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by vlad 14y ago
> Of course touch means finger touches I'm not sure that's true. For example, in the Tablet PC space, a touch screen could mean that a screen responded to a stylus, finger, or both, but usually, just the stylus! And even before the fi
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by vlad 14y ago
1) I don't know the value of Samsung's profit-margin on Apple hardware, but it may be possible for Samsung to pay the penalty with the money Apple will pay Samsung this year for the hardware in its iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Heck, Samsung p
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by vlad 14y ago
Sounds like the Skyscraper Index, an interesting observation that many of the world's tallest structures were built right before the economy headed into recession. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index
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by vlad 14y ago
Maybe a great solution would be to allow other users to record their own explanations for the lesson, so that the viewer could choose (and vote up) the ones they like better (by clarity, preferred accent, a different human language altogeth
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by vlad 14y ago
Great work, but I have some feedback about the first video shown to everyone who visits the Computer Science page. 1) It jumps right into talking about syntax of programming instead of showing screen shots of what a person will be able to b
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by vlad 14y ago
Interesting idea. Last month I released a Chrome extension for Hacker News that lets you ban stories by domain name (simply choose the domain names in the options, so you don't have to click Hide every time like you do here). It also show
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by vlad 14y ago
All of these companies paid for a better domain name. GetDropbox.com TheFacebook.com Twittr.com
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by vlad 14y ago
I notice the welcome message and action buttons on the home page are all jpeg images rather than text, which makes it harder for search engines to make a judgement about the content. (The text appears fuzzy as well.) As a developer of a c
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by vlad 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368013
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by vlad 14y ago
I posted an update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368013
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by vlad 14y ago
My point was that delaying an expensive and years-long software project that's already prone to failure, just to replace a perfectly adequate feature with another whose only benefit is to impress the media, would probably be considered stup
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by vlad 14y ago
Hacker News went offline before I could finish editing the introductory sentence. The point was that a software project with the same time and cost requirements would also have interesting constraints: once it's launched, it can't be patch
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by vlad 14y ago
A quick take on the project. Software Architect: "Hello sir! As you know, it has taken millions to billions of dollars and years of time to develop your project. We are ready to launch! As you know, it will take a year to actually deplo
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by vlad 14y ago
Great quote from the article. "My biggest advice to people would be key on the technical. If you learn how to use these machines—cameras and editing systems and stuff like that—then you will have the tools to do stuff creatively. There’s so
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by vlad 14y ago
The book is available as a free online pdf: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html Checking it out now.
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by vlad 14y ago
You should check out my chrome extension that lets you block web sites on HN. You could be viewing three fewer Forbes stories about Facebook or caffeine addiction on the front page of HN right now. http://vlad.github.com/autobahn
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Brightcove acquires Zencoder(blog.brightcove.com)
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MagicInk - How information should be presented to users in a GUI (2006)(worrydream.com)
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by vlad 14y ago
Apple's profit margin on the iPad is 30 to 50 percent according to an article also posted on Hacker News today, though these estimates are only for component costs and not anything else. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/
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by vlad 14y ago
Very misleading quote. The full article features disbelief about Compete.com numbers, so it seems as much a critique of Compete.com as it does a story about Digg. Since I ended up reading the article, I have to wonder if Compete counted Dig
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by vlad 14y ago
Rumors first circulated in May: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4006017
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by vlad 14y ago
1) Are you using http://news.ycombinator.com or a forwarder like hackrnews.com ? 2) Are you using the http version of news.yc ? Support for https://news.ycombinator.com is coming in the next version (last time I checked, only http was s
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by vlad 14y ago
Thank you very much. That's what I wanted to release for version 0.1. :) Stay tuned!
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by vlad 14y ago
Thanks! You can do the following: 1) Click Options under Autobahn in the list of installed extensions, and turn the instant profile feature off (each feature has its own checkbox). or 2) You can right-click a username and select Open Link
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by vlad 14y ago
Thanks. Autobahn does not make extra calls to Hacker News because Paul Graham has voiced complaints about such behavior (e.g. scrapers). I've avoided requesting additional pages beyond what the user normally navigates to. However, new fe
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by vlad 14y ago
A parody of what? I'm not sure what you mean.
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by vlad 14y ago
Thank you!
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by vlad 14y ago
Thank you! It was over three weeks of work (mostly UI/visual/product design, narrowing down features to launch with, testing, etc.) and I was freaking out because it had no upvotes on the new page. :)
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by vlad 14y ago
EDIT: I've now removed the slow version of the screencast. Thanks. My girlfriend picked the slow music but then said the same thing so I made a fast, supercharged version. However, she advised me to go with the slow one anyway because she
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by vlad 14y ago
I just launched Autobahn, a plugin for banning stories on Hacker News as well as instant profiles with twitter photos. Took me three weeks because I focused on graphics, UI, etc. How long did it take you? http://news.ycombinator.com/item

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