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Big big upvote. This works much better than the passive-agressive method of silently glaring and cleaning your screen in front of co-worker. Here are more examples of the same tech…

The iTunes/iPhone asks your permission before sending crash reports. If the original article is true, then palm is potentially in for a backlash. This kind of information transmiss…

His definition of entrepreneur is different from what we normally think of tech startups, but even for tech startups, Portland surely ranks high. I've lived there and at one point …

pg mentioned that half of the early YCs died. I think with traditional VCs, I've heard more like 90% failure. Ron Conway (the angel) said that it's thirds for him. (1/3 of investme…

Mac OS X, safari 4, Doesn't work. When I copy parts of a story, all I get are a couple of blank lines.

Joel uses his articles as marketing tools. FogBugz makes money and CityDesk is part of that industry that died.

If I applied, I would definitely make a video, even if noone looks at. PG has mentioned multiple times that it's statistically helpful. If it comes down to you and some other guy w…

I'm convinced one of the most valuable tricks Joel picked up in his long career is that of producing "truly engaging writing." Vision statements are common sources of yawns, but Jo…

The EngineYard Contest is becoming a lottery of smarts. The ability to build or find the best solution increases your odds.

For just about everything non-media, I use mercurial to a colosite. Works fantastic. Big media files (movies, iTunes Library, etc.) are backed up locally to a big data server.

Reminds me of the fun people have passing FreeCell RNG seed numbers around. Anybody who finds a particularly tough one will write it down and pass it around to the other FreeCell a…

Classic iphone marketing strategy: make something Gruber likes.

Absolutely. I'd even expect some cross-pollination as well.

SICP comes to mind... Knuth's TAOCP also.

I'm going. I'll be happy to meet up with any other HN denizens for beer/coffee/chat/whatever.

Dustin Curtis recommended me 3 sites on twitter the other day: http://www.alistapart.com/ Articles and reference http://creattica.com/ Social voting on CSS, logos, biz cards etc. h…

One more. I'd also like to see "sample course" that I can take that _doesn't_ require me to log in. A lesser alternative would be a video screencast of an actual course.

Friendly shell has gotten some attention over the past few seasons. http://fishshell.org/index.php http://fishshell.org/user_doc/design.html

I'd like to suggest supporting OpenID instead of making me create another user/pass.

That last graph is one of those "holy shit" types of revelations. MS should be scared spitless.

Sometimes technology has a way of overwhelming societies capability to adapt to it. Cocaine problems in the US. Ultrasound in a country with a one child policy and a strong cultura…

I'd assume that not everything that WA puts out will be text or tables. They've got graphs, complex mathematical formulas, general purpose image manipulation and who knows what els…

I can only assume there was context involved. Something like: With no money, you only have two viable choices: 1. Build something to get to Ramen Profitability 2. Raise Money. If y…

About half of that is the cost of the drives. That's not going to change no matter which solution you get. Compared to the 4-bay $500 Drobo, (plus $200 for DroboShare) it's not bad…