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   by raquo 16y ago

   Makes me rethink the purpose of Stuxnet.
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   by raquo 16y ago

   The primary reason to make your product free are positive network effects (no, it's not only about social networks, e.g. making .pdf a de facto standard also counts). The other reason is that the product is useless. The two should never be
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   by raquo 16y ago

   Market distortions are unilateral evil only under a ton of economic assumptions. I don't know enough about the US agriculture foods market (let alone how exactly is it subsidized) but I would imagine it to be reasonable to provide your farm
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   by raquo 16y ago

   App store is a great distribution , not marketing mechanism. You still have to do your own marketing. It's just very easy for people to buy an app by tapping a button. And it's the default. Many people would be suspicious of apps trying
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   by raquo 16y ago

   http://youtubesunshine.com/
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   by raquo 16y ago

   A bit confusing: You click on pricing, and see the pricing table. You click on signup, you see the same. I realize it was your intent, but it feels broken, especially since the table has "Select" buttons, not "Sign up". Regarding the signup
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   by raquo 16y ago

   So, just for me to make sense of the TSA fury, do you imply that – these aren't even real threats (more people die in car accidents) and not trying to prevent them the way TSA does will not increase bombings – if the terrorists want to blow
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   by raquo 16y ago

   Ordering it from within the Pentagon could help
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   by raquo 16y ago

   Yes, and he also said that the "controls" are very sensitive. Even slightly moving his head changes his course.
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Let's hope sometime it would be possible to make such a wing VTOL-capable and have some kind of airbag safety device for use at low altitudes. Before that happens we're left with paragliding and ultralight trikes...
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    by raquo 16y ago

    When I saw the domain name, I thought it was about you giving it a couple e.g. laptops (that someone probably recommended you) and the site would compare them them automatically and tell you in plain english how they stack up. For this, you
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    by raquo 16y ago

    I would probably set up a software / gamedev company in US (and get a green card).
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Hi! The http://movember.com/ website looks... um... old and somewhat abandoned to me. http://us.movember.com/ is way better. Is the content really different from say http://ca.movember.com/ ? The slideshow seems the same at least. You
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    by raquo 16y ago

    And it's a shame that Wikipedia does not even have a page for him. What is he, not notable enough?
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Why on earth? That's not the best or safest way to get positive emotions, and in long terms leads nowhere.
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    by raquo 16y ago

    First, please stop labeling yourself as an introvert/failure/whatever. It will do you good. Being an introvert is first and foremost the ability to extract energy from what you're doing rather than needing an audience to surv
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Not everyone wants to be in a startup. People running from Google to FB may be doing it for a different culture, for more money, or for a slight change in what they're doing. There's nothing wrong with that.
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Thanks for the link, cocos2d always needs more tutorials. And you're probably talking about versions 0.99.5 and 0.99.6.
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    by raquo 16y ago

    sosuke used cocos2d game engine which has native mac support. Apps would be way more work to port it seems.
20. 680.▲
    by raquo 16y ago

    I wonder how useful would be a VoiceOver-optimized editor for iPad.
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    Tell HN: Don't forget to actually post

    10 points by raquo 16y ago|2 comments
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Is a photo of Virgin balloon really copyright infringement, or is it just you taking the safe side? (referring to Photo Guide)
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Moscow is as full of signs as it was 10 years ago, but nowadays people drive better because the fines have skyrocketed and the overall culture kind of increased.
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Because when zero is not marked it is impossible to judge the relative magnitude of all graph fluctuations without looking at the y axis scale. On this graph a lot of people (incl. me) would be tricked into thinking that in the last 100 yea
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    by raquo 16y ago

    For me most useful would be subscription to some EasyList or whatever it's called to block 90% of the ads.
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    by raquo 16y ago

    There are several components: 1. Opera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines. I mean faster in application tasks (launch/switch tabs/go back/etc.), not executing JS. 2. Opera is easy for normal people – it has a ton of
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    by raquo 16y ago

    Something like 20% of Russia (yeah, I know, we're kind of an exception :)
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    by raquo 16y ago

    I wonder if they will ever make their Mac version more native (e.g. standard OSX shortcuts would work in text fields). It's really strange that having a lot of stuff well polished, and releasing a lot of new features, simple things like tha
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    by raquo 16y ago

    I will definitely try Mac AppStore. Out of these 30%, you will spend at least 10% on billing, hosting, etc. if you distribute yourself, and you will also spend some time doing that (or posting PayPal horror stories to HN). I think the AppS
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    by raquo 16y ago

    I wanted to tell how one of my friends created a movement for organizing (rather than trying to prevent) Moscow's pedestrian paths that were formed by people walking on grass (this happens because the paved sideways are often very ineffecti