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1. 391.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   Love the tools analogy! So true. LOL
2. 392.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   +1 the logo screams amateur hour. Good concept though. I like how the subtitles have timecode.
3. 393.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   Great story; thanks.
4. 394.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   With REST instead of Win16 ODBC? I'll take it.
5. 395.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   'An Accidental Diplomat'? http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1902602390
6. 396.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   Languishing? I think its HN at its best.
7. 397.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html "Last modified 1996-04-10 or earlier"
8. 398.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   overview.txt: http://camlistore.org/code/?p=camlistore.git;a=blob_plain;f=...
9. 399.▲
   by vdm 16y ago

   I agree. My sister (a Normal Person) asked me why her new Android phone does this, and now she thinks she should have got an iPhone.
10. 400.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    I would like a way to de-italicise all the text on a page because I find it much harder to read. This is the second HN link so afflicted today. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2132591
11. 401.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    A framework's website needs a list of links to sites that are using it.
12. 402.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    I use an iPhone daily, and have only played with friends Androids, but the Android back hard key doesn't work as well for me. I think it's asymmetric position works worse for people whose thumb is on the other side of the device (if they're
13. 403.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Project home page; not linked from app: http://wterminal.appspot.com/
14. 404.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Case in Point: Excerpts from Captain Rich Habib's Journal during The Race to Save the Cougar Ace http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_s...
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    by vdm 16y ago

    Great answer and thanks for the recommendation.
16. 406.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    "bottoms-up" is mentioned twice. Spellchecker?
17. 407.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    So 'fess up. Have you ever bought shoes online?
18. 408.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Yay for REST. Thank you Ixiaus.
19. 409.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Sounds like a job for click-wrap, with logging of who is clicking (and when). So that person logs in, sees a list of green things, and clicks on all of them. Like marking messages read in gmail.
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    by vdm 16y ago

    This works for me in mechanical construction projects. Specifying durations from deliverables rather than absolute dates has transformed the way I run projects. So instead of saying "we'll be on site 2 Feb 11", thus setting ourselves a dead
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    by vdm 16y ago

    Ditto. I'd pay about $20-30 a month, depending on the value offered, for 20GB/10 users, and surcharges for overage. As is this is of no use to me. There is no free trial so I can't see if it works (for me) first. No way I'm springing $800
22. 412.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Agreed; isn't this why this discussion should use GNP? Or would that miss some other relevant detail?
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    by vdm 16y ago

    Take away: including permalinks for included bits of pages (such as comments) can be useful when they are crawled. Encouraging serendipity.
24. 414.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    This! I'm using Google Apps in an SMB, and it's great for zero-admin, but downloading attachments to a download folder, finding them again by filename, doing 'save as' to avoid filename collisions so you can save changes, is a total pain in
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    by vdm 16y ago

    Could a snailmail/sneakernet gateway to the Web be implemented for prisoners? Email/telnet WWW gateways were used in the early days for people who couldn't install clients, were on intermittent connectivity, etc. I must admit to fantasising
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    by vdm 16y ago

    I think the fact that this uses blogs to make the communication one-to-many, rather than connect individuals outside to individuals inside (one-to-one), is a crucial distinction. When internet access becomes a human right, will prisoners ev
27. 417.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Meta HN: Why can't HN allow us to create text anchors, like the rest of the web, reddit, etc. These in-line URLs are getting old, at least to my eyes. HN readers know how to create anchors; this isn't Facebook.
28. 418.▲
    by vdm 16y ago

    Does this mean that the tracker isn't included at all? I think you're right. How would you visualise verifying integrity? Is that really necessary to visualise?
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    by vdm 16y ago

    I'm glad you did comment, because I'm not an expert on browser vector graphics and didn't know this. Bookmarked with tags "canvas, vector, graphics, IE, js".
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    by vdm 16y ago

    > sales books Suggestions? There's a lot of stuff out there so I'm looking for HN recommendations.