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721.
by mcav 17y ago
That was hard for me to follow at times, but man, that writing style was pretty cool.
722.
by mcav 17y ago
Agreed. I recently added emoticons to my startup -- ran into the same issue myself.
723.
by mcav 17y ago
Actually, I've got to correct myself a little -- looks like Skype uses it for crying: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/allfeatures/emoticons/
724.
by mcav 17y ago
It's fairly common -- less so than :) and ;), though. Usually it's a typo, but sometimes people use it for humor or satire about something negative.
725.
by mcav 17y ago
Would be better if it could also upload to Facebook, Vimeo, etc.
726.
by mcav 17y ago
> remember that the iPhone is highly based on OSS Based on, yes. But the stuff that makes the iPhone an iPhone -- Cocoa, multitouch, etc. -- is far from open.
727.
by mcav 17y ago
It was posted recently ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666611 ). But sometimes a lot of XML rantiness isn't a bad thing. <grin>
728.
by mcav 17y ago
Well-written. We're eventually going to reach a point where most people actually know their way around technology. At some point, everyone will have grown up with technology, and their lives' intertwining with the internet will be second na
729.
by mcav 17y ago
> You know the "And if you order a large pizza we'll throw in a free small coke at no extra charge?" deals you hear all the time. The small coke is omake. I'd call that an "added bonus", i think.
730.
by mcav 17y ago
Most of my friends don't use Twitter. To them, Facebook is good enough. They want to broadcast status updates to their friends; their friends are on facebook; thus Twitter is redundant to them. EDIT: Incidentally, I think that if Twitter ha
731.
by mcav 17y ago
Right; that was intended to mean that people sometimes use them for disagreement, despite that they probably shouldn't. Any thoughts on a better wording?
732.
by mcav 17y ago
Python has cool, witty Zen. This is not as cool and hardly witty, but I figured I'd take a stab at it and let the rest of you improve or rewrite it. It's on GitHub, and I'm no poet, so feel free to edit/fork/dismiss as you see fit.
733.
The Zen of HN(github.com)
182 points by mcav 17y ago|46 comments
734.
The Internet’s Payload(tbray.org)
1 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
735.
by mcav 17y ago
I don't understand it either. You somehow have to differentiate the tag from the content; maybe he wanted to reduce the redundancy of the open/close tags. Something like CSS: h1 { this is a header } p { this is the content. }
736.
New Features on Google Books(booksearch.blogspot.com)
14 points by mcav 17y ago|3 comments
737.
by mcav 17y ago
Against, personally.
738.
by mcav 17y ago
Maybe a really annoying "upgrade your browser" message that doesn't ever go away?
739.
Logical Fallacies Explained via Video(hulu.com)
1 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
740.
by mcav 17y ago
Do many of you still use IM other than Facebook regularly? I used to, but most of my peers have dropped off AIM/MSN. And perhaps more generally, I've found that Twitter/Facebook let me keep control of my time rather than the synchronous "
741.
by mcav 17y ago
This disables visual voicemail. It did for me at least -- i had a backlog of messages I never saw until I realized what the problem was.
742.
by mcav 17y ago
iTunes doesn't come-to-front when you click its Dock icon if it has a window open already.
743.
by mcav 17y ago
That's good — you've had better luck than I. It has crashed somewhat randomly from time to time for me, usually when I'm working with a lot of files or doing a search. Search works well for me, but it's sometimes slow and could be designed
744.
by mcav 17y ago
You haven't run into crashes or been disappointed in its search feature?
745.
Erlang Style Actors Are All About Shared State(james-iry.blogspot.com)
4 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
746.
by mcav 17y ago
Sounds like a story Raymond Chen would tell. I don't know how an IE8 installation would somehow mess with boot.ini, but it would be interesting to find out the true cause of such an odd bug.
747.
by mcav 17y ago
Looks hand-drawn to me; all the T's are different.
748.
Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple(marco.org)
2 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
749.
Facebook Usernames and OpenID(simonwillison.net)
2 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
750.
Cascading Failure (on Google's Malware Detection)(bogost.com)
1 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments

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