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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:22PM (#7306972)
Apple does not want to contribute to the open source community?
Re:Gmail was down on Friday January 24, 2014 @02:16PM (#7116992)
The free public beta is now over. ;)
Re:Polyphasic Sleep on Thursday August 22, 2013 @01:18PM (#6258478)
albedo you have made a excellent summary! When I tried it, I slept 20 minutes every 4 hours and at the end when my system had adapted, I woke up automatically after 20 minutes even before my alarm went off and full of energy as if I slept 10 hours. But after 4 hours, I was completely exhausted and I really needed my 20 minutes of sleep.
Re:Polyphasic Sleep on Thursday August 22, 2013 @12:03PM (#6257965)
When I was in university I tried the polyphasic sleep technic for 5 weeks. Here are my findings:

- The first 14 days are really difficult because the system must adapt and causes a severe lack of sleep. During this period, I would not trust myself to drive a car.

- Do not drink coffee and alcohol because it completely destabilizes the system.

- The vivid/lucid dreams where an incredible experience.

- Not sleeping at the same hours as my girlfriend.

- Time... so much time! It is also often the reason that people fail to polyphasic sleeping. Some people don't find anything to do and fall asleep watching television.

Overall a very pleasant experience!

Re:Show HN: Postagon, medium.com for the novice blogger on Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:28PM (#5835281)
"You can sign up for free and try out Postagon for 3 days — no credit card required. To launch your blog to the public, simply activate your membership."

Why only 3 days of tryout if it's not even public?

Re:Show HN: Chocolate.js, Live Web Ide and Framework on Sunday March 31, 2013 @09:51AM (#5468621)
Seem's interesting, I would like to see more screenshots of the IDE without having to install it.
Re:Lobsters on Sunday September 02, 2012 @11:17AM (#4467178)
Is it possible to have an invitation too? colt450 on Gmail. Thank you roryokane!!
Re: Proof of concept - feedback appreciated on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:51PM (#2176101)
-Why using a code and not simply a URL (ex.: http://nearfeed.com/667568)? It will be less manipulation then having to copy/paste the code in a textbox.

-Why using a code and not just giving coordinates?

-Not really accurate for me, 2 km away. I know that its not on your side it has to do with my IP. To obtain the coordinates have you tried another geoip service besides Google Maps? Like maxmind database (http://www.maxmind.com)?

Re:Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released on Friday January 28, 2011 @10:10AM (#2152053)
Do you really print your code?

"Too bad because it looked awesome!"

You will not use it because of the CMD+P problem!?

Re:Eddy - Super-light PHP 5.3 Web App Framework on Friday January 21, 2011 @01:41PM (#2128355)
There is no documentation? No examples?
Re:Launch of a multiplayer HTML5 game (Snowball fight) on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:34AM (#2034467)
Yeah.. we were thinking to remove that functionality, your are not the first one to tell us that.

Launch of a multiplayer HTML5 game (Snowball fight)

To experiment new technologies from HTML5, we recently released a multiplayer game:http://www.leroidelagarnotte.comIt use canvas, websockets, NodeJS and CSS3.Sorry the user interface is in french, basically its a snowball fight.I would love feedback!

( Read More... | 3 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:NewsBlur: A feed reader with intelligence on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:47PM (#1835232)
-Why is there a "optionnal" label besides the password field?

-I really liked the little arrow, that we can lock on a page and allow us to create a bookmark like. It's innovative.

-It's really great that you released the source to the community!

Good luck!

Re:OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @05:21PM (#1785023)
Yes it's really great that OkCupid take the time to put together those stats and give their results to the public.

Another interesting stats that they release is about how the user profile photo affects the message they get:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati...

Re:Preview HN: match-making site for food on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @12:24PM (#1571708)
It seems that there is a bug on the page:

https://app.usablehealth.com/best_choice

On rollover the plus signs, the tooltip box quickly disapear and we dont have the time to read it.

I'm on Firefox 3.6.8.