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I don't live in America and haven't been for years. Noticed I have logins with "tch network services" and have no idea why that would be the case. I don't use any VPN services (esp…

Cheers

Totally agree. It seems like a convention that exists for sites that want to force the user into their content even when they want to leave. Unless it is a file download link - I f…

I'm marking up a page right now, have a list of Twitter users to link to and am debating the use of target="_blank" without an explicit "new tab/window" icon. I personally have no …

Why is your name green?

I know a lot of cats on HN are pretty educated on a whole range of topics. I live in Tokyo, and have come to realize I know next to nothing about how this could play out. Throwing …

Do a lot of startups make their own dashboards like this to show their specific data?

If you live outside of the states and appreciate The Daily Show and The Colbert Report - get ready for a heart sink... http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/ What happened?!

Thanks for the heads up - this will be fixed in a few hours.

I haven't really had to scale a system up like this before. As a freelance web developer moving to a bigger slice? on linode has been good enough for any wordpress blog or simple s…

Ya, but that comment is not bullshit-free.

My mom used to have a power cleaning hour when I was growing up and that house was spotless! I can see how this kind of focused attention is great for getting through things that a…

Pretty funny result. Makes me think if machine translation is to improve it will almost certainly require human translators to contribute. The style in which Google is doing this s…

here is the thread about it http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5139...

http://i.imgur.com/VYQve.png The last 2 bookmarks/apps in that screenshot were not installed through the Chrome Webstore. They just showed up suddenly - is there a js hack to add t…