be interested could get in touch with you . . .
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Unions in the US appear to be pretty screwed up. I see a union as a way of obtaining a balance of power between powerful corporations and individual employees. The reason US unions are bad are - you can't generally choose between competing
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by fharper1961 18y ago
See below definitions of commodity from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/commodity None of them correspond with turkishrevenge's idea of what the word means. - Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. - Something useful or valuabl
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by fharper1961 18y ago
What I don't grasp, is how it would be possible to avoid the free spectrum being abused in a tragedy of the commons scenario? Being able to send e-mail around the world for free was great... until spammers made it less great by abusing the
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by fharper1961 18y ago
I'm using the same laptop + external monitor setup, but I'd actually like to use two external monitors. For me, screen space and RAM are the two important factors.
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by fharper1961 18y ago
When Apple uses standard technology they leave themselves open to competition from clones. I think this is a strategic move to avoid that possibility.
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by fharper1961 18y ago
What this and other articles on the subject don't seem to explain very well, is why this has happened. A 1973 article from Time concluded : "Today, outside the mortgage field, U.S. usury laws are full of holes; business loans, car loans and
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by fharper1961 18y ago
The big difference I see is that you can have several competing knols on the same or overlapping subjects. Big consequences - you don't need to spend a lot of time and effort enforcing NPOV through consensus - people can express their own P
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by fharper1961 18y ago
Add a footer to the comments page. Justification : When I page down and hit the end of a page of comments, there is no visual cue in the page telling me that I'm at the bottom. Since I think I've gone down a full page, I lose track of where
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by fharper1961 18y ago
One thing nobody seems to mention is that the owner has to pay for the maintenance of the home, while the renter doesn't. Over a 30 year period there will be quite a lot to do.
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by fharper1961 18y ago
The problem with listening to a radio is that it's going to go on all night, or until it wakes you up again. I just play a podcast or a playlist of sleep music on my iPhone in speaker mode (no headphones).
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by fharper1961 19y ago
I agree with slim, you definitely need to give people a better idea of what to expect out of the game. Watching videos is too time consuming for many people if they have no idea if they'll be interested (it takes minutes). In comparison, sc

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