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One feature that I enjoy about AdBlock for Chrome/Firefox is the ability to toggle it on/off with the press of a button. So if site functionality is being broken by the ad block OR…

As a straight male I guess I'm the target of this type of advertising. But I don't find it even remotely sexy or titillating. This is a shallow, junior-high level male teen deuche …

Couldn't disagree more. Any sufficiently advanced platform will give developers the ability to do potentially dangerous things. How will Google manage this risk? The same way Apple…

Let me get this straight. The author asserts the following: Lesser managers will try to stump candidates with horrible brain teasers along the lines of “Describe a time you got int…

As a developer I schedule "surgery time" to avoid distractions. Blocks of 2-4 hours during the day where I go dark - no phone, no email, no chat/IM. The surgery analogy is apt. A g…

Do any major browsers have a setting to disable overriding default keyboard shortcuts I don't know about that. When I'm using a web-based word processor or spreadsheet I want CMD+s…

This is developer sloppiness. Google provides plenty of methods to authenticate users without persisting user credentials to disk. There's no reason an application would need to st…

This isn't political correctness run amok. This is simply a father trying to provide a positive female role model for his young daughter. Y'know, so she doesn't get the impression …

They must have had some other differentiator. Looking at the product's home page it looks like they had support from Nike and several well known football clubs to promote and legit…

.... aaaannnddd it's back - what the heck happened?

YouTube is down as well

Even a cursory scan of the http://urlfind.org/?server-status list reveals scads of porn sites exposing their visitor's IP addresses: (Note these links go to Apache server-status pa…

Most web sites suck - or at least implement one of the flaws described in the article. But by the standard laid out in the article most smartphones suck, most desktop apps suck, et…

There's a few things you can do: * Drop the move to London requirement and allow him to telecommute. This could especially be appealing as he's working below rate. * Hire him on at…

> So the Microsoft store culture is not like the Apple store culture. Microsoft and carrier shops tend to have a thrift store culture. No guidance, no expertise and lots of low-qua…

I had a similar experience in a T-Mobile store a few doors down from my local Apple store. Wanted to get my hands on the Galaxy S3 to check it out, surf, etc. before purchase. Took…

The skepticism about PayPal is well founded. PayPal has rightfully earned a reputation of imposing arbitrary decisions on account holders. Maybe if PayPal was more transparent and …

Is it possible to point my own domain(s) at an instance, instead of having to use a 1.ai subdomain?

Sustainability of the service is a concern, so I wouldn't use it for anything mission-critical. Still, I applied mainly so I could have a place to host and stage a few different op…

I'm glad that any citizen gets to be on a jury rather than some elite set of experts Expert testimony is used in trial all the time and is given great weight by jurors. Experts par…

I can't speak for other users, but I'd rather see more project launches than any of the following types of submissions A separate, heavily moderated forum on HN dedicated to produc…

> As entrepreneurs we have to keep plugging forward amidst the criticism and build our dreams. Feedback is an information source. Your job is to mine feedback for useful and releva…

For a laser intensity greater than some critical value, pair production is generated via a 'break-up' of the vacuum polarization. While the electric field strength necessary to acc…

This is a point where you'll have to judge the security considerations against usability considerations. As a user I might end up hammering a web service with correct passwords but…

Actually, source control GUIs are excellent for less-technical team members. I've had great results using TortoiseSVN or the GitHub client with multiple distributed teams. It's gre…