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931.
by palish 17y ago
Are you kidding? If I hire a contractor to do work, and that work is done (meaning I can look at and interact with the product) then I'm not going to waste valuable time "verifying" that product against every other product on the market.
932.
by palish 17y ago
jailbreak-free tethering Do you have a link handy? This sounds awesome.
933.
by palish 17y ago
Why not?
934.
by palish 17y ago
Compared to what most of the kids his age were probably doing? I'm impressed.
935.
by palish 17y ago
Overengineer much? The current system works.
936.
by palish 17y ago
Ah.. That may be true, but all we have to go on are little letters in cyberspace. It's good to know he's different in real life, though.
937.
by palish 17y ago
For a human, maybe. We're programmers.
938.
by palish 17y ago
I'm sure that's why my wrists hurt. It's such a habit though that I doubt I could retrain myself after years and years of typing and mousing this way.
939.
by palish 17y ago
I got a pair of "computer gloves" -- basically gloves with a beanbag under each wrist. They're very comfortable and almost entirely cured my persistent wrist pain. You have to give the gloves a chance to work though. For me, the pain went
940.
by palish 17y ago
Did he accept the offer of employment?
941.
by palish 17y ago
Thanks!
942.
by palish 17y ago
Hey now. I'm a highschool dropout / game developer.
943.
by palish 17y ago
Source?
944.
by palish 17y ago
Err.. Offtopic: I can't see how many points the parent comment has. That's weird. I see the uparrow, followed by "by mikeyur 8 hours ago", but the "N points" part is missing.
945.
by palish 17y ago
Wow. You're pretty open about how you think.
946.
by palish 17y ago
I doubt he would be able to legally distribute the list.
947.
by palish 17y ago
Good luck talking about this on HN. When I tried to talk about acid, I got a bunch of wonderfully nasty remarks and demands to "get off HN", which I did for awhile. Oh, and my submitted post was killed.
948.
by palish 17y ago
Erm... You can get around this in Safari by orienting your phone so that the Home button is towards your ceiling. The reason this works is because Safari only has three rotations (normal, landscape 90deg left, and landscape 90deg right).
949.
by palish 17y ago
It's true. My friend John Ratcliff is a very "old-school" hacker, very set in his ways, but when he discovered Dropbox by accident even he jumped all over it. http://jratcliffscarab.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
950.
by palish 17y ago
I upvoted it because I agree with "The problem with your line of thinking is that open source [usually] doesn't pay. The best people in certain fields, meanwhile, only work for money, and occasionally only for large gobs of money" , among
951.
by palish 17y ago
Been using Dropbox since beta. Never had this problem (XP and Vista 32-bit).
952.
by palish 17y ago
Why is this article on Hacker News? Why is this type of comment on Hacker News? The mind, it is boggling.
953.
by palish 17y ago
I doubt many people were flagging the story because the "flag" feature is very subtle. Maybe now that someone has mentioned flagging, this story will soon be dead. I guess time will tell.
954.
by palish 17y ago
So click the "flag" button on the article. If enough of us flag it, then the article gets killed.
955.
by palish 17y ago
So when the developer leaves the company...
956.
by palish 17y ago
Oh no! ... I'm sure we'll survive.
957.
by palish 17y ago
Oh nostrademons... You always know exactly how to fuel the fire. Maybe we should organize "ie6aholics annonymous"?
958.
by palish 17y ago
Just because you're having a bad day doesn't mean you can be an asshole to everybody. Go somewhere else for that kind of thing.
959.
by palish 17y ago
"With the success of this game genre on the flash platform, the next step is to bring this awesomeness to your home desktop." Shouldn't that be the other way around?
960.
by palish 17y ago
Broken in Chrome on Vista Ultimate 32-bit.

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