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> Set a deadline of 2-4 weeks to ship the first version of the product. I blame this kind of mentality for much of the derivative rubbish the startup ecosystem is polluted with. We…

What amazes me is how Microsoft consistently explains design with obviously aliased images using nasty, bandy palettes. I hope the explanation is that their web publishing framewor…

> Create a problem. > Sell a solution to that problem. Force everyone in the country, by law, to buy the solution. I'm not even talking about the latest TSA BS; are we all forgetti…

...which is easily defeated by a regex, no?

I'm doing a (tangentially related) twist on this sort of thing, so I'll ask you the questions that haunted me for months until I could answer them about my own project: Who's going…

You could still use bcrypt and do the comparison work server-side. Depending on work factors and whatnot, it's now a backend load balancing issue. But it's probably solvable.

I suspect they are matching bits. Though since this is going through hashing, the number of matching bits has (by design) zero correlation to how close the P/W is. In which case, y…

> My guess is the machines could be modified to change the background color behind the scanned person's silhouette. For a billion dollars, I would have demanded, at minimum, that m…

About as much of a stretch as using a unicorn for "delete", because unicorns don't exist. I'm getting increasingly concerned that web UIs are trading away usability for design in A…

I think it's interesting that the #1 feature on their features page is labeled "Always up. Always on."

And unfortunately that with outages like this, that number's probably not increasing anytime soon.

Once again you're demonstrating that you really don't know how to use Mercurial, but feel the need to bash its usability anyway. hg update will do exactly what you want. It's even …

> There are a number of publishers on this list, including my own publisher. If the consensus I get from readers is that we should boycott publishers, I'll support the boycott even…

Most likely because of things like @-webkit-keyframes gameover{

Indeed. I had to audit the source believe it, but this is actually legitimate. Massive abuse of data url's and keyframes, but it works.

> I remember when one of the pro-SOPA speakers countered an argument against the feasibility of this legislation with "Google's got the technology." If I remember correctly, the ar…

> I'm pretty sure that if you just "connect the uploader's POST to the downloader's GET" then the Node server would have to buffer the entire file from the submitter before sending…

> The prospect of being bankrupted by a civil suit or thrown in prison is enough to stop most people. Yes, but... if you're good enough to be hired by these companies, leaking sour…

Better to play whack-a-mole than play Manhattan Project. And nobody has to play whack-a-mole. iTunes is a perfect example of "getting with the times".

For the purposes of this argument, they do. Apple is the client; they buy the manufacturing. Whereas with Microsoft, the factories are the clients of Microsoft OS's.

Ironically, the reason this won't work is the same reason SOPA won't: proxies. HN is one of the largest gatherings of hackers anywhere; give us a break. That's in addition to the f…

While I totally agree that the subject of the article is a Thing (read: "notable"), this is an inflamatory essay and complaints forum more than an encyclopedia entry in its current…

As a UW alumnus doing a full-time startup a few blocks from UW, I actually don't see much of this "vibrant start-up scene" happening. This is entirely my fault, which leads me to t…

"Demos like these are cool if they are well done, and correct. Otherwise they feel more like a gimmick." It's pretty obviously a gimmick (and a cool one at that). Looking for pixel…