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Ask HN: How much money would it take to get into hardware?
15 points by mcav 18y ago|10 comments
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by mcav 18y ago
As far as social networking sites go, I think Facebook has done well: They maintain the largest database of former/current contacts available, while encouraging a "real name" policy so that I always know who I'm talking to (as opposed to a
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by mcav 18y ago
I don't watch old-school cartoons much, but I do enjoy shows like Family Guy, which has quite a bit of absurdity itself.
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How to Make Adsense Ads Open in a Popup Window(marcuscavanaugh.com)
1 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 18y ago
Valuable: Time. Friendship. Backups. Moore's law. Coffee. Unwanted: Excess red tape. Non-deterministic bugs. Win32. IE. Reality TV. Murphy's law.
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Ask HN: Finding an ad network for my startup (other than Adsense)
3 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 18y ago
If Apple's proprietary tendencies ever catch up to it, at least we'll have something guaranteed to be free (Linux) and of continually-increasing quality. Despite Apple's flaws though, it still makes great software thus far.
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by mcav 18y ago
At least with web-based iPhone apps you can use something like Fluid to create a site-specific browser to view the iPhone version of websites on your desktop.
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by mcav 18y ago
Yeah. Well, look at it this way... if anyone asks about Erlang again, we can just point them to searchyc and they'll have all the info they'd ever care to read. I still have "Programming Erlang" sitting on my shelf... I'll get to it someday
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by mcav 18y ago
You might find this useful for more stories also, though it doesn't hurt to ask again: http://searchyc.com/post+mortem
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by mcav 18y ago
> We have 100 Google Voice accounts to give out to readers, but you must have a gmail account. If you’d like one, please send an email from your gmail account to techcrunch@gmail.com (note that this isn’t an account we check regularly)
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by mcav 18y ago
I didn't really notice, though I saw that PG mentioned he might. Unfortunately that's just a short-term bandage; hopefully PG will come up with a more long-term solution for growth. HN will keep on growing, slowly but surely, unless PG choo
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by mcav 18y ago
looks down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/developer.apple.com
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New iPod Shuffle that Speaks Song Titles(apple.com)
1 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 18y ago
Interesting, thanks. I actually didn't switch to Mac until a year or two ago, and previously I had a tablet PC. I really liked Microsoft's approach to ink, but alas I couldn't read my handwriting. Plus the laptop itself had poor battery lif
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Teen-created Muziic likely to irk YouTube(cnn.com)
1 points by mcav 18y ago|2 comments
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by mcav 18y ago
I would be surprised if many actually prefer Windows over OS X or Linux (in our demographic at least). I use Windows only to test for IE. If I were to develop a new desktop application today, I would either develop for Mac exclusively or
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by mcav 18y ago
Not in each post, but the "comments" link at the top shows new comments chronologically on the entire site.
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by mcav 18y ago
With the LGPL, you can keep your own code closed-source, but you must dynamically link the QT library. That means that your program must require QT's DLL file to run. If your program still works without QT's DLL file present on your system,
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by mcav 18y ago
You could probably do that with Yahoo Pipes. I use a feed that pulls in the article's comments page (because I read comments first): http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=23159aed1a913917f...
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by mcav 18y ago
Perhaps a more interesting solution: Make article points equal the total number of points in comments. (Naturally that's not a perfect solution either.)
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by mcav 18y ago
More people would comment just for the sake of commenting. Comment quality would suffer.
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by mcav 18y ago
Treat your anxiety like you would any coding problem: Consider your anxiety's symptoms as problems in an issue tracker. For every thing that makes you anxious, stop and think: Is this a true, valid, legitimate [health] concern? If so, addre
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by mcav 18y ago
So, given that demo, does a single SSD perform substantially better enough on a normal laptop to warrant the expenditure yet? (Last I heard, standard advice was to wait until the price drops.)
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by mcav 18y ago
Brilliant.
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by mcav 18y ago
That's a good idea, but when I bought a laser printer (a Brother) last year, I was disappointed with its quality. (Seemed dim and/or pixelated.) Any recommendations for a reasonable laser?
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by mcav 18y ago
HTML5 allows "data" attributes: any attribute starting with "data-" can be used for that purpose. Those fields are accessible via node.getAttribute() and also node.dataset. But it does not automatically parse JSON. More info: http://ejohn.
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by mcav 18y ago
HTML5 seems different than ECMAScript 4 in that it proposes substantial, widely beneficial, updates to HTML that would do the web itself a lot of good. Standardized, yet open , enhancements for the web: video, audio, sockets, cross-window
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by mcav 18y ago
I'm not either, yet -- but I'm tryin'. (Hey, Emacs still sits on my dock, and that's a start...)
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by mcav 18y ago
(NB: This was from 2006.)

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