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by zach 16y ago
"Price and participation may vary." Yeah, there are airport locations where, for $5.00, you could get a regular cheeseburger and a medium soda. And you'll even have 45¢ left!
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by zach 16y ago
The new MBA 13 screen is 1440x900, a nice step up from the 1280x800 that 13-inch MacBook users have been used to. For web programming it is fine. Reddit was programmed on a 13" MacBook, after all. If you're doing Xcode development I might
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by zach 16y ago
What?! Absolutely wrong. Look at Chart 6 in the survey they link to, which is even titled: 91% of iPad owners have downloaded an app, many of them have already purchased apps I presume they meant to say 32% have never purchased an app,
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by zach 16y ago
This is fantastic. I've also signed up and am glad you shared this. Something I've always wanted but figured it was out of reach. This post is great, too. We should make this a regular feature because, how many frequent HN users end up l
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by zach 16y ago
Me too. The best I did was driving past it when I came out to Cambridge for the first Startup School, but it was such a unique building even from the outside that seeing it again sparked a fond memory. Nice listing.
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by zach 16y ago
The line peeking out below the navigation bar is distracting at best. It's better than a diagonal bar, though.
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by zach 16y ago
Great quote but it was F.B. Silverwood, part of a rousing sales pep talk from a hundred years ago: http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bdetermination-alone+%2Bfb-... He was a merchant who moved from Chicago to Los Angeles and wrote the littl
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by zach 16y ago
Maybe this is why this quarterback tackle from last weekend was such a "big hit" -- QBs never practice tackling. It's the old thing about the most dangerous opponent for a swordsman, apart from a master, is one who is completely untrained.
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by zach 16y ago
I think that an active HN member "asking for the sale" at the end of a post is clever and responsible marketing. More so than many blogs' gratuitously inflammatory titles or even having widgets to submit every post to Reddit or Digg or ever
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by zach 16y ago
Thanks. I heard it from the person involved fifteen years ago and hadn't told the story before, so I'm glad it still came out well.
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, you're right. Fixed it, thanks.
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by zach 16y ago
It's certainly the reason you would cite now, with 20/20 hindsight. The power of the broadcast networks went downhill pretty soon after that deal, so it seems curious that Disney (then mostly a theme park operator and movie studio) would bu
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by zach 16y ago
Once I heard a story about Disney buying ABC (quotes not exact). DreamWorks had hired some of Eisner's top guys producing TV animation and had a deal lined up to produce a slate of shows for ABC's Saturday morning lineup, which was a big de
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by zach 16y ago
I can't imagine a situation where I would add Boost to a project. Sure, it drags C++ by its angle bracket into a higher abstraction level, if you want that. But adding the core of Boost to any project is like a snake swallowing an elephant
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by zach 16y ago
The NonCommercial licenses are popular -- four times as popular as non-NC on Flickr -- exactly because they're not generous. And that's including ShareAlike licenses which the CBC would presumably be excluded from using as well. And for al
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by zach 16y ago
A bit off subject -- I knew Reznor was a Joy Division devotee but I didn't realize until just now that his Halo numbers are patterned after the Factory Records numbers that Joy Division releases were a part of. Links: http://www.ninwiki.c
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by zach 16y ago
Exactly. This is what Craig means when he says he got a perfect score when it meant perfect -- he got all the questions right. For example, I took one of the SATs of that era (before antonyms were removed), missed only one question on the
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by zach 16y ago
"We can confirm that Microsoft has begun to evolve its employee health care benefit," the company said in statement. Wow, way to make it sound more ominous, corporate PR person. You could have just said you were knocking your benefits do
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by zach 16y ago
We are all geeks now. This is sort of like the disappearance of the "jet set" as air travel became a commodity. People no longer dressed up to go on a flight, jobs involving flying all over were no longer so glamorous, and socializing on a
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by zach 16y ago
I always enjoy 37signals' copy, but the one that feels a little odd is "Backpack is like a beautifully organized closet for your internal communications." So... it's a backpack that's like a closet, but a beautifully-organized one. And my
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by zach 16y ago
Matt is a Y Combinator alum of note so I'd presume it was for a YC-advised Series AA.
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by zach 16y ago
WOW. Thanks for sharing that article. I'm sorry I missed it when it came out. An article full of novel insights and heartfelt interest in the subject. And I used to work for the company the author headed ten years ago! Highly recommende
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by zach 16y ago
Without the wasabi reference point, it looks like the beginning of a sentence in Gungan. As in, "Wesabe watchin' your monies!"
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by zach 16y ago
If the most important thing is getting people to start using a site, a weird name (sorry) is a definite barrier. Imagine a website is behind a locked door, like a 1920s speakeasy. You have to hear, remember, then say (maybe even spell ) a
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by zach 16y ago
What was surprising was seeing the marketing take the form of the Centers for Disease Control offering health advice.
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by zach 16y ago
From the report: "At best, motivated taxpayers can locate a pie chart on a government website that gives percentage allocations about how large categories of spending are distributed. But these are difficult to find and difficult to unders
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by zach 16y ago
Is there an eatbeef.gov?!
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by zach 16y ago
Not just our parents: http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/ This site is a production of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, founded and funded by the Produce Marketers Association.
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by zach 16y ago
That domain's been around a long time, no doubt because someone imagined the Venn diagram of people interested in astrological predictions intersected with people who don't always spell things properly. Asking people to spell Whereoscope ev
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by zach 16y ago
You know that, I know that, but if everybody knows that you only have to enter the easier-to-read semi-nonsense word then ReCAPTCHA itself doesn't work so well for its larger purpose. And if you don't know that, then giving someone a CAPT

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