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I thought this post was going to be about the "Restart or Details" update dialogue on Macs

Hey, just here to recommend that you use or otherwise build a CRM interface around the SMS conversations. This will allow you to scale the number of messages without being overwhel…

Technology could be used to solve the problems that it's causing. E.g. better utilization of existing resources (self-driving cars), alternative sources of energy, and perhaps even…

Question: how would this impact music piracy and the ability of every day people to rip audio off the web?

The law was called the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the bookstores responded to it mainly by offering seperate, inconvenient search forms. If you found your way there, you…

The author left out one major reason textbooks are so expensive-- course adoption lists (i.e. which books go with which courses) are kept private or disorganized so that students o…

This post is almost as good as your previous hits "Or", "Not, and "Xor"

oof, worst of both worlds

If anything, shouldn't apps that involve ratings and profiles reduce racism, because they allow you to judge the person by their behavior as opposed to just their appearance? Compa…

I just realized how you could generate thousands of points of Hacker News karma without ever manually writing a post or comment: Watch all major status pages (e.g. Google, Facebook…

Nerds' general inability to sell isn't because they don't understand marketing lingo, but because they lack an intuitive sense of people/markets. Inconsistent and vague buzzwords d…

Almost every term in marketing/sales is imprecisely defined and most writing in the field seems to be around making things more complex and vague than they need to be. Kind of like…

Asked on #startups as well and discovered two more from them: Google Helpouts and Airpair.

StackOverflow is great, but there are critical times such as a production server crash that you want to have an expert actually screenshare with you and guide you through solving t…

The need to label everything as right and left betrays a primitive binary mentality. A more accurate designation here would be distributed vs non-distributed systems. Then we can h…

Haha, that's Ryan Singer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ryansinger

Trying to identify the motivations of an action from the perspective of the perpetrator doesn't mean that one agrees with their actions. Rather, it's a way of getting a better unde…

I prefer taking Lyft to Uber because with the former the default mode is friendly conversation. When you take an Uber the assumption is that neither of you will talk to each other,…

Would love to try this on Android. You should setup a mailing list to keep people up to date if that's ever released.

Yep, that's something that I definitely found. I think people are scared by Google/FB more because of their size/power than because their privacy policies are below industry par.

Good point-- I've updated the post to give an inline link to textyard.com. I'm not trying to promote TextYard anymore, but if this helps clarify to people what you can do with the …