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Comment #1306370
It looks like a competitor. Pik has a UI that's in the browser window rather than a pop-up prompt, which allows you to search for commands. Pik also shows you what commands are pop…
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Comment #1306354
Most of this feedback is technical; can someone comment on whether they would use this or some future iteration of this project?
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Comment #1306329
Try closing the notification and using it anyways. I'm whitelisting browsers that work and I haven't gotten around to all of them.
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Comment #1306304
Thanks, I'll look into it. It's working for me on Chrome 5.0.342.9 on OSX.
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Comment #1306277
Haha, unfortunately I didn't know that. Reminds me of how I looked up "Bing" in a chinese dictionary and found that it means "disease."
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Comment #1306260
I will add that to my whitelist. You should be able to close the warning and continue. I'm whitelisting OS/Browser combos, and I haven't added linux yet.
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Comment #1091973
I enjoyed hearing them talk about tablets, given that was ~3 years before the iPad launch. (I believe most of that conversation occurred in part 5)
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Ask HN: Examples of sites which start free and later switch to paid?
One example of such a site is Meetic, which started as a free dating site for a couple of months and then started charging a subscription. How do you prevent customer backlash? How…
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Comment #670734
Yep, see: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/keyboard-ccs05.pdf
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Comment #532557
Eat less. I've also heard it's good for your health to eat less if you can. One of the common themes I hear from people who come to the US from overseas is that food portions are q…
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Comment #530643
My understanding is the prices are high because there's an oligopoly. To have competition, all the major browsers would have to agree to let in more companies, and they're just not…
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Comment #523544
FriendFeed has an in-house framework inspired by web.py and Appengine's webapp. It was written by Bret Taylor, who was the PM of appengine when it started, but is now working for F…