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by tialys 17y ago
Yeah, they raised over $19,000 the first day, panicked and called their lawyer, but they've determined it doesn't violate any SEC laws, so it's back up and moving.
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Creative new way to fund a movie(lobsterback.com)
24 points by tialys 17y ago|23 comments
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by tialys 17y ago
Anecdotally, the place I work has people with wide screen, 19inch monitors that insist on using them at 800x600. It looks awful, but they're used to it being huge, and they refuse to change.
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by tialys 17y ago
I've been holding on to 'isby.us' for a rainy day. Back when I bought it I had aspirations of a sort of hybrid Video/Audio/Blog news center of average people. I never really got far with it though, and now I'm not sure what to do with it.
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by tialys 17y ago
So much nerd rage and finger pointing in the comments there... really makes me dislike being a rails developer. I love RoR, but sometimes I really feel like the 'community' is just awful...
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by tialys 17y ago
Having recently discovered smalltalk from a seasoned developer (with quite a personality to match!), I've come to realize it's an amazing language, and certainly not dead. It's got some very interesting applications in finance, and other h
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by tialys 17y ago
I'll be honest, I thought it was on topic because I enjoy these types of stories on Hacker News, as well as the discussion. I rarely submit stories unless I think they will generate good discussion. If you want to define a 'topic' for thi
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Why it's expensive to be poor(washingtonpost.com)
183 points by tialys 17y ago|194 comments
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by tialys 17y ago
It seems funny, to me, that they would talk about making Google do the legwork. If this took effect, Google could simply do nothing -- and watch as the people who forced them to 'come negotiate' crumble. Google is the gateway to the inter
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by tialys 17y ago
Ok, admittedly the "dying industry" bit was hyperbole, but it irks me to no end that "old media" can't simply adapt. If it doesn't work like it's been working for the past 100 years, it must the end of the world. That kind of thinking is
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by tialys 17y ago
Once again, a dying industry cries "The internet will destroy us!" Why not embrace the internet, change your model and MAKE IT WORK. Have we learned nothing from the music industry? If the customer demands that the books be $9.99, you don
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by tialys 17y ago
I'm not really a Python guy (I love my Ruby/Rails...) but I've heard good things about Pylons. http://pylonshq.com/
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by tialys 17y ago
I prefer to take notes in Textile with TextMate. It's not hard to get the extra stuff, and then I can easily turn it in to HTML so it looks somewhat pretty. Then I can share my notes with other people as well. (I have TERRIBLE handwriting
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by tialys 17y ago
About 3 weeks ago, I got so irritated with trying to log in from time to time that I sat down for about an hour and tested every fat-finger combination of the password I used that I could think of. I took me about 40 tries, but I finally f
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by tialys 17y ago
A friend of mine in college just wrote his own: ze.nu I was pondering writing one for fun... but now I feel bad.
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by tialys 17y ago
Better Link: http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2009...
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by tialys 17y ago
I was really excited about this, and was talking to my other founders about it until we noticed the cost. We're poor college students, we thought this would be a great chance to get exposure and meet investors... and we get slammed in to a
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by tialys 17y ago
Not really the kind of post for Hacker News. Besides, I saw it on Reddit hours ago.
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by tialys 17y ago
I had the same feeling. I work on computers that are infested with spyware from silly things like this. Not to suggest that this is a bad thing, but it's misleading, and might lead users to learn a bad habit.
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by tialys 18y ago
Debian. It's what Ubuntu is based on, but it's less crufty. I use Debian for everything I do, and I've never had a problem. Take my advice with a grain of salt however, as I've never really had to scale anything. One other thing, make su
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by tialys 18y ago
This sounds just like Vundo (and may even be a mistake?). If this is true, my job just got a LOT harder... I work tech support for my university, and so far we've seen little of conficker, but TONS of Vundo (which does the same thing... it
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Ask HN: Choosing a business model
3 points by tialys 18y ago|0 comments
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by tialys 18y ago
Ok, I'll grant you that it's not strictly in the guidelines of the site here, but... I found it funny. Hackers are people too, and not everything needs to read like a textbook. We should certainly discourage these sorts of posts, but I th
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by tialys 18y ago
I can't tell, is this satire? I really hope it is... if not, then wow. I mean, is he debating the merits of operating systems by familiarity? The people he's talking about can't remember what they did in Word yesterday, so why would it m
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by tialys 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248469 Some good stuff here.
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by tialys 18y ago
Sorry, but I think search tools will evolve far faster than SEO will explode. Google changes all the time, and I can only assume they're working to make search less dependent on SEO and more focused on the content, and only the content. I
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by tialys 18y ago
I'm a student with a paid plan, and I'd love it if you'd give up even 1 free private repo with more than one collaborator. I don't need a ton of repositories, but It'd be cool to not have to worry about having more than one person working
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by tialys 18y ago
The 'Lists' are cool! Where did you find those? I've never seen them, and I can't seem to find a link anywhere on the site.
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by tialys 18y ago
I've been playing through the games I haven't had time to, and also learning how to write apps for my Mac and by extension for the iPhone. I've had a bunch of ideas for things I thought would be great for the iPhone, so I made a class next
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by tialys 18y ago
The Mac Mini is long overdue for something, but I'd be less surprised to see something in the same ballpark, but new. They've left the mini alone too long for just a simple update.

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