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by zck 16y ago
From their FAQ ( http://improveverywhere.com/faq/ ): >We are not claiming that what we are doing is improv. The majority of Improv Everywhere Agents met each other through the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, the nation’s m
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by zck 16y ago
I don't know, but I imagine the resources they needed to commit to it were pretty hefty.
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by zck 16y ago
The Ebert quote is from http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/30/why-i-hate-3-d-and-you-sh...
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The Maxivision movie projector system, called "400% better" by Ebert.(web.archive.org)
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by zck 16y ago
Self-built computer: AMD 2.8 GHz quad-core, 4 gig ram, running Ubuntu 10.04 . Keyboard: black Unicomp SpaceSaver ( http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104bl.html ). Mouse: Microsoft SideWinder gaming mouse ( http://www.amazon.com/Microsof
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by zck 16y ago
What in here reads that he couldn't've lent his iphone to his kid for an afternoon?
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by zck 16y ago
Has anyone been able to get into http://projectmarianne.com , the site about this project?
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by zck 16y ago
>Personally, I want more precise controls over who gets what proportion of my money. Or multi-flattring, or something. Not all flattrable-content is of equal quality. Interesting. I was about to find a quote to prove you wrong, but you'
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by zck 16y ago
Except HN is valuable. You've obviously created something people want here, even if you're not charging for it. Now, there's certainly a way to spend too much time here, but you creating this forum pays off in a way that responding to email
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by zck 16y ago
They're a news aggregator; there's no reason to post this article here. If they had additional commentary, then there might be. Like the guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) say, "Please submit the original source. If a
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by zck 16y ago
I hope that it actually performs an ls at a 1/10 probability -- just enough so that people will see it once in a while, but not enough to be relied on.
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by zck 16y ago
The benefit this has over mailinator is that the email ends up in your regular email client, and can be managed the same way. It won't be deleted unless you delete it, and no one else can come across it (mailinator has intoduced something t
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by zck 16y ago
For example, the iphone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera.
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by zck 16y ago
A friend and I had kicked around a startup idea where you would take a picture of your receipt with your phone and upload it to our service. Then it would do OCR, and at the end of the month, you could easily reconcile your statement with t
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by zck 16y ago
I have had people assert that they are allergic to parentheses, causing them to hate Lisp. Of course, offering to make them a read macro to let them use any two other characters in place of parentheses didn't help, but such is life.
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by zck 16y ago
I was surprised by this too -- even counting MP3s as products, I don't think 5% of the U.S. populace buys an item online every day .
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"This is stupid. Your program doesn't work," my wife told me(stevehanov.ca)
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by zck 16y ago
You could have uneven rows for 69: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Copied from my reddit c
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by zck 16y ago
Glad you got the joke. :)
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by zck 16y ago
It was up 15 minutes ago. My guess is there were too many concurrent users.
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by zck 16y ago
Haha, try su to root, then rm -rf / and see the results.
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by zck 16y ago
Keep in mind that they're targeting real estate brokers, who would use this as part of their job. EasyBroker's clients are more likely to spend money for several reasons: brokers are more independent in their jobs than other people, so they
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by zck 16y ago
Previously, a submission from the creator: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742268
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by zck 16y ago
Ah, you're right -- I meant storage space.
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by zck 16y ago
>First off he's a techie not a Steve jobs. He was clearly nervous and is totally not a politician. I believe that's the point.
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by zck 16y ago
Your link says it has 8 MB of memory, while the NanoNote has 2GB. The MB may be a typo, but I found the same spec on a review site. Whether they got it from the same page you linked, I can't tell you.
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by zck 16y ago
>You can't charge for a browser app. This line jumped out at me. What definition of "browser app" are we using that requires them to be free? Obviously a browser app can't be a website, as it's trivial to put a website behind a paywall.
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by zck 16y ago
Since this would involve getting a signed letter from the company stating that the company does not own work you do for your side project while you're at work, it seems unlikely that this is an option.
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by zck 16y ago
Here's the first entry about this, where he discusses why he thinks it's a good idea to buy BP stock now: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/engineers_to_the_rescue/
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by zck 16y ago
Also, consider this: you share an article with your 300 friends on Facebook, liking it before you do. Your friends see the article, and of the first 20, 4 of them also like it. The next one of your friends will to see the article will have

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