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by seagreen 14y ago
I love this idea. Currently my search for, say, a new IRC client is likely to end up on Wikipedia of all places because they're the only people that have a comprehensive list of what's available. There has got to be a better way to do thi
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by seagreen 14y ago
Spending more time with kids is good, still . . I want a beautiful and open network all across the planet. I want to see North Korea become free, and sit drinking coffee in a café in Pyongyang. I want Africa to become a garden stretching fr
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by seagreen 14y ago
Being able to remove content is one of the few real advantages centralized social networks have over decentralized ones. Since it would be very hard (actually impossible) for the tent protocol ensure information is deleted once it's left a
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by seagreen 14y ago
Very nice. What made you decide to go with the no-password option? I've never actually seen that before and it's pretty wild. Is there anything stopping someone from logging into your account?
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by seagreen 14y ago
Possibly none:) This is a practice project, not a business, so I haven't done much market research. That said, I'm not sure if you can add plain text items to an Amazon Universal Wishlist. If you can't then this would work better for genera
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by seagreen 14y ago
Yep, I need to add one. Thanks.
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Show HN: Share wishlists with your family(gifts.housejeffries.com)
7 points by seagreen 14y ago|9 comments
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by seagreen 14y ago
Check out the guidelines here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html They suggest you drop the number and go with something like "Uses for cURL everyone should know" instead.
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by seagreen 14y ago
Hmmm, I think you and jvdh are right. Simple selection is better than a slider in that case. In general though, I still don't like radiobuttons:) Thanks for sharing the UI quote. I hadn't heard it before and I immediately see the, ah, pract
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by seagreen 14y ago
Really? I think your above-average knowledge of the intricacies of web design may actually be misleading you here. My guess is that normal people can't actually tell radiobuttons from checkboxes until they click around and find they can't s
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by seagreen 14y ago
I think you mean trillion instead of billion for the NYC metro area GDP. We really need words that sound more different for the two concepts, because they're way too easy to confuse despite how different they are. Good comparison between th
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by seagreen 14y ago
Your hypothesis that Singapore's done so well because of its location is certainly a common one and puts you in good company. It doesn't strike me as very persuasive though. For instance, here's a map[1] of ports and harbors in Malaysia. Th
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by seagreen 14y ago
Source, please. Are you thinking of Liberty Dollars? If so, don't you think having quotes like this[2] on their website, "I simply hand them the currency as payment. 95% of the businesses accept it" make it sound a lot like they were enco
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by seagreen 14y ago
Just FYI, the "Welcome Hacker News User" window doesn't work well on my phone (Android 2.7.3, Cyanogenmod, default browser). It only lets me see the right half of the text, and I have to scroll over to see the close button. It helped that I
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by seagreen 14y ago
Definitely. That's a strong counterexample to my list.
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by seagreen 14y ago
If you want to help the developing world it's worth the time to take a look at what has actually worked to get countries out of poverty and what hasn't. As far as I can tell there are only two proven ways for countries to get out of poverty
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by seagreen 14y ago
That seems like a great way to go. I always felt somewhat embarrassed when googling bar codes trying to find a shirt or whatever. As a programmer I knew there's a better way for this to be done, which made the whole experience even less p
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by seagreen 14y ago
This is a really cool idea and I'm glad someone's doing it. Have you considered talking to Amazon about it? It's definitely in their best interest for products to be easily identifiable, and they're already doing work on it in a different w
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by seagreen 14y ago
Maybe you had a job or something that required you to write your name a lot when you were 32? I keep getting my address mixed up because it's almost, but not quite, identical to my old one. It can be pretty embarrassing.
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by seagreen 14y ago
Would there be a way to combine guides like that in OpenStreetMap? That might be a better option than Google Maps.
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by seagreen 14y ago
I doubt they'd have a problem with GoDaddy coming along and offering it cheaper. The whole point is to get more people involved, and it's actually pretty smart of them to go ahead and anchor the price fairly high. There are probably about a
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by seagreen 14y ago
I don't know about you, but social networks and email seem fairly similar in that I don't want to be locked into the same website my friends are using. Can you imagine how painful email would be if it had been controlled by one company from
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by seagreen 14y ago
Sweet! If Tent folks are reading this you might want to update the last sentence currently on tent.io, "Tent will be released under an open license in the immediate future."
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by seagreen 14y ago
Do you have a date for when Tent will be released under an open license?
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by seagreen 14y ago
Just a reminder that since there's actual power at stake here (votes) it takes extra work to write a quality comment on this kind of article. The difficulty is equivalent to trying to have a discussion where some unknown but real amount of
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by seagreen 14y ago
"If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat. No one focused as relentlessly on using diplomacy as a strategic tool as VR. Mercenary Coalition flipp
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by seagreen 14y ago
"Public good" has a fairly technical meaning that doesn't fit here. Wikipedia's article on it is pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good Basically public goods have to be non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Internet access is
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by seagreen 14y ago
Intrade is the place to go for information like that: http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=74347...
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by seagreen 14y ago
Totally! Each company should work in it's own best interest. I'm only pointing out that the interests of craigslist are neither the interests of developers nor the general public.
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by seagreen 14y ago
Nope! I respectfully disagree. It's a win for current craigslist users and craigslist, but it's a loss for the ecosystem as a whole and everyone in the future besides craigslist. Imagine if email was a centralized system instead of a protoc

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