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I'd encourage you to play around with Obj-C a little more before writing it off. It's actually a pretty simple, compact and concise language once you dig into it. Apple's APIs, on …

That's a phenomenal idea! Thanks! And re: your post below, yeah, try the cache - I just added a feauture called "Testing validations" with no problem.

Yeah, it's an option given to project owners if signed in. The fix has been pushed.

Ah, the reason I couldn't reproduce was that I was logged in. Pushing a fix momentarily. Thanks for finding that!

Thanks for the tips! I probably could have picked a better day to release this - RIP Dennis Ritchie! I'll probably follow your suggestions at some point next week.

Can you fill me in on where this happened and what your input was? I'm not able to replicate your problem. The input for the number of days/months/years should be numeric, which I …

Hi HN! I'd love for you guys to take a look at my lean-style project growth tool, Feature Pop! It's is a side-project I've been developing over the last month and a half (in betwee…

Wow awesome explanation - about 6 years ago while hacking gtk+ and Mozilla I used those instructions to hack into the main event loop to get gtk+ embedding gecko 1.7 and had no ide…

I thunk his point is - he's wasting his breath talkin about it

How much of the revenue comes from IE6 browsers? If it's more than the cost support it/ less drop it... My guess, it's less revenue then cost and that by this time next year we can…

Sorry but what a bunch of crap... Privacy people are so annoying... If your concerned about this kind of tracking stop using online porn - otherwise As you were

I'll second the recommendation for Scooby. He's a little strange, perhaps, but his methods are effective and he's got a high signal/noise ratio. http://www.scoobysworkshop.com/

"Consequently, this means that you will receive no value in respect of any of the shares underlying your Options." I don't really see how that's ambiguous... I mean, I think Skype …

I'm curious to get some feedback on what other HNers consider to be the most profoundly insightful books they've read. I picked up The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming …

The trend of focused education has arisen in tandem with ever increasing numbers of people entering the workforce. In that light, it's hard to argue that specialization isn't hard …

Maybe so. In my comment I noted that retailer issues are a far better criticism of Groupon... The OPs analysis is focused far more on consumer issues, which I think is an inaccurat…

"Groupon and other group-buying services let consumers eat their cake and have it too." To me, that doesn't sound like something consumers are going to abandon very quickly. The no…

School is about indoctrinating certain ways of thinking, not teaching the specifics. I've done a CS degree (admittedly at a crap school), an MBA and am about to finish a law degree…