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As a writer, were there any benefits to you to grant that permission? Or was it more along the lines of there being no downside and it's nice to be asked?

You tell your boss something along the lines of "I've never worked with Perl before, and I don't think I'm going to be able to complete the project with the time we've budgeted, si…

Five years ago I was at HOPE Number Six and Michael Hart was the Saturday keynote speaker, giving a talk on his work at Project Gutenberg. I didn't know very much about it, but I r…

I really don't like the bias in the headline. It seems to imply that coding isn't something you'd do after you got growth. Why not "How Coding Helps Y Combinator Manage Growth" or …

I took an awful lot of graduate level courses as an undergrad. Most of the time there was some sort of additional vetting where the prof had to sign off on your involvement in adva…

Hello HN - I'm Bob Warwick. A few months ago I graduated from University and decided to work on making a living out of three apps that I've been selling on the Mac App Store. Thoug…

That's superb then. My big concern for any project like this is that maintenance and upkeep costs end up outstripping the initial layout by a considerable amount.

Are you planning on maintaining these? In my city the route timings change depending on school schedules and time of year, so the transit schedule's that are posted at stops have t…

A minor bug: One of your tabs is labelled IFrame, and seems to link to the contents of your iFrame.

3.2 for my app that needs interface builder plug-ins, and 4.whatever-the-latest-is for my other stuff. My general rule with all things Apple is to keep at the forefront of what's a…

You're thinking of trademarks, not copyright. If it has potential to cause customer confusion, it might be a trademark violation. A company is required to defend their trademarked …

If you think the background and the font together are going to make a change, then by all means, conduct a test and see if whichever metric you're working with goes up. I'm in favo…

Asking if design makes a difference is kind of a silly question. We know it makes a difference. Using A/B testing, or even just by changing one element at a time, we can measure im…

He mentions they're using Eclipse. The store is written with Java/WebObjects.

Dick isn't the source of most of the ideas discussed in the article. Minority Report is a pretty short read, and well worth the hour or two it takes. Social Advertising: There isn'…

I wrote an OS X app to do this sort of thing a few years ago. At the time, I just used MAC addresses of routers to determine location. I wish I could write it for the iPhone, but i…

Some features of HN are karma limited. You need to have several hundred points to down vote.

Getting into college doesn't limit you. Apply to some places you'd like to work anyway. There's no cost associated with seeing if startups you'd like to work for show any interest …

Have you contacted any startups about jobs? If nobody shows any interests in your level of experience, then you don't have a dilemma, just go to school [Edit] This isn't to say tha…

Could you elaborate on what's wrong with the CEGEP system? If you're planning on going to University, it doesn't add any additional time to the end of your degree (since you don't …

I wonder if they considered how to isolate the test variables. They seem to be testing if a Ouija board works, and if life is better than death.

The idea of kids using their cellphones in class brought an article that Frasier Speirs wrote back in October to mind: http://speirs.org/blog/2010/10/9/run-what-ya-brung.html He ar…

Upvoted back to one point. Whether it's right or wrong, someone downvoted it because they disagreed with the premise. HN used to be full of stubborn individualists arguing amongst …