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On one hand, you have people earning six figures fighting for the dwindling, ever inflated supply of conventional housing options, and on the other, you have people like Nadia Eghb…

Well what to you know, mere minutes before I saw this submission on HN I received an email from Kickstarter saying that funding for the project has been suspended. I feel like an i…

"We are not an entertainment company – we are a productivity tool company. We provide a new additional service you use to get stuff done better." Yes! This is exactly the kind of m…

A private BitTorrent tracker for music.

Do we really need another music app? How many of us are (or planning to) use Twitter for music discovery? For the average consumer, Spotify has just about everything for anyone. Fo…

Can't agree more. All the breakpoints are placed so thoughtfully without sacrificing content for flair, certainly one of the most well-executed responsive sites I've come across. I…

Its initial concept of beaming money with Palm Pilots certainly was. What it eventually pivoted and grew into was less so, but I do agree that PayPal played an important role in th…

I think it's important to keep in mind that Elon Musk got to where he is today (especially financially) because of a consumer web service he helped found. I'm sure (perhaps on the …

Reading the article made me smile. Reading your comment made my day. Looking forward to trying your service someday. :)

Zapier has become one of my favorites web services. I've always lamented that IFTTT doesn't cater to the productivity/project management crowd by offering a very limited set of cha…

Well, on second look it seems like the mast is using for me as well- I originally looked too far and thought the id "fbhome-cinemagraph-canary" led to an animated gif. Apologies on…

The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it aw…

I have my doubts about the launcher and would much rather have Twitter take on the endeavor given I derive much more utility from its network (highlighting stories on my Twitter fe…

This marks the first time I've felt genuinely saddened by the shutdown of a game studio. LucasArts made some of the best games I played as a kid, it's a shame they couldn't follow …

I've always hacked my way around DevTools - it's nice being able to formally acquaint myself with it through an interactive tutorial. CodeSchool also does some of the best tutorial…

I really appreciate "process" posts like this- always love the feeling of picking up new technologies and putting them to good side project use. Best of luck on learning!

I've been preaching this for years- it's not a "developers" conference anymore when you have your average tech enthusiast queueing for swag.

Interesting. I've never gone to a WWDC, but I've been to the first three I/Os, and while it could be the fact that the conference has become better known since then (and increasing…

The disgusting amount of free swag they throw at you.

Can't say I didn't see this coming. It's been the same absurd registration experience for several years now. What Google really needs to do is stop throwing all this free swag arou…

I wouldn't discount IBM so quickly- to my understanding IBM's been partnering with a lot of institutions to beef up Watson. I know Carnegie Mellon was quite involved through the wh…

This was posted in 2010. A little long-winded for sure, but it's good to hear someone would have such positive things to say coming out of a 12-year tenure at Microsoft (I have a f…