thesethings

12 ms·

61.
by thesethings 16y ago
Yes, you can find people you've interacted with on HN by browsing Threads (top nav) and Next -> Next -> Nexting through your history. Though the URL of each deep page is not permanent, the threads/history do not disappear and you
62.
by thesethings 16y ago
Threads are not deleted, though they can get hard to find. Definitely save the URL, but don't worry about copy and pasting the contents. Another great HN tool is http://searchyc.com . You can search submission submission titles, comments,
63.
by thesethings 16y ago
(Sidebar: your place sounds cool! Will definitely consider it the next time I'm down there from Portland.) I am completely ignorant about the legal hoops involved w/food prep/selling, though I feel it's implicit in the open-ness and formali
64.
by thesethings 16y ago
Hmm. I think this will be very much like AirBnB for food, but it's in a gestation stage w/kitchen show-off shots to build a community first. There's also Mealtik, which is AirBnB for food. Ultimately, I hope all three (or more) you folks go
65.
by thesethings 16y ago
As a user of Housefed before today's front-page-on-HN, I want to give folks a heads up that it looks like the traffic may be causing a few bugs. If anything feels strange, definitely return after a bit.
66.
by thesethings 16y ago
That was true for a moment. They did the Google/Bing firehose deals before they had promoted tweets/trends program.
67.
by thesethings 16y ago
Not sure if it meets your criteria, but there http://blog.crashspace.org in Culver City. I'm up in Portland, but have admired it from afar. Seems to have some great events, especially lots of hardware hacking.
68.
by thesethings 16y ago
Word. You're right. I was over-hypey :D It doesn't totally pass the silhouette test. It could with a thin edge of negative space in between each color block, OR... if we allowed a grey "cheat" in our silhouette test. These kinda shape logos
69.
by thesethings 16y ago
Yes! Yay, you made me feel less crazy. I like the new logo better, too. Subjective retro-ness aside, the new logo is more of a logo (less textures, passes the silhouette test, etc).
70.
by thesethings 16y ago
I hear ya. But I think maybe my main point didn't get through. I'm not praising TechCrunch, or speaking to their intention at all. I'm delighting in the outing of a well-worn Hollywood practice that ideally will not work as well as they try
71.
by thesethings 16y ago
I know TechCrunch has a bad rap around here. But one needn't like TechCrunch or believe in its integrity to appreciate a little dent in the armor of old school gatekeepers. Hollywood publicists have traditional entertainment media in a toug
72.
by thesethings 16y ago
I wasn't aware that either of these quests for universals have been a failure. My friend did a relatively recent music thesis about universals. I'm not in either field, but a belief in universal "deep structure" has helped me learn both la
73.
by thesethings 16y ago
[Update. I'm slightly more educated than I was a few hours ago.] I've found two reports that outline ways to migrate to renewables. They are sobering, but actually achievable. A common thread among those who create actual concrete plans for
74.
by thesethings 16y ago
Is this cost like "organic" cost? (In that organic things get cheaper the more that gets produced). Is there hope of renewable energy sources getting cheaper if they get more ubiquitous? In Portland we have a major wind turbine manufacturer
75.
by thesethings 16y ago
Don't wonder why you bothered writing that. You wrote it because it made me laugh really hard and gave us some awesome tweetable quotables. And because you're right. And because as long as they keep fighting the Internet in lame ways, we al
76.
Energy talk: Nuclear vs Coal. But what about wind, water, sun?
2 points by thesethings 16y ago|3 comments
77.
by thesethings 16y ago
Aw, HN folks post from those sources all the time. We are definitely aware of them and think they're great. But what this video especially pointed out is that Khan Academy is not just great content, but an extremely innovative system.
78.
Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder(sheddingbikes.com)
179 points by thesethings 16y ago|64 comments
79.
by thesethings 16y ago
Yeah. This was big, public news. Last year within a week, Bing + Google both paid Twitter millions of dollars for "firehose" access. The reason I remember it pretty well is 1) Lots of people made "...finally making money" jokes, and 2) Both
80.
by thesethings 16y ago
Great idea! Can pay newsletters be submitted?
81.
by thesethings 16y ago
Idea: put some kind of link to American Airlines website/customer service in your website, so they can see your post as source of web traffic? They are probably "monitoring their brand," but still...
82.
by thesethings 16y ago
Yeah, I'm wincing that it's getting the HN traffic juice. More cognitive surplus has been spent here than went into the article :D
83.
by thesethings 16y ago
short version: Don't upgrade just for speed. i don't see a difference, have never heard of a difference in performance. long version: I use both. In my experience there is no difference in performance. Very occasionally a bug that hits on
84.
by thesethings 16y ago
OK, this was more fun than freaky. It thinks I'm male (I'm a girl). It knows about my horrible novelty YouTube habit (tons of humor/comedy/tv comedy categories). #guilty It thinks I have pets/cats. (Nope. but given how many novelty youtube
85.
by thesethings 16y ago
They're clearly freaked out about by Stack Exchange. They attacked them for needing a "VC cookie jar," but couldn't actually saying anything bad about their sites. This was also surreal: "Sites like Quora seem more like Tumblr or other blog
86.
by thesethings 16y ago
Quora has publicly stated after they added a non-Facebook login option, that registration went up a lot. They have openly questioned that call. (Though I have not seen them seek the same feedback about the real-person-only policy). I think
87.
by thesethings 16y ago
This is my favorite active band at the moment. And they just launched their new site with a very funny video. Lots of great ideas in this screencast for app tours. Especially the idea that: there are no rules for screencasts.
88.
Great example of a how-to-use-this-site screencast... by a band?(teamyacht.com)
4 points by thesethings 16y ago|1 comments
89.
by thesethings 16y ago
Clickable: AppHarbor: http://jasonsirota.com/deploying-an-on-premise-app-to-the-cl... Azure: http://jasonsirota.com/part-2-deploying-an-on-premises-aspne...
90.
Screen by screen comparison of deployment on AppHarbor (YC) vs Microsoft Azure
11 points by thesethings 16y ago|2 comments

More ›