nkohari

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by nkohari 16y ago
It's a vicious cycle. If I felt that the platform had a future, I would devote some of my .NET abilities towards developing for it. But I don't, so I don't bother. Just like with the Zune, Microsoft came too late to the party with a reasona
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by nkohari 16y ago
Bullshit. If you write something and publish it to the world, you can't just take it back. You can edit it, publish corrections, or clarify your position, but you can't un-publish something unless you get lucky and no one noticed before you
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by nkohari 16y ago
Isn't this poll going to be extremely biased towards people reading it on the main site, since that's the only place you can comment? :)
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by nkohari 16y ago
You're still outsourcing if you go with a managed dedicated hosting service, or even if you buy hardware and colocate it. Even if you owned the datacenter and the entire backbone, you're still banking on everyone else not fucking up their e
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by nkohari 16y ago
It's not just build quality, it's also aesthetics. You say you can't speak for design, but that's what most people care about more than the ability to bounce their laptop off of concrete. That's why the average consumer isn't in the market
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by nkohari 16y ago
You're assuming that the OP has heard of thrsti. Shockingly, not everyone on the internet has heard of or cares what you're working on.
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by nkohari 16y ago
Pendulum lyrics. Good stuff. :)
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by nkohari 16y ago
Why in the world would they support a 10+ year old technology that's been replaced by a technology (ASP.NET WebForms) that's now also widely considered outdated?
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by nkohari 16y ago
Now you just need some people to actually buy WP7 phones.
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by nkohari 16y ago
It's actually more like saying a Lamborghini sucks because the steering wheel is square. It's a very basic feature of the language, and not one that you can avoid using.
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by nkohari 16y ago
I think you should emphasize The Four Hour Body link more, because it's confusing what a PAGG stack is. That being said, be careful to put a disclaimer that the site isn't affiliated with the author/publisher.
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by nkohari 16y ago
I definitely agree, but to be fair, JSON wasn't introduced until around 2002, whereas Jabber was created around 1998.
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by nkohari 16y ago
Isn't that the point of a good proportion of comments on Hacker News? It seems to be.
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by nkohari 16y ago
Technology tends to reflect its creators, but it's not as dystopian as you're making it out to be. For example, demand for broadband internet access was largely driven by a desire for access to porn. I'm certain when photography was invente
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by nkohari 16y ago
This is definitely a huge problem in project management tools. I don't mean to spam, but with AgileZen ( http://agilezen.com/ ), we're trying very, very hard to create a project management app that isn't workflow-specific. I'd be very inter
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by nkohari 16y ago
My wife and I were living on AgileZen ( http://agilezen.com ) before the company was acquired earlier this year.
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by nkohari 16y ago
I don't understand how that's the case. You still need to authenticate with your OpenID provider using -- you guessed it -- a username and password. Or, you could allow your provider to put a persistent cookie on your machine, and (as we've
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by nkohari 16y ago
I definitely agree that for some sites, the signup process is too entailed. For me though, the barrier is usually identifying myself rather than having to create a login. If the site has something compelling enough for me to identify myself
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by nkohari 16y ago
Or I could type nkohari and a password...
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by nkohari 16y ago
Or you could lose 0% of signups by asking for a username and password. (Well, okay, there might be a small margin of people who refuse to sign up -- but if they're that picky, you probably don't want them as your customers anyway.)
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by nkohari 16y ago
How is this in any demonstrable way better than a username and password? I can't even imagine trying to explain how to use this to my parents.
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by nkohari 16y ago
This. Although I'd argue it's a spurious correlation -- I don't really "get" Facebook either, so it's hard for me to use it as a bellwether of being in-touch.
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by nkohari 16y ago
I've never seen one, nor heard of anyone who even considered buying one.
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by nkohari 16y ago
Who cares? Why is this important? Because I can avoid typing '-color'? I understand that if I have multiple definitions, I can collapse them -- but if that's the point, the title of the post shouldn't be "stop using background-color".
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by nkohari 16y ago
I understand the importance of CAPTCHAs, but I wouldn't put anything that required a reasonable level of thought in between my users and something I wanted them to do (for example, buy something from me). The more complex CAPTCHAs get, the
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by nkohari 16y ago
I'm not defending either side in this situation, but it seems unfair to immediately think the accused is a serial rapist.
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by nkohari 16y ago
Why not explain why you're against it, rather than getting angry? To me, HN is a place for debate.
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by nkohari 16y ago
It's okay, you can downvote me. I understand wanting to believe that it works that way, but it almost never does. You will simply make different decisions based on whether a project is for fun or for profit. Can we at least agree that proje
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by nkohari 16y ago
I don't think you can create a side project for fun and have it turn into a profitable business. You can, however, create something on the side with a mind to sell it, and become successful.
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by nkohari 16y ago
I don't understand the idea of "trying to use" another browser. Why not just use one that works for you? Is there something else compelling in IE9 that makes you want to switch?

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