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Raspberry Pi blimp?

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You can find some cool stuff via tag filtering - e.g. https://pinboard.in/t:nodejs/t:distributed/

I'm not sure why they get upvoted either, but I get why they're written. The real point of this article is the second-to-last paragraph, where he says (paraphrased) "check out my s…

Ehh when integrating with the Dropbox API you're given a choice of "full Dropbox" or "app folder", the latter option creates a folder in your Dropbox which is all your app can acce…

While I'd like to agree, I'd also like to see something beyond anecdotal evidence on this. It'd give me a great excuse next time someone wants a Facebook login and a Twitter login …

Not sure this is a proper use of "Show HN"...

I like this idea a lot, I think I'll try it myself. You already have some well dug marketing channels though, as made evident by your book sales - any advice for the rest of us? Be…

The nootropics community would find this very interesting. I wonder what the process of NGF isolation entails (or if she published anything about the process).

His point about the commissioned artist vs. the self-motivated artist is very interesting to me as a freelance developer. I often feel bored/discouraged doing projects for hire, ye…

As a customer you could choose to opt out, but from a business standpoint it's not so easy.

Very good point, it seems like a perverse reverse incentive. However I don't think that the earnings of a given field speak to its "value" - as I'm sure any teacher would agree.

Seems like the strategy is 1) do some standard business that makes a standard amount of money, 2) convince people you can make money, being "transparent" by offering a bunch of upw…

This "income ceiling" you mention brings up a potentially interesting idea - why not scale the cost of college according to the expected value of your major? I know that in a broad…

Shrimp is the first thing that comes to mind. Never seen shit-free shrimp labels.

That's a lovely capitalist way to think about it, but it won't do much. Foods labeled non-GMO or non-hormonally-enhanced or whatever are only labeled so to target their market: the…

This is the most elegantly concise summary I've seen of the topic. It also reminds me of a humorous video from the MySpace era about what was called the "MySpace angle" — people us…

Absolutely. The people who'd get up in arms about the whole thing likely weren't users in the first place. I told a non-HN-reading, Instagram-using friend (i.e. an average American…

But also consider that many if not most of those users were already on Facebook.

I really like the idea of a portable web server - with a WiFi dongle (better yet, a 3/4G dongle) and dynamic DNS it should be possible to carry the a piece of the internet in one's…

1) How to play the piano 2) How to make VSTs 3) How to sell software (potentially as a service)

We're all out of news today in the UK so let's talk about the weather... in America.