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541.
Command line google search in a shell with perl(stefan.grothkopp.com)
8 points by growt 17y ago|2 comments
542.
by growt 17y ago
I don't think this is a hack. it's documented api behavior: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocati...
543.
by growt 17y ago
if they syndicate their content, maybe the reason for de-indexing was duplicate content (the content on IMDB would rank higher I guess).
544.
by growt 17y ago
Vote me down, but RoR and solid Product don't go hand in hand for me.
545.
by growt 17y ago
I like it! It would be great if you could add a big play button, that plays 10 seconds of song A and then 10 seconds of song B (or whatever timespan the submitter defines).
546.
by growt 17y ago
http://www.swoopo.com/ But it depends on the meaning of "best" ;)
547.
by growt 17y ago
I don't know if I have ADD, but I get easily dis
548.
by growt 17y ago
First Vint Cerf, now Don Dodge. Am I the only one who thinks google hires people 'by name'. At least for the evangelist positions (what ever that means).
549.
by growt 17y ago
Ecco makes shoes btw, so the intersection might be indeed quite small ;)
550.
by growt 17y ago
Not sure if its a good idea to replace human waiters (other than for the show effect). When 'donatos' tried to open in germany I went there and was very uncomfortable to order by phone and sit alone at a table the whole time. I think they c
551.
by growt 17y ago
She was the female Batman! secretly helping people at night ...
552.
by growt 17y ago
these symbolic raised hands you use in your design signal 'stop' or 'wait' to me. Maybe change them to something more descriptive.
553.
Ask HN: Should Amazon sell the kindle like the iphone?
2 points by growt 17y ago|0 comments
554.
by growt 17y ago
Google isn't allowed to use the name 'gmail' in germany because someone owned the trademark 'g-mail ... und die post geht richtig ab' (or something similar). So the big guy doesnt always win and an exclamation mark doesnt make a difference.
555.
by growt 17y ago
We had two of those volunteers when I ran a rather large website. And it was a realy positive experience. We gave them admin rights to subsections of the site (message board, etc.) and they did a really great job. So no horror stories from
556.
by growt 17y ago
#1 Rule of programming ist. Don't talk about programming. #2 Rule of programming ist. Don't talk about programming. Was intendet to be funny, but I just realised it makes a lot of sense.
557.
by growt 17y ago
sorry didn't see that. fixed it.
558.
by growt 17y ago
SPOILERS AHEAD: Maybe Vonnegut is over my head but throwing a cat over a wall that scratches someone later and showing pictures of people to known paranoiacs with the intention to get them killed seem like two very different things.
559.
by growt 17y ago
"What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?" http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brecht
560.
by growt 17y ago
I agree. My personal example: google contacts. I updated all my contacts to have a photo. However in Gmail-Chat some of those photos do not appear. If I click on the empty photo in the chat I'm taken to the contact details and there is the
561.
by growt 17y ago
see: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/08/23/...
562.
by growt 17y ago
Box for 'Yo Mom' needs to be bigger! ;)
563.
by growt 17y ago
translate related words to Swahili and look what sounds nice.
564.
by growt 17y ago
Hey Sachin, was that a picture of "Schloss Neuschwanstein" you uploaded by iphone?
565.
by growt 17y ago
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840868
566.
by growt 17y ago
To me it sounds a little bit like: Why get a divorce? Just keep your new girl on the side as an affair and see if it works out.
567.
by growt 17y ago
Apps like Twitter and Facebook need a critical mass of users to function ("all my friends are there"). But online project management works if you use it just for your team. So don't think your examples match this situation. You're right wit
568.
by growt 17y ago
I was more referring to the parent comment and all the people that upvoted his comment and the submission.
569.
by growt 17y ago
There will always be someone who hasn't seen it before. And if you don't take time into account you'll end up with a bunch of articles that appeal to the general audience and end up on the frontpage every month. For me thats pretty annoying
570.
by growt 17y ago
I think C++ bashing is getting old. It's like Microsoft bashing: everybody does it but 99% don't really know what they are talking about.

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