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Got it, thanks!

Seems harsh that so many people downvoted this, I dig the Slumdog Millionaire reference!

The biggest reason for me to pass on implementing an approach like this is what I THINK is the actual most common use case for a typical user when logging into a site at which they…

It's 4th of July and as I write this it looks like Lessig's MayDay PAC[0] is going to fly. This is an exciting time that has me hopeful for the future of political participation by…

A business needn't go for as broad a market as they could, and is often rewarded by targeting (and really resonating with) a narrow niche. Due to the name I immediately felt right …

Cheers to that, that was a delightful way to pass 20 minutes. I'm in for $25--feels good to support a project like this, even in a small way.

Here’s a lovely bit of nasty hypocrisy: "Yoga International could keep the videos on its website until it had a chance to re-film the classes using a different style." So they say …

> Child pornographer with chemical weapons and a nuke Do even approximations to such boogieman figures even exist?

That was my first thought as well. For better or worse, I love MooTools and vastly prefer it to jQuery. It's the occasional time like this whene I have admit there's a cost to pick…

I like many others in the HN community don't have a lot of respect for patents, at least in the software world (my take on this can be found here: http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/20…

Good question. I wrote this from the vantage point of developers, for whom NDAs is a different situation from that of investor types. There's intrinsically more precedent for an ND…