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How much more advanced is government technology?
7 points by shutter 18y ago|6 comments
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by shutter 18y ago
Sounds entertaining. I'll give the developer credit: he/she knows what he wants from that project, and that's half the battle. No feature creep in his mind.
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by shutter 18y ago
I noticed that too; I wonder how much they had to pay for that (near-ubiquitous) placement.
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by shutter 18y ago
If you license it right, anything's possible. (i.e. major corporations can't use your code illegally or they'll get caught.) Just because the source code is publicly viewable doesn't mean anyone can take it without permission; small people
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by shutter 18y ago
Actually, links work now for some reason. I personally really like this format because it lets me see comments right via RSS. The only problem is that Yahoo then tends to cache them, and so if I want to see the _latest_ comments, I must vis
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by shutter 18y ago
I set up a Yahoo Pipe a while ago for comments (which pulls in each article's URL with comments), but lately all URLs have become unclickable (except for article title). I'm not sure if that was done by HN or Yahoo. Anyway: http://pipes.ya
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by shutter 18y ago
As far as I can recall, you can change just about anything. If CSS can't do it, you can always fallback to a little javascript, but it's pretty simple to customize.
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by shutter 18y ago
You can remove the branding with CSS rather easily. I've looked for any guidelines on that in their TOS, but I don't see any. I removed the big Disqus logo on from my comments page, but people can still see that it's Disqus. Their guideline
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by shutter 18y ago
Right. I think it's notable that karma and downmodding seems to generally take a back seat here. Very rarely have I seen something go -1 or worse that I still consider useful or legit. Generally, HN seems to favor commenting over downvoting
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by shutter 18y ago
From the article: > "But if Apple fails in that, Steve Jobs will just pick up the phone and choose IBM Microelectronics as the fab to build the next generation of Apple’s PowerPC processors – a contract worth billions, but ONLY if IBM d
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by shutter 18y ago
Ouch. At least images can be loaded after the text, and broadband (>1.5Mbps) speed would still load them in a couple of seconds.
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by shutter 18y ago
I'm not an expert on pricing strategies, so this is just my opinion tossed out there: That's a reasonable, relatively low price point, so I think a small discount would be all right. But it depends on how many users you have, and what their
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by shutter 18y ago
I'd say it depends on the number of beta testers; you say you had a big beta list, so it might make more sense to offer a discount rather than just free versions, if you intend on doing anything at all. Is the Pro version more featureful th
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by shutter 18y ago
> For a business, only if you want to remain a business. Untrue. Disregarding IE6 at say, 20%, implies that you only consider 80% of web users your target market. There's nothing wrong with that.
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by shutter 18y ago
What are your skills? (What programming technologies do you know?)
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by shutter 18y ago
I love my iPhone, but I still yearn for a device that will let me take notes as fast as pen and paper. By the time a note-taking application opens, I'd already have my note written down. (Application launch times already take iPhone apps ou
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by shutter 18y ago
Ideas which change the world almost always create wealth. Ideas which create wealth do not necessarily change the world.
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by shutter 18y ago
Give yourself enough time that you're confident you'll be able to finish the maintenance within that timeframe. I was bitten more than once by scheduling a maintenance window too small, and then becoming frantic as the maintenance window pa
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by shutter 18y ago
These days I'm not concerned about Microsoft -- the companies that concern hackers w/r/t overtaking their product would be Apple and Google.
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by shutter 18y ago
The article noted this: "They faulted cost pressures on keyboard manufacturers for not making keyboards more snoop proof." So if this is true, at least it appears that new keyboards could be improved to block eavesdropping.
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by shutter 18y ago
I love that quote.
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by shutter 18y ago
It's an issue because the GPL is viral, and AJAX libraries are like any other DLL in practice. You can't link with DLLs that are GPL without requiring your own program to be GPL too -- that's why the LGPL was invented. The GPL license would
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by shutter 18y ago
I've noticed that too.
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by shutter 18y ago
Do you think this is indicative of the market in general? Will most previously-ad-supported sites be forced to have a premium model?
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How to Improve OpenID Usability(marcuscavanaugh.com)
7 points by shutter 18y ago|5 comments
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by shutter 18y ago
Exatly. We're often at a higher level of abstraction from the hardware now, but that doesn't mean our job is any easier; we're just tackling broader problems.
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by shutter 18y ago
I don't know of any for what you're looking for, but a google search of the following yields your result: George Soros "flash plug-in" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=George+Soros+%22fla...
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by shutter 18y ago
Seems to work well for what it's advertised for. I like the inclusion of local (IP-based?) results -- you should make those more prominent IMHO. At first I mistook them for Adsense, but it really makes sense to automatically find tickets fo
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by shutter 18y ago
I guess all you need is an X10 controller or somethingorother. Too bad I couldn't get it to actually change the filter and stuff.
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by shutter 18y ago
Better yet, set Keep-Alive to something very low (1 or 2), so that when users load a page, any initial assets can still reuse the same connection, but you'll still drop the connection quickly to serve other users.

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