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Re:Ask HN: Github SSH Key Vulnerability Email Real or Hoax? on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @01:31PM (#3676533)
https://github.com/settings/ssh/audit link to site

submitted hn link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3676471

Re:Google Docs adds Pivot Table support on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @10:31PM (#2558819)
Would Google Docs Spreadsheet PLEASE match and create the same shortcuts that are used is MS excel? It would be interesting to see if the engineers working on Google Docs Spreadsheet were ever MS Excel power users.
Re:Flattr no longer requires users to spend money in order to receive ... on Thursday April 28, 2011 @12:26PM (#2493922)
A Flattr intern and I were discussing a Pay by Facebook button and we made a point that in order for Flattr to scale, it would need better integration into popular services. Before putting a Flattr button for comments, just integrate it into Disqus so that anyone with Disqus on their blog can now receive Flattr donations. http://ericelias.posterous.com/facebooks-credits-will-trump-...

Ask HN: What is the best text-to-donate application?

Posted by EJE on Sunday March 27, 2011 @07:11PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Found mgive and others, but a $500 setup fee seems steep for a charity. Others have requirements of over $500K donations to be considered for a text-to-donate service. Found little documentation over at paypal x and Twilio says to use 3rd parties.

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Re:Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video) on Thursday March 10, 2011 @11:02PM (#2312073)
where are the computer science classes? they should follow the think vitamin method.

Challenge HN: Can we please solve the 'voting online' problem?

Posted by EJE on Thursday February 24, 2011 @11:52PM
from the self-post dept.

After reading the recent report from Mary Meeker (http://tcrn.ch/gowSqd), I am more convinced than ever that we need to change the demographics of our career based elected officials. Our politicians need to run their country as a startup, lean, failing fast and agile. During lunch, I saw that more than 70% of Americans on a CNN poll, cared more about medicare and social security than reducing...

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Re:Crunchies Winners: Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 on Sunday January 23, 2011 @09:28AM (#2132434)
it changed automatically
Re:Crunchies Winners: Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 on Saturday January 22, 2011 @06:56AM (#2130320)
original title was for PG/Y Combinator as "Angel Investor of the Year", but the title was changed...

Ask HN: What is your programming music?

Posted by EJE on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:34AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am learning how to program, thought it would be interesting to see what music is best for programming. It was said that music limits your creativity in programming (Blink: Malcolm Gladwell, I believe).

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Re:Confirmed: Yahoo To Close Buzz, Traffic APIs & Maybe Delicious on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:28PM (#2013512)
original slide

http://yfrog.com/f/h3z89p/

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:17AM (#1986348)
It may seem that they are just giving it away to charity. But many of the donations that Bill Gates provides are making new waves in terms of research, development techniques and expanding microfinance.

They are not just pledging money away. These are serious investments that are evaluated in the same way a VC/Angel pick a startup. A colleague of mine tried to apply/pitch to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the event (many people pitched) lasted six hours with two reviews and rigorous questioning. He was not successful, but he said it was a very thorough examination.^1

Bottom line: A portion of these pledges are more than putting money into collection baskets, it is putting it into the baskets of third world women who need an extra sewing machine to make ten more shirts so their kids can go to school and have food.

1 - I am sure not every donation is made this way

Re:Ask HN: What are current trends in webdeveloping? on Saturday November 27, 2010 @11:30AM (#1945207)
In addition to the NoSQL camp, it seems that a new method to replace tier 3 programming is CouchDB. Specifically, the CouchApp.org that was posted yesterday on HN. The CouchApp "can be served directly to the browser from CouchDB, without any other software in the stack".

http://couchapp.org/page/what-is-couchapp http://couchdb.apache.org/