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by zach 14y ago
"If you have a question on your mind, just type in whatever the thing you want to axis!"
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by zach 14y ago
So true. I can't wait until they add fax support so I can get fired by my boss in Japan.
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by zach 14y ago
Awesome! I was just about to switch my repository from twitter's to joshaber's next week, so this is perfect timing. He's been rocking it, which is not easy given the size and complexity of the project. Many thanks to Josh and GitHub for th
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by zach 14y ago
Yeah, and I think for most of here, there will be a "what's the big deal" factor when it comes out. Those of us who have no problem containing our video setup inside our head, who have a Harmony remote, who have a mental picture of what goe
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by zach 14y ago
A really great integrated TV experience could have, among other things: - WirelessHD with CoverFlow input selection (no rat's nest of wires, physical input slots or keep-pressing-the-button input select) - an integrated AirPort (no cable-co
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by zach 14y ago
There are a lot of possibilities, even without the Siri experience. I wrote a Quora answer early this year about the opportunities: http://www.quora.com/Apple-TV/If-Apple-ever-releases-a-TV-th...
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by zach 14y ago
My reliable go-to query for maximum ads is [electric heaters].
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by zach 14y ago
I noted five years back that YC in its early years seemed like School of Rock: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5954 Now that the tech and investing world has changed, YC seems more like Motown Records. It's worth pointing out that in
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by zach 14y ago
So if I have desktop software, can I put a button on my download page that instantly copies the zip file to the user's Google Drive from my own? If not, would anyone like to make one? That seems like a convenient option for users, not to me
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by zach 14y ago
So yeah, there's a gold rush. They're great for economic expansion but kind of suck when it comes to depth of achievement. Right now, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in the ability of technological innovators to positively affect the eve
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by zach 14y ago
Surprised to hear this. A couple years ago, local (LA-area) recruiters tried to get me to interview at Valve based on some very impressive salaries others had received. Then again, I'm a programmer. They seem very intent on collecting the a
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by zach 14y ago
Sounds like the foundry has an all-or-nothing philosophy of font pricing, even if the marketplace their fonts are found on doesn't quite support it. To understand this perspective, don't miss the bottom of the House Industries FAQ page: ht
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by zach 15y ago
Anyone want to speculate on the difficulty level of integrating Meteor with Cappuccino? That combination seems like it could be spectacular, if it's at all possible.
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by zach 15y ago
I am just wrapping up a test on canned homeowners' insurance quotes on our local real estate site, LA Life. Have a look at an example: http://lalife.com/address/15436_Mayall_St_Los_Angeles_CA_913... We got involved with a broker who actua
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by zach 15y ago
It seems like the "let's try to find actual developers" faction lost convincingly. Last year, I won a ticket via Last Call for Google I/O, their Google-technology programming competition, but got no early registration access this year (yes,
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by zach 15y ago
Easy access to spectacular concept art through EveryArt would be a big win for smaller game developers. Great concept art really helps bridge the gap from "pretty cool" to "amazing" and amplifies the inspiration driving the game concept. H
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by zach 15y ago
On Instagram, "picture talking" is very common since the service is completely geared towards pictures but people still want to use words from time to time. So to express a thought or thank friends, Instagram users have to find a way to put
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by zach 15y ago
Some may remember that Reddit used to have an item recommender a long time ago, back in its first year or so. It was a Bayesian classifier that, since it needed a bunch of input, only worked for the most hardcore members — who had already
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by zach 15y ago
I'm not too sure about that just yet. Part of your registration may be to checkout a Google Code project in the language of your choice and run the resulting program with a prequalification code they give you. That would be unfortunate if y
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by zach 15y ago
Yeah, you figure at that price they're going to give out heads-up display glasses or something ridiculously cool like that. That was my first thought, anyway.
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by zach 15y ago
This is just a minor end-of-thought speaking affectation. I've never really been bothered by it. John Carmack has an even more characteristic "um" which comes out like the word "I'm". That honestly did bother me at first, but you get over
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by zach 15y ago
It looks like the slides call it "Kennedy", not "Kanna", for whatever reason. In any case, don't miss the last slide, where there's a chart suggesting a quantitative comparison of two shades of blue: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/28636
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by zach 15y ago
Indeed. Some may know them better from those days as iminlikewithyou.
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by zach 15y ago
This is the correct read on this news. Customer service is emerging from a major generational change at Blizzard. Understand that Blizzard went very quickly from a company of mostly developers to a company whose headcount was overwhelmingl
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by zach 15y ago
Just to let you guys know, Kevin Drum (the author) may be a political blogger but he's a smart, incisive writer that I think most Hacker News readers can appreciate even if you wouldn't otherwise visit the Mother Jones website. I went to a
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US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination(volokh.com)
518 points by zach 15y ago|113 comments
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by zach 15y ago
Many people wonder why Google never provides a reason for cancelling an account like this. The answer is that any reason they provide would also be seen as their opening argument. They're not interested in arguing whether their reasons ar
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Apple rumored to talk with Canadian cablers for a service-integrated Apple TV(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by zach 15y ago|0 comments
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by zach 15y ago
This is a sign that Nest has found a great market. I don't mean smart thermostats, but in accessible premium home technology (as you can tell, their name is more general than thermostats). There are many areas of technology in the home tha
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by zach 15y ago
If the point is that there are no residual payments[1] for individual game creators, this list is ridiculously short. Practically all games ever on a shelf are in that category, where the individuals worked for hire with only the hope of s

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