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by mmelin 16y ago
And young people who have not had kids yet think that every diaper they come across needs changing. Good analogy.
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by mmelin 16y ago
What, you mean a Chinese emperor did not know the exact future date of the birth of Christ?
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by mmelin 16y ago
Sorry, I haven't been paying attention to my threads page. The only data that I have available is for the Swedish market. The Swedish Performing Rights Society, STIM, collect fees from everyone who plays music. This quote is from their annu
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Mac fandom taken too far: Cupidtino, dating site for Mac users(cupidtino.com)
6 points by mmelin 16y ago|2 comments
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by mmelin 16y ago
"Plaintiffs attempted to exploit this inexperience by arguing that open source software involved behavior that was, if not downright illegal, at least ethically dubious. They promoted the fallacy that open source distributors unfairly take
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by mmelin 16y ago
I think you'll find that an artist's income from 1 million Spotify plays far exceeds the equivalent income from ten plays at a radio station with 100,000 listeners.
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by mmelin 16y ago
Exactly. The problem with location-based advertising etc. has always been that you need users to willingly give up their location. The genius behind Foursquare (and the other services like it) is that giving up your location is the whole po
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by mmelin 17y ago
Yup, that worked. Lost password, enter the email you entered in the spreadsheet, boom.
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by mmelin 17y ago
So how can I claim my profile on this site?
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by mmelin 17y ago
Clickable: http://hnhackers.com
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EU telecom commissioner says ISPs will not be allowed to charge Google(ft.com)
3 points by mmelin 17y ago|2 comments
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by mmelin 17y ago
It really isn't my business, but why would you care about a $99/yr fee if you are going to be purchasing a new MBP and an iPhone or iPad? I just don't see why you'd wait for a $99 fee to be dropped before spending at least $2000 on hardware
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by mmelin 17y ago
That sounds awesome. I wish I was on the right side of the pond. Have you thought of putting some material online, or even taping the course? (of course, maybe you don't want to do that for the first iteration)
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by mmelin 17y ago
Sure, and of course since I was wrong this is correct. But my brain thought that the using the term token for a username was sufficiently distinct to maybe be a subtle hint as to the original author (especially given the original context of
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by mmelin 17y ago
No offense intended, it was just off the top of my head. Even though I do not think using a throwaway account would merit any embarrassment :)
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by mmelin 17y ago
I bet it's tokenadult. I do not have any other proof than the fact that I immediately thought of that username when I saw onetimetoken. :-)
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by mmelin 17y ago
I agree. The iCalendar specification allows for some crazy complexity, but I'm not sure I've seen a UI that allows you to use every feature possible with the spec. I'd think you could do a "discoverable" UI, where the default case is is rel
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by mmelin 17y ago
Examples of the classic form: http://www.taskcoach.org/screenshots/0.71.2-Windows_XP-Task_... http://crowdfavorite.com/images/screenshots/tasks/2.7/recur_...
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Ask HN: what do you think is the best UI for setting up recurrence?
4 points by mmelin 17y ago|3 comments
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by mmelin 17y ago
Very interesting. I would think that this could become frustrating to use with too many fields to fill out, but it definitely looks more inviting than a standard form. Now I'm just waiting for patio11 to apply his godlike A/B testing powers
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Apple has now sold 10 billion songs via iTunes(apple.com)
1 points by mmelin 17y ago|0 comments
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by mmelin 17y ago
Offtopic but irritating: the "print article" feature on ZDNet only prints the current "page" you're on and not the full article. I wonder who came up with that bright idea.
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by mmelin 17y ago
To be fair, The Black Swan doesn't talk about a black swan being rare. The point is that until black swans were discovered in Australia, everyone in the (civilized) world were completely convinced that swans could only be white. Black swans
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by mmelin 17y ago
I think this is a fantastic model and would love to see it more widely used. For example, a small portion of the tuition of Stanford and MIT students (among others) finance the creation and publication of free quality education material to
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by mmelin 17y ago
AuthSMTP is priced with a fixed number of "email From: addresses", but what they don't tell you on the pricing page is that you can add a whole domain (wildcard *@domain.com) and it just counts as one address. Looking at their pricing page
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by mmelin 17y ago
Using Ksplice means that you're letting a private company inject custom code directly into your running kernel. The paper explains that most Linux security updates are applied without modification, but some updates require Ksplice to write
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by mmelin 17y ago
Very cool. I'd guess you still want to reboot every once in a while to clean up memory, but since you won't have any security updates pending you can schedule the reboot at your leisure. The pessimist in me says to wait until a botched patc
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by mmelin 17y ago
I have the same problem. I find it difficult to keep up the motivation to do the boring work that makes the difference between cool side project and actual product. I think this in large part is because I do things alone, because I don't ha
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by mmelin 17y ago
The background of the icon is #000 but the footer background is slightly >#000, something like #111 or #222.
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by mmelin 17y ago
Visa calls it "Verified by Visa", actually. The common name is 3-D Secure. And yes, the implementation sucks, especially since you're dependent on the _issuing_ bank being able to keep their 3-D Secure server up (which serves the auth step)

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