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Yeah, I don't know why it doesn't work. I use the location and region to give results instead of something country specific like zipcode. I guess if google local doesn't have anyth…

thanks for the feedback! I'm actually getting the location data from google itself. I like the facebook integration idea, and was thinking of doing something with their checkin fea…

Oh yeah, it's supposed to load up a list of places near you. What browser/OS are you using? Perhaps this won't work because you aren't in the US.

Is this useful to anyone? Should I pursue this further? I was thinking of adding some kind of shared event calendar. What direction should I take this HN?

Living expenses. Currently it takes nearly 30% of my income just to afford the physical shelter. Then pretty much the rest for basic necessities. Not to mention the time it takes t…

I asked something like this not to long ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486240 Sorry, not many willing to share ideas here.

Ramen? I don't know, exercise left up to the reader... The question was how do you make more money with 10k, not how do I live off 10k and make money.

I'm not limiting ideas to investing in an traditional since. I was thinking more along the lines of, I have 10k, how can I best leverage that 10k to make more money. For example: I…

Along the lines of this post: Ask HN: How to turn $1,000 into $10,000 in a relatively short period of time? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1480246 However, in this case a re…

Buy a lawn mower and an old truck for under a grand. Go around your neighborhood and offer to mow lawns for $50 1 time per month or more. Stop once you have 33 customers. Mow lawns…

We use it where I work for access control. We define groups in ActiveDirectory(LDAP) which are then specified for each subversion repository. It works fairly well for this except t…

Self-directed play is simply kids playing on their own terms, making up games with their own rules, making up their own characters etc. You know.. being a Kid and playing with your…

This game is great, but you really have to read the documentation, otherwise it's pretty much impossible. I found that the more games I lost the more I learned for the next game wh…

I really like the interface, it's very simple and snappy. What was it made with?

I recently discovered etherpad: http://etherpad.com/ Which has been helpful in collaborative grocery list creation among other things.

As a programmer I've accumulated quite a bit of hardware/software knowledge which I find that people will readily take in exchange for things. Upgrading machines with new memory (R…

You might also use the posts here as an opportunity to create a follow up blog post that contains the suggestions from here. Provided you get enough suggestions :)