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Also an Australian, Costco is also a single location here, 20km away. My house travels out there once every ~3 months for everything and spend ~$500 The only things we really buy f…

I work for an Australian Bank. We had an internal competition where they didn't sanitise the data for this competition well enough. After a week of analysing the data one of the pe…

I would agree with that for the most part, however, if you're receiving a large sum of money (e.g. the $8 million dollars Ouya received as mentioned in the article received) I thin…

Sorry, I'm not usually a pain with comparisons but comparing "Super Bass: 268M views in a year; Khan Academy: 175M views in 5 years" is illogical as Super Bass, from my quick Googl…

The economies of scale are crazy as well. the US government spends $100 million on sensors yet the catels stand to make (if you can believe the figures) "$16 million wholesale" for…

I had a similar user experience with iOS (I admit I bailed out of the ecosystem at the 3GS but it hasn't changed substantially since then). You're correct with everything you say, …

Not sure if I agree with your "beautiful and usable" comment, there's a very good reason for design iteration. Check out some geocities sites from a while ago for some 'usable' web…

Sorry, is it out, or is it part of another App? I attempted to look for it on the Play Store this morning but I could not see it.

I backup to my Google account with my Chrome so I don't see the difference.

Seems like a cool idea, I watched the video but it hasn't convinced me why gimme bar is better than my current bookmark system in Chrome with folders etc. to be honest, I quite lik…

Surely it's simple enough to create a google account that's only used for youtube? We do it on our server at home.

But while things like technologies change quite quickly I would argue that the methodologies that sit around these technologies develop a lot slower. Also while I understand that t…

When I first heard about this, I heard they anonymized their payments through bitcoins. PayPal seems a bit of a move to widen their market

I believe they were using bitcoins to anonymize some transactions. The hardest thing for a regular consumer I would think would be finding a drop point. Drugs and things sent throu…

But then if you're in a discussion with someone and say thanks to them at the end wouldn't it annoy you when it closed the menu item you were in? I think they're trying to ensure t…

This is all speculation. Possibly because they treat it as an extra curriculum activity And as such: a) Perhaps the lecturers teach in their spare time because they enjoy the activ…

He's edited it again, UPDATE 2: OK, what I’m hearing now is that Places still uses Google Maps, but the maps in Journals and slideshows are not using Google Maps, and are Apple’s o…

They exist for the iPhone, not sure about Android

Great post, I do however much prefer the quote, "If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel"

I'm not a regular napper, but whenever I've napped in a busy office, the best approach I've found is to head out to a park, find a shady spot and lie down. Take a towel so you don'…

I'm highly upset at this comment. I didn't realise hn had become downertown. Many people enjoy this website and just because someone tried to add wind into someone else's sails don…

You're confusing me, I opened this thread amazed someone could raise 1 billion. Now I'm quite happy that M = 1,000 and m = 1,000,000, and you're throwing me off with $1mm now.

Interesting article, however it seems to suggest that these 'Smart and social' people are not on equal footing when it comes to intelligence as the 'Smart and not social'. However …

This comment confuses me? It resets at 5pm, to an hour chosen randomly by dice roll? EDIT: Not sure why I can't reply to your other comment but: > its a simple timer that counts do…