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by robotron 17y ago
I have never heard anyone pronounce "oriented" by saying "orientated". Maybe if they were 12?
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by robotron 17y ago
Per the Gov's "state of the state" speech, California spends more on prisons than education. That can't be a recipe for success.
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by robotron 17y ago
This reads more like "why I like my Android phone" than "why I like my Nexus One".
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by robotron 17y ago
I would say that the address book (or People app) on my Android along with Google Voice is a step in the right direction. Syncs with Gmail. Tracks Facebook, Twitter, Flikr, Youtube, other? updates by that person. Uses their Facebook image f
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by robotron 17y ago
Good point, but crappy title. "Real" CMS packages could learn a thing or two from WordPress.
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by robotron 17y ago
The page does seem to be missing a "disadvantages of JSSS" section.
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by robotron 17y ago
Nothing against jackfoxy, but from what I saw of his comment, to somehow pass this off as art criticism is a tribute to trollery.
278.
by robotron 17y ago
Not sure if I would go so far as to say it looks like a domain squatter page.
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by robotron 17y ago
When Rackspace has an outage does that generally mean Slicehost does as well? I ask because I was looking at using Slicehost but being a Rackspace company has me leery.
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by robotron 17y ago
Wow, yes it's a shame. Possibly a very beautiful machine but there is no way I would give them my money.
281.
by robotron 17y ago
Why did you change the title when posting it here. Odd choice of wording...
282.
by robotron 17y ago
While the numbers are falling, IE 6 users still account for a sizable percentage of the people that buy things from my site. Ignoring them would be "doing something wrong". Guess it just depends on what you're doing.
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by robotron 17y ago
38 and prefer HN focused on tech and the business of it.
284.
by robotron 17y ago
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
285.
by robotron 17y ago
Yum.... list articles.
286.
by robotron 17y ago
"...for C# and VB.net developers"
287.
by robotron 17y ago
Google should preemptively stop indexing all News Corp sites.
288.
by robotron 17y ago
Not a feature, but a bug. Trying to merge my Facebook account and my Hacker News account results in "Unknown" during the merge, which never completes.
289.
by robotron 17y ago
Yep. It would be nice if the body of the story was included also since they're usually fairly short.
290.
by robotron 17y ago
Some of these things are IN HTML5, for example <map>
291.
by robotron 17y ago
The headline of the article has changed to "Study Suggests U.S. Could Use Fewer, Not More Science Students"
292.
by robotron 17y ago
It's right there on the features page. That takes fewer clicks than finding the requirements for Windows 7.
293.
by robotron 17y ago
Question for those in California - is it reckless for me to consider taking a job in San Francisco moving from Austin?
294.
by robotron 17y ago
It's stunted capitalism. Monopolies are propped up and protected in most areas.
295.
by robotron 17y ago
Someone in my community of friends passed away recently and continually shows up in the new "reconnect with" recommendations. This is timely and appropriate I think.
296.
by robotron 17y ago
Can we leave this kind of mindless 'content' off of HN? It's a valid point (I haven't purchased W7 yet for my Windows boxes because of the cost) but really just flamebait.
297.
by robotron 17y ago
Who is actually saying RSS/Atom is dead? I use it heavily - via Google Reader. I even have feeds of certain Twitter users, bypassing the need to follow via Twitter.
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by robotron 17y ago
Actually, Apple's attitude is "look at these dorky idiots that use PCs". At least coming from this Win/Linux PC user who cut his teeth on Apple, that's how it comes across.
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by robotron 17y ago
I was mostly speaking of hiring within family.
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by robotron 17y ago
"Now, Droid's ad is taking cheap shots at Apple, and that's a bad start. If your ad campaign is based solely on dissing your competitor, chances are you don't have anything revolutionary." I used to agree with this thinking, however, Apple'

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