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811.
by sequoia 14y ago
$10 for a sticker? $40 for a t-shirt? $1000 for a skateboard? You are not "buying a sticker" or a t-shirt. The offer is " donate to this project and receive a 'thank you gift'." This is referred to as a "premium" and can be seen
812.
by sequoia 14y ago
he probably added tons of hyperbole and wrong encounters into his story, just to make it all the more dramatic. Are you basing this accusation on something or just pulling it out of thin air? You probably cheat on tests, steal ot
813.
by sequoia 14y ago
As a consumer, I couldn't care less. Android makes dropdown notification screen: good feature -> apple steals it -> yay. Apple makes slide to unlock: good feature -> android steals it -> yay. Honestly I'm more frustrated
814.
by sequoia 14y ago
I think your copy should be as crazy as you want it to be. That's part of the fun of give-away side projects: no one to approve your copy or coding style or whatever- it's a break from work-work (at least to me). A word of caution however,
815.
by sequoia 14y ago
It's a pet project that he's giving away for free... I say let him have his fun. Do you think the aim is to inspire confidence in the user (or do you think it should be)? Remeber: he's not asking anyone to open their wallets; frankly I th
816.
by sequoia 14y ago
"They saw a pattern and didn't know how long it would last," said Feldman, whose clients are Asian and speak little or no English. Ha- they must speak "Asian" :p
817.
by sequoia 14y ago
As a random HN user with no connection to Google who has seen what happens when you comment on stories about Google here (it's a shit storm), might I humbly suggest that you consider not commenting on stories about Google? It seems to alwa
818.
by sequoia 14y ago
Round one: fight! ding ding ding
819.
by sequoia 14y ago
If you use windows regularly it is easy to learn/remember. Win+E.xplorer Win+D.esktop Win+left move win left. Start there then learn a new one every few days, soon you'll be a power user ;)
820.
by sequoia 14y ago
broken record: just bought a t530 and the prtsc key makes me crazy. Who thought this was a good idea?? That and switching the left ctrl & fn (so it's like a mac). I suppose these things are just not for programmers/power users; anyway
821.
by sequoia 14y ago
How long have they been doing the mac-style fn-ctrl-meta-alt layout (rather than BIGctrl-fn-meta-alt like most other keyboards I've had, i.e. ctrl in lower left under shift)? This was one of my main issues with my brand new T530, along wit
822.
by sequoia 14y ago
> do you use Accept-Language? Or IP sniffing? Or user prefs in cookies? How do you think they picked which language to serve me in the first place? ;) What you're saying is true about eliminating ambiguity but parent commenter just lin
823.
by sequoia 14y ago
Assuming this achieves some mainstream success, Apple offers "the bullet or the bribe" (get bought out or we just rebuild your product in house and destroy your business) in 3... 2... too cynical?
824.
by sequoia 14y ago
>> Talib Kweli hahahehe... you probably picked the worst example of a rapper's fans being primarily black. That or Mos Def :p
825.
by sequoia 14y ago
"Urban" is a euphemism for "black." See also "inner-city" & in reference to young people often "at-risk." Not saying commenter intended to be racist but that the term "urban" refers to black people (in the US, in this context) is indi
826.
by sequoia 14y ago
Thanks for this great comment & thanks OP! Is there some reason not to use 36 as a radix and access the whole lowercase alphabet like (10).toString(36) // "a" ... (36).toString(36) // "z" ? I'm curious why you use varie
827.
Connectify connects a bunch 'net connections, one is a phone(connectify.me)
1 points by sequoia 14y ago|0 comments
828.
by sequoia 14y ago
"Our strength comes from that desire to not be bored, so we come up with creative solutions to bypass them." Ugh, barf. This sort of egomania is exactly what many people don't like about "we" gen Y'ers (I'm 27). "We" didn't invent the conc
829.
by sequoia 14y ago
Born in 1984, became a parent at 20, went to tech school at 21, graduated in 2009 (just in time for the recession, yay) uprooted family & moved to northeast for work, lived with inlaws a while, worked worked hustled & worked to stay
830.
by sequoia 14y ago
What client devs have actually stopped development and abandoned/shut down their applications in response to Twitter's client TOS changes? I hear lots of griping and moaning it seems like lots of the major client players are developing non
831.
by sequoia 14y ago
Looking thru http://www.thekickbackmachine.com/browse/all/ it appears the projects are overwhelmingly successful. In the first 163 project, just under 75% were successful. Am I interpreting this incorrectly, or are projects funded succe
832.
by sequoia 14y ago
When you see me half ask a question on IRC then quit, or quit repeatedly. ^^^ Switching context between vim & xchat & killing tabs. See also: jjjkkjkkgg
833.
by sequoia 14y ago
http://freecode.com/projects/jp2a < I use this in the console sometimes. Nice just to check the orientation of a photo or something, then e.g. rotate w/convert.
834.
by sequoia 14y ago
I do not mean this to be a push-poll, I'm pretty ignorant here and just want to survey opinions. Personally I think it's the author's prerogative to release his work under whatever terms suit him as it's his work and no one is obligated to
835.
Is it OK for TM2 to require GPL forks but request dual-license patches?(github.com)
2 points by sequoia 14y ago|3 comments
836.
by sequoia 14y ago
Yeah all the "yo"s had me wincing. That doesn't change the fact that this fellow is a much more experienced programmer than me, but the style did turn me off a bit. Good show overall. :)
837.
by sequoia 14y ago
"Have email, lost phone- help me" -Mallory
838.
by sequoia 14y ago
I want to see a demo before I auth with my instagram account. What does it do? Allow me to share photos & vote on them? Doesn't Instagram already do this? Make value prop more clear, show an example of what it does.
839.
by sequoia 14y ago
"4 hours: This is probably the only realistic estimation. It is large enough to have some margin for unexpected problems, while the task is still small enough to grasp." 1. Estimate everything in 4 hour increments 2. 100% accurate
840.
by sequoia 14y ago
lol... are you using debian? check your package manager ;)

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