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by wyday 17y ago
I'm using the latest dev release that has this feature implemented. Let me tell you how it actually works. The location bar looks like this: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263512 When I select it and press Ctrl-C it copies this to t
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by wyday 17y ago
Unfortunately we do not, yet. It's on our short list of features to-do.
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by wyday 17y ago
Someone from Google Switzerland wrote up a study on browser upgrades: http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/index.en . He came to the same conclusion, namely that aggressive automatic-upgrades lead to faster distribution of
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Visualizing Usage of the Firefox Menu Bar(blog.mozilla.com)
4 points by wyday 17y ago|1 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
It's not. But like Steve Blank said: The standard corporate presentation wasn’t working, so the Boston sales rep made up his own. (I asked for the Boston sales rep because in the U.S. they’re furthest from the Silicon Valley corporate offi
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by wyday 17y ago
This is a bit tabloid-y for hacker news, no?
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by wyday 17y ago
... reinvent the wheel with this suggestion It's just more anecdotal evidence of just how long it takes to be truly good at what you do. It's not "reinventing the wheel" (you're not using the expression correctly, by the way). Ira also pr
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by wyday 17y ago
Right, but at that point you're just doing all the work a browser extension can do for you.
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by wyday 17y ago
Kinda cool, but it doesn't work well if you have a widescreen monitor with the browser full screen & your site is center aligned. It seems to only work if you left align all your content.
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by wyday 17y ago
Not to dig up the dark past, but could you share more. I'm interested.
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by wyday 17y ago
Very little content. Just a dozen or so pictures. Can we keep this crap to reddit?
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by wyday 17y ago
If you're on the developer channel you'll continue to be on the developer channel. That is, eventually a stable 4.0 release will happen, but because you're on the dev channel you'll be updated to an unstable 5.X beta. At least that's how it
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by wyday 17y ago
It's not meant as an actual job. It's to prove a point.
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by wyday 17y ago
Seriously? Documentation on the front page of Hacker News? This is some dry stuff. I guess I should just be thankful it's not yet another review of the Go language.
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by wyday 17y ago
Did you read what he wrote, or are you just being a contrarian? One government to rule the world. One government elected by the bankers and corporations and global slavery for the rest of us. Absolute drivel. Where to start? There isn't o
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by wyday 17y ago
The updated example would be "incorporating Cloud API".
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by wyday 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950630
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by wyday 17y ago
There's no need to be hostile. It's a famous Hemingway quote. See the first line of the post.
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by wyday 17y ago
notice how Steve Blank never actually explained how to bridge the gap between "schedule meetings with people" and "get the deal done"? He does in his book. But a blog post has to have a limited scope or it becomes a rambling mess.
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Steve Blank: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action(steveblank.com)
150 points by wyday 17y ago|23 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
They used it correctly. From wiki: "Zero-day attacks occur when a vulnerability window exists between the time a threat is released and the time security vendors release patches." A flaw exists. No released patches yet.
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by wyday 17y ago
I've just read 15 pages and I wanted to come back and say it's pretty darn good so far. The writing is succinct and interesting. The whole thing is 81 pages. You could read it in an afternoon.
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Mixergy: Questioning Basic Assumptions Made StubHub $310 Million(mixergy.com)
23 points by wyday 17y ago|0 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
How many of those hundreds of thousands of lines of boilerplate code have concepts in them that the average CS student isn't taught in their "fun" algorithm code? Remember, his article was about time management . The whole basis of his a
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by wyday 17y ago
Joel's statement was hyperbolic. The average assignment might amount to 1000 - 3000 lines of code for the more advanced courses, but his point still stands. Real products (products that actually make money) consist of a few thousand lines o
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by wyday 17y ago
They stopped recording. Why waste bandwidth broadcasting an empty room?
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by wyday 17y ago
Here's the speaker list (from http://ycombinator.posterous.com/startup-school-final-speake... ): Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine) Paul Buchheit (Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail) Jason Fried (Founder, 37signals)
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Tell HN: Watch YC Startup School Live(justin.tv)
75 points by wyday 17y ago|40 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
...they haven't really had a week to use. Windows 7 was available via MSDN for the last 2 months. The October 22 release date was for consumers. I've been using Windows 7 since Mid-August.
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by wyday 17y ago
Maybe they don't know what "stale link" means. If I saw that I'd be confused too. Can't you just silently redirect?

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