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by neotek 14y ago
How about audio transcoding? At my music startup we're building a transcoding backend that will take in FLAC, AIFF, or WAV and spit out MP3, FLAC, AAC, ALAC, and OGG files for people to download, and I'd kill for a transcoding service with
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by neotek 14y ago
Which is why we need an Australian-focused HN-like community. The startup industry in Australia is just warming up, but there's nowhere to go to share information in the same way that US startups have HN, at least nowhere that I've found.
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Australian startup accelerator announces entrants for 2013 program(innovyzstart.com)
2 points by neotek 14y ago|2 comments
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by neotek 14y ago
Al Franken describes it best in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : "They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do, but in a differenct way. You see, they love America the way a four-year-old loves her mommy. [We] love A
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Ask HN: Can you critique my accelerator application video?
1 points by neotek 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: If it's worth doing, is it worth doing simpler?
2 points by neotek 14y ago|1 comments
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by neotek 14y ago
Head over to http://m.google.com/sync on your phone and you can change the settings to allow proper deletion.
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by neotek 14y ago
If someone sent you a contract to sign, do you think you could scribble your own terms all over it and sign it and have that hold any weight? You can't unilaterally modify the terms of a contract, both parties have to sign and agree.
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by neotek 14y ago
I wonder how much testing they did before releasing this. As developers we often have a blindness to the way users see things compared to how we see them, especially if we're in love with our ideas.
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by neotek 14y ago
Reminds me of a joke: Knock knock? Who's there? [thirty second pause] Java.
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by neotek 14y ago
I don't understand this sentiment. Good riddance to what, exactly? A simple and universal method of quick communication between literally every cellphone in the world?
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by neotek 14y ago
"Ew"? Flash is practically ubiquitous, works reliably and predictably in both modern and legacy browsers, and is used as a fallback for HTML5 by tech giants like Google. No need to let your prejudice get in the way.
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by neotek 14y ago
Every day, in every way, we get better and better.
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by neotek 14y ago
Interestingly enough, it doesn't appear that Kim owns me.ga anyway - it redirects to a twitter profile[1] which claims: "To our gabonese friends: have no fear, me.ga is in safe hands, the megaman @KimDotcom has no control over the me.ga dom
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Kim Dotcom's new Me.ga site barred by Gabon(theregister.co.uk)
50 points by neotek 14y ago|22 comments
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by neotek 14y ago
It's disturbing just how bad some of ImageShack's code is, not only from a functional standpoint but from an aesthetic one too.
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by neotek 14y ago
Actually, it's the basis of every just legal system in the world. You don't try a man on his past convictions, you try him on the evidence.
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by neotek 14y ago
>without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record. What a frightening way to think.
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by neotek 14y ago
At the risk of crying "ad hominem", can you explain why his personal desires render his claims invalid?
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by neotek 14y ago
The studies I've read from the Motor Accident Commission and the Victorian police here in Australia show a clear correlation between speed cameras and reduced incidences of accidents and fatalities, so yes, I support speed cameras. Having s
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by neotek 14y ago
I wonder how it looks when you're driving behind someone with one of these and it goes off. Would it be powerful or surprising enough to distract a driver or cause a temporary blind spot? Also, I'm surprised there are no provisions in the l
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by neotek 14y ago
What do record labels bring to the table now? They provide the capital to record an album (or at least the studio that can record it), and a complex distribution channel to get albums on shelves and tracks on the airwaves. The distribution
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by neotek 14y ago
The people who use Bountify (ie, programmers) will almost certainly know what Bootstrap is, and that stereotypical Bootstrap "look" gives the impression of laziness and a lack of care. Whether that impression is correct or not is debatable,
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by neotek 14y ago
It would be matter of hours, maybe minutes, before a new domain and IP were up and running and thousands of blogs and news sites all over the internet would report on TBP's new location.
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by neotek 14y ago
I still have 'username', 'email', and 'password' fields in the form but I hide those elements with CSS, which no scraper is going to bother parsing. When the registration form is submitted the account is essentially hellbanned, they can 'ac
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by neotek 14y ago
CAPTCHA seems relatively pointless at stopping spammers since there are dozens of online services that use human labour to solve them for a dollar per thousand. In tests on my own sites I've found that introducing reCAPTCHA during the regis
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by neotek 14y ago
The Microbee was my first computer, bought by my mother from the school she taught at when the school was replacing them with Apples. I came home one day and there it was on a little desk just high enough for me to sit at, and I was so exci
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by neotek 14y ago
The problem is you're much less likely to engage with or take notice of a five minute ad at the beginning of a show, you'll get up and make a cup of tea or browse HN in the background while you wait. There's also not much an advertiser can
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by neotek 14y ago
Users regularly express frustration with the inaccurate way Windows calculates time estimates on file transfers and the fact that you can't add or remove files in the queue without using a third party application like Teracopy.
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by neotek 14y ago
I recently switched to Sublime Text[1] as my editor of choice, and one of the available packages is a macro that runs CSS blocks through prefixr[2]. It's been an absolute godsend (and Sublime Text in general is ... sublime.) [1] http://www

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