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FreebytesSector
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Comment #4355360
League of Legends also uses it in their download client.
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Ask HN: Complete POS For Consignment Shop?
I was asked to create a complete system that includes a point of sale, register, and a way for users to create bar codes for products as they are pulled off the truck. These items …
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Comment #4270900
Natural selection was not a conscious choice. There have been many choices in grammar that have been decided almost arbitrarily by higher authorities. Sure, many of these choices m…
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Comment #4270842
Also, it makes it easier to determine when a sentence ends that contains an abbreviation. (This refers to when most people would use periods at the end of abbreviations.) I still u…
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Comment #4267619
I actually could not find exactly what I wanted years ago so I created some time clock software for a company where I worked in some of my spare time. They became the first 'custom…
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Comment #4267616
I actually could not find exactly what I wanted years ago so I created some time clock software for a company where I worked in some of my spare time. They became the first 'custom…
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Ask HN: Minimum Viable Product?
I have created a web site at www.sipen.com that helps companies and individuals keep track of their time tracking. This would be helpful for invoicing and other such features, but …
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Comment #4239779
I am certain the users do not get confused about the arrows. However, if you can wrap your head around it, it might actually look like it is pointing at the message itself, but tha…
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Comment #4239755
Perhaps an icon to the right that is an X or minus sign that would collapse the thread could work.
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Comment #4239736
By the time someone aquires 500 points, they will likely have spent enough time on the site to learn the distinction between the two. While using text labels would be fine, I do no…
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Comment #4229193
The profits for a drug to cure every kind of cancer would be astronomical. You seem to have the assumption that when cancer is killed it cannot return. But, it can. Mutations happe…
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Comment #4167646
Fight Club and Children of Men are two books that I truly enjoyed.
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Comment #4071353
You put this wonderfully. People are very little more than our experience with the world itself. Without external stimuli, we would be trapped within our own minds and only be capa…
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Comment #4053690
I had to look up "FizzBuzz" to know what you mean, but you are correct. (I have actually been asked to write programs like this, and this is great even if it is minimal. I think th…
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Comment #4050091
Perhaps an email based recovery system could be added for people in this situation if email accounts are maintained in the HN database. (I think they are.)
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Comment #4049928
One of the arguments for this proposal was the protection of trademarked names; however, the registration for protection would not be needed if this change was never implemented. I…
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Comment #4049838
If a person is a self-taught programmer with ten years of experience working in a good company, then you are obviously programming for that company in a sufficient capacity even if…
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Comment #4042736
I was going to submit this same story. I really appreciate you changing the title of the story, though. The Bloomberg headline makes it sound like he is no longer a billionaire. He…
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Comment #4025259
This was one of the first things I thought when reading this. It is so easy for this to become another situation where oversaturation makes it a flawed platform. The reason the pro…
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Comment #4023839
Clothing manufacturers, cotton producers, and even fast food chains are included in these totals. It is simply an attempt to make people think that the movie and music industries c…
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