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by hrabago 16y ago
I think the problem has been the overuse of bullet points. I'm sure there are times when they are appropriate, such as when these slides listed what CRAP means, but in most cases I've seen, the information would have presented better with
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by hrabago 16y ago
I typed in a URL, selected IE 6, clicked Go, but nothing happened. Did it submit the request? Did I go into a queue?
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by hrabago 16y ago
This is the part that disappoints me the most, especially after the toner ban. I would expect this from the third world country I came from, where actors win elections because they play likable characters in movies, but not here in the US.
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by hrabago 16y ago
I was just talking to my wife yesterday about this concept of "not for nerds, but rather for teens" when I was describing an iPhone app I'm working on. The app as it is now works exactly the way I want it to work, then I realized that I
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by hrabago 16y ago
People arguing that there wouldn't have been a collapse reminds me of people who think the Y2K problem was a myth created by the software industry to drum up some jobs.
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by hrabago 16y ago
This probably has to do with your privacy settings. I set it up so applications can get as little information from my profile as possible (though I hardly use any apps anyway). I tweaked them temporarily to get this to work, got my contac
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by hrabago 16y ago
In case you're not trolling... There is more to YCombinator than Hacker News. HN is just the social news website intended to serve the YCombinator crowd. Your best bet to learn more is to go to the YCombinator website; you know, the one w
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by hrabago 16y ago
Perhaps they are refering to 5.B of the JSPA, "License to Create Independent Implementations". Under 5.F there is also a description of the licensing of the RI and the TCK, but IANAL so I'm just guessing.
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by hrabago 16y ago
Wow, the list of excuses to not attempt a startup is getting shorter and shorter. Ideas? Check. (See HN the past few days) Page design? Check. (Web page templates with free samples) Hosting costs? Check. Now Free for a year with AWS without
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by hrabago 16y ago
They were serious about making the front page "look boring". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
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by hrabago 16y ago
It seems to me they could have supported lists better. I created a bunch of lists and try to make sure everyone is in the correct list, but most of my FB browsing is now through the iPhone app, which doesn't prompt me about this stuff. It
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by hrabago 16y ago
At 205 karma, I can see the arrows for downvoting now. The flag for comments had been available before, but like eogas, I didn't know how to access them.
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Ask HN: Where to submit an iPhone app for coverage?
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by hrabago 16y ago
I'm surprised at the size of the list here. Are all these sites legitimate, each with their own audience? I'm wondering if there are equivalents for iPhone apps (or mobile apps in general). Edit: Created a new post focusing on my mobile app
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by hrabago 16y ago
I've been curious about this for a while now. I'm at 192 right now. If I reach 200 while I can still reply to this thread, I'll post about it.
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by hrabago 16y ago
> It's a text editor at its heart. While I mostly agree that this is true, the best IDEs allow you to get your thoughts on the screen much quicker. This goes beyond allowing you to type faster. When I'm writing code, I find that a lot
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by hrabago 16y ago
I remember trying to understand DDE, then trying to understand OLE. I thought it was great, being able to use these technologies, and thinking about its potential. "Wow, I can write programs that other programs can interface with!" Then C
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by hrabago 16y ago
The problem is, with every iteration of API changes that FB makes, existing entries in such a forum would go obsolete. This could just increase confusion.
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by hrabago 16y ago
Somebody here once suggested categories, and I think there might be some merit to that idea. It allows more new and more front page stories (if there are both new and front pages for each category) and allows people to skip categories that
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by hrabago 16y ago
They knew the gig was up and decided to cash in before everyone realized they really weren't worth $33B.
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by hrabago 16y ago
Some are just compelled to act on their ideas. Unfortunately, it doesn't always result in success.
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by hrabago 16y ago
I launched Safari and used its Reader feature.
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by hrabago 16y ago
This is why we have more developers working for others instead of working for themselves. They're in big corporations, working on the latest version of whatever snoozefest their information infrastructure needs to just produce a better TPS
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by hrabago 16y ago
This is one of the big problems with app reviews. The ones who are satisfied for the most part won't bother. Unless you start experiencing problems, you likely won't even think about leaving reviews. (I suppose developers can try to counte
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by hrabago 16y ago
Karma is most significant yardstick in this community, so that is HN's way of saying that it matters. This is why PG says you have to be careful about what you measure [1], because then you tend to start optimizing for that. [1] http://w
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by hrabago 16y ago
To me, this is more of an example of how difficult it is to value arguments that sound, or actually are, valid. People who make really good arguments can certainly gain an advantage over people who can't formulate their thoughts into a conv
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by hrabago 16y ago
I still think (or hope) that something that better reflects a person's multiple networks can emerge and gain widespread use. For instance, I don't have all my coworkers on my Facebook friends list because I don't like to mix them in with m
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by hrabago 16y ago
> multiple networks, different levels of trust I keep waiting for either Facebook to solve this problem, or for someone else to solve it. Google comes closest with their social network concept. On the one hand, I hope they pull it off.
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by hrabago 16y ago
Apart from myself, I don't know anyone who uses ad-blockers. Almost everyone I know uses Facebook, including housewives who don't even have a computer in their homes. I don't doubt that a lot of people use ad-blockers, but I can't imagine
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by hrabago 16y ago
So Yahoo's problem was they were trying to get big, and one way was to call themselves a media company (earn ad dollars, avoid MS radar). However, by doing this, they stopped acting like a technology company, and lost their focus on techno

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